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Warring Against Encryption: Australia Is Coming For Your Communications – OpEd

On April 16, Australia’s eSafety commissioner, Julie Inman Grant, issued with authoritarian glee legal notices to X Corp and Meta, which owns...

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Censorship Wars: Elon Musk, Safety Commissioners And Violent Content – OpEd

The attitudes down under towards social media have turned barmy.  While there is much to take Elon Musk to task for his wrecking ball antics at the...

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Universities For AUKUS: The Social License Confidence Trick – OpEd

“Can we still see universities as places to learn and produce knowledge that, at the risk of sounding naïve, is for the greater good of humanity,...

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The Australian Defence Formula: Spend! Spend! Spend! – OpEd

The skin toasted Australian Minister of Defence, Richard Marles, who resembles, with each day, the product of an overly worked solarium, was...

19.04.2024 6

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Faulty Assurances: The Judicial Torture Of Assange Continues – OpEd

Only this month, the near comatose US President, Joe Biden, made a casual, castaway remark that his administration was “considering” the request...

17.04.2024 5

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Suspending The Rule Of Tolerable Violence: Israel’s Attack And Iran’s Retaliation – OpEd

The Middle East has, for some time, been a powder keg where degrees of violence are tolerated with ceremonial mania and a calculus of restraint. ...

16.04.2024 5

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Secret Agreements: The Australian-Israel Defence Memorandum Of Understanding – OpEd

While the Australian government continues to pirouette with shallow constancy on the issue of Israel’s war in Gaza, making vacuous utterances on...

14.04.2024 2

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Flicker Of Hope: Biden’s Throwaway Lines On Assange – OpEd

Walking stiffly, largely distracted, and struggling to focus on the bare essentials, US President Joe Biden was keeping company with his Japanese...

12.04.2024 8

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Death By Algorithm: Israel’s AI War In Gaza – OpEd

Remorseless killing at the initiation of artificial intelligence has been the subject of nail-biting concern for various members of computer-digital...

10.04.2024 4

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Germany, Gaza And The World Court: Broadening The Scope Of Genocide – OpEd

Can it get any busier?  The World Court, otherwise known as the International Court of Justice, has been swamped by applications on the subject of...

09.04.2024 5

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Aukusing For War: The Real Target Is China – OpEd

The occasional burst of candour from US diplomats provides a striking, air clearing difference to their Australian and British counterparts. ...

07.04.2024 30

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Killing Aid Workers: Australia’s Muddled Policy On Israel – OpEd

The Australian Prime Minister, Anthony Albanese, was distraught and testy.  It seemed that, on this occasion, Israel had gone too far.  Not too far...

05.04.2024 5

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Killing Humanitarians: Israel’s War On Aid Workers In Gaza – OpEd

Eulogies should rarely be taken at face value.  Plaster saints take the place of complex individuals; faults transmute into golden virtues.  But...

03.04.2024 5

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The Baltimore Bridge Collapse: Conspiracy As Mother’s Milk – OpEd

The human mind is often incapable of tolerating the limitless nature of a universe, the absence of a divine architect, or appreciate that intended...

02.04.2024 6

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Kategate: From Conspiracy To Contrition Extraction – OpEd

Cancer is a stomping bugger of a disease.  It seeks the worm-ridden end, a thief finding its way into your

01.04.2024 2

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Starvation In Gaza: The World Court’s Latest Intervention – OpEd

Rarely has the International Court of Justice been so constantly exercised by one topic during a short span of time.  On January 26, the World Court,...

30.03.2024 4

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Imperial Fruit: Bananas, Costs And Climate Change – OpEd

The curved course of the ubiquitous banana has often been the peel of empire, its sweetness masking a sharp, bitter legacy.  Arab conquerors...

29.03.2024 2

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Distinctions Without Difference: The Security Council On Gaza Passes – OpEd

The UN Security Council presents one of the great contradictions of power in the international system. On the one hand vested with enormous latitude...

27.03.2024 1

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Purgatorial Torments: Assange And The UK High Court – OpEd

What is it about British justice that has a certain rankness to it, notably when it comes to dealing with

27.03.2024 5

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The AUKUS Cash Cow: Robbing The Australian Taxpayer – OpEd

Two British ministers, the UK Foreign Secretary David Cameron and Defence Secretary Grant Shapps, paid a recent visit to Australia recently as part of...

26.03.2024 7

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Julian Assange And The Plea Nibble – OpEd

Be wary of what Washington offers in negotiations at the best of times.  The empire gives and takes when it can; the hegemon proffers and in equal...

24.03.2024 4

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Complicity In Gaza: Holding US Foreign Policy Legally Accountable – OpEd

On March 15, the next stage of an intriguing legal process seeking to hold the Biden administration accountable for its failure to prevent, as well as...

21.03.2024 7

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Siding With Spotify: The European Commission Fines Apple – OpEd

It will come as little surprise that colossal Apple has been favouring its own music streaming service in snuffing and stuffing competitors.  The...

17.03.2024 4

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Prejudicial Bans: US Congress Tosses Over TikTok – OpEd

How delicious is political hypocrisy.  Abundant and rich, it manifests in the corridors of power with regularity.  Of late, there is much of it in...

14.03.2024 4

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Matters Of Revenue: Meta Abandons Australia’s Media Stable – OpEd

It was praised to the heavens as a work of negotiated and practical genius when it was struck.  The then Australian treasurer, Josh Frydenberg, had...

12.03.2024 7

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The Campaign To Free Assange: Reflections On Night Falls – OpEd

The town hall meeting is the last throbbing reminder of the authentic demos.  People gather; debates held.  Views converge; others diverge. ...

11.03.2024 2

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Aiding Those We Kill: US Humanitarianism In Gaza – OpEd

The spectacle, if it did not say it all, said much of it.  Planes dropping humanitarian aid to a starving, famine-threatened populace of Gaza (the...

07.03.2024 9

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A Wishful Gamble: Rugby League In Las Vegas – OpEd

The history of such experiments is not promising.  Why would those in the US like the game of rugby league, when an established code of superficial...

06.03.2024 2

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Mistakes, Misfiring And Trident: Britain’s Flawed Nuclear Deterrence – OpEd

Nuclear weapons are considered the strategic silverware of nation states.  Occasionally, they are given a cleaning and polishing.  From time to...

04.03.2024 3

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Trussonomics At CPAC – OpEd

The silly will make print and leave bursts of digital traces; the idiots will make history, if only in small print.  One such figure is the shortest...

28.02.2024 4

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Old Problems With The New: Reforming The UN Security Council – OpEd

The end of the Second World War was a calamitous catalyst, laying the bricks and mortar for institutions that were always going to look weary, almost...

27.02.2024 4

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Imperial Venality Defends Itself: Day Two Of Julian Assange’s High Court Appeal – OpEd

On February 21, the Royal Courts of Justice hosted a second day of carnivalesque mockery regarding the appeal by lawyers representing an ill Julian...

23.02.2024 6

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Identifying Imperial Venality: Julian Assange’s High Court Appeal – OpEd

On February 20, it was clear that things were not going to be made easy for Julian Assange, the WikiLeaks founder who infuriated the US imperium, the...

22.02.2024 7

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Swiftie Nonsense Down Under – OpEd

Gaza. Palestinians.  Israel.  Genocide.  Taylor Swift?  This odd cobbling of words is the extent celebrities make a mockery of serious...

21.02.2024 20

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Border Paranoia In Fortress Australia – OpEd

The imaginative faculties of standard Australian politicians retreat to some strange, deathly place on certain issues.  In that wasteland, they are...

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Joe Biden: The Damnation Of Age – OpEd

He was sweet and well meaning, but he was old.  He was hazy.  His memory was poor.  Doddering, confused, the self-proclaimed leader of the Free...

19.02.2024 8

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Here Come The Steroid Games – OpEd

To attribute weighty moral codes to athletes has always been a silly pastime of the judging classes and flesh admiring voyeurs.  But sporting bodies,...

17.02.2024 30

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When Scott Morrison Met Nemesis – OpEd

There are few surprises regarding the final episode of Nemesis, the three-part account on how the Australian Liberal Party, in partnership with the...

16.02.2024 4

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When Courts Intervene: Halting The Transfer Of F-35 Parts To Israel – OpEd

Legal challenges regarding the Israel-Gaza War are starting to bulk lawyers’ briefs and courtroom proceedings.  South Africa got matters underway...

14.02.2024 2

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Feathery Infiltrators: The Case Of The Pigeon Spy – OpEd

Animals have, at times, been given the same dismissively nasty treatment humans love giving themselves.  Be it detention, torture, trial, and...

13.02.2024 30

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Absence Of Evidence: Israel’s Case Against UNRWA – OpEd

Statistics are often given lanky legs that take their user far.  But how they are used, and how they are received, is striking.  The current figure...

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When Times Were Better: Victoria’s Ties With Israel’s Defence Industry – OpEd

Times were supposedly better in 2022.  That is, if you were a lawmaker in the Australian state of Victoria, a busy Israeli arms manufacturer, or cash...

09.02.2024 3

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The Dangers Of Complicity: The US Courts, Gaza And Genocide – OpEd

Holding the foreign policy of a country accountable in court, notably when it comes to matters criminal, can be insuperably challenging.  Judges...

06.02.2024 4

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Unaccountable Hackers: The CIA, Vengeance And Joshua Schulte – OpEd

The release of the Vault 7 files in the spring of 2017 in a series of 26 disclosures, detailing the hacking tools of the US Central Intelligence...

05.02.2024 9

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Forget The Kids: Social Media, Congress And Child Safety – OpEd

It was a struggle to see how a child’s welfare was relevant in the latest, shrill debates about technology taking place on The Hill.  The Senate...

04.02.2024 4

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When Much Is Too Much: Elon Musk’s Compensation Package – OpEd

When is the acquisitive nature of open frontier capitalism too much?  When Elon Musk is told that US$56 billion as a pay package is unfair.  This,...

03.02.2024 2

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Flashpoint For War: The Drone Killings At Tower 22 – OpEd

The BBC’s characteristically mild-mannered note said it all: What is Tower 22?  More to the point, what are US forces doing in Jordan?  (To be...

01.02.2024 2

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Cannibalism, Conservatives And Lies: Australia’s Nemesis Story – OpEd

Palace coups have become a seasonal tradition in Australian politics.  Between 2007 and 2018, Australia had six prime ministers, four of whom were...

31.01.2024 10

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Judicial Murder In Alabama – OpEd

During the evening of January 25, Kenneth Eugene Smith, having failed to convince the US Supreme Court to delay his execution, became yet another...

30.01.2024 3

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The ICJ’s Provisional Orders: The Genocide Convention Applies To Gaza – OpEd

On January 26, legal experts, policy wonks, activists and the plain curious waited for the order of the International Court of Justice, sitting in The...

27.01.2024 3

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