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Michael Mckinley

Michael Mckinley

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The 2-Israel Problem

Palestine’s problem is only partly expressed as a frustrated 2-State Solution; it might, more effectively be understood as a 2-Israel problem. ...

03.11.2024 10

Pearls and Irritations

Michael Mckinley

Australia’s colonised universities: in partibus infidelium*

 Among a group of corporations which also includes Boeing and BAE Systems, Lockheed Martin is a particular target for this action. Though principled...

11.09.2024 10

Pearls and Irritations

Michael Mckinley

Engaging Pillar 2 of AUKUS: losing self-respect and encouraging self-harm

Pillar 2 is a thing that AUKUS created: it appears at different times and with different meanings and possibilities and yet is not entirely, or even...

21.08.2024 9

Pearls and Irritations

Michael Mckinley

Engaging Pillar 2 of AUKUS: losing self-respect and encouraging self-harm

Pillar 2 is a thing that AUKUS created: it appears at different times and with different meanings and possibilities and yet is not entirely, or even...

20.08.2024 7

Pearls and Irritations

Michael Mckinley

Allies playing gods

Every generation, or thereabouts, has its moment of unlearning or forgetting two salutary lessons that should be indelibly imprinted on the memory and...

13.07.2024 7

Pearls and Irritations

Michael Mckinley

Justice miscarried: The unanswered questions of the McBride verdict

The sentencing verdict of David McBride gives rise to question that, if unaddressed, will haunt the Australian Defence Force (ADF) forever. ...

22.05.2024 20

Pearls and Irritations

Michael Mckinley

Australia’s stunted mainstream defence and security imagination

09.05.2024 30

Pearls and Irritations

Michael Mckinley

A silent coup in plain sight: AUKUS and the universities

An invitation: imagine a country wherein, as a matter of policy orientation, its 41 universities have abdicated one of their principal founding roles...

29.04.2024 10

Pearls and Irritations

Michael Mckinley

Dead in the water: The AUKUS SSN delusion

The general theme of delusion and the particular theme of ‘dead in the water’ as they apply to the entire AUKUS arrangements are provocations...

17.03.2024 7

Pearls and Irritations

Michael Mckinley

Research security, information restriction, and the universities

It was bound to happen in one form or another. The AUKUS arrangements were a guarantee of it. The ‘it’ in question is the alleged discovery and...

01.02.2024 10

Pearls and Irritations

Michael Mckinley

Hope betrayed, arrays herself in bombs

While the speechless unite, in a silent accord. Australia’s Geopolitical Present and Future: Bethlehem through Poetry and Literature. An...

20.12.2023 10

Pearls and Irritations

Michael Mckinley

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