
Half-truths and hypocrisy: GPS-jammed Ursula von der Leyen speaks againFrom “Europe must fight” to drones sold as peace and a tale of stolen children debunked, the EU president’s state of the union was heavy on rhetoric and light on reality.....
You can’t talk about it. You can’t protest against it. You can’t do anything about it. Woe betide anybody who questions it. Opposition Leader Sussan Ley has dumped Jacinta Nampijinpa Price from the frontbench after the controversial Northern Territory senator continued to resist calls to apologise for her remarks about Indian immigrants and refused to
Ben was joined by Matt Dennien from the Brisbane Times to discuss the Queensland state redistribution, specifically the first round of submissions. The conversation focuses on the Labor and LNP submissions, and also run through some of the other public submissions.

Kaja Kallas, the European Union’s de facto foreign minister (and former prime minister of Estonia), is unusually, grotesquely incompetent, even for an unelected EU apparatchik.

Abstract- If the Soviet Union was the “Evil Empire” of the 1980s, it seems in the modern era the roles have switched and now the US/West is the Evil Empire, seeking to impose itself and stamp out foreign cultures and subjugate entire countries.
Who is the Modern Evil Empire? Bryan Anthony Reo

This week, Israel killed my cousin Mohammed, a young and cheerful lawyer, along with his wife Myriam and their only seven-day-old baby, Jaber.

The Russian military has suggested consultations with its Polish counterparts, after being accused by Warsaw of violating the country’s airspace with drones. The Defense Ministry in Moscow neither confirmed nor denied such violations, but implied that whatever aircraft crossed the border were not launched from Russia.
Australia’s transition to renewable energy will be extremely expensive, raising power bills. The reasons are simple. Renewable energy sources are weather-dependent, resulting in intermittent power and low capacity factors. As a result, renewables require backup hydrocarbon generation and lots of expensive storage. They also require far greater network infrastructure to connect the distributed web of

Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul tore into Vice President JD Vance's defense of the U.S. military's strike on an alleged drug vessel leaving Venezuela.
And he cited a long-loved literary classic to prove his point.

France faces a day of disruption Wednesday as the "Block Everything" protests, called by a loose left-wing coalition, threaten to obstruct transport and other services. The protests come as Sébastien Lecornu is set to take the reins as France’s new prime minister amid a gridlocked National Assembly. Follow our live coverage of the day's events as they unfold.
Having recently written a long piece about the origin of what was termed neoliberal economics and how it inevitably led to a disgraceful, vacuous, malignant narcissist like Trump being elected to the US presidency1, I decided to have a crack at looking at the effects it has had on the UK and the US populace. This is Part 1 and deals with income inequality, wage stagnation, job insecurity and declining union influence.



