There could be no more treacherous terrain into which to send American troops to fight than the inside of Donald Trump’s brain. It is a place where ego and pride drive decisions rather than rationality, where delusions have replaced any sense of reality, in which ignorance rules and from which facts are banished, in which base impulses and spasmodic misfires have crushed any role reason or decency might have played.
David Rothkopf
July 21, 2026
A single premise has always held constant about Israel, Benjamin Netanyahu, generations of Israeli leadership and its Zionist society - cowardice, duplicity and manufactured victimhood have become the defining characteristics of a political and military establishment addicted to violence, manipulation and perpetual war. Everything about Israel reflects a state consumed by paranoia, evil, vengeance and an almost obsessive pursuit of dominance at any cost. Gaza, Lebanon, Syria and now Iran underscore a pattern that has remained disturbingly consistent for decades: overwhelming force inflicted on civilians, the weaponisation of Western media narratives, and the endless invocation of existential fear to justify actions much of the world now views as morally bankrupt and strategically catastrophic.
George Hazim
May 29, 2026
The Press Club cancelled Pulitzer winner Chris Hedges after he submitted a speech on the killing of Palestinian journalists, then booked Israel’s ambassador instead. If you wonder why media reporting on Gaza genocide has been so disappointing this is what they think is normal.
David Shoebridge
April 7, 2026
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.
Nick Bryant
March 28, 2026
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.
John Quiggin
March 28, 2026
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.
GMan
March 10, 2026
FIFA and UEFA suspended Russia 4 days after the start of the conflict in Ukraine. It has now been 716 days since what Amnesty International described as genocide began and Israel is still allowed to compete. Why are there double standards? FIFA and UEFA should suspend Israel. Clubs and active players around the world should refuse to play against Israeli teams.
Eric Cantona
March 9, 2026
The Nazis made me afraid to be a Jew, and the Israelis make me ashamed to be a Jew.
Israel Shahak
March 9, 2026
The genocide in Gaza has not stopped. Netanyahu and Trump must end up in prison, behind bars, where they belong. We must keep breaking the media silence until Israel is dismantled and disarmed, its leaders face justice, and Palestine is free.
Irene Montero
February 21, 2026
Hypothetically, if someone was accused of having sex with goats by over 30 different people and regularly denied it, but also dropped very public hints about how much he liked to have sex with goats for decades, and ran a goat pageant to find the best looking goats, and was best friends with someone who who got convicted of fucking goats and trafficking goats to friends all over the world who also liked to fuck goats, and his name was in the classified goat fucker chronicles 5,000 times, and he wished other goat fuckers well in prison, what do you think the odds are that person is also a goat fucker?
