Opinion

Australian parliamentarians in Washington

Binoy Kampmark: IT WAS a short stint, involving a six-member delegation of Australian parliamentarians lobbying members of the US Congress and various relevant officials on one issue: the release of

The more things change, the more they stay the same

by Mischa Geracoulis: IN MR Associated Press Kent Cooper and the Twentieth-Century World of News, Gene Allen investigates the Associated Press and its trajectory from a pony express news agency

G20 Biofuels Alliance threatens food security

Soma Marla: DURING the recent G20 summit, India has launched the Global Biofuels Alliance. India’s prime minister Narendra Modi urged the G20 nations to join the initiative with a plea

First Nations Australia, country talking back

Sanjeeb Drong: AUSTRALIAN First Nations poet Samantha Faulkner in her poem ‘Always Was, Always Will Be’ wrote, Languages, art, culture, knowledge Our gifts to the nation If only you’d

Sri Lanka: time for truth to come out

Jehan Perera: THE Channel 4 documentary that claims to give the story behind the Easter bombing has restarted the debate within the country about who was behind the foul deed

Thirty years of peace distortion

For three decades and counting, the Oslo accords have provided nothing more than a false ‘framework of peace’ that sustains settler colonialism and apartheid, writes Alaa Tartir THREE decades on, the

Humanitarian imperialism and Libya’s nightmare

NATO’s military intervention in Libya in 2011, which overthrew the regime of Muammar Gaddafi, resulted in a chaotic and murderous failed state. Libyans pay a horrific price for this catastrophe,

Global warming did the unthinkable

by Robert Hunziker: JUNGFRAUJOCH’S foreboding temperatures this September at the top of the world in Switzerland at 2.25 miles altitude alarmed glaciologists. If anybody has lingering doubts about global warming’s