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.

Let me guess, Andrew. We should ditch immigration from those brown-skinned nations and bring in more white South Africans? That’s what this is about isn’t it? You’re a fascist creep. www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

What a debacle by the ABC. Its craven capitulation to shady lobbyists acting for a genocidal foreign state besmirched the reputation of a principled journalist, cost the Australian taxpayer close to $500K in damages & legal costs and further trashed the public broadcaster’s reputation.

Robert Redford, me, Toby Jones - and a reporter who found corruption in his own backyard. Thoughts on the coming ITV drama, The Hack www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/ideas/media/...

JUST IN: An independent United Nations inquiry has concluded for the first time that Israel has committed genocide against Palestinians in Gaza and that the country’s top leaders have incited genocide, in what it described as “the “most authoritative UN finding to date.” https://cnn.it/3VjaHzS

Fascinating i/v by US journalist Chris Hedges with fellow journalist and long-time observer of Charlie Kirk about Kirk’s recent dramatic falling out with the Zionist mafia funding him. Was his assassination a Mossad hit? youtu.be/Uf7zr5Thz64?...

Democrats’ ritual expressions of empathy over Charlie Kirk’s murder do nothing but prop up as legitimate political actors the Republicans who gleefully foment violence against their political opponents. newrepublic.com/article/2003...

“When you spend your days instructing a crowd that the nation is a battlefield, do not feign surprise when someone begins to treat it as one,” writes Donny Evans in this brilliant assessment of the instant martyrdom of Charlie Kirk. open.substack.com/pub/iamdonny...

Guy Rundle on coverage of the Charlie Kirk assassination: “We thank ABC news producers for ensuring their CVs are viable for commercial outlets by…clearing the decks for the killing of one unremarkable American when 50-100 Palestinians are being killed every day.” open.substack.com/pub/guyrundl...

How’s that freedom sitting with you now, Charlie? www.newsweek.com/charlie-kirk...

Moments before he was shot, he was downplaying gun violence in America. What a broken country. Conservative influencer Charlie Kirk shot dead at Utah university event - www.reuters.com/world/us/con...

Is there a contest within the Liberal Party to see who can most wreck its electoral prospects by pushing out to the Trumpist fringe? What appalling, ugly people.

Australia needs a populist left-wing government that puts the wind up the fascist regime in the US and tells them where to stick their submarines. Oh, and we’ll have the deposit back, thank you.

Why does Albanese think Australians will be impressed by him having cosy midnight chats with Trump about our ‘shared interests’? It’s because, as usual, he is more concerned about the opinion of the criminal organisation News Corp and its political wing the LNP than what Australians actually want.

Trump to order Department of Defense renamed the 'Department of War,' official says reut.rs/45WjKeM

So a retired Australian politician shaking the hand of China's president is dancing with the devil, but a sitting Australian politician shaking the hand of a US president (a convicted felon, rapist, fomenter of armed insurrection, avowed friend of dictators) is honouring our great ally?

Hard to argue with Ross Gittins. If Albanese plans to just sit on his huge majority without doing anything useful to address climate change, generational inequity, housing, tax rorts and plenty else, he should quit and bequeath the job to someone with the bottle. www.smh.com.au/business/the...

The ruinous AUKUS scam makes no sense for Australia on any level. What will it take for Australia’s hopeless political duopoly to wake up? asks ANU strategy analyst Allan Behm. johnmenadue.com/post/2025/08...

To fellow Sydneysiders, can you point me where the queue for the ark starts?

Everyone knows the Russians are kleptocrats, gangsters, spivs and corrupt carpetbaggers. No wonder Trump loves them

All reporting of Netanyahu's opinions on the Australian national interest should state upfront that he's an indicted war criminal subject to arrest if he comes here.

Journalists tend to speak the truth in retirement, I’ve found.

How predictable that the ‘Liberal’ Party, a far right ideological cell to advance Rupert Murdoch’s fascist agenda, should turn the recognition of Palestinian statehood into another front of their manufactured culture wars. Those people are despicable.

Honestly, why on earth does the mainstream media pay so much attention to what the LNP says? They are a marginal rump. They do not represent any substantial body of opinion. It is a part of reactionaries, fascists, racists and god-bothering fundamentalists.

At what point does the Western world start backing up its rhetoric on Palestine by imposing tough economic sanctions on Israel, banning arms shipments and expelling their diplomats? Isolate and shame the bastards, assuming they’re capable of feeling shame.

Trauma-afflicted shooter in New York armed with an automatic weapon kills multiple people at random, and all the libertarians celebrate his agency as an expression of ‘freedom’. The Americans are insane. Let’s cut our links with them. They are nuts. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/29/n...

The big gap in the Australian political spectrum is a nationalist and populist party of the left. There is a lot of anger and dismay in the community about the Albanese govt’s capitulation to the US military industrial complex. The ALP is hopelessly compromised.

Australia badly needs a national Independence Party that governs from our interests, not those of our former colonial overlords in London and Washington. Time to grow up and leave home at last.

When the UK and Australian defence ministers pontificate about “our nations facing a new threat”, what are they talking about? Because to me, the biggest threat to Australia and the UK is a failing US state lead by a sociopathic moron. www.smh.com.au/national/bee...

Howard French, a Columbia journalism professor, writes that with hope evaporated in Gaza and Palestinians now powerless to protest on their own behalf, there is a global obligation to call for an end the genocide. foreignpolicy.com/2025/07/24/t...

Revolutionise our world or destroy it? As claims around AI pile up, we need to start asking tough questions. And a brilliant new book does just that. Read my review. www.jparkermedia.com.au/post/the-ai-...

China is often accused of interference in Australia's affairs, but the US undermines our sovereignty far worse, @keanebernard.bsky.social writes.

Watching ABC News breakfast finance report. Some great stories around about Australians getting ripped off in investment scams and the role of banks. But they throw to a ‘market analyst’ talking about US earnings season. This is like reporting on housing policy and interviewing a real estate agent.

Americans earning less than $17K a year will lose about $820, or 5.7% of their income, under Trump’s ‘One Big Beautiful Bill’. On the other hand, the richest 0.1%, earning more than $4.3m, will gain $390,000, a 2.8% increase. (He’s for the ‘working people’, you know.) Chart from The Economist.

‘Prime Minister Albanese is under mounting pressure over the lack of a Trump meeting,’ reports SBS News. Under pressure from whom? asks this old editor. Who said that? What is their name? News consumers need to be spared the subterfuge of journalistic passive voice.

The head of an international nuclear watchdog agency said on Monday that the conflict in Iran “risks collapsing the global nuclear nonproliferation regime” and that if diplomacy is not pursued, “violence and destruction could reach unimaginable levels.”

Iran must not be allowed to acquire nuclear weapons, insists Albo. But it’s just dandy for Israel to have nukes and refuse to sign the NPT, while indiscriminately waging war on its neighbours to keep the corrupt Netanyahu in office. What am I missing here??

An excellent question: ”How can any regional state rely on Australia when our foreign policy decisions are not made in Canberra but in Washington?” www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au/news/politic...

Media not at all curious whether Trump’s demand for countries to spend a greater share of GDP on defence is just donor service for the arms industry, just as his withdrawal of the US from the Paris climate treaty served the fossil fuel industry. He’s a spiv and a mobster. Why not just say it??

We can all see Trump is an illiterate amoral idiot. What’s to stop the media (supposedly the smart, literate people) pointing out the absence of clothes on the emperor? Need to make mortgage payments not worth the peril of telling the truth?? Just give up and go and work in PR, you careerist morons.

Is Iran developing WMD? “Uncertain” By attacking Iran unilaterally,will the US and Israel prompt Iran to accelerate WMD production? “Almost certainly.” What will Australia do? “Waiting for the fax from Kevin and the editorial from Rupert.”

Hard for the West to moralise about Russian attacking Ukraine outside international law when Israel and its puppet state the USA are flouting every principle with their attack on Iran. This will not end well.

Could Trump can AUKUS? economist.com/asia/2025/06... from The Economist

Blisteringly accurate. How North Korean TV news might have reported on Trump’s birthday military parade.

Israel’s government, with tacit US support, is now operating with a level of impunity that suggests an upending of the post-1945 international legal order. theconversation.com/israel-iran-...

I don’t get it. What is wrong with the ALP that they can’t see AUKUS is a dud? When ScoMo is the only former PM singing its praises, you have to wonder whether Albo and Marles are the full quid.