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Of the three countries involved in AUKUS, that most draining, useless and even pernicious of security pacts, Australia has been the only country indifferent, even scoffing, about the need for an inquiry into its merits. Unsurprisingly, both the US and UK inquiries have found much to merit the project – Australian taxpayer money has sluiced and soothed the submarine industrial base of both countries – but have also expressed concern about their respective production rates of nuclear-powered submarines.

While the first pillar of the agreement promises, with mighty emptiness, that the Royal Australia Navy will receive three Virginia-class nuclear-powered submarines …

On the evening of June 3, the legislative chambers of the US House of Representatives, normally a relatively reserved buzz of activity, began by maintaining the Ukraine war machine and ended with an eruption into what became a fierce display of political disagreement, partisan strife and personal insult.

The House began with consideration of three different House Resolutions related to foreign policy regarding Ukraine, Iran and Lebanon.

Rep. Gregory Meeks (D-NY) offered Resolution 518 in support of the Ukraine Support Act to authorize HR 2913 which would provide additional $8 billion in support for Ukraine for a total US …

The field ahead looked worked over, flattened in patches like multitudes had crossed it for centuries. Brown grass under frost.

Men standing in lines. Faces too close to each other, shoulders almost touching. I didn’t recognize any of the faces.

A colonel moved down the line. Everyone stiffened when he passed, so that’s what he must’ve been. Or major. Maybe brigadier general. He stopped beside me; my boots settled deeper in the mud. Training. Reflex.

An order came. The body moved before I caught up to it. Rifle raised. Words said, worn smooth from too many times. Mouth working through short sentences that …

What effect does slumbering have for social media posts?

Google’s project to release genetically modified Wolbachia mosquitoes in Florida and Calfornia was announced on June 1, 2026. It’s an initiative of  Google’s parent company, Alphabet, through its life sciences division Verily.
“Verily has filed for EPA approval to release millions of specially treated mosquitoes over the next two years as part of an effort to reduce disease-carrying mosquito populations.
The initiative is known as the Debug Project, a program that has been researching mosquito control for more than a decade.”

The premises as well as the narrative of the Verily initiative are similar to those put forth by …

Tehran Times spoke with John Helmer, a veteran journalist and geopolitical analyst based in Moscow, to assess the implications of the conflict for U.S. policy toward Iran, the role of domestic political calculations in Washington, and shifting regional alignments. In this interview, Helmer examines coercive diplomacy, regional security dynamics, and the limits of U.S. strategy.

Years ago when I was twenty-seven years-old and my father fifty-eight, we wandered around an off-beat section of a small New England town. There was a section where old wooden structures had been abandoned years before and lay forlorn. But they drew us to them. Old names on walls, here and there a small plaque telling a little history of places and people long vanished, never to return, for the rest of this town had been modernized and gentrified, as was exemplified by the expensive shops and cars that lined its …

Call it a repeating script, a rusty template, or simply a creaky model to emulate time and again. The structural and homicidal destruction of Gaza undertaken by Israeli forces is now finding full expression in southern Lebanon, a cause of concern even for those in Washington. The war’s increasing savagery is a reminder of how hollow the exhortations by the Netanyahu government seem following the official cessation of hostilities against Hezbollah in November 2024.

Israel’s pre-emptive war on Iran, commencing on February 28 with the full and criminal connivance of the United States, took place alongside an incursion into …

Manash Das (India), Red Ant, n.d.

Every five years, the electorate in Keralam goes to the polls to elect a new state government. One of 28 states in India, Keralam has a population of 35 million. It has been governed by the Left Democratic Front (LDF), which is led by the Communist Party of India (Marxist) or CPI(M), for the past decade. On 4 May, the Election Commission of India announced that the LDF had won only 35 of the 140 seats in the legislature and that the LDF’s …

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On Monday, China Coast Guard’s Daishan vessel formation conducted routine law-enforcement patrols in accordance with the law in the waters east of China’s Taiwan island, directly targeting the illegal collusion between Japan and the Philippines. China made it clear that this was a necessary operation in response to the announcement by Japan and the Philippines on their own, to begin talks on maritime delimitation in the waters east of China’s Taiwan island, which seriously infringed upon China’s territorial sovereignty and maritime rights and …

As someone who lives in Canada but has visited Venezuela seven times and written extensively on the Bolivarian Revolution, I do not have a fixed, original position on the current situation. Strange? I would rather defer to two experts who live in Venezuela.

Firstly, Cira Pascual Marquina is a popular educator at the Pluriversidad Patria Grande in Venezuela, the educational initiative of the El Panal Commune. She is also a member of the International Communal Democracy Network. With Chris Gilbert, Pascual Marquina is co-author of several books on Venezuela, including Venezuela, the Present as Struggle: Voices from the Bolivarian Revolution (Monthly …

It sounds like an acute sewerage burst, but as much political commentary rests on the tired cliché, we see the language of liquid velocity apply to parties that suddenly emerge in the polls as portentously relevant to watchers and news cyclists. They “surge” away, giving hacks and pundits room to fill in column space while scraping psephologists can pack consultancy briefs and newsletters with apparently scientific information about the permanently transient.

Of late, those electoral quarriers at Redbridge Group have been doing much to add building material to One Nation’s momentum. First came a poll in May which …

One can never accuse the Australian political palate of being too demanding, let alone attentive. When it comes to matters of defense, that palate is happy to be deceived, remaining credulous to the notion that it is sensitive to good taste and observant of flavors. When it comes to alliances, this is especially so. As for the AUKUS agreement, it was clear that the Australian establishment was simply incapable of tasting anything other than the rancid or putrid. Of the three participating countries in this doomed ménage à trois – the United States, the United Kingdom and Australia – it …

Why would the government cover up news of UFOs?

Saucer as depicted in the sci-fi tv series The Invaders.These are always occasions of anticipation and even celebration for the tinfoil hatters and those keen to spot the internal plot, the thriving fifth column and anything that could risk being seen as ordinary. The human mind is obsessed by the need for a rounded explanation. In place of that arises a form of mysticism, even superstition. What cannot be explained must be otherworldly. Few better tests for this proposition can be found in the discussion about unidentified objects …