Liberal-democratic stagnation: The rise of the polarised state

23 Jan 2016 | In the past few decades, the liberal-democratic model of capitalism in almost all post-industrial ...  

Trump observed

23 Jan 2016 | Watching Trump is marvellous, a bit like watching Groucho in 1936. He’s not going to get ...  

U.S. currency dictatorship: The struggle to end it

21 Jan 2016 | Are India and the BRICS giving the U.S. dollar the boot? Rakesh Krishan Simha asks if it is really ...  

Minister defends Abbott's wasteful war museum boondoggle

21 Jan 2016 | After copping criticism about the $100 million war museum in France (including from the prime ...  

Inequality overload: World's 62 richest people now own as much as poorest half

19 Jan 2016 | Oxfam report finds that global one per cent of wealth holders now own more than the rest of the ...  

Obama's open hands

18 Jan 2016 | President Barack Obama has brought a subtle, yet very significant, change to American politics ...  

World's top 6 wind energy stories: Cost down 60% since 2009

16 Jan 2016 | The rest of the world is powering ahead with wind, according to Professor Juan Cole. Sadly, not so ...  

Why 'CO2 is Good' for climate science denial groups funded by Exxon and Kochs

14 Jan 2016 | A new study confirms that Exxon and the Koch brothers bribed organisations to parrot their climate ...  

Commercialisation and the casualness of going to war

14 Jan 2016 | John Menadue calls for an end to the commercialisation of Gallipoli and Anzac, to put the drums ...  

Jews and Arabs kiss in protest at Israel's banning of best-seller

13 Jan 2016 | When the Israeli Ministry of Education banned the novel, Borderline – the story of a love affair ...  

Militant suffragettes: Morally justified, or just terrorists?

12 Jan 2016 | Following the release of the film, Suffragette, La Trobe University's Janna Thompson asks whether ...  

World politics as a spaghetti western (Part 1)

10 Jan 2016 | When it comes to mainstream media coverage of foreign policy, our side are the good guys; those ...  

Renewables could supply all Russian and Central Asian energy needs by 2030

9 Jan 2016 | Renewable energy could supply Russia and Central Asian countries with all the electricity they ...  

ISIL (Daesh) threatens to attack Saudi Arabia after executions

7 Jan 2016 | Professor Juan Cole examines an article in Daesh's weekly magazine al-Naba (News) depicting the ...  

Corporate America increases pressure on U.S. Congress to speedily ratify TPP

6 Jan 2016 | A flurry of big business endorsements appears aimed at building congressional momentum for the ...  

Can the ASEAN Economic Community be a success?

31 Dec 2015 | You probably haven't heard of it, but Asia's answer to the EU will be proclaimed today — 31 ...  

Donald Trump, ISIS, the State of the Nation and the nation state

22 Dec 2015 | In the wake of a slew of ultra-nationalist claims from Republican candidate Donald Trump, there ...  

Solidarité

18 Dec 2015 | Alexander Swift looks at the connection between poverty, desperation and terrorism in Western ...