consistent with the historical trajectory of american foreign policy...

It beggars belief that the outgoing head of the RSL, Greg Melick, has abused the quiet solemnity of Remembrance Day to lecture and berate the Albanese government on its defence policy.
Worse, he carelessly flung around the tired epithet of ‘appeasement’ at the Prime Minister and his Ministers.

In succumbing to a lust for the limelight, the ASIO director, Mike Burgess, is not making it easier for the government and citizens to retain confidence in him and the organisation he’s trying to run.

When one mentions Zbigniew Brzezinski, it is like advancing the concept that the devil is a great proponent of Christianity because it gives him (the devil is male, transgender or female — depending on your bent) more material to work with.

The European Commission plans to establish a new intelligence division directly under President Ursula von der Leyen, even as the move faces resistance from the EU’s existing spy apparatus, the Financial Times reported on Tuesday.

President Donald Trump has claimed that the US faces a “national security catastrophe” if the tariffs he introduced against most trading partners this year are ruled illegal.

‘Hermann Göring loved his kids. That’s what’s terrifying’: James Vanderbilt, Rami Malek and Michael Shannon on Nuremberg....
Russell Crowe has a malevolent charm as the Nazi on trial in a compelling new film. His co-stars and director explain how they understood this monster – and the persistence of evil today

we expect something in return
we atheist being nice to another run
makes us hope others will be nice to us
for the believer needs to be better plus
to get a place amongst virgins and angels
unless god demands wars against the infidels
to fill his kingdom with the cadavers of devils