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Complicity In Gaza: Holding US Foreign Policy Legally Accountable

Published: Tue 19 Mar 2024 03:01 PM
On March 15, the next stage of an intriguing legal process seeking to hold the Biden administration accountable for its failure to prevent, as well as being complicit in, alleged acts of genocide taking place in Gaza, was taken. It all stems from a ... Read more...

Predictable Outcomes: Australia, The National Security Committee, And Invading Iraq

Published: Tue 19 Mar 2024 06:31 AM
The latest documents from the NSC are more sleet than snow. They do confirm that the parliamentary system, more than ever, should be involved in reining in the wild impulses of war makers. Read more...

Starlink’s fixed wireless challenge

Published: Mon 18 Mar 2024 06:32 PM
SpaceX’s Starlink deprioritised plan challenges rural fixed wireless broadband. Spark job cuts. Read more...

On Dune 2, And Images Of Islam

Published: Mon 18 Mar 2024 11:29 AM
Depictions of Islam in Western popular culture have rarely been positive, even before 9/11. Five years on from the mosque shootings, this is one of the cultural headwinds that the Muslim community has to battle against. Whatever messages of tolerance and ... Read more...

Five Years Since The Christchurch Terror Attack, Many Unanswered Questions Remain

Published: Mon 18 Mar 2024 10:00 AM
By Tom Peters March 15 marked five years since fascist terrorist Brenton Tarrant murdered 51 men, women and children, and injured 40 other people, in mass shootings at two mosques in Christchurch, New Zealand. The 2019 terror attack was the country’s ... Read more...

We Need A Plan For The Transition To Renewable Energy

Published: Fri 15 Mar 2024 09:26 AM
The transition to renewable energy is inevitable given the current climate crisis and the fact that fossil fuels are a finite resource. To make the shift, a detailed plan is required to indicate the first steps and anticipate challenges in allocating ... Read more...

Words Vs. Action: A Supplication For Gaza, And Humanity

Published: Thu 14 Mar 2024 02:14 PM
‘All we can do for Gaza is just offer our Du’a.” This is an oft-repeated statement by enraged Arabs and Muslims who feel helpless before the Israeli genocide in Gaza. But is it true that only invocations and supplications are possible, as tens of thousands ... Read more...

Prejudicial Bans: Congress Tosses Over TikTok

Published: Thu 14 Mar 2024 01:18 PM
How delicious is political hypocrisy. Abundant and rich, it manifests in the corridors of power with regularity. Of late, there is much of it in the US Congress, evident over debates on whether the platform TikTok should be banned in the United States. ... Read more...

On National’s Fantasy Trip To La La Landlord Land

Published: Thu 14 Mar 2024 11:39 AM
How much political capital is Christopher Luxon willing to burn through in order to deliver his $2.9 billion gift to landlords? Evidently, Luxon is: (a) unable to cost the policy accurately. As Anna Burns-Francis pointed out to him on Breakfast ... Read more...

Winning Director Compares Gaza To Auschwitz

Published: Wed 13 Mar 2024 09:45 AM
At the Oscars this week Jonathan Glazer went nuclear. The director of Zone of Interest, the Best Foreign Film, directly compared the Auschwitz death camp to what is happening in Gaza. I have to admit that until I heard his speech I had no intention of watching ... Read more...
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