Maximum Pressure in the Strait of Hormuz: The US-Iran Standoff
Hegemons are never going to sound too sensible when they lock horns or joust in spats of childish anger. Power corrupts, not merely in terms […]
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Cleaning out the Nutters: Paul Keating, China and Australia’s Security Establishment
Inimitable to a fault, former Australian Prime Minister Paul Keating had been fairly quiet on his party’s policies till an impromptu press intervention last week. […]
Trending Issues: The Quest for the Magic Economic Trifecta to Steer the New Digital Global Economy
Should Bill Shorten make it to the Cabinet Room again after 18 May, the incoming government will receive corporate support Labor’s support for investment […]
A Great Flushing Out: Social Media Footprints and Electioneering in Australia
It has been an uninspiring election, punctuated by occasional moments of madness on the part of various candidates. Their sin was to be incautious in […]
Five pillars of financial crime (part 3)
By Dr George Venturini While the scale of illegality and unethical behaviour in the Australian financial sector might be news to many Australians, the scale […]
The Democrats and Muellerisation
The psychic problems facing the Democrats continue to bite, and with their foiled efforts to see the full, unredacted report of the Mueller Report, they […]
Five pillars of financial crime (part 2)
By Dr George Venturini Dr. E. Jones, a distinguished senior academic in the Department of Political Economy at the University of Sydney, had been an […]
A Matter of Independence: Equinor and Drilling the Great Australian Bight
Such companies advertise themselves as slick and professional, the best in the business, all things to men, women and everyone in between. They insist that […]
Walking with Dinosaurs
By 1Petermcc Science shows us that humans and dinosaurs did not share Earth, with the gap between us and them somewhere around an impressive 60 […]
Disproportionate Sentences: Julian Assange, Bail, and Extradition
Should journalism ever have a deity worth His, Her or Its salt, looking down upon the recent proceedings against Julian Assange will provide endless choking […]
Five pillars of financial crime (part 1)
By Dr George Venturini Five pillars of financial crime On 5 May 2014 ABC TV Four Corners, in conjunction with Fairfax journalists, broadcast an exposé […]
The restoration of malpractice (part 4)
By Dr George Venturini On 5 May 2015 The (Melbourne) Age reported that A.N.Z. would reimburse $30 million for miscalculated interest on credit card […]
Doubts at the NSA: Shelving a Mass Surveillance Program
Earlier this year, Luke Murry, national security adviser for Republican House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy, revealed that the National Security Agency had been averse over […]
Conservatives and Progressives
By definition, a conservative is someone who chooses to retain traditional values and is averse to change, whereas a progressive is a supporter of social […]
Corporate Joe: Biden Enters the Presidential Race
Values, values and more values. Another dreary dish added to the smorgasbord of Democratic hopefuls for the White House. This one is a bit cured […]