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Thursday, January 18, 2024

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As US Secretary of State Antony Blinken was promoting a message of calm restraint and firm control in limiting the toxic fallout of Israel's horrific campaign in Gaza, a decision was made to strike targets in Yemen
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Wednesday, January 17, 2024

The deficiency of the UN ceasefire proposal is that it does not address the threat of a repeat of the Al-Aqsa Flood pogrom.
International - Peter Fenwick - 9 comments
 

Tuesday, January 16, 2024

Deborah Nixon, a historian from Sydney's University of Technology, says relations between Muslims and Hindus started to change after the British began ruling India in 1858.
International - Peter Bowden - 9 comments
 

Monday, January 15, 2024

Electricity came after crude oil as all the components to generate electricity are made with oil derivatives manufactured from oil.
Environment - Ronald Stein and Todd Royal - 11 comments
 

Friday, January 12, 2024

Although the two-state solution has been all along the only viable option the Israel-Hamas war has only reaffirmed that there is no other option.
International - Alon Ben-Meir - 37 comments
 

Thursday, January 11, 2024

In last month's United Nations Climate Change Conference, it appeared at first that OPEC+ nations had injected a note of much-needed realism into the event.
Environment - Tom Harris - 4 comments
 

Wednesday, January 10, 2024

The developed countries have materialistic lifestyles, not available before the 1800’s, that support higher standards of living than poorer nations with all the products made from crude oil petrochemicals.
Environment - Ronald Stein - 5 comments
 
It would be fair to say that Keynes, who saw money as a means to a more fulfilling life, would find our current era disconcerting, a culture of means without ends.
Economics - Steven Schwartz - 6 comments
 

Tuesday, January 9, 2024

The Australian public is being led down a dangerous path with a net zero obsession with renewables. Renewables are not
Environment - Charles Hemmings - 13 comments
 
A media release from the PM&C further notes that no department official or Minister has a direct role in the release or otherwise of the documents in question.
Domestic Politics - Binoy Kampmark - 2 comments
 

Monday, January 8, 2024

President Joe Biden’s surrogates asked for just one ship—not an unprecedented request. Why did we refuse?
International - Graham Young - 27 comments
 
More than 80 days of ensuing warfare in Gaza have provided a fertile field for the NYT to publish reports and photos counting the mounting daily deaths of Gazans.
International - David Singer - 2 comments
 

Friday, January 5, 2024

Figuratively speaking, the world is growing by one Germany or ten Austrias per year.
Environment - Ernst Schriefl, Saral Sarkar and Bruno Kern - 20 comments
 
Ford started her man-hating campaign in media appearances back in 2007 but attracted widespread public attention in 2015 due to her infamous tweet saying simply: 'Kill all men'.
Society - Bettina Arndt - 10 comments
 

Thursday, January 4, 2024

The Climate Emergency movement is an illustration of the power of a narrative.
Environment - Robert Brinsmead - 4 comments
 

Wednesday, January 3, 2024

Prime Minister Netanyahu is accused of betraying his oath of office, and the litany of his mishaps and acts of corruption make him a dangerous liability to Israel.
International - Alon Ben-Meir - 7 comments
 
As climate change activism is becoming radical, many of the proposed remedies infringe upon the principles of environmentalism.
Environment - Murray Hunter - 9 comments
 

Tuesday, January 2, 2024

As a kid growing up in Stuart, a bush village near Townsville, cyclones were just another chapter in life’s adventures - unless one actually hit your house.
Environment - John Mikkelsen - 3 comments
 
The stationing of the personnel in question finally puts to rest those contemptible apologetics that Australia is not a garrison for the US armed forces.
International - Binoy Kampmark - 4 comments
 

Friday, December 29, 2023

The passage of United Nations (UN) Security Council Resolution 2720 on 22 December signals that the UN and President Biden will not be playing any constructive role in resolving the future of Gaza.
International - David Singer - 6 comments
 
And the Prime Minister, spent the first 18 months globe-trotting and at home campaigning for the Voice referendum, seemingly running the parliament in his spare time.
Domestic Politics - Dinesh Malhotra - 20 comments
 

Thursday, December 28, 2023

A 13-year-old in Singapore is performing as well as a 17-year-old in Australia.
Education - Graham Young - 15 comments
 

Wednesday, December 27, 2023

Rather than focus on preparing for the very real problems of a continually changing climate, our leaders are concentrated instead on the goal of 'stopping climate change.'
Environment - Tom Harris - 16 comments
 

Friday, December 22, 2023

HKOPS shreds the Saudi-inspired 2002 Arab Peace Initiative and United Nations 2016 Security Council Resolution 2334 which both call for the creation of an independent Palestinian Arab state.
International - David Singer - 23 comments
 

Thursday, December 21, 2023

A perpetual cycle of timber harvesting and regrowth limited to within a designated small portion of a hugely greater forested area, should be a relatively innocuous land use.
Environment - Mark Poynter - 8 comments
 

Wednesday, December 20, 2023

Earth is living in the latter days of the Holocene Warm Era. This is the latest short, fertile, warm interlude within the long, barren, Pleistocene Ice Age.
Environment - Viv Forbes - 6 comments
 

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