Launching the U.S. into what could be yet another unpopular and costly forever war, while his unpopular budget bill at home takes food and healthcare away from millions of people. The "peace president."

US opposition figures and US allies defend their quiescence in response to Trump's tyranny by saying that there is no point aggravating him. "Our best protection is not standing up to him", they argue. But ex-US Labor Secretary @rbreich.bsky.social says the opposite is the case.

If the US moves on Greenland - controlled by NATO’s Denmark - how would its alliance partners react? Where does Australia stand on AUKUS against a Washington gone rogue? With the US trashing international law and its own constitution, at what point do the US joint chiefs of staff move on Trump? 1/2

The US global empire has declined beyond recuperation. Trump hides a retreat to a western hemisphere empire by war on Venezuela. But just as wars lost in Vietnam, Iraq, Afghanistan, Ukraine did not stop US's empire's decline, wars in Latin America wont stop decline there either.

So the emerging picture seems to be: Trump Admin imagines it struck a deal with elements of Maduro's regime to hand him over and stay in power, in exchange (presumably) for inviting US oil companies back and stopping oil supplies to Cuba ....

Who can argue against the principle of bringing to justice rogue presidents who defy the rule of law, disrespect the outcome of democratic elections, employ the military to silence their critics, indulge in nepotism and use their positions to enrich themselves??

Top 5 Mistakes Bush made in Iraq that Trump is making in Venezuela

Essential analysis on the Venezuelan situation. Trump may have removed Maduro but the regime is still in place and the country is a mess. The notion that Trump’s incompetent henchmen can ‘run’ Venezuela is insane. www.youtube.com/live/okFXXXW...

Unless they know something I don’t, aren’t they getting a little ahead of themselves? The Maduro regime - minus Maduro - appears to still exist, and there are no U.S. troops on the ground to say otherwise.

Remember, it's the same people who were shocked at Russia illegally invading Ukraine who are now gloating over the US illegally invading Venezuela. They have no principles, no scruples, no morals at all. And they head every western state.

Albo has an opportunity in this crisis to not permanently cement the public perception that he is weak, an opportunity he will decisively not take.

Supposedly Australia’s alliance with the USA is based on shared principles about democracy and the rule of law. Where does that sit now? Senator Wong? Anybody home in Canberra??

We live in a hall of mirrors: Trump is justifying Maduro’s arrest because the latter is a crook who defied the outcome of a democratic election, stole from his people and associated with gangsters.

It's an old and obvious pattern. An unpopular president - failing on the economy and losing his grip on power at home - decides to launch a war for regime change abroad. The American people don’t want to “run” a foreign country while our leaders fail to improve life in this one.

Donald Trump cannot be trusted to lead America into war. He is unaccountable to America. He is lawless. He only seeks conflict to cover up for his failures. Congress must step up and reassert its power. No more forever wars.

The US has launched an unprovoked and illegal attack on Venezuela. This is a brazen attempt to secure control over Venezuelan natural resources. It is an act of war that puts the lives of millions of people at risk, and should be condemned by anyone who believes in sovereignty & international law.

Australia is ‘seeking security’ in the Asia Pacific by paying hundreds of billions in protection bribes to a mobster in Washington who just staged an illegal coup in Venezuela to control its oil. Is there anyone in the ALP with a spine? #FlushAUKUS

If Xi Jinping invaded Taiwan right now, and toppled the president there, on what grounds would the United States object? Or have any credibility to say anything?

Trump doing to Venezuela what Putin is doing to Ukraine and Netanyahu is doing to its neighbours. Lawless mobsters running the world.

All the talk is just theatre so long as it is clear that Putin has no interest in ending the war. Why would he? He clearly has Trump on a string. The only way this war stops is if the US and Europe send an unequivocal message to Russia. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/24/w...

The AFR really has it in for Albo over Bondi, accusing him of “forfeiting his moral authority” and going soft on anti-semitism to appease Muslim voters over the Gaza “war”. That would be the genocide that Australians across the board, including many Jews, have condemned. www.afr.com/politics/fed...

And in the spirit of Aussie fairness they will then arm a Palestinian militia?

Washington Post says Australian state and federal governments are over-correcting after the Bondi attacks. “Democracies combat terrorism not just by deterring future attacks, but by preserving the freedoms the terrorists seek to undermine.” www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...

Greta Thunberg arrested at pro-Palestinian protest in London flip.it/v0.eFg

Fascinating chart from ‘The Great Global Transformation, the new book by economics professor @brankomilan.bsky.social, on the end of neoliberalism, the rise of China & the demise of the Political West. This shows when different countries reached their relative income peaks.

Ahmed the Fruiterer being the everyday hero that saved multiple lives of mostly Jewish people today is the only politics worth a pinch of shit in this act of terrorism

Democracy vs Trump and the Tech Bros. The world eyes Australia’s social media ban for under-16s. www.bloomberg.com/news/newslet...

How far and fast is our ‘great ally’ walking away from liberal democracy, human rights and the rule of law? Watch this from Rory Stewart and Alastair Campbell and decide for yourself. Anyone awake in Canberra at the moment? youtu.be/Ad3CByhscw0?...

Australia right now needs a Whitlamesque firebrand politician of the left to put some distance between ourselves and a failed American state intent on dragging us into a war with our biggest trading partner. Enough with Albo’s Murdoch-appeasing, small target consensus. The man is an empty suit.

Why is the US-ingratiating Australian media so ready to assume that ‘full-steam ahead’ on #AUKUS is good news? Australians never voted for this. We abhor Trump and despise US aggression. Let’s vote for the party that rips up this ruinous pact and destroys the fascist defence lobby pushing this BS.

Saturday Paper putting it plainly. www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au/comment/edit...

If one were cynical, one might conclude that Lehrmann's endless litigation is an advanced subsidy scheme for the legal industry, Murdoch media and professional cultural warriors for whom stoking division and resentment among blokey white men is a business model.

We’re happy you’re back. A better option would be to put Joyce on the outgoing flight.

Just returned to Australia from two months overseas to discover the Big Story is the Barnaby Joyce pantomime. Tempted to get on the next plane out again.

This from former Blair spin-doctor Alistair Campbell sounds vaguely familiar: “I think the BBC has lost its confidence and now panders to those who seek to destroy it.” www.youtube.com/live/Xgk8Njz...

To be fair to NSW Police, it’s tough to find the time to turn back neo-Nazis when you have you hands full strip-searching teenage girls

Social media outfit Advance, bankrolled by Gina, backed by the Murdochs, IPA, Nampijinpa, Pauline Hanson, Tony Abbott, John Howard pays for what Steve Bannon calls “enshitification” = flooding a polity with “shit” - fear/propaganda. Now it’s “mass” migration and net zero 2050.

Ley should have told the Nats to f&@k off after the election when she had the chance. But appeasing these idiots just feeds their Sky AD delusion that they represent the mainstream. There’s plenty to attack the ALP on, but you won’t be heard at all if you swing far right. Stand your ground Sussan.

Joy Division as a culture war? Really, Sussan? Weren’t you a Siouxsie and the Banshees fan way back? On this one I have to stand with Albo, as I did in 1981, although I’d never wear this today.

Anyone who thinks Albo’s deferential approach to Trump represents brilliant strategy needs to look at what’s happened to Japan. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/26/b...

Eight decades since 'Fat Man', Nagasaki is being bombed anew - this time by the Instagram Generation. My reflections here on a world increasingly seduced by surface and image and devoid of any sense of history or context. www.jparkermedia.com.au/post/the-fou...

“Australia and America have drawn closer this week because of mutual anxiety and hostility towards Beijing.” Peter ‘OMG! The Yellow Peril!’ Hartcher at his Sinophobic best. What a hack. www.smh.com.au/politics/fed...

I’m sure my reaction speaks for many upon hearing we’ve signed a rare earths deal with the US and that it’s full steam ahead on #AUKUS.

This is the great benefit of the independents in shining a light for the public on how the clubby and cosy world of federal politics really works for the permanent insider gang that runs the place for their own benefit and the grubby lobbyists who keep the cash coming.

‘Madness. It would be like Northern Ireland’s Good Friday agreement been set completely on the terms of the British military and without any input from the IRA,’ says British academic, former diplomat and Conservative politician Rory Stewart of Trump’s Gaza ‘peace plan’. youtu.be/1ZhifRHYLfA?...

Yay! We get to bankrupt ourselves buying non-existent subs off an unstable ally descending into fascism so we can join them in a nuclear war against our biggest trading partner. www.smh.com.au/world/north-...

Labor in 2025 is the much the same as the LNP were in 1955. Preaching endless growth, free-market dogma, dependence on the US for security, a property & resource-driven economy & a media & government overseen by News Ltd to ensure UKUS colonial occupation continues. johnmenadue.com/post/2025/09...

Trump’s Himmler, Stephen Miller is the rebel fascist son of liberal Democrat Californian Jews intent on expelling the ‘brown hordes’ from the USA and using any method, however draconian, to suppress dissent. Scary profile from the FT. on.ft.com/46qd4XY

A federal immigration officer has been “relieved of current duties” after shoving a woman to the ground outside an NYC immigration courtroom. bit.ly/3KgwTZh

“Judeo-Christian” just means Zionist. Anyone who uses it these days is generally just referring broadly to white people who love Israel and hate Muslims. It’s a term used to distinguish the people we kill in our wars from the people who do the killing.