Viral Optimism: The Pfizer-BioNTech Vaccine
The announcement that Pfizer Inc., along with its collaborative partner BioNTech SE, had come up with a successful vaccine candidate to combat the novel coronavirus […]
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Fur Trades and Pandemics: Coronavirus and Denmark’s Great Mink Massacre
“The worst case scenario is a new pandemic, starting all over again out of Denmark,” came the words of a grave Kåre Mølbak, director of […]
Last Push for 500,000 votes! Be a part of History!
Royal commission into News Corp domination of Australian media If you have missed it already, former Prime Minister Kevin Rudd has a petition for a […]
Sawing the Sacred: Felling the Djab Wurrung Directions Tree
“Djab Wurrung women are in an abusive relationship with Victoria’s government.” Sissy Eileen Austin, The Guardian, Sep 14, 2019. It was a penultimate day in […]
Factionalising Antisemitism: The British Labour Party Suspends Jeremy Corbyn
Whatever stance taken by followers of the British Labour Party on the subject of antisemitism within its ranks, the suspension of Jeremy Corbyn must be […]
Begging Outrage: British Journalists for Assange
Even that title strikes an odd note. It should not. The Fourth Estate, historically reputed as the chamber of journalists and publishers keeping an eye […]
RFSA welcomes national bushfire recommendations but says they shouldn’t distract from the NSW task at hand
RFSA Media Release The Rural Fire Service Association (RFSA) has welcomed the report released today by the Royal Commission into National Natural Disaster Arrangements but […]
Nuclear weapons – always inhumane and unacceptable, now illegal
The nuclear weapons ban treaty has achieved the 50 ratifications needed for its entry into force. By Tilman Ruff On Saturday, 24 October, the 75th […]
Google meets the Sherman Act
“Ambition is the subtlest Beast of the Intellectual and Moral Field,” wrote John Adams to his son, John Quincy Adams, in January 1794. “It is […]
Cultivated Lunacy, Nuclear Deterrence and Banning the Nuke
Is international relations a field for cautious minds, marked by permanent setbacks, or terrain where the bold are encouraged to seize the day? In terms […]
Impunity and Carefree Violence: Australia’s Special Forces in Afghanistan
In 2016, Australian Major General Jeff Sengelman approached the then chief of the Australian army Lieutenant General Angus Campbell with a nagging worry. The concern […]
Trusted Demonologies: US Electoral Interference, the Proud Boys and Iran
Iran, Russia and electoral interference. It is all part of the delicious mess that any observer of US politics has come to expect. Were the […]
Tarnished Crown: Finding the Thorns of a Gambling Empire
The Crown Resorts Annual General Meeting last year, held inside the company’s now flagging flagship Melbourne casino, was an ill-tempered matter. Members of the board […]
Follow the Money: Banking, Criminality and the FinCEN Files
It was all a fitting reminder of Bertolt Brecht’s remark that bank robbery lies in the province of amateurs. The real professionals of plunder establish […]
Sloppy Methodology: Social Media, Censorship and New York Post’s Hunter Biden Story
It was highly probable. Given the howls of concern that social media platforms such as Twitter and Facebook nurse and nurture a bias (every choice […]