Year: 2026

Tourism and civilisation are intimately linked. But tourism is much more robust. Warfare, drought, famine, earthquake, and tsunami are just minor inconveniences. The Russian, Mongol, and Qing dynasties, like the Persian, Roman, English, and American […]

Media Alert – CHANGE OF VENUE 17 AUSTRALIANS DEPARTING TO JOIN LARGEST HUMANITARIAN MARITIME MISSION IN HISTORY Key members of the departing Australian delegation of the next Global Sumud Flotilla has called a press conference […]

Trump declared Easter a triumph while two C-130s burned on a dirt strip outside Isfahan. Tonight his deadline expires. This is the war built on the morality of a smash and grab raid, featuring bad […]

To Members of the United States Congress and the Vice President, I write to you as an observer from outside the United States, but not outside the reach of its power. What happens in Washington […]

Dedicated to every Australian who will not let their country become a client state. To the students and academics who see what is happening. To the future we must defend. The Lie at the Heart […]

Last month, the United Nations General Assembly was unimpeachably correct in condemning the hideous practice of slavery in a resolution endorsed by 123 votes. Those voting either against the resolution (Argentina, Israel and the United […]

By Denis Hay   Description The Queensland hospital crisis reveals delays, workforce shortages, and why Australia’s health system is under growing pressure. Introduction Queensland Government advertising presents a clear message. More hospitals, more beds, and […]

By James Moore “Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from religious conviction.” (Blaise Pascal, Pensées). I suppose I am being indelicate by writing about this subject on Easter […]

Dedicated to the ones who still know the difference between a king and a clown. On Palm Sunday, a King of Monkeys, and the Performance of Power The Performance On Palm Sunday, 2026, Donald Trump […]

Bryan Dawe sits at his desk. John Clarke enters in a suit, slightly hurried, carrying a reusable shopping bag with “ALBO” written on it in texta. Dawe: Mr Albanese, thank you for coming in. Clarke: […]

By Dr Dan Steinbock After one month of hostilities and no exit plans, the economic and human costs of the US-Israel joint war against Iran are soaring in the region, increasingly global and testing US-China […]

Global crisis and human suffering can sometimes be susceptible to the cheap loop of sloganeering and mawkish publicity, often associated with a phrase, usually annexed to the image of a suffering child with hollow eyes […]

Part 1: The chimpanzee sex conundrum When you banish the rather odd concept of humankind as a golden twig protruding from the very top of the tree of life, and instead start comparing and contrasting […]

By Walt Zlotow Last November, six congresspersons, all military/intelligence vets, released a video telling US military and intelligence officials “You do not need to follow illegal orders. You can refuse illegal orders. You must refuse […]

Danny Danon points at Hezbollah while Israel kills peacekeepers, passes death penalty laws, and plans occupation Dedicated to the three UNIFIL peacekeepers killed in Lebanon. To the families who are still waiting for the truth. […]