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By Walt Zlotow   One must go back to 1898 for the last time the US was not exploiting Cuba and its people to benefit rapacious US capitalism and organized crime. That year the US cooked […]

What grew in the space where Iran’s democracy used to stand. There is nothing new in the world except the history you do not know. — Harry Truman The Monster They Made is the story […]

By Dr Dan Steinbock   The US/Iran-linked energy crisis has shifted from a commodity shock to structural geopolitics, with Asia at the epicenter due to its dependence on imported oil and LNG. Global reverberations can […]

By Alasdair Black   The idea of Boomers as selfish and entitled only works for identity politics and the exploitative politics of envy. It is to exploit the emotions of others, the classical divide and […]

By Walt Zlotow   Trump overseeing decline of US world dominance… and that’s good The global economic consequences of Trump’s failed war on Iran have yet to be fully realized. But even if Trump surrenders […]

Made in Langley: How the United States paved the way for the Iranian theocracy it is now bombing. Mohammad Mosaddegh was not some fire-breathing radical. He was a 71-year-old lawyer, Iranian nationalist, democrat, and constitutionalist […]

Cartel members are not always a congenial bunch. Relations can get frosty and brittle over time. With the United Arab Emirates, membership of the Organisation of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) has not been without […]

Having watched the address in reply from Opposition Leader, Angus Taylor, I am quite convinced that Federal Labor must continue to join the debate on commitment to national values with added vigour. Regrettably, the LNP’s […]

By Chen Ziqi   US President Donald Trump arrived in Beijing on Wednesday for a new round of face-to-face talks with Chinese President Xi Jinping from May 14 to 15, a meeting arriving at a […]

By Rob Mellett A Brisbane man who alleges his religious beliefs were unlawfully overridden by Queensland’s Covid-19 vaccine mandates has likely cleared a major legal hurdle, setting the stage for a landmark human rights trial. […]

How the Albanese Government Uses Antisemitism to Hide Its Cost‑of‑Living Failures Dedication: To my wife ‘S’ – who knows where the money goes. She is an economist. Only days ago, Prime Minister Anthony Albanese stood […]