Year: 2026

With a sex trafficking, flesh peddling empire of favours, logistics and the good time to be had by the powerful, the gigantic scale of Jeffrey Epstein’s criminal network continues to disturb. The least savoury digital […]

By Walt Zlotow 66 years of US sanctions and embargo degrading Cuba have become depraved under Trump. President Trump just made one of the most depraved statements about destroying living conditions for a foreign people […]

The hard mathematics of depleted arsenals, a CRINK alliance forged in necessity, and the most dangerous question nobody in Washington wants to answer On 2 January 2026, at 2:58 am, Donald Trump jabbed at his […]

Australian Human Rights Commission Media Release The Race Discrimination Commissioner, Giridharan Sivaraman, has condemned Islamophobic comments made by One Nation leader Senator Pauline Hanson that targeted Muslim Australians. Senator Hanson made the remarks during an […]

The cutting of pleasures, the trimming of delights and telling people how they can enjoy life, is the sort of thing that will be tolerated, up to a point. Otherwise liberal countries do suffer moral […]

By Denis Hay   Description How does political power in Australia compare with that in China and Russia, including protest policing and internal party selection systems? Introduction Most Australians believe power is exercised through elections. […]

New Opposition Leader Angus Taylor has unveiled his shadow ministry with a promise to improve living standards and “protect” Australia’s way of life. Personnel, in politics, is policy – and his selections speak loudly. Appointing […]

Killing political leaders – metaphorically and actually – often ushers in a silly season where the Mad Hatter presides over an imbecilic party. Amidst coups, defections, dethronements and confusions on the right of Australia politics, […]

The mainstream media is largely ignoring the real scandal in this story. By Antony Loewenstein For years, I mostly ignored the Jeffrey Epstein story. Not because it wasn’t interesting and relevant but there was a […]

By Walt Zlotow   Back in 2002 the US demanded Iraq give up its WMD, weapons of mass destruction, ostensibly to prevent another 911 attack a year earlier. To back up its demand the US […]