Australia

Deserved Cancellations: Victoria Rejects the Commonwealth Games

Hosting sporting events has always been a government’s formula to distract their seducible subjects.  It’s the secular version of smells and bells, the warbling of the church choir turned into flesh and performance.  If such occasions are of sufficient scale, they might even be political promotions, body beautiful types paraded and performing before clapping and […]

Why The Most Urgent Need, in Order to Prevent WW III, Is to End All Military Alliances Now

World Wars I and II were contests between empires, and so America’s President Franklin Delano Roosevelt (FDR) was determined that after WW II, all empires would be outlawed and all international relations (between nations) would be controlled only by a global all-inclusive federation of nations, which in 1941 he referred to would be called “the […]

Time for Conservatives to Fight the Culture Wars and Stop Just Hoping They’ll Go Away

Around the world conservative politicians who take the fight to the woke Left are winning at the ballot box. So why are the British and Australian conservative parties sitting out the culture wars and getting thumped?
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An Accident Waiting to Happen: NATO Looks to Asia

Since the end of the Cold War, the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation has distinctly strayed from its original purpose.  It has become, almost shamelessly, the vessel and handmaiden of US power, while its burgeoning expansion eastwards has done wonders to upend the applecart of stability. From that upending, the alliance started bungling.  It engaged, without […]

CovertAction Bulletin: AUKUS Threatens the World

The AUKUS trilateral military and intelligence partnership between Australia, the United Kingdom and United States doesn't get much attention in the U.S. media. It's yet another element of the U.S. quest for world domination. The first pillar of AUKUS focuses on getting Australia nuclear-powered submarines, and the second enhances technology and information sharing. The U.S. government has recently said it’s open to expanding the partnership...

Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese Should Keep Up the Pressure on Washington and Demand the Release of Julian Assange

Aussies have shown a double standard: they jumped to the defense of David Hicks, who was unjustly imprisoned and tortured at Guantanamo Bay but have only recently began tepidly standing up for Julian Assange years into his unjust incarceration for publishing documents that exposed U.S. war crimes When I was at the CIA, I was […]