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  • December 03, 2025

    Fossil fuels at COP30

    This view shows the COP30 logotype at Docks Station in Belem, Para state,...

  • November 19, 2025

    Overvalued stocks

    The representational image shows a man pointing at a computer screen...

  • October 10, 2025

    The flotilla and Israel

    A screenshot from a drone video shows people gathering at the port of...

  • October 01, 2025

    Netanyahu at the UN

    Benjamin Netanyahu, Israeli prime minister speaking at the United Nations...

  • September 11, 2025

    Destroying Gaza

    Israeli troops deploy at the border fence with the Gaza Strip in southern...

  • August 26, 2025

    Famine strikes

    Palestinians carry aid supplies that entered Gaza through Israel, in Beit...

  • August 15, 2025

    Shield of lies

    Palestinians gather to receive food from a charity kitchen, amid a hunger...

  • July 29, 2025

    Intentional policies

    Palestinians gather to receive food from a charity kitchen, amid a hunger...

  • July 29, 2025

    Intentional policies

    Palestinians gather to receive food from a charity kitchen, amid a hunger...

  • July 22, 2025

    Ominous plans

    People watch as others sift through the rubble of a destroyed building...

  • July 11, 2025

    Licence to fire

    People watch as others sift through the rubble of a destroyed building...

  • June 05, 2023

    Privacy matters

    ­Meta, to put it rather inelegantly, has a data non-compliance problem....

  • September 28, 2022

    A new policy

    It’s impossible to know whether the new British Prime Minister is...

  • July 28, 2022

    A security pact

    Thinktanks across Australia, tanked with cash from US sources and keen to...

  • July 09, 2022

    Nuclear proliferation

    When faced with the option of acquiring nuclear technology, states have...

  • May 19, 2022

    Covid-19 mortality

    It has dominated news cycles, debates and policies since 2020, but...

  • January 14, 2022

    Political detention

    Julian Assange has now been in the maximum-security facilities of...

  • December 09, 2021

    Travel ban

    History’s record of humanity’s response to plagues, pandemics and...

  • November 29, 2021

    Virtual totalitarianism

    Be it the scandals disclosed by the Facebook papers, the scrutiny over...

  • November 22, 2021

    Manufactured cruelties

    Poland’s Law and Justice Party has happily stirred xenophobic hysteria....

  • September 13, 2021

    Weaponised refugees

    Refugees and asylum seekers provide rich pickings for demagogues and...

  • August 04, 2021

    International aid

    Politics is not merely the art of the possible but the pursuit of...

  • July 15, 2021

    Nightmare in Sydney

    It is proving to be an unfolding nightmare. For a government that had...

  • July 08, 2021

    Uncertain future

    Over the years, the Bagram Airbase, originally built by the Soviets in...

  • June 01, 2021

    Response to Covid-19

    The Independent Panel for Pandemic Preparedness and Response was never...

  • December 01, 2020

    Biden’s promise

    With President Donald Trump all but conceding to the transition team that...

  • November 27, 2020

    War crimes

    The Inspector-General of the Australian Defence Force Afghanistan Inquiry...

  • August 11, 2020

    Death from the sky

    When US President Harry S. Truman made the decision to drop the atomic...

  • July 16, 2020

    The yeezy effect

    The political absurd has become all modish. With US President Donald...

  • July 13, 2020

    Netanyahu’s tactics

    Land seizures, annexations, and conquest. These are words axiomatic to...

  • June 18, 2020

    Unpolicing the world

    Donald Trump claims to be the law-and-order president of the United...

  • June 04, 2020

    Death and protest

    Mobs are unruly, headless things. The message is the action. The platform...

  • March 27, 2020

    Business as usual

    Never discount the importance of venality in international relations....

  • March 18, 2020

    Coronavirus as a way of life

    Across the globe, events are being cancelled, rallies are being limited,...

  • March 03, 2020

    The viral blame game

    Moralising the way diseases and viruses are transferred is a very human,...

  • February 28, 2020

    Assange and the imperium

    The second day of extradition hearings against Julian Assange and by...

  • February 19, 2020

    Fashion fetishism

    Entering Singapore’s Changi Airport gives the visitor a glimpse of a...

  • February 06, 2020

    Teflon lies

    Afghanistan is a famous desert for empires, a burial ground which has...

  • January 10, 2020

    Disruptive

    On the surface, it made not one iota of sense. The murder of a foreign...

  • January 07, 2020

    Australia burns

    As the continent scorched, the annual, exorbitant display of Sydney’s...

  • December 25, 2019

    Impeachment politics

    Several features stand out in the impeachment quest against President...

  • December 18, 2019

    Failure at Madrid

    Prior to the UN Convention on Climate Change talks held in Madrid, the...

  • December 10, 2019

    Suu Kyi at the ICJ

    Leaders currently in office rarely make an appearance before either the...

  • November 18, 2019

    Business as usual

    There is an inherent bestiality in the politics of the Americas that...

  • October 26, 2019

    Brand Trudeau

    The Canadian elections have returned Trudeau to Ottawa, but with a...

  • October 23, 2019

    The decent protester

    The Decent Protester, appropriately capitalised and revered is, from the...

  • October 04, 2019

    Dangerous detention

    Much ink has been spilt in textbooks describing situations where...

  • October 01, 2019

    The China thesis

    China has rattled Western observers for centuries, and the idea that it...

  • September 27, 2019

    Tempered emergency

    It had a good deal of desperate scolding. Sweden’s Greta Thunberg...

  • September 26, 2019

    Normal intrusions

    They all do it: corporations, regimes, authorities. They all have the...