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Sanctioning Fever: The United States, European Union And Free Speech – OpEd

At present, there is a pot-calling-the-kettle-black approach being taken by the European Union and the United States regarding the imposition

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Ignoring International Obligations: Blocking UN Human Rights Delegates in Australia

Bureaucracy, in a formulation by the great German sociologist Max Weber, fanatically defends secrecy, and is bound to confect any explanation in doing...

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Ignoring International Obligations: Blocking UN Human Rights Delegates In Australia – OpEd

Bureaucracy, in a formulation by the great German sociologist Max Weber, fanatically defends secrecy, and is bound to confect any

23.12.2025 3

Eurasia Review

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The Problem with Machado: Assange Sues the Nobel Foundation

The Swedish police have promised it will go nowhere, but the attempt by WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange to draw attention to the inappropriateness of...

23.12.2025 10

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Confusion at NATO: Rutte, Russia and Delusions about Trump

It was a speech unhinged in millenarian zeal.  It was unapologetically hysterical in urging war while claiming to protect peace.  It was also...

22.12.2025 20

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Culinary Muddles at UNESCO: Italian Cuisine as Intangible Cultural Heritage

Does Italian cuisine exist?  Not according to Alberto Grandi, daring food historian and professor of economic history at the University of...

18.12.2025 4

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Schemes of Bankruptcy: The United Nations, Funding Dues and Human Rights

The United Nations, in turning 80, has been berated, dismissed and libelled.  In September, US President Donald Trump took a hearty swipe at the...

15.12.2025 20

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The Colby Review, AUKUS and Lopsided Commitments

In one of his many cutting observations about the fallibility of politicians, H. L. Mencken had this to say about the practical sort: “It is his...

10.12.2025 10

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‘Kill Everybody’: War Crimes And Pete Hegseth’s Lust For Blood – OpEd

‘Kill Everybody’: War Crimes And Pete Hegseth’s Lust For Blood – OpEd

Pete Hegseth, the soap opera styled US Secretary of Defense, sports a questionable sanity.  His behaviour before generals is the

05.12.2025 3

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A Ceasefire in Name Only: Gaza’s Prolonged Purgatory

A ceasefire can be a strange thing.  The assumption, generally speaking, is that the parties to it restrain themselves for a period of time,...

04.12.2025 5

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A Ceasefire In Name Only: Gaza’s Prolonged Purgatory – OpEd

A ceasefire can be a strange thing.  The assumption, generally speaking, is that the parties to it restrain themselves for

03.12.2025 4

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Clownish Proscriptions: Challenging the Palestine Action Ban

On June 20, members of Palestine Action broke into a Royal Airforce base at Brize Norton, Oxfordshire, going on to spray paint two military...

02.12.2025 5

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Fossil Fuels at COP30: Sacred, Profane and Unmentioned

If the camel is a committee’s version of a horse, then the concluding notes of the 30th United Nations Conference of the Parties (COP30) at Belém,...

01.12.2025 10

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Clownish Proscriptions: Challenging The Palestine Action Ban – OpEd

On June 20, members of Palestine Action broke into a Royal Airforce base at Brize Norton, Oxfordshire, going on to

30.11.2025 4

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Trump, the Crown Prince and Killing Khashoggi

The Saudi Arabian Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman is at it again.  Gulling, wooing, and grinning his way into the establishment of another country,...

25.11.2025 5

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Clandestine Cleansing: Al-Majd Europe, Gaza and Israeli Policy

According to its website, the mission of Al-Majd Europe, yet another odd charity organisation operating in the mash and rubble of Gaza, is...

24.11.2025 9

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Parochialism, Justice And International Law: Turkey’s Genocide Warrants For Israel – OpEd

The authorities in Türkiye have hit their stride regarding international humanitarian law, a subject they are not always consistent about. 

24.11.2025 5

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Clandestine Cleansing: Al-Majd Europe, Gaza And Israeli Policy – OpEd

According to its website, the mission of Al-Majd Europe, yet another odd charity organisation operating in the mash and rubble

22.11.2025 5

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Chatbot Unions: The Dawn of AI Marriages

What makes up a marriage has been the subject of state, community and tribal control since human society took some form.  Who is to marry whom; the...

20.11.2025 3

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A Question of Needlessness: Selling Iron Dome to Australia

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

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Targeting Palantir and Nvidia: Profits, Prophets and Overvalued AI Stocks

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

18.11.2025 10

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Competing For Emissions: The COP Candidate Contest – OpEd

It’s so silly as to be depraved.  Two countries, hardly exemplary when it comes to their environmental credentials, vying for

18.11.2025 8

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Google on Christmas Island: Data Centres and Imminent Militarisation

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

17.11.2025 30

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Chatbot Unions: The Dawn Of AI Marriages – OpEd

What makes up a marriage has been the subject of state, community and tribal control since human society took some

16.11.2025 4

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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

12.11.2025 3

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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...

12.11.2025 10

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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

11.11.2025 10

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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,...

10.11.2025 10

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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

10.11.2025 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 3

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Binoy Kampmark

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

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 3

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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 3

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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

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

28.10.2025 3

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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 4

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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 5

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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

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

22.10.2025 4

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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 3

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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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