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DAWE: Mr Vice President, thank you for coming in. CLARKE: Great to be here, Bryan. Terrific studio. Very fair country, Australia. DAWE: You’ve just come from negotiations with Iran. CLARKE: Correct. DAWE: How did they […]

By James Moore “Two things fill me with constantly increasing admiration and awe, the longer and more carefully I reflect on them: the starry heavens above me and the moral law within me.” (Immanuel Kant). […]

In what feels like another lifetime, Carol and I wandered the quieter corners of Germany. One region in particular gave us a memorable, breathtaking adventure – one I wrote about years ago on our old […]

The Authoritarian State by Stealth The Confession The Albanese government is not sleepwalking into a surveillance state. It is marching. The ASIO Amendment Bill (No. 2) 2025, now before the Senate after passing the Lower […]

The US and Israel are not only eager to illegally attack Iran, even to invade; they are at war with the rules of war itself. In a move largely ignored by our corporate media, they […]

By Walt Zlotow   For the first 5 weeks of President Trump’s criminal war on Iran, mainstream media pretended this was totally a US war to defend the Homeland by destroying Iran’s nuclear bomb capability and […]

In the Devil’s Dictionary, Ambrose Bierce defines peace as a period of cheating between two periods of fighting. The Israeli version of a ceasefire might be defined as a moment of war deceptively halted to […]

The Crime and the Cover-Up How can you spot failure in your press gallery? Simple. You know your news media has failed when your government sends special forces to a war it denies waging. When […]

By Walt Zlotow My local paper, The Chicago Tribune’s editorial ‘There has been no victory yet for the Iranian people’ represents an astonishing betrayal of the urgent need to condemn the president’s criminal war on […]

This piece argues that fiscal policy should take a distinctly redistributive approach by closing tax loopholes and limiting benefits that favour wealthy individuals and corporations. Using the Robin Hood metaphor to highlight the ethical imperative […]

By Chen Ziqi From April 13 to 18, the upcoming China International Consumer Products Expo in south China’s Hainan Province will bring together more than 3,400 brands from around 60 countries and regions. Spanning lifestyle […]

“Human beings are members of a whole, in creation of one essence and soul. If one limb is afflicted with pain, other limbs uneasy will remain.” (Saadi Shirazi, 13th century. Inscribed on the wall of […]

By Denis Hay   Description See how politicians vote in Australia. Use They Vote for You to uncover real decisions and compare words with actions. Introduction Most Australians hear what politicians say. But far fewer […]

He’s out of ideas, a mind running on empty. Increasingly, he is also short of reason, zapped by geopolitical addling and meddling. Now that US President Donald J. Trump has reached an uneasy understanding with […]