The Treaty of Versailles, signed in 1919 after Germany’s defeat in World War 1, held Germany responsible for the war. It imposed harsh conditions on Germany and forced them to…
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America has a founding habit it has never broken: when powerful people get caught, the country finds a reason to look the other way. It calls this “healing.” It calls this “moving on.” It calls it “the good of the nation.” It is, every single time, cowardice dressed up as grace, and every single time it teaches the next crook that the penalty for burning down the house is a book deal.
Like most people who have even the vaguest interest in global politics, I have been aghast at the depredations of Donald Trump in the United States to the extent that…
As most people know, the US midterm elections are to be held on the 3rd of November, which is just over a week away. However, those who are elected do…
As everyone knows, federal member for the Victorian seat of Indi, Dr Helen Haines was attacked by a person driving a Toyota Landcruiser. It has been reported that she was…
Anthony Scaramucci used to work at Goldman Sachs before founding his own investment company SkyBridge Capital in 2005. He supposedly supported Obama in 2008 and Mitt Romney in 2012, but…
Overall, the northern Summer has been one of the worst fire seasons in recent years in Europe and Canada. Fires have been significant in France, Spain, Portugal, Italy, Greece and…
We were up in Sydney a few weeks ago to visit some friends in North Sydney, and because it was convenient, we stayed in the Mary MacKillop Place Hotel. When…
We travelled to Sydney to visit family and friends and stayed in a motel in the suburb of Brookvale. We were surprised to find a pod coffee machine in the…
The Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC) is a large system of ocean currents that carry warm water from the tropics northwards into the North Atlantic, and colder water in the deeper…
As anyone knows who reads the news carefully, the Trump regime is clearly kleptocratic in the accumulation of wealth while the Mango Paedo is in office. On top of this,…
Just about everybody has heard of El Niño, which has been known to affect weather systems in Australian, and tends to cause droughts and increased fire risk. As of 10…
Antisemitism is hostility, prejudice or discrimination against Jews because they are Jews. Try as hard as they can to convince everyone that criticism of Israel’s genocide against Palestinians in Gaza…
The Yazidis are a religious and ethnic minority indigenous to northern Iraq who were systematically targeted by the Islamic State (ISIS) from August 2014 onwards. Thousands of Yazidi men and…
As anyone who reads or watches the news known, there has been a rise in right-wing populism in the US, UK and Australia. There have been many reasons put forward…
I have always had an interest the World War 2 in the Pacific given that my father and a couple of my uncles were involved in it. Among the numerous…
A few days ago, I happened upon a video by one Wes O’Donnell (again) in which he referred to a cardboard drone made in Australia and shipped to Ukraine1. The SYPAQ…
On Tuesday, I was talking to an American friend on Zoom at 6:30 am Canberra time. He couldn’t stop laughing when I told him that it was rare for me…
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