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 Democratic congresspersons and candidates are all in criticizing President Trump’s Iran war. ‘It’s a foolish war with no end in sight. ’It’s driving up the cost of driving and everything we buy at the store.’ […]

 By Walt Zlotow   The United States effectively lost the war with Iran within the first three days, when the attack that killed Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei failed to bring about the collapse of the […]

By Helen Reynolds  There is something profoundly surreal about watching the Sydney Marathon become entangled in the politics of a war being fought half a world away. On Sunday, tens of thousands of ordinary Australians […]

By Walt Zlotow   Having suffered a catastrophic military defeat in his 39 day bombing war on Iran from February 28 thru April 7, Trump has pivoted to economic warfare to collapse the Iranian regime on […]

21ST century David v. Goliath: Iran’s $8 billion military whups America’s $1 trillion military By Walt Zlotow  What’s going on in the Middle East is not a Biblical fairy tale. Irans’s piddly military has delivered a […]

 I didn’t attend the rallies against Pauline Hanson and One Nation. I didn’t walk out of school. I didn’t carry a placard or march through the streets. And, thankfully, nobody expected me to explain to […]

By Christopher Kennedy   Who’s listening now? Hanson and her followers. It was very interesting to read an article in Pearls and Irritations where the author, Kos Samaras in “The half-empty hall: why Gen X broke […]

By Walt Zlotow   Here’s my say on the matter. I’ll keep it brief: Americans supporting Trump’s attack on Iran are no better than Germans that supported Hitler’s attack on Poland in ‘39 and Japanese that […]

By Walt Zlotow    New York Mayor Mamdani only Democratic leader in sync with majority of Democrats calling for arrest of Netanyahu for war crimes. There are well over a thousand, likely several thousand, elected […]

Time magazine says Far-right politics began during the French Revolution. In 1789, the National Assembly split along ideological lines: those supporting royal authority and tradition sat on the president’s right, while anti-monarchist revolutionaries advocating social […]

By Helen Reynolds I remember a time when seeing was believing. A photograph captured a moment. A recording preserved a sound. A signature confirmed identity. A witness gave evidence. While mistakes and deception existed, they […]

Oh dear, our Prime Minister has been caught out again. Trying to be Mr Ordinary when asked to engage in a game which objectifies women, he said OK. The game was to judge a woman […]

By Jane Salmon   Here’s to the Flotilla The Global Sumud Flotilla is about brave people doing exceptional things with skill, compassion, colour, spirit and gruff chutzpah. Would I leave my comfy chair to rush to […]