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Editor’s note: This article is published in two parts. Part I examines how the Bondi massacre was immediately weaponised for political advantage, and why claims of personal responsibility directed at Prime Minister Anthony Albanese collapse […]

Way back on December 19, 2016, I wrote a piece titled “I am the way, the truth, and the life.” (Borrowing a quote from Jesus.) What has changed since then? I have revisited this article […]

By Chen Ziqi An iPhone that costs about $100 less might not sound like a trade policy story, but in China’s Hainan Island, it is. As global trade faces rising tariffs and growing protectionism, China […]

Who’d have thought, in this time of crisis, lies and propaganda, that it might be the Jerusalem Post that showed us an ethical direction? And, on another matter of ethics – the Jerusalem Post, again. […]

By Walt Zlotow Life without possibility of parole makes no sense. Never has, never will. Two years ago an Illinois law went into effect that recognizes that truth… at least involving killers under 21 at […]

It’s a familiar script in the United States. Another mass shooting tears through a community. Voices on the left call for tighter gun laws. And conservatives – politicians, pundits, and voters – push back: “It’s […]

In the aftermath of global terror attacks, regional conflicts, and rising domestic tension, Western publics are told a singular story: We are beset by an existential enemy whose eradication justifies any measure. This enemy is […]

“The price of metaphor is eternal vigilance,” wrote Flannery O’Connor. She might have added that lazy metaphor, repeated by a complicit media, does not just mislead. It kills. And it feeds the slow strangulation of […]

Bondi has forced Australia into one of those moral moments that arrives without asking permission. A public gathering to mark Hanukkah at Bondi Beach became the scene of mass killing, authorities and major reporting have […]

It was a speech unhinged in millenarian zeal. It was unapologetically hysterical in urging war while claiming to protect peace. It was also delivered with a note of profound self-denial: the US administration’s 2025 National […]

After our two financial ministers confidently answered questions at the MYEFO Press Conference on 17 December 2025, the pressure must now be transferred to the LNP and its far-right allies to roll out better alternative […]

Part 2: The Operational Void Beneath the Sovereign Pretence In Part 1 we stripped the gilt off our counter-terrorism apparatus, a billion-dollar Potemkin village where sovereignty turns out to be a rental agreement with Uncle […]