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...
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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...
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...
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 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 ArticleHypocrisy 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...
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