The Monroe Doctrine is 200 years old. Trump is taking it back to its lawless era - the US unconstrained. And of course it's about the oil, not Maduro - some of Trump's best friends are feudal murderers. Mine for MWM michaelwest.com.au/what-trump-v...

China the winner as Trump cancels international law. Mine for MWM michaelwest.com.au/what-trump-v...

Just imagining a world where the ALP had dumped AUKUS and the LNP alone were still clinging to the view that the US was the great protector. “Small target” oppositions lead to bad government policies.

With no-one in the White House to contradict him, Trump seems to be adopting the George Costanza approach to lies. Fortunately, Americans are increasingly not buying his fantasies.

Our evil "ally". Various motives, same result: nonchalantly murdering people. "Venezuela’s oil has been more central to Mr. Trump’s deliberations than previously reported" www.nytimes.com/2025/12/27/u...

I remember when that shotgun was being discussed and people were trying to raise the flag and get it into the category D "Victorian Nationals senator Bridget McKenzie has applauded Mr Grant's proposal," to lift the restrictions on the sale of the Adler shotgun www.abc.net.au/news/2016-10...

The murderers fired 33 rounds in the first minute at Bondi. There's blood on the hands of the politicians and regulators who enabled that, who sold out to the gun lobby to put such rapid-fire killing machines in their hands, undermining Port Arthur. Mine for MWM michaelwest.com.au/bondi-traged...

Our timid government has its head under the pillows, desperately hoping it doesn't have to face up to the challenges of a radically changed world. What’s Labor’s main security concern? How it looks in khaki on election day. Mine for MWM. michaelwest.com.au/australias-s...

This cannot be considered normal.

Remember the Torture Memos? The Boat Strike Memos May Be Worse. - POLITICO share.google/VxQ1aAC6B1rA...

Hegseth is working his way through the usual worm pattern: denial, then distancing as denial falters, penultimately defending, relying on Trumpistas being above the law. Beware the usual fourth step, distraction. And we have people embedded with him. Mine for MWM michaelwest.com.au/no-fog-no-wa...

" .. there were 4,455 [noise] reports. And there were exactly zero penalties issued by police" Bring on the noise cameras, writes @michaelpascoe01.bsky.social #auspol michaelwest.com.au/big-noise-br...

Bloke who has a 747 engine on two wheels & a megaphone instead of a muffler is free to ride the streets any time he fancies, rattling windows, waking kiddies and causing possums to fall from the trees. Bring on the noise cameras! Mine for MWM michaelwest.com.au/big-noise-br...

Who should compensate investors for shonky investments? Government is floating using your superannuation after soaking good advisers. Better idea: use the $2 billion in fines and fees watchpuppy ASIC collects. Mine for MWM michaelwest.com.au/financial-co...

Mainstream reporting created the illusion that the Federal Liberal Party’s “Moderates” still mattered before the net-zero vote. No, the faction was already deep in the endgame of a seven-year decline. They're gone. Mine for MWM michaelwest.com.au/its-the-endg...

Like Israel, Russia deliberately targets civilians.

Teal inroads into the Senate, largely at the expense of the Libs, would be a marvellous thing. For one thing Labor would finally have some credible opposition. #auspol

Moderates did what they always do, proving themselves irrelevant. The mimsy Lib time servers in the Senate who couldn't win a House seat better hope the community independents movement doesn't get its act together with a Senate ticket. One I prepared earlier michaelwest.com.au/teal-senate-...

Everyone is paying attention to the toddlers having a meltdown, we really should be looking at what the supposed ‘adults’ in the room are actually doing. That’s what actually matters. Come and have a chat to Sean Kelly and I about it at ANU Meet the Author www.anu.edu.au/events/meet-...

US subs have been purely nuclear powered for decades but now Navy strategists are pushing for new diesel-electric boats. Meanwhile the Oz Uniparty blocks Senate AUKUS inquiry, doesn't want hear anything but the groupthink of retired American admirals. Folly. michaelwest.com.au/wrong-subs-u...

"Two leading human rights organisations based in Israel, B’Tselem and Physicians for Human Rights, say Israel is committing genocide against Palestinians in Gaza and the country’s western allies have a legal and moral duty to stop it." www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...

"How long principles can be maintained under the weight of toeing the party line is a matter of personal quality. When that party line is set by powerful media rather than the membership, at some point, the weight must become too much." Mine for MWM michaelwest.com.au/first-week-o...

Australia’s defence establishment and media have a bad case of Trump Derangement Syndrome over China www.crikey.com.au/2025/07/17/a...

3 RBA board members get to say "we told you so" at the next meeting. Question is whether the other 6 say "this is exactly what we want plus some more unemployment please" or "yes, we've been wrong all year".

Yes, #JillianSegal has denied any personal involvement in Advance. But given their hateful rhetoric, overt racism, and threat to social cohesion, Australians should reasonably expect she would have condemned the group by now. But so far... 🦗🦗🦗. #auspol

Instead of facing up to the need for governments to do at scale what the private sector won’t, the most dispiriting part of the ABC’s Treasury briefing scoop was that the mandarins think further subsidising landlords is a priority. Mine for MWM michaelwest.com.au/jim-chalmers...

EXCLUSIVE: AUSTRALIA HAS EXPORTED F-35 FIGHTER JET PARTS DIRECTLY TO ISRAEL Leaked documents reveal that as recently as this week, Australia has sent F-35 strike fighter jet parts directly from Australia to Israel in the midst of Israel’s genocidal war in Gaza declassifiedaus.org/2025/07/11/r...

US citizens R/LMurdoch who control all “messaging” in their media outlets use The Australian 11/7/25 to lay grounds for US (and Australia) to withdraw funding from the United Nations. Claims (falsely) that UN “emboldens” Hamas. Ignores Netanyahu’s mass slaughter of innocent Palestinians.

Today is the International Day of Reflection and Commemoration of the Genocide in Srebrenica, and marks 30 years since the massacre. We should use the opportunity to reflect on and acknowledge the horror, and honour the memory of the victims #politas #auspol

The world's most famous medical NGO concludes Israel is committing genocide. It joins a consensus of genocide scholars, including in Israel, and NGOs like Amnesty International. No politician or journalist can claim "I did not know at the time!" to evade future justice.

Nine months after writing this, one local player is no longer relevant, the numbers are worse and such commentary is suddenly under threat: michaelwest.com.au/hardman-neta...

"What is extraordinary is that the Albanese Government appointed Segal at all. She has form for advocating censorship and suppressing the rights of pro-Palestinian supporters to express their views" - Greg Barnes johnmenadue.com/post/2025/07...

The surprise of the RBA's non-move yesterday overshadowed the shallowness of its excuse. Two-thirds of the RBA board base their decision whether to take an umbrella tomorrow on whether it was raining a couple of days ago. Mine for MWM michaelwest.com.au/reserve-bank...

Keating on Marles' effort at the Murdochs' "sleazy" conference: "A moment when an Australian Labor Government intellectually ceded Australia to the United States as a platform for the US and by implication, Australia, for military engagement against the Chinese state" johnmenadue.com/post/2025/06...

Our governments lie to us about Australia's sovereignty, AUKUS, defence ... @michaelpascoe01.bsky.social on Israel's invasion of Iran, nuclear proliferation, the US #auspol michaelwest.com.au/george-orwel...

It's always 1984 in Australia now. Mine for MWM michaelwest.com.au/george-orwel...

American aid More scrapeable content on Patreon patreon.com/glenlelievre #Israel #Gaza #USA

There was an old woman who lived in a tube... More cartoons, gifs and videos on Patreon patreon.com/glenlelievre #AUKUS #housingcrisis

Villains and heroes. My @smh @theage cartoon.

On the proposed super changes: "the government wants to halve an excessively generous and quite unnecessary tax break enjoyed by a relatively few people, and even then, in nearly all cases, only on their somewhat marginal income." @michaelpascoe01.bsky.social michaelwest.com.au/the-truth-of...

@albomp.bsky.social , opportunity is knocking. Open the door. Grab it.

"Overlooked ... are the low-paid workers who get no tax break at all for ... super" The final word on the super tax hysteria ahem ... trickles down from @michaelpascoe01.bsky.social #auspol michaelwest.com.au/the-truth-of...

“One of the biggest expenses ... (at our local branch) was on funeral wreaths". @michaelpascoe01.bsky.social - how Murdoch & Libs are dragging each other down. Top read #auspol michaelwest.com.au/a-dying-demo...

Murdoch is killing the Liberal Party. Mine for MWM michaelwest.com.au/a-dying-demo...

RBA's own number shout it should have cut in April as well as yesterday. Now here's what nobody notices: the real real wages are going backwards again Mine for MWM michaelwest.com.au/rba-drops-in...

We sanction a token handful of West Bank settlers but ignore the perpetrators of catastrophic crime. michaelwest.com.au/labors-got-a...

"The Palestine elephant remains in the room. It’s putrid, stinking of death, while our government holds its nose and looks away, ignoring the war crimes." Mine for MWM michaelwest.com.au/labors-got-a...