World Affairs

What connects Adani, Facebook and the Australian election? Money. Vast sums of money that Adani will lose if the huge coal mine in the Carmichael Basin in central Queensland does not go ahead (which would scuttle other, smaller tho still huge, coal...

Trump is teaching the world about the lack of compassion, dignity, responsibility, kindness, empathy, intelligence, about the fear of strangers and those needing help, about might is right (which by definition every US President demonstrates) and we...

In this 2008 article written by Waleed Ali, The Burkha: Women as a battlefield, Waleed challenges a lot of assumptions than Westerners are again making in 2016 about the relative freedom of Muslim women who wear burkhinis....

Libya and the US game, a timely reminder post the Chilcott enquiry about the destruction of Libya and the big game of US policy and big...

Anxious about the lack of support shown him by the Australian Government in direct opposition to what is widely seen as widespread popular support, this is a very clever move which will enable a virtual referendum to take place whereby the public...

Do you remember those days prior to the start of the Iraq war, when hundreds of thousand of Australians marched in the streets, demanding and pleading with the Howard Goverrnment to not commit our country to a bogus war in...

“Economic hit men are highly paid professionals who cheat countries around the globe out of trillions of dollars. They funnel World Bank, US government, and other foreign ‘aid’ funds into the coffers of international businesses and the pockets...

Over the course of the 2008 US presidential campaign and the democratic primaries beforehand, I often found myself in tears as I watched Obama’s speeches on the internet or on...

Everyone has heard of the latest documents published by Wikileaks which have embarrassed pretty much every government in the world, especially leaving significant quantities of egg on the face of the US. Just now I saw a TV news bulletin talking...

Can it really be true? Is it really possible that Rupert Murdoch's control over how and what a large proportion of the human race thinks and feels is about to whither? Is there really a light at the end of the...