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Aussie Mark Regev and the Israeli war on journalists

Australian-born Israeli spokesperson Mark Regev says Palestinian journalists killed or injured by ...  
Netanyahu’s choice

It is wrong for Netanyahu to be killing his own people and he should be tried at The Hague for it ...  
The daggling appendage: Australia and the Ausmin talks

The US juggernaut is positioning itself with some speed, while the policy free wonks in Canberra ...  
The end of the G.O.P.

The U.S. election will come to be seen in years to come as having delivered the killer blow to the ...  
Looking at the U.S. election from the inside out

Ginnie Becker reviews the “thrilling” U.S. election, and the aftermath, from the vantage point ...  
Europe reacts to Obama's re-election

Europeans are amazed Obama won the presidential election ― but not for the reasons you think. ...  
Looking towards Rome and awaiting Caesar

In the wake of the U.S. election, managing editor David Donovan considers what America means to ...  
The United States of Obama

While the world awaits the outcome of the U.S. presidential election, contributing editor-at-large ...  
Sandy, oh Sandy

Superstorm Sandy gave politics a watershed moment this week, in America and elsewhere, writes Bob ...  
Julian Assange ― ‘To be, or not to be’

That is the question, whether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer The Slings and Arrows of outra ...  
Superstorm Sandy washes away climate of doubt

Even though the U.S. presidential campaign has entirely ignored climate change, the former Hurr ...  
Burning the budgies over U.S. carbon

  Tony Abbott has been caught out telling more porkie pies, this time over the United ...  
How Obama won

Barack Obama's victory in the second U.S. presidential debate may have saved the world from the ...  
David Hicks' day in court

David Hicks may yet have his shameful – and now unlawful – US terrorism conviction overturn ...  
Risking nuclear over safe renewables

Ever since the Fukushima meltdown, nuclear apologists have been in a full spin cycle, culminating ...  
Getting the Order right for Tendulkar

Senior correspondent Barry Everingham wishes the mainstream media would do their research about ...  
Starry, Sari night

Contributing editor-at-large Tess Lawrence reflects on the Bali Bombings, which took the lives of ...  
Cranks and crazies — US politics is fair game for Australians

Wayne Swan’s remark that the US Republican Party had been taken over by “cranks and crazies” ...  

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