Friday, August 8, 2025
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Courts are turning climate inaction into an internationally wrongful act — and fossil fuel states are in the dock. Environment - Binoy Kampmark - 4 comments
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Ignoring a century-old legal mandate, the UN has chosen politics over the charter it swore to uphold. International - David Singer - 16 comments
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Thursday, August 7, 2025
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Despite July’s highly aggressive return-visit from UNFCCC bovver-boy Simon Stiell, the coalition seems unlikely to seriously challenge Labor’s net-zero cult. Environment - Stephen Saunders - 8 comments
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Getting Government, mandates, and subsidies out-of-the-way will benefit humanity and allow creative free enterprise to succeed in delivering electricity to the world. Nation Building - Ronald Stein, Oliver Hemmers and Steve Curtis - 4 comments
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If we honour peacemakers, why not also name the architects of discord? International - John Töns - 5 comments
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Wednesday, August 6, 2025
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Democracy has become a zero-sum game — but the Fabians still believe another world is possible. Political Philosophy - John Töns - 10 comments
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To understand political debates, it helps to have a view as to where we derive our liberties. Law & Liberties - David Leyonhjelm - 10 comments
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Tuesday, August 5, 2025
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Movember is profiting from goodwill towards men—while diverting funds to anti-male programs run by people who don’t understand, or don’t care. Society - Bettina Arndt
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The war crimes perpetrated by the Netanyahu government against Palestinians have seriously harmed Jews around the world, as many Jewish leaders remained silent in the wake of these crimes. International - Alon Ben-Meir - 8 comments
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Monday, August 4, 2025
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Many seem to want censorship as a form of stand-in parenting—leaving children permanently immature and unspoiled by the richer, more complicated life. Law & Liberties - Binoy Kampmark - 3 comments
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Friday, August 1, 2025
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To locals, any ceasefire without reopened borders means very little. International - Murray Hunter
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RIP two-state solution – Israel’s Knesset buries it while reviving a Jordanian alternative. International - David Singer - 5 comments
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Thursday, July 31, 2025
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The Australian government must resist the temptation to let Silicon Valley write our digital future. Science & Technology - Uri Gal - 3 comments
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Genocide tends to be recognised only after a significant portion of the targeted group has already been destroyed. International - Binoy Kampmark - 2 comments
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Wednesday, July 30, 2025
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Eliminating fossil fuels without practical alternatives risks societal regression. Nation Building - Ronald Stein and Yoshihiro Muronaka - 19 comments
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Tuesday, July 29, 2025
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The West, led by the Trump administration, has enabled the Netanyahu government to commit crimes against humanity and became complicit in the unfathomably horrific disaster that is being inflicted on the Palestinians in Gaza. International - Alon Ben-Meir - 33 comments
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The battle theatres have been left in a situation where it will be very easy for any side to ‘create’ a mishap that could easily lead to fighting once again. International - Murray Hunter
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Monday, July 28, 2025
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Both the Cambodian and Thai civilian governments have little direct control of the situation. There is a civilian power vacuum in the border dispute as decisions and operations are in the hands of others. International - Murray Hunter
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These three key aspects of a nation are clear signs of the gradual decline of nationalism in the West, which does not die overnight; instead, it has a slow, agonising death until it collapses suddenly. Nation Building - Mamtimin Ala - 4 comments
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Friday, July 25, 2025
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Freedom of thought and speech are pillars of a functioning democracy — and they’re now at the heart of Harvard’s fight with the Trump administration. Education - Binoy Kampmark - 9 comments
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Every General Assembly and Security Council resolution failing to acknowledge these vested Jewish rights has been in flagrant violation of international law and the United Nations own Charter. International - David Singer
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Thursday, July 24, 2025
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By far the most dangerous people are those who are below average but do not recognise it. Law & Liberties - David Leyonhjelm - 73 comments
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Capital is the seed corn of future prosperity – tax it too heavily, and you discourage people from planting at all. Economics - Graham Young - 5 comments
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Wednesday, July 23, 2025
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Africa deserves the same opportunity for development that the West took for granted, unburdened by a green agenda that keeps the continent energy-poor and dependent. Nation Building - Ronald Stein, Robert Jeffrey and Olivia Vaughan - 3 comments
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Gold is the inflation hedge, precisely because it is shadow currency. Money supply is the inflation source, precisely because it is fiat currency. Economics - Darren Nelson
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Tuesday, July 22, 2025
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Seventy per cent of Australians now live in just eight cities – a concentration driving housing shortages, congestion and failing services, all fuelled by federal immigration policy. Nation Building - Ross Elliott - 15 comments
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The Voice of America was never just about news – it was born in the propaganda maelstrom of World War II and has always walked to the dictates of US foreign policy. International - Binoy Kampmark - 2 comments
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Monday, July 21, 2025
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How femocrats fake data and research to promote anti-male policies. Law & Liberties - Bettina Arndt - 2 comments
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I appeal to every Israeli - you have become the victims of deceptive and morally repugnant leaders who have systematically betrayed you by pursuing their treacherous messianic agenda. International - Alon Ben-Meir - 10 comments
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Friday, July 18, 2025
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Interviewed July 2025 on his Australian book-tour, US sociologist Musa al-Gharbi waxed eloquent on wokeness and inequality, on US and China. Though I failed to subvert his next book. Law & Liberties - Stephen Saunders - 15 comments
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'After October 7th, people said the Palestinians had a state, a Hamas state in Gaza and look what they did with it… the kind of massacres we didn’t see since World War II.' International - David Singer
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Thursday, July 17, 2025
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California’s passion to achieve net-zero emissions at the expense of its citizens has devastated its economy. Environment - Ronald Stein and Michael Mische - 1 comment
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The foundation of multilateralism upon which the United Nations sits is increasingly shaken by rivalries, eroding trust and a retreat from collective problem‑solving. International - Ioan Voicu - 3 comments
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Wednesday, July 16, 2025
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President Lee doesn’t want to be seen as an arms dealer – just the head of a nation competing to out-export everyone else in submarines and artillery. International - Binoy Kampmark - 3 comments
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Tuesday, July 15, 2025
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Fire shaped this continent. But in failing to manage it, we have turned it into a destroyer. Environment - John O'Donnell - 6 comments
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It is hard to imagine how a small country experiencing significant economic hardship and in constant conflict with its neighbor is still under a caretaker government four months after the national elections. International - Alon Ben-Meir - 2 comments
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Monday, July 14, 2025
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In an age of noise and urgency, the library is a quiet kind of miracle. Education - Steven Schwartz - 3 comments
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If attempting to kill four people using fungi is a symptom of average, female ordinariness, we all best start making our own meals. Media - Binoy Kampmark - 2 comments
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