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Google On Christmas Island: Data Centres And Imminent Militarization – OpEd

Google has become something of a fixture in digital infrastructure in the Pacific.  In late 2023, Canberra announced a joint

yesterday 1

Eurasia Review

Binoy Kampmark

Dangerous Edits: The BBC’s Foolish Gift to Donald Trump

It began with a revelation in The Telegraph on November 3.  The paper had seen an internal memo in the BBC pointing to editing on its October...

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Dangerous Edits: The BBC’s Foolish Gift To Donald Trump – OpEd

Dangerous Edits: The BBC’s Foolish Gift To Donald Trump – OpEd

It began with a revelation in The Telegraph on November 3.  The paper had seen an internal memo in the

previous day 10

Eurasia Review

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Consultants and Artificial Intelligence: The Next Great Confidence Trick

Why trust these gold seeking buffoons of questionable expertise?  Overpaid as they are by gullible clients who really ought to know better,...

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Consultants And Artificial Intelligence: The Next Great Confidence Trick – OpEd

Consultants And Artificial Intelligence: The Next Great Confidence Trick – OpEd

Why trust these gold seeking buffoons of questionable expertise?  Overpaid as they are by gullible clients who really ought to

monday 2

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A Question Of Needlessness: Selling Iron Dome To Australia – OpEd

The world of defence policy is truly another planet. There, budgets are given to astronomical burgeoning and bizarre readings.  Threats

07.11.2025 2

Eurasia Review

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Targeting Palantir And Nvidia: Profits, Prophets And Overvalued AI Stocks – OpEd

In an industry of seedy soothsayers, cocksure charlatans and resourceful rogues, honest and accurate appraisals are exquisitely rare.  When it

06.11.2025 2

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Draining Practices: Amazon, Water Consumption and Data Centers

Amazon, ruthless, mean spirited, soulless and wedded to the obscene profit margin, is also in the business of habitual deception.  When it comes to...

04.11.2025 10

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Teasing the Armageddon Fanciers: Trump’s Nuclear Testing Boast

Nuclear weapons have made the world safe for hypocrisy and unsafe in every other respect.  Astride the nonsense that is nuclear apartheid – the...

03.11.2025 10

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Draining Practices: Amazon, Water Consumption And Data Centers – OpEd

Draining Practices: Amazon, Water Consumption And Data Centers – OpEd

Amazon, ruthless, mean spirited, soulless and wedded to the obscene profit margin, is also in the business of habitual deception. 

03.11.2025 2

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Teasing The Armageddon Fanciers: Trump’s Announcement On Nuclear Testing – OpEd

Nuclear weapons have made the world safe for hypocrisy and unsafe in every other respect.  Astride the nonsense that is

02.11.2025 40

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Furloughing Workers for Armageddon: Trump, Nuclear Weapons and the NNSA

Instead of satirising nuclear war – a possible if difficult thing to do – the time has come to satirise the laying off and furlough of those who...

31.10.2025 20

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Mr President, Take Our Critical Minerals: Albanese in the White House

The October 20 performance saw few transgressions and many feats of compliance.  As a guest in the White House, Australian Prime Minister Anthony...

30.10.2025 40

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After 29 Years, RFA Is On Pause – OpEd

By Rosa Hwang The newsroom is dark. The microphones are off. Broadcasts have been silenced. Publishing is paused. On social media.

30.10.2025 2

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Furloughing Workers For Armageddon: Trump, Nuclear Weapons And The NNSA – OpEd

Instead of satirising nuclear war – a possible if difficult thing to do – the time has come to satirise

30.10.2025 2

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Fake Boats and Bogus Admirals

The wish to be credulous is central to the fraudulent scheme.  The one playing the fraud can always rely on some connivance and collaboration from...

28.10.2025 10

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Mr President, Take Our Critical Minerals: Albanese In The White House – OpEd

Mr President, Take Our Critical Minerals: Albanese In The White House – OpEd

The October 20 performance saw few transgressions and many feats of compliance.  As a guest in the White House, Australian

28.10.2025 1

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Fake Boats And Bogus Admirals: Peter Cowell’s Fictional Mercy Fleet – OpEd

Fake Boats And Bogus Admirals: Peter Cowell’s Fictional Mercy Fleet – OpEd

The wish to be credulous is central to the fraudulent scheme.  The one playing the fraud can always rely on

27.10.2025 3

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Reviving UNRWA’s Remit: The ICJ, Israel And Humanitarian Aid In Gaza – OpEd

Reviving UNRWA’s Remit: The ICJ, Israel And Humanitarian Aid In Gaza – OpEd

Few times in its history has the International Court of Justice been this busy, if ever.  For anyone ignorant of

23.10.2025 2

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Reviving UNRWA’s Remit: The ICJ, Israel and Humanitarian Aid in Gaza

Few times in its history has the International Court of Justice been this busy, if ever.  For anyone ignorant of the world court’s existence till...

23.10.2025 3

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Inchoate Blobs: Australia’s National Press Club Cancels Chris Hedges – OpEd

Inchoate Blobs: Australia’s National Press Club Cancels Chris Hedges – OpEd

It seemed an odd thing to begin with.  Australia’s National Press Club is a rather ordinary, stuffy institution, where enlightened,

22.10.2025 2

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The Great Narco Pretext: Trump Readies for Regime Change in Venezuela 

Since the start of September, the Trump administration has busied itself with striking boats in international waters stemming from Venezuelan and...

22.10.2025 10

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The Great Narco Pretext: Trump Readies For Regime Change In Venezuela – OpEd

Since the start of September, the Trump administration has busied itself with striking boats in international waters stemming from Venezuelan

20.10.2025 3

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Exaggerated Utility: The Bogus Value Of The Pentagon Press Pass – OpEd

Reporting on national security matters, irrespective of which country you are in, can be a hazardous affair.  In police states,

16.10.2025 2

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Wounded Nostalgia: GQ Tips For The Modern Gentleman – OpEd

It reads like a lament of wounded nostalgia, cresting on a resigned sigh.  “Knowing how to be a gentleman used

15.10.2025 2

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Worlds Extinguished: Hostage Returns, Central Casting and the Gaza Ceasefire

Depending on which source you consult, the twenty-point peace plan of President Donald Trump for securing peace in Gaza shows much exultance and...

15.10.2025 10

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The Shock of the Obvious: Australia’s University Oligarchs

It’s always comforting to hear politicians reveal wisdoms and novel notions long known to those who vote for them.  This tendency endears the dim...

14.10.2025 10

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Looking East – OpEd

By Jake Scott Global investors are turning their interest toward Asia, amid a wider realignment of foreign direct investment (FDI),

14.10.2025 2

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Worlds Extinguished: Hostage Returns, Central Casting And The Gaza Ceasefire – OpEd

Depending on which source you consult, the twenty-point peace plan of President Donald Trump for securing peace in Gaza shows

14.10.2025 3

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The Factory of Perceptions: Starmer’s Woes and Media Magnification

Few in history can have achieved so much in a negative sense in so short a time.  Instead of gloatingly cresting the wave of success after securing...

13.10.2025 9

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Outsized And Eccentric: The Farce Behind The Nobel Peace Prize – OpEd

The fuss about the Nobel Peace Prize has always been excessively outsized to its relevance.  Like most prizes, the panel

13.10.2025 3

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The Factory Of Perceptions: Starmer’s Woes And Media Magnification – OpEd

Few in history can have achieved so much in a negative sense in so short a time.  Instead of gloatingly

09.10.2025 5

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Estranged Realities: Israel and the Global Sumud Flotilla

Showing that cloddishness that we have come to expect from them, Israel’s detention of the activists on the Global Sumud Flotilla (GSF) was a coarse...

09.10.2025 40

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Estranged Realities: Israel And The Global Sumud Flotilla – OpEd

Showing that cloddishness that we have come to expect from them, Israel’s detention of the activists on the Global Sumud

08.10.2025 2

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Palestinian Subordination: Trump’s Gaza Peace Plan

He had moments of discomfort and embarrassment – pressed into calling the Qatari Prime Minister by his host to apologise for striking Doha and made...

03.10.2025 40

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The Shock Of The Obvious: Australia’s University Oligarchs – OpEd

It’s always comforting to hear politicians reveal wisdoms and novel notions long known to those who vote for them.  This

03.10.2025 2

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Binoy Kampmark

Elder Abuse In International Relations: Attacking The United Nations At 80 – OpEd

Elder abuse in the frothy swirl of debates regarding the role of the United Nations is currently modish.  The body

30.09.2025 2

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Attempts to Delegitimize: Netanyahu at the UN General Assembly

It takes a lot to make UN delegates walk out from an address to the General Assembly.  But this was precisely what Israel’s Prime Minister,...

30.09.2025 10

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Violating the Terms of Service: Microsoft, Azure and the IDF

On August 6, The Guardian reported that “multiple individuals have asserted that the IDF [Israeli Defense Forces] is using Azure for the storage of...

29.09.2025 10

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Violating The Terms of Service: Microsoft, Azure And The IDF – OpEd

On August 6, The Guardian reported that “multiple individuals have asserted that the IDF [Israeli Defense Forces] is using Azure

26.09.2025 4

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Launching Silent Courier: MI6 Goes WikiLeaks – OpEd

There is night and day between an entity such as WikiLeaks, a daring publisher of classified government documents extraordinaire, and

24.09.2025 3

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Symbolic Declarations: Palestinian Recognition At The UN General Assembly – OpEd

“True to the historic commitment of my country to the Middle East, to peace between the Israelis and Palestinians, this

23.09.2025 3

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Lord Mandelson’s Epstein Problem

It was so startlingly obvious it seemed to snuff out any comment.  Lord Peter Mandelson, otherwise known as the sinister Mr Fixit of New Labour from...

22.09.2025 40

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Suspending Courses, Washing Delicates and Baking: A University Justifies Harming Staff and Students

These people are a charming, lynch worthy bunch.  In claiming they are short of cash, the managerial dunderheads at the University of Technology...

18.09.2025 10

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Australia Excludes the Pacific Island Press Corps

Bullies, never able to hit upwards, always kick down.  The United States beats their vassals in the Indo-Pacific and Europe with vulgar...

16.09.2025 10

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Kicking Downwards: Australia Excludes The Pacific Island Press Corps – OpEd

Bullies, never able to hit upwards, always kick down.  The United States beats their vassals in the Indo-Pacific and Europe

15.09.2025 3

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Superfluous Appointments: Albania’s Sunny AI Minister – OpEd

When countries have suffered the odd mishap regarding government paralysis or convulsive change, the frequent quip would often be: “Who

14.09.2025 5

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Buying Time: Israel’s Rogue Attack On Qatar – OpEd

It’s all part of a stratagem, bleak and brutal.  With Palestinian recognition being promised by France, the UK, Canada and

11.09.2025 5

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Destroying Gaza City

Destroying cultures and eradicating the legacies of a people is a game the parochial and the dim-witted delight in.  While this should be shunned and...

10.09.2025 10

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Destroying Gaza City – OpEd

Destroying cultures and eradicating the legacies of a people is a game the parochial and the dim-witted delight in.  While

09.09.2025 7

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