I gather that you plan to undertake a state visit to the US near the end of this month. Much of Europe, and the wider world, now understand that Trump…
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In another Pyongyang on the Potomac moment, Republicans at a party fundraiser this week awarded Donald Trump the first annual “America First Award”. House Speaker Mike Johnson described the prize as a “beautiful golden statue … appropriate for the new golden era in America.” Even in the midst of an unpopular war, there’s a cult-like feel to Trumpworld.
One Nation’s voters are people who in Andrew Hastie’s words, don’t recognise Australia as the country they grew up in. Like Tony Abbott, they are nostalgic for the days of the White Australia policy, when such anti-migrant prejudice as existed was directed against Italians and Greeks. And Hastie’s comment reveals the fact that there is now no significant policy gap, between One Nation and the now-dominant right wing of the Liberal-National coalition. Both want (mostly unspecified) cuts in immigration, oppose any kind of action on climate, and trade in anti-Islamic rhetoric. But One Nation is loud and offensive, while the LNP tends to trade in euphemisms.
A few days ago, TACO Trump gave Iran a 48 hour deadline to reopen the Strait of Hormuz or he would obliterate their power plants1, despite attacking civilian infrastructure being…
The Mango Paedo, Donald Trump (aka TACO*), has cut funding for all sorts of renewable stuff. For instance, the Department of Justice filed a lawsuit against California’s clean car rules,…
At the Battle of Waterloo in 1815, there was an incident where British artillery had the opportunity to fire directly at Napoleon Bonaparte, but the action was stopped by the…
The American Empire is not going to be defeated on the battlefield. It is going to be defeated by the spreadsheet. It is going to drown in the compounding interest of its own military addiction. And when the history books are written, they will note that the richest country in the history of the world could not afford to feed its children, could not afford to treat its sick, could not afford to house its poor... but could always, ALWAYS, find another few trillion dollars to blow something up on the other side of the planet. That is not strength. That is a sickness.
In a previous article, I detailed part of drive to Sydney in our then relatively new EV, the main part of that article was about battery developments in China1. However,…