May 11, 2024

How Hong Kong can counter misconceptions and boost trust

Hong Kong appears to hang on every word from Beijing and eagerly awaits instructions on how to move forward, and therein lies the city’s biggest danger.

May 8, 2023

The US silence on Israeli nuclear weapons and the right-wing Israeli government

The Israeli protests against its new right-wing government have now touched on Israels nuclear weapons. To underline what is at stake, former Israeli prime minister Ehud Barak cast aside Israeli ambiguity over whether it possesses nuclear weapons towarnhis compatriots that Western diplomats are worried that a Jewish messianic dictatorship could gain control over Israels nuclear weapons.

May 3, 2023

Eternal hate in Ukraine

Carlin gives his impressions of the war in Ukraine during a visit to the country. There may be peace one day, but there will never be love from the Ukrainian side.

April 5, 2023

Will China bring peace to Ukraine?

China will bring peace to Ukraine when it decides that a war that carries the danger of international escalation goes against its commercial interests.

June 14, 2024

UN probe finds Israel guilty of 'Extermination,' torture, and other war crimes in Gaza

“Israel must immediately stop its military operations and attacks in Gaza, including the assault on Rafah,” said the chair of the United Nations commission behind the investigation.

April 29, 2024

Showing care for the Global South

China displays more understanding than Western powers on needs of less-developed nations.

April 23, 2024

China was never an imperialist state

During its long history, Chinese dynasties were as often the victims of outside aggression as they were invaders of foreign land.

September 25, 2023

On Nord Stream anniversary, Ukraine war at a turning point

Tuesday 26 September is the anniversary of the Biden administrations destruction of three of the four pipelines of Nord Stream 1 and 2. There is more I have to say about it, but it will have to wait. Why? Because the war between Russia and Ukraine, with the White House continuing to reject any talk of a ceasefire, is at a turning point.

September 10, 2023

The chip war is now a patriotic war for China

The tech fight is about economic survival for Beijing, but just another war of choice for US politicians and technocrats. Its easy to predict which side has the greater will to prevail.

August 1, 2023

APECs future hangs in the balance over John Lee snub

On July 28, The Washington Post reported that, bowing to pressure from China hawks in Congress, US President Joe Biden will bar Hong Kong Chief Executive John Lee Ka-chiu from attending the annual summit of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC), which the US will host in San Francisco in November.

July 14, 2023

Profit-driven systems are driving us to our doom

I just read a disturbing paragraph in a New Yorker article about the Instant Pot, a popular electronic pressure cooker whose parent company recently filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy:

June 6, 2022

American aggression needs to be reined in for the good of Asia and the world

Decades of exceptionalism, ideological obsessions and a deep-rooted sense of superiority is catching up with the United States.

March 9, 2020

JOHN MENADUE: Justices of the High Court

No wonder we have lost confidence in institutions when Justices of the High Court act improperly

September 23, 2024

How can we recognise the value of Australian citizenship more?

September 17 was Australian Citizenship day, but it went unnoticed by most. Yet alongside gender and Indigeneity, multiculturalism stands as the third dimension of our national identity. The date is the anniversary of the renaming, in 1973, of the Nationality and Citizenship Act 1948 to the Australian Citizenship Act 1948.

June 1, 2024

The price of Biden’s new China tariffs

This is the opening move in a protectionist regime the U.S. president will extend significantly to prove his bona fides as a Sinophobe.

May 18, 2024

America's criminal complicity in Palestine

American elites are squandering the country’s global standing and political capital defending the indefensible with Israel’s genocidal war.

May 6, 2024

The 'Future Made in Australia' plan for solar panels relies on a crucial ingredient: Help from China

Twenty-three years ago, a Chinese-Australian solar scientist moved from Sydney to Wuxi to build China’s solar panel manufacturing industry from scratch, using technology developed in Australian universities.

August 11, 2023

Target China: US plans to goad Beijing into Taiwan war

The Biden Administration is implementing a plan to draw Taiwan into a direct military confrontation with the Peoples Republic of China.

July 4, 2023

A disappearing nation

At its core, climate change is a form of genocide. If Bangladesh sinks when Bangladesh sinks it wont be an abstract environmental loss, but the last breath of a people that started dying the minute the British landed on Indian soil. Developed countries created this climate disaster. Now they need to fix it.

May 30, 2023

Most propaganda looks nothing like this

When most people in the English-speaking world hear the word “propaganda”, they tend to think of something that’s done by foreign nations who have governments that are so totalitarian they won’t even let people know what’s true or think for themselves.

August 15, 2022

Caitlin Johnstone: When will foreign leaders like Xi and Putin start asking to speak to America's REAL Government and not Joe Biden?

_Australia is becoming functionally just a US military base with kangaroos.

February 24, 2021

The light on the hill could soon be solar powered

Global warming runs amok thanks to our coal, cities are unsustainable, more roads means more trucks, more anti-China Cold War rhetoric, and all undoing the many positive features of Australia and its diverse population.

February 4, 2020

TOM BURTON. Gaetjens makes a mockery of public service standards.(AFR 3.2.2020)

The head of the Prime Minister’s Department,Phil.Gaetjens,has effectively green-lighted behaviour that would not be tolerated in the public service he leads.

August 4, 2024

Finding hope, giving hope, by remembering our roots

On Wednesday 31 July we listened to two people who were speaking to us from near Hebron, where Abraham and Sarah are buried.

August 1, 2024

Fears of full-scale war with Lebanon rise after Israel bombs Beirut, assassinates Ismail Haniyeh

One group responded to Israel’s bombing of “a densely populated civilian area in Beirut” by urging governments to “condemn this dangerous escalation and immediately suspend arms sales to Israel.”

July 27, 2024

The World Court has cleared the fog hiding western support for Israel’s crimes

The legal ruling by the world’s highest court obliges Western states not just to end their persecution of the boycott movement but to take up that cause as their own.

July 1, 2024

What China could teach America

Some years ago, the internationally respected, American academic, Professor Joseph Weiler, argued that there are three types of governance legitimacy: process or input (democratic) legitimacy, performance or output legitimacy, and vision legitimacy. Now a prominent Harvard academic has employed a related analytical framework to compare the contemporary operational performance of the US and China, especially with respect to foreign policy.

June 3, 2024

US pawns: Taiwanese separatists should stop deluding themselves

The island’s current political status is as good as it gets, and any further military partnership with Washington will deliver only diminishing returns.

September 19, 2023

Xinjiang: A personal perspective

The fact is that between 2010 and 2016, Xinjiang was on the brink of chaos. Unlike America’s war on terror, characterised by US troops invading the wrong countries, destroying infrastructure, pillaging resources, terrorizing locals and conducting drone strikes that killed civilians and journalists, as Julian Assange valiantly exposed on WikiLeaks, China’s approach to counter terrorist forces in the region was different.

August 31, 2023

US urged to own up to causing Afghan misery by illegitimate war

Two years after the heart-breakingKabul Momentthat saw the withdrawal of US-led Western troops from their illegal invasion and occupation, the United States has been urged to assume liability for humanitarian sufferings of Afghanistan people.

September 25, 2024

For-profit US healthcare system — once again — ranks dead last among its peers

“Our private, profit-driven system means that we are paying more for less,” said one progressive activist.

June 19, 2024

Israeli abuse of Marwan Barghouti 'amounts to torture': Lawyer

Barghouti has been relocated to 3 different locations and last December, his lawyer recounted how he was “dragged on the floor naked in front of other prisoners" in Ayalon prison.

May 31, 2024

Everyone listening should understand: Ukraine will never join NATO short of a nuclear war

Tucker Carlson interviews Jeffrey Sachs on the Untold History of the Cold War and the war in Ukraine.

August 26, 2023

Rise of the Global South: Saudi Arabia, Iran join BRICS

With the increase in the number of BRICS countries, this emerging international order dominated by the countries of the Global South will ultimately become the primary international order in the world, gradually replacing the fading international order dominated by the US and the West.

May 31, 2023

Is a Gulf of Tonkin-type incident brewing in the South China Sea?

The situation in the South China Sea is on the verge of becoming a game of chicken between the U.S. and China with the Philippines in the middle. This would be very dangerous and could cause China to miscalculate. Either one blinks or they clash.

April 22, 2023

US hypocrisy: serial rules-breaker forfeits global credibility

On May 3, 2021, when the US secretary of state, Antony Blinken, was interviewed by_60 Minutes, he said, Our purpose is not to contain China, to hold it back, to keep it down. It is to uphold the rules-based order that China is posing a threat to._

April 13, 2023

Can the West move beyond the business of war and work with China, other nations for global peace?

Instead of focusing on building bridges and finding common ground for peace, the West has increasingly sought to shore up support among its allies and castigate or demonise its enemies.

February 20, 2021

Plenary Council progress without transparency or inclusion for lay Catholics

Concerned Catholics Canberra Goulburn last August challenged the President of the forthcoming Fifth Plenary Council of Australia (PC), Archbishop Tim Costelloe of Perth, to avoid a breach of faith with the Australian Catholic community. It called on him to open the process of formulating the Instrumentum Laboris, the PC working document, to public scrutiny prior to its completion.

July 10, 2024

Alaska’s top-heavy glaciers are approaching an irreversible tipping point

The melting of one of North America’s largest icefields has accelerated and could soon reach an irreversible tipping point. That’s the conclusion of new research colleagues and I have published on the Juneau Icefield, which straddles the Alaska-Canada border near the Alaskan capital of Juneau.

June 25, 2024

Bridges, not walls: Xi Jinping and the Australia-China relationship

The relationship between Australia and China, once characterised by regard and mutual curiosity, has recently been extremely turbulent. However, it was not always this way.

April 27, 2024

War on Gaza: A cruel month of massacres for Palestinians as the US mask is ripped off

As tensions flare with Iran, the US continues to provide full support for Israel’s genocide in the Gaza Strip.

August 20, 2023

Why has the West given billions in military aid to Ukraine, but virtually ignored Myanmar?

Two years after Myanmar’s coup on February 1 2021, the country’s large and growing resistance forces receive almost no attention outside the country.

September 19, 2022

After Queen Elizabeth II's death, Indigenous Australia can't be expected to shut up. Our sorry business is without end

When the Queen first visited Australia in 1954, my mother almost did not get to see her.

February 9, 2021

Does the desire for power over-ride saving lives by acting on climate change adaptation?

A key role of government is to save lives. It has done this admirably for Covid-19 at huge expense_. It_ will need to do the same regarding climate change adaptation if we are to protect human health and lives.

December 31, 2020

China's scientific research output soars

Chinas rapid ascent within the world of scientific research as got other leading nations on the edge of their seat.

March 25, 2020

ANDREW FARRAN.- A New Constitutional Health Power for the Commonwealth

Could the Caronavirus (Covin-19) outbreak be a tipping point swinging the balance of Constitutional power with respect to health in favour of the Commonwealth, as happened previously with defence, income tax and civil aviation?

September 27, 2024

What's at stake as Kashmir goes to the polls

The Indian Government will have to take a considered view on doing more than giving statehood to Jammu and Kashmir.

April 14, 2024

UK media shouldn't be ‘impartial’ – but fearless and truthful

We need journalism that is committed to accurate and uncompromising investigation and not a spurious “impartiality” that hides brutal facts of occupation and genocide.

April 3, 2021

Sunday environmental round up, 4 April 2021

Colonialism and racisms longstanding and ongoing links to climate change. Six principles for decarbonising industry, VW on Teslas tail, and a new, free, online course on climate change.

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