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Hypocrisy and shaky premises: New Zealand and the War in Ukraine
Late last May, the Minister of Defence released a redacted Cabinet paper detailing New Zealand’s decision in August 2022 to deploy two infantry training teams totalling up to 120 personnel to the...
View ArticleOutsourced Sovereignty: The US Mandarins Take Over Australia
It is strikingly ironic. The provision of services in industries such as security and intelligence in the United States tends to be outsourced in a sprawling complex of contractors and subcontractors....
View ArticleThe Coming War: Speak up. Now.
In 1935, the Congress of American Writers was held in New York City, followed by another two years later. They called on ‘the hundreds of poets, novelists, dramatists, critics, short story writers and...
View ArticlePoliticians Manipulate Anzac
In Australia, politicians should have every reason to stay out of the grief and suffering they contributed to by sending their citizenry (wait, subjects—for the State remains a constitutional...
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Defenestrating Democracy: The status of democracy in the lead-up to Joe...
Most authoritarian presidents are masters of calm restraint in public. Looking on benignly at parades and congresses, Xi, Putin, Kim, Hun Sen, Ayatollah Khamenei and the rulers of Myanmar conceal the...
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Warmongering in the Australian Defence Establishment
Former Australian prime minister Paul Keating did not mince his words in a fuming column for Pearls and Irritations, stating, ‘Today’s Sydney Morning Herald and The Age front page stories on...
View ArticleReport from Poland: Ukrainian Refugees and a Tangled History
Walking through the streets of the larger cities in Poland, cities like Warsaw, Krakow and Gdansk, the untrained ear will hear not just Polish spoken, but also Russian and Ukrainian. The untrained ear...
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The President Decides Who Should Die: Another Assassination in the ‘Forever War’
At 6:18 am on Sunday, 31 July, local time, two Hellfire missiles killed Ayman Al-Zawahri as he stood on the balcony of his house in Kabul. He was home with his family. The President of the United...
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Collateral Warfare: The US proxy war in Ukraine
The war in Ukraine has achieved nothing and is good for no one. Those responsible for the invasion are the Russian and American leaders who let it happen: President Putin who ordered the ‘special...
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What Lies Beneath: The Russia–Ukraine War
The shock of a major war emerging in Europe has transfixed observers for the last month. Far larger than the war associated with the breakup of Yugoslavia, it has real potential to break out in...
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The War in Ukraine and Imperial Decline
It’s important to recognise that the war in Ukraine, far from revealing the scope of the United State’s power, points to the structural decline of the US and crucially, its global domination of...
View ArticleFriends You Can’t Depend On
Resisting the wars our Anglo-allies are fomenting and how to institute peace To be an enemy of America can be dangerous, but to be a friend is fatal.—Henry Kissinger Australia‘s leaders are preparing...
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Looming Catastrophe: Nuclear Threats in the Ukraine-Russian War
Whatever thoughts there were that the Russia-Ukraine war might proceed on conventional terms were shattered early on when Russian forces appeared to have directed fire against the Zaporizhzhia nuclear...
View ArticleThe Manchurian Candidate in Australian Politics
Appeasement is a seedy word, usually used by the desperate, and often deployed as a form of political poison. This deployment was much in evidence in February, with the government of Scott Morrison...
View ArticleWhat Are the Submarines Really For?
AUKUS and the Australian Way of War Courgette flowers stuffed with goat cheese and Wagyu beef with polenta were on the menu when Prime Ministers Scott Morrison and Boris Johnson dined at the...
View ArticleForever Partnership, Forever War
AUKUS has ensured that Australia’s future will be tied to US warmongering AUKUS is as hard to swallow as its gruesome acronym is hard to pronounce. It’s equally easy to ridicule. It is turning former...
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Trade routes or War Games?: Subs and the geopolitics behind the China threat
The TV show Utopia satirises Australian defence policy by saying that increased military spending is intended to protect our shipping routes. Since China is our major trading partner and we would be...
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AUKUS: It’s about Sovereignty, not Submarines
The announcement on 15 September that the United States, the United Kingdom and Australia had formed a new security relationship surprised most. It shocked France, whose exaggerated sense of fidelity...
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Sub-Imperial Australia
There are said to be more than 200 theories as to why the Roman Empire fell. Explaining Australia’s decade-long entanglement with submarine procurement would give that figure a run for its money. This...
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The US defeat in Afghanistan: An epochal moment
There is no doubt that the US withdrawal from Afghanistan has caused pain, misery, fear and a loss of hope for many. This experience is real and undeniable. We do not know how the Taliban will rule...
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