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Dealing with the madman in the White House unites the world

The unhinged decisions by the increasingly irrational U.S. President are having surprising global ...  
JOHN SCHUMANN: Dear Democrats, if you don’t fight, you lose

In the face of President Trump’s rising authoritarianism, the Democrats are dithering and ...  
Forty years after the Rainbow Warrior, justice still waits

As France rebrands itself as a climate and ocean leader, Pacific civil society reminds the world ...  
Denmark’s economy leads the world as Australia advances and USA declines

The Independent Australia ranking on economic management (IAREM) for 2025 affirms progressive ...  
Trump’s war on the press paints journalists as spies

Trump once praised WikiLeaks, now he's hinting at using the same law that jailed Julian Assa ...  
Bob Vylan villainised at Glastonbury: The price of free speech

Bob Vylan's Glastonbury chant raises hard questions about where to draw the line between free spee ...  
How Israel’s allies hijacked U.S. democracy

Pro-Israel donors poured unprecedented sums into the 2024 Presidential Election, distorting U.S. ...  
Trump's war on the ICC goes digital with Microsoft as an ally

When Microsoft locked an ICC prosecutor out of their email, it proved just how easily U.S. power ...  
Outsourcing the blame: How Australia fuels China’s emissions

Australia’s reliance on imported goods masks the true scale of its carbon footprint and lets us ...  
Gaza's destruction continues, but so does the silence

The terror in Gaza is no ordinary humanitarian crisis, as the product of an ongoing, one-sided ...  
Normalising Trump is killing the media's credibility

Mainstream news media are failing to defend American democracy by constantly working to normalise ...  
Dealing with America's 'Toddler in Chief'

The world’s walking on eggshells around a toddler with nukes — maybe it’s time we stopped ...  
Australia’s Iran response demonstrates our love for double standards

From Gaza to Iran, hypocrisy reigns — Australia backs U.S. strikes while shedding even the ...  
Trump is using Iran as a distraction

As protests, scandals and economic chaos close in on home soil, Trump's focus on Iran seems more ...  
The ABC's Antoinette Lattouf ‘issue’

"Deliberately starving and killing children is a war crime. Today, the court has found that puni ...  
Western hypocrisy calls for Iran to de-escalate, not retaliate

In the upside-down logic of Western diplomacy, bombing is peace and retaliation is provocation.  
Trump and Netanyahu turn to Iran to distract from war crimes

As global attention pivots to Iran, Gaza’s suffering is buried beneath a calculated smokescreen ...  
'The Director' and the damned legacy of Pabst

Kehlmann’s haunting novel 'The Director' uses Austrian filmmaker GW Pabst’s story during th ...  

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