by DAVID FLINT – IF THE world were reminded of one thing this year, it is that America remains the world’s dominant imperial power, or, as is said, “superpower”. The point is that since colonial settlement, Australians have always belonged to what…
by DAVID FLINT – ON THE Fourth of July, the United States will celebrate the 250th anniversary of their separation from the British Crown. Plagued by institutional paralysis and cultural fracture, this is a fitting moment to ask a fundamental question. A…
by JOHN MIKKELSEN – WITH no clear end in view to the Middle East war, critics are partly right in claiming US President Donald Trump is releasing UFO files as a diversion from stalled peace talks. At the outset I’ll put my…
by PAUL COLLITS – THINGS started heading south pretty early in Trump’s first go at the presidency. Not so much in terms of intent or policy, but in the chaotic White House. He ran a turnstiles personnel policy, that was beyond parody….
by PAUL COLLITS – MY DEAR, late mother – before she succumbed to the inevitable senior’s mental deterioration, aka dementia – was a cryptic crossword aficionado. For whatever reason, I still remember one particular clue she once shared with me. It was…
by DAVID FLINT – SINCE the issue arose, the Albanese Government has maintained a chillingly bureaucratic silence regarding the fate of the Iranian women’s football team. While these athletes faced the very real threat of execution for their silent protest against the…
by DAVID FLINT – I WOULD like to paraphrase former Labor Prime Minister Paul Keating. “I guarantee that if you walk into any pet shop in the West, or indeed the world, what the resident galah will be talking about is how…
by DAVID FLINT – DONALD Trump, whom history will surely judge as being among the greatest of US Presidents, has done what his predecessors either feared to do or did not even understand they had to do. It took one American president,…
by REX WIDERSTROM – PM ANTHONY Albanese has said Rudd’s decision to leave a year early was “entirely” his own. Australia’s ambassador to the US, former Labor PM Kevin Rudd, will step down at the end of March to take up a…
by PAUL COLLITS – THE one key and unasked question following Donald Trump’s intervention in Venezuelan domestic affairs has to be – when is he coming for Albo? And how do we make the case and put it to the Pentagon? Nothing…
