Opinion

Inside Australia’s Assange game plan

Kellie Tranter reports on the Labor government’s secret planning to act on the WikiLeaks’s founder’s case without offending the United States ‘QUIET diplomacy,’ a ‘soft approach,’ a ‘loud approach’ and ‘avoiding

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Palestinian univers are once again under attack

Neve Gordon: PALESTINIAN universities are under attack once again. Later this month, the Israeli authorities are expected to put into effect a 97-page ordinance, called Procedure for Entry and Residence

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Passive foreign policy is over

For the first time since 1989, Algeria’s authoritarian regime has sent a military parade marching through Algiers. A formidable show of strength designed to impress rival regional powers, the event

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Will our children be able to read?

by Vijay Prashad: The sharp attack on education during this past decade forces us to consider the kind of future that young people will inherit, writes Vijay Prashad THE world is

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Damage that US caused to other countries

Farooque Chowdhury: With its carbon footprint from 1990 to 2014, the United States caused nearly $2 trillion in damage to other countries, finds a new analysis. How much ‘aid’, in

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Most dangerous military alliance on planet

At no time, including the Cuban missile crisis, have we stood closer to the precipice of nuclear war, writes Chris Hedges THE North Atlantic Treaty Organisation and the arms industry that

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Climate and collapse of world order

by Patrick Mazza: The features that have defined the world order for five centuries must be rebalanced. Human rights and the global commons would have to be privileged over national

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Heat and drought bake the world

We humans have a dilemma of our own making. Or rather of the making of our economic-political system, also known as capitalism. We burnt too much oil, coal and gas,

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