Democracy
How the USA and Israel compare on the spectrum of fascism

The USA and Israel are assessed against ten defining characteristics of fascism, revealing dist ...  
Pauline shines in the political gutter, enjoying spoils from wealthy donors

Perhaps if Pauline Hanson actually turned up for work more often, she'd have a greater unde ...  
Close Pine Gap protesters challenge Australia's U.S. alliance

Protesters are renewing calls to close Pine Gap as criticism grows over the secretive facility' ...  
FROM WARFARE TO WEALTH — A tale of three conferences

Three Adelaide conferences expose the competing visions for Australia's future, from militarisa ...  
Lindsey Graham's death leaves the U.S. Senate at a crossroads

With Lindsey Graham gone, the U.S. Senate must decide whether to serve the Constitution or the ...  
Independent AUKUS Inquiry ramps up pressure on Labor

An independent AUKUS inquiry is raising fresh questions over the project's cost, purpose and Labo ...  
Australians are waking up to the One Nation con

One Nation's support is slipping as voters increasingly see through the party's rhetoric on multic ...  
FROM WARFARE TO WEALTH — The 1984 warning: Why the AUKUS debate cannot be silenced

Looking back at Labor's 1984 U.S. alliance battles, it's more important than ever the party doe ...  
Binface and Roberts steal limelight from Farage and Hanson

Almost as soon as Pauline Hanson's aircraft touched down in the UK, things started taking a nast ...  
Modi marvels Melbourne while equality, justice and pluralism plummet back in India

For countries like Australia, fostering a partnership with a stable, inclusive India is not only a ...  
Donald Trump: A presidency of metaphors

Trump has transferred ownership by the people, of the people and for the people to himself.  
FROM WARFARE TO WEALTH — The path to peace requires investment in conflict prevention

Australia cannot build lasting security through militarisation alone. Real peace demands sustained ...  
The monoculture myth at the heart of Hansonism

Australia has never been a monoculture, and importing American-style grievance politics only ...  
FROM WARFARE TO WEALTH — Why parliament must decide before Australia goes to war

Sending Australians to war should require a vote of parliament, not the stroke of a minister's ...  
Rigged game: Australia's obscene concentration of wealth

It’s past time that Australians reasserted that the democratic state is superior to the fortune ...  
Why multiculturalism needs recovering, not reinventing

Australia's multicultural success now depends on reconnecting public policy with the lived expe ...  
Pauline Hanson imports a monoculture war

Pauline Hanson's latest overseas tour exposes the irony of a movement that rails against fore ...  
FROM WARFARE TO WEALTH — The myth of American idealism

Noam Chomsky and Nathan J Robinson challenge the mythology of American exceptionalism and its ...  

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