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‘60 Minutes Australia’ has churned out yet another fearmongering war propaganda piece on China, this one so ham-fisted in its call to beef up military spending that it goes so far as to run a brazen advertisement for an actual Australian weapons manufacturer disguised as news reporting. This round of …

There is an idiom in the English language: ‘jumping the shark’. It is defined as a misguided attempt at generating new attention or publicity for something that was once perceived to be relevant, but no longer is. ‘Jumping the shark’ has its roots in an episode from the fifth season …

Youth international Zaki Anwari was crushed in the wheels of a USAF Boeing C-17 when he tried to hold on to one of the last flights leaving his country after the Taliban regained power, with his remains later said to have been found in a wheel well. The 17-year-old’s brother, …

The would-be asylum seekers have unwittingly become pawns in a wider geopolitical game. EU states, which stand accused of turning back desperate people along the frontier, have alleged that the Belarusian government has laid on flights to troubled destinations such as Iraq and Afghanistan and is now ‘weaponizing’ refugees to …

When I went back to Afghanistan again this Spring, it seemed to confirm in the eyes of my family and friends that I was not right in the head. Why would you go back there? It’s a war zone, are you mad? You’re an old man, they said. It is …

On August 3 the leftist publication The Daily Beast published a scathing hit piece directed at one of YouTube’s most popular independent journalists, Tim Pool. The publication devoted over 11,000 words to attacking Pool, accusing him of everything from peddling misinformation to whitewashing the “far right.” This type of salacious …

“The situation is very serious. The flames have come to the edge of the thermal power plant,” Muhammet Tokat, mayor of Milas – located east of the major resort of Bodrum – said on Twitter on Tuesday. Tokat shared a video showing a massive blaze raging through the hills near …

At home Joe Biden is either an ageing, faltering politician or the ideal person to unite America. But in Ireland, he’s unilaterally billed as a hero, a mythical figure about to scatter a shower of gold across the Emerald Isle. His ancestral home, Ballina, in the county’s North West, features …

Boris Johnson’s announcement that the United Kingdom would be undertaking the biggest increase in defence spending in over 30 years has come as a major surprise.  Pledging what is likely to amount to an additional £16.5 billion over the next four years to the military, the prime minister vowed to …

In Ukraine announced the results of the survey, which was conducted by Kyiv international Institute of sociology (KIIS). According to the study, a third of Ukrainians still hopes that the head of state Vladimir Zelensky will initiate negotiations with the self-proclaimed Donetsk and Luhansk people’s republics (DPR and LPR). It …