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International Politics - 2012

Banged up in Burma

by Philip Coggan - 17/02/2012 - 2 comments

We were not born yesterday

by Kellie Tranter - 23/04/2012 - 36 comments

Thatcher in Africa

by Malcolm Colless - 17/01/2012 - 11 comments

Going extinct is no fun

by Michael Cook - 15/08/2012 - 29 comments

Intervention won't save Syria

by Gary Gambill - 1/10/2012 - 7 comments

A gaping wound in democracy

by Julian Cribb - 5/11/2012 - 116 comments

Wall St prepares for four more years

by Damian Karmelich - 12/11/2012 - 4 comments

Cultivating longevity

by Donna Weeks - 15/11/2012 - 4 comments

A lesson for Republicans: No more moderates

by Harry Melkonian - 29/11/2012 - 9 comments

The Somali President has spoken: can anyone hear his agony?

by Bashir Goth - 3/12/2012 - 2 comments

Persecution of Christians worldwide

by Babette Francis - 18/12/2012 - 25 comments

Syrians deserve a third way

by Joseph Wakim - 21/12/2012 - 7 comments

Corruption and mismanagement see much of the US without power

by Jen Alic - 20/07/2012 - 12 comments

Why do we watch the US?

by Brendon O'Connor - 30/08/2012

Obama's 'Fair Go' strategy

by Brendon O'Connor - 11/09/2012 - 2 comments

Can Indonesia become our most important ally?

by Everald Compton - 3/10/2012 - 5 comments

Oz-India relations: creating the Asian identity

by Bhanu Joshi - 18/10/2012 - 2 comments

Pressure Israel, not Iran

by Marjorie Cohn - 20/01/2012 - 55 comments

Explaining Australia’s fall in the RSF World Press Freedom Index

by Mark Pearson - 10/02/2012 - 80 comments

The imagined nationalism and its role in Iranian offensive nuclear policy

by Ali Omidi - 7/03/2012 - 16 comments

Growing up with Lambanana and slavery

by James Arvanitakis - 13/03/2012 - 7 comments

Asian Century or Asian Millennium?

by Tania Cleary - 30/03/2012 - 18 comments

The Orwellian UN

by Vic Alhadeff - 10/04/2012 - 17 comments

Overcoming anti-Americanism and Obama's Abu Ghraib

by Matthew Holloway - 20/01/2012 - 4 comments

Bungling over Mladic: The Tribunal’s ‘unpleasant surprise’

by Binoy Kampmark - 21/05/2012

China dilemma: Interview with Prof Zhiqun Zhu

by Kourosh Ziabari - 1/06/2012 - 7 comments

Humanity demands that we stop for a minute

by Vic Alhadeff - 2/07/2012 - 7 comments

Sino-Western conflict on the U.N. Syrian resolution

by Chin Jin - 10/02/2012 - 14 comments

Political decay

by Evaggelos Vallianatos - 17/01/2012 - 8 comments

The think tank that didn't

by Jim Green - 16/02/2012 - 4 comments

Out of their own mouths

by Dave Kimble - 22/02/2012 - 12 comments

A dreamer of nightmares: Ilan Pappe’s foolish plan to dismantle Israel

by Clive Kessler - 20/09/2012 - 44 comments

Boycotting Jews yet again

by Jonathan J. Ariel - 13/11/2012 - 126 comments

Operation Pillar of Defence: death via social media

by Binoy Kampmark - 21/11/2012 - 8 comments

Australia's blinkered view of violence in Gaza

by Dave Hopkins - 23/11/2012 - 47 comments

Is a water war between India and Pakistan imminent?

by John Daly - 17/04/2012 - 6 comments

Chinese grand strategy and American hegemony

by Paul Monk - 14/08/2012 - 13 comments

Setting the record straight on Australia's UN bid

by Thom Woodroofe - 19/10/2012 - 19 comments

Something's fishy in Tripoli

by Daniel Graeber - 27/01/2012 - 7 comments

China from the inside out

by Brian Hennessy - 15/02/2012 - 4 comments

Politics and power in China: the endgame

by Brian Hennessy - 28/02/2012 - 2 comments

Burma and Bipartisanism

by Ronan Lee - 29/03/2012

Appeasing Iran a bad policy

by Pooya Javid - 19/04/2012 - 4 comments

Indonesians dying in the Southern Ocean

by Duncan Graham - 24/04/2012 - 2 comments

Predators for peace

by Jack Chow - 7/05/2012 - 4 comments

Est-ce que 'Monsieur Normal' est normal?

by Madeleine Byrne - 10/05/2012 - 6 comments

Cuba, the two blockades and more...

by Rodrigo Acuña - 5/01/2012 - 5 comments

Somalia: welcome back

by Bashir Goth - 14/06/2012

2012 GOP Veepstakes Finals: Rubio vs. Portman… 'Exciting' vs 'Safe'

by Amir Iljazi - 11/07/2012

The strength behind Obama's re-election

by Everald Compton - 30/10/2012 - 10 comments

Polling and the US Presidential election: who will win?

by Jo Coghlan - 6/11/2012 - 17 comments

Mugged by Ann Coulter

by Ben-Peter Terpstra - 6/11/2012 - 17 comments

Security Council an important opportunity

by Anthony Billingsley - 27/11/2012

The second term curse

by Ciaran Ryan - 27/11/2012 - 2 comments

Palestine vote finally turns the tide

by Joseph Wakim - 30/11/2012 - 16 comments

Australia's diplomatic pragmatism

by Kellie Tranter - 5/12/2012 - 22 comments

Government should not divert foreign aid

by Rebecca Barber - 24/12/2012 - 32 comments

Language and the Asian century

by Don Aitkin - 1/11/2012 - 13 comments

Save the Children: Partnership for Resilience

by Rebecca Barber - 22/06/2012 - 9 comments

In Syria, the rock of R2P meets the hard place of state sovereignty

by Alison Pert - 10/08/2012 - 5 comments

Olympic gold versus sportsmanship

by Geoff Crocker - 10/08/2012 - 5 comments

Telecoms and broadband are fuelling Africa's economic boom

by Peter Lange - 16/08/2012

Bernanke's cash can't fix political crisis

by Damian Karmelich - 27/08/2012 - 14 comments

Can Syria's rebels overthrow Assad?

by Jen Alic - 20/09/2012 - 5 comments

Palestine & percentages

by David Faber - 25/09/2012 - 4 comments

Is it all over for Mitt Romney?

by Nick Sharman - 25/09/2012 - 8 comments

The morality of Paul Ryan’s budget

by Babette Francis - 4/10/2012 - 3 comments

Somalia needs help now

by Rebecca Barber - 17/10/2012 - 2 comments

The farce of protection: humans, human rights, and Syria

by Binoy Kampmark - 20/02/2012 - 2 comments

Retired with a young family

by Paul Komarnicki - 23/02/2012 - 4 comments

Identifying with multicultures

by Keysar Trad - 23/02/2012 - 29 comments

George Galloway and his own British Spring

by Binoy Kampmark - 3/04/2012 - 16 comments

The burdens of history: remembering Sarajevo

by Binoy Kampmark - 10/04/2012

Save lives or save money?

by Maree Nutt - 21/05/2012 - 12 comments

Re-opening supply routes won't stop Pakistan covertly supporting al-Qaida-linked terrorists

by Ehsan Stanizai - 11/07/2012 - 1 comment

Who is the winner of the Iran sanctions game?

by Kourosh Ziabari - 16/07/2012 - 4 comments

Why the West does not want to solve the nuclear dilemma with Iran

by Ali Omidi - 17/07/2012 - 4 comments

No Liberty for Iranian dissidents in Camp Ashraf

by Dirk Claes - 7/08/2012

Putting Security Council Resolution 1325 back on the Australian agenda

by Julie McKay - 14/02/2012 - 5 comments

Pay the price and we'll tolerate colonial

by Bashir Goth - 29/02/2012

The end of the Reagan era

by Brendon O'Connor - 12/03/2012

Kony 2012: crusade or emotional porn?

by Kevin Hawkins - 12/03/2012 - 2 comments

The queen confronts X Hadi

by Duncan Graham - 15/03/2012

Don’t mention the Cultural Revolution

by Brian Hennessy - 30/05/2012 - 3 comments

Refugee focus is on Indonesia now

by Klaas Woldring - 11/09/2012 - 4 comments

Somalia’s taboo-breaking first woman foreign minister

by Bashir Goth - 12/11/2012 - 2 comments

Australia on the Security Council: a chance to show some good international citizenship?

by Alison Pert - 21/11/2012 - 26 comments

Ukraine crushed in $1.1bn fake gas deal

by Jen Alic - 6/12/2012 - 1 comment

Are mass killings becoming a new norm?

by Robert Mclean - 28/12/2012 - 19 comments

Israel's bomb, and international finance as the undoing of foreign policy

by N A J Taylor - 26/07/2012 - 15 comments

Africa - two scenarios

by Keith Suter - 21/08/2012 - 19 comments

How an international humanitarian disaster could be fertile ground for al-Qaeda

by Ronan Lee - 3/09/2012 - 15 comments

Libya - doomed from day one

by Jen Alic - 18/09/2012 - 3 comments

For Israel, every crowd has a silver lining

by Gary Gambill - 19/10/2012 - 1 comment

ASEAN Economic Community: the implications for Australia

by Nattavud Pimpa - 10/02/2012 - 5 comments

China's rise challenges more than economies

by Chin Jin - 7/03/2012

Killer drone attacks illegal, counter-productive

by Marjorie Cohn and Jeanne Mirrer - 2/07/2012 - 30 comments

Why is the West unprepared for China’s rise?

by Reg Little - 18/07/2012 - 21 comments

Myanmar Muslims suffering amid media blackout

by Kourosh Ziabari - 23/07/2012 - 7 comments

Ahmadinejad Visits Latin America, Washington Implores and Seethes

by John Daly - 17/01/2012 - 3 comments

The Haditha Massacre: No justice for Iraqis

by Marjorie Cohn - 2/02/2012 - 4 comments

After 9/11: Processed by the INS

by Diane Bell - 22/02/2012 - 1 comment

Iran looks to China and Russia for military support as pressure from the west increases

by John Daly - 15/06/2012 - 9 comments

Ashraf residents being blackmailed

by Firouz Mahvi - 31/07/2012 - 2 comments

The poor understanding of two thought cultures

by Reg Little - 2/10/2012 - 7 comments

Facts favour nuclear-powered submarines

by Simon Cowan - 5/11/2012 - 45 comments

Make Obama do it

by Marjorie Cohn and Jeanne Mirrer - 16/11/2012 - 8 comments

Lessons from America

by Rodney Croome - 16/11/2012

Making the most of the seat at the table

by Melissa Conley Tyler and Eleanor Pahlow - 26/11/2012 - 2 comments

We are illiterate

by Jennifer Grant - 3/05/2012 - 13 comments

Is Africa really rising?

by Chris Chatteris - 22/08/2012 - 2 comments

Taking Islam seriously 101

by Jonathan J. Ariel - 18/09/2012 - 10 comments

US’s last chance in Afghanistan: reconciliation with the Pashtuns

by Ehsan Stanizai - 11/10/2012 - 4 comments

Fundamentalism versus education - a word-wide women's struggle

by Jocelynne Scutt - 8/11/2012 - 4 comments

Soon-to-be-Iran...

by Daphne Haneman - 13/01/2012 - 7 comments

Surviving the Nazi Holocaust

by Babette Francis - 20/01/2012 - 14 comments

War in Afghanistan: Sacrifices in vain?

by Kellie Tranter - 6/02/2012 - 9 comments

Somali women between hope and reality

by Bashir Goth - 19/03/2012

We live in interesting times

by Brian Hennessy - 19/03/2012 - 2 comments

Understanding the South China Sea standoff through the Filipino Media

by Wei Ling Chua - 28/05/2012 - 8 comments

India: The jewel of the old British Empire

by Everald Compton - 12/06/2012 - 2 comments

French parliamentary elections confirm shift to the left

by Scott Denton - 13/06/2012 - 3 comments

Kiwi exodus

by Duncan Graham - 5/01/2012 - 9 comments

Waving not threatening

by Gary Brown - 5/01/2012 - 8 comments

Is Wikipedia's Wales the shop steward of the information age?

by John Harrison - 24/01/2012 - 2 comments

Blood on their hands

by Kellie Tranter - 10/09/2012 - 21 comments

The debate that mattered

by Ciaran Ryan - 26/10/2012 - 49 comments

Australia in the Asian Century White Paper: a generational reboot

by Donna Weeks - 30/10/2012 - 7 comments

Voting for the king

by Don Aitkin - 7/11/2012 - 14 comments

America on the edge of a fiscal cliff

by Brendon O'Connor - 14/11/2012 - 14 comments

Israel’s Arab Spring

by Gary Gambill - 16/11/2012 - 60 comments

In the Netherlands, a suppressed history makes the headlines

by Paul Doolan - 10/08/2012 - 10 comments

Jordan is not Palestine

by David Faber - 29/08/2012 - 32 comments

Asymmetrical gender wars in the US election

by Babette Francis - 24/09/2012 - 10 comments

Viva la olive revolution

by Molly Mahlouzarides - 8/10/2012 - 4 comments

Who would deny Israel peace?

by Junaid Cheema - 22/11/2012 - 3 comments

The Wikipedia Blackout: Congress and digital erasure

by Binoy Kampmark - 20/01/2012 - 4 comments

Sticks and stones

by Daniel Meyerowitz-Katz - 17/02/2012 - 11 comments

Religion versus the right to health care

by Jocelynne Scutt - 21/02/2012 - 45 comments

For China human rights abuses are its history

by Chin Jin - 9/03/2012 - 8 comments

Warning for Pacific development

by Adam Wolfenden - 21/03/2012

It's all Polish to me

by Andrzej Jaroszynski - 3/04/2012 - 1 comment

Saudi Arabia: dancing to Israel's tune

by Kourosh Ziabari - 18/04/2012 - 5 comments

War-war when jaw-jaw fails?

by Benjamin Herscovitch - 18/05/2012 - 9 comments

The 'Malaysia solution': has its time now come?

by Clive Kessler - 27/06/2012 - 55 comments

War on all fronts for Australia?

by Reg Little - 24/07/2012 - 17 comments

Understanding Iran's perception of Syrian turbulence

by Ali Omidi - 30/07/2012 - 1 comment

The foreign investment debate

by Chan Cheah - 9/08/2012 - 19 comments

Iranian opposition demonstrates it is of age

by Firouz Mahvi - 6/07/2012

Targeted killings: Operation ‘Pillar of Defence’

by Jonathan J. Ariel - 29/11/2012 - 42 comments

Maturing governance in China

by Chin Jin - 3/12/2012 - 1 comment

Foreign intervention and the UNSC

by David Donaldson - 5/12/2012

Developments in Timor Leste’s 2012 presidential elections

by Chris White - 12/04/2012 - 1 comment

Reporting Syria propaganda style

by Les Louis - 21/02/2012 - 1 comment

Death by Drone: The ghost and the machine

by Kathy Kelly - 6/03/2012 - 23 comments

A special relationship - PNG and Australia

by Julie Bishop - 15/03/2012 - 5 comments

On the road to Indonesia’s 2014 Presidential Election

by Kevin Evans - 3/04/2012 - 1 comment

NATO enlargement needs US and Australian leadership

by Ordan Andreevski - 18/04/2012 - 7 comments

Afghan screams aren’t being heard

by Kathy Kelly - 26/04/2012 - 10 comments

No better time to engage North Korea

by Graham Cooke - 15/05/2012 - 1 comment

Doctors should stick with majority

by Robert Battisti - 16/05/2012 - 22 comments

A great British legacy: how will it play out today?

by Chris Lewis - 11/06/2012 - 8 comments

A riddle, wrapped in a mystery, inside an enigma

by Julie Bishop - 28/06/2012 - 13 comments

The dreadful dilemma over Iran

by Julie Bishop - 16/08/2012 - 15 comments

Syria: on the road to ruin

by Graham Cooke - 30/10/2012 - 23 comments

Why the UN Security Council seat matters to Australia and the world

by Ordan Andreevski - 3/07/2012 - 20 comments

Leadership that will define the world

by Julie Bishop - 12/07/2012 - 30 comments

The danger of weapons proliferation in the Middle East

by Julie Bishop - 26/07/2012 - 19 comments

The importance of manufacturing to the U.S

by Chris Lewis - 31/07/2012 - 9 comments

Nothing inevitable about the Asian Century

by Graham Cooke - 8/08/2012 - 8 comments

Sri Lanka concedes ground to UN

by Graham Cooke - 23/08/2012 - 6 comments

Australia should stick to its principles

by Julie Bishop - 30/08/2012 - 48 comments

The endless war: Saudi Arabia goes on the offensive against Iran

by Felix Imonti - 31/08/2012 - 11 comments

The struggle for Afghanistan’s future.

by Julie Bishop - 20/09/2012 - 16 comments

Qatar: rich and dangerous

by Felix Imonti - 28/09/2012 - 2 comments

Economic development a powerful aid

by Julie Bishop - 11/10/2012 - 3 comments

US and China leadership transitions equally important for Australia

by Julie Bishop - 8/11/2012 - 5 comments

Now who will debate the U.S. Afghanistan Strategic Agreement?

by Kathy Kelly - 27/03/2012 - 4 comments

Wind-swept, rocky, but still reverberating

by Tom Clifford - 30/03/2012 - 3 comments

How far do Palestinians have to go to have their voices heard?

by Jim Barr - 28/05/2012 - 21 comments

Smart power diplomacy

by Julie Bishop - 7/06/2012 - 10 comments

The troubled path from dictator to democracy

by Julie Bishop - 14/06/2012 - 20 comments

The battle over Eva Peron

by Tom Clifford - 27/07/2012 - 1 comment

As the Middle-East unravels, Kurdistan displays its new leverage

by Bashdar Ismaeel - 15/08/2012 - 1 comment

Egypt: Not friends, nor enemies, but somewhere in the middle?

by Dario Baudo - 1/10/2012

China’s calls for global energy governance: implications for East Asia

by Lloyd Bradbury - 16/10/2012 - 7 comments

Cold hard facts about Antarctica

by Julie Bishop - 15/11/2012 - 4 comments

Many problems to be faced in the new Burma

by Graham Cooke - 31/12/2012

Syria on the brink

by Julie Bishop - 6/12/2012 - 7 comments

Imran Khan: Pakistan’s future Prime Minister?

by Sudhanshu Tripathi - 6/02/2012 - 1 comment

Making Australia and Afghanistan accountable: UN Security Council Resolution 1325

by Jocelynne Scutt - 2/08/2012

Responses to the Global Crisis

by Peter McMahon - 22/10/2012 - 39 comments

East Timor’s presidential elections: Ramos Horta's chances of re-election

by Dionisio Da Cruz Pereira - 8/02/2012 - 2 comments

Freedom of conscience at risk in USA

by Mishka Góra - 17/02/2012 - 68 comments

East Timor’s elections: peace and security challenges

by Dionisio Da Cruz Pereira - 16/03/2012 - 2 comments

Taking legal action against illegal logging

by Julie Bishop - 5/04/2012 - 11 comments

An Egyptian winter

by Julie Bishop - 19/04/2012 - 19 comments

Australia’s close security relationship with the US is indeed logical

by Chris Lewis - 24/04/2012 - 29 comments

A pillar of strength

by Julie Bishop - 31/05/2012 - 5 comments

Tackling food insecurity

by Donna McSkimming - 1/06/2012 - 22 comments

No victory if Sri Lanka cannot win the peace

by Graham Cooke - 12/07/2012 - 2 comments

Tensions in territorial disputes

by Julie Bishop - 19/07/2012 - 7 comments

Arabian nightmares

by Julie Bishop - 9/08/2012 - 8 comments

How will we cope with 100,000 boat-people a year?

by Brian Holden - 12/09/2012 - 21 comments

Obama losing patience with turbulent ally

by Graham Cooke - 17/09/2012 - 13 comments

A land of hope and dreams

by Julie Bishop - 27/09/2012 - 5 comments

Sri Lanka on the difficult road to reconciliation

by Julie Bishop - 18/10/2012 - 6 comments

The day after Iran goes nuclear

by Julie Bishop - 29/03/2012 - 15 comments

China 2030

by Julie Bishop - 1/03/2012 - 12 comments

Race and the US presidential race

by Lorenzo .. - 14/06/2012

Egypt's transitional struggles

by Julie Bishop - 21/06/2012 - 15 comments

PNG on a more stable footing

by Julie Bishop - 2/08/2012 - 4 comments

What does 'growth' in the 'Asian Century' even mean?

by Charles Berger - 2/11/2012 - 10 comments

US voting: call in the UN observers

by Helen Pringle - 7/11/2012 - 4 comments

Gandhi aloof in cabinet reshuffle

by Graham Cooke - 9/11/2012

Hong Kong flies flag as Beijing fumes

by Graham Cooke - 19/11/2012 - 3 comments

Myanmar: Southeast Asia’s last frontier for investment

by David DuByne - 19/11/2012

Israel on the horns of a dilemma

by Julie Bishop - 22/11/2012 - 22 comments

Revitalising the China story

by Edward Fang - 27/11/2012 - 3 comments

What went wrong at WCIT

by Paul Budde - 24/12/2012 - 1 comment

A lost opportunity on Asia

by Julie Bishop - 1/11/2012 - 5 comments

UNESCO unmoved to try and end humanitarian crisis

by David Singer - 31/01/2012 - 29 comments

The failings of Putin's 'managed democracy'

by Sudhanshu Tripathi - 1/02/2012 - 1 comment

Preparing Israel for war

by Neve Gordon - 26/03/2012 - 3 comments

Palestine in tatters

by David Singer - 26/03/2012 - 10 comments

Australia can rescue UNESCO from Palestine decision

by David Singer - 4/04/2012 - 9 comments

The world war on democracy

by John Pilger - 23/01/2012 - 8 comments

In a land of facades, mark the first signs of an Indian Spring

by John Pilger - 6/01/2012 - 4 comments

UNESCO Commissioner spells out global fallout from Palestine decision

by David Singer - 18/01/2012 - 31 comments

The problem of gun control: the myth of American uniqueness

by Binoy Kampmark - 20/12/2012 - 25 comments

A hard drive's nightmare

by Graham Thomas - 14/02/2012 - 2 comments

Whither Syria and the US's unintended consequences

by Andrew Farran - 21/02/2012 - 1 comment

Australia and Asia: reading between the lines

by Warren Reed - 7/03/2012 - 2 comments

Chinese wind of change for Australian society

by David Robinson - 20/03/2012 - 6 comments

Huawei and the NBN: Good reason to draw the line

by Chris Lewis - 28/03/2012 - 13 comments

The many heads of the European crisis

by Julie Bishop - 4/05/2012 - 8 comments

The terrible toll of Mexico's war

by Julie Bishop - 17/05/2012 - 7 comments

The world turns a blind eye to killing of Hazaras in Pakistan

by Abdul Hekmat - 17/05/2012 - 10 comments

Key factors in the East Timor parliamentary elections

by Dionisio Da Cruz Pereira - 5/07/2012 - 1 comment

Obituaries for the euro are premature

by Graham Cooke - 18/07/2012 - 3 comments

Olympic torch should shine on athletes not nations

by Michael Mullins - 31/07/2012 - 11 comments

The other side of sanctions

by Felix Imonti - 16/08/2012 - 7 comments

What is the 'Road to Recovery'?

by Julie Bishop - 23/08/2012 - 43 comments

Let's keep the rhetoric away from Sino-Australian relations

by Jieh-Yung Lo - 29/08/2012 - 9 comments

The night of Jerusalem's joyous chaos

by Graham Cooke - 3/09/2012 - 2 comments

Health care access as important as research

by Donna McSkimming - 11/09/2012 - 1 comment

Is Pakistan's paranoia pushing it into a nuclear war with India?

by Felix Imonti - 8/11/2012 - 1 comment

Compromise in East China Sea a test of leadership

by Julie Bishop - 20/12/2012 - 16 comments

Neighbours

by Dionisio Da Cruz Pereira - 22/02/2012 - 6 comments

Sudan's criminal regime continues genocidal violence

by David Robinson - 9/01/2012

Australian sanctions will hurt Iranians not the Iranian Government

by Dario Baudo - 2/02/2012 - 8 comments

Challenges for Real Bob Carr

by Julie Bishop - 8/03/2012 - 18 comments

Austerity and growth can coexist

by Samuel Clench - 25/06/2012 - 9 comments

Terror groups and the exploitation of turmoil

by Julie Bishop - 5/07/2012 - 27 comments

Food shortages feed instability

by Julie Bishop - 13/09/2012 - 12 comments

Time to close Australia's diplomatic deficit

by Ordan Andreevski - 5/11/2012 - 4 comments

An elder’s observation of the American Dream

by Brian Holden - 13/11/2012 - 10 comments

Rainbow revolution: why Mitt Romney's defeat is bad news for Tony Abbott

by Robert Simms - 13/11/2012 - 9 comments

Ending the ending of impunity: the UNSC lets down the Criminal Court

by Kevin Boreham - 30/11/2012

Egypt at a crossroad

by Mary Ayad - 12/12/2012 - 1 comment

Reason and passion on Israel

by Max Atkinson - 17/12/2012 - 4 comments

What Lubanga's conviction does not tell Kony 2012 activists

by Peter Run - 30/03/2012 - 1 comment

East Timor: a lesson in why the poorest threaten the powerful

by John Pilger - 13/04/2012 - 1 comment

Asia goes ballistic: North Korea's Unha-3 fizzle and India's Agni-5 launch

by Marko Beljac - 26/04/2012 - 4 comments

Palestine: statehood supersedes Oslo Accords and Roadmap

by David Singer - 1/05/2012 - 6 comments

Aliens v Predators on a remote island in the South Atlantic Ocean

by Roger Kalla - 31/12/2012 - 5 comments

The worst and the best of mankind

by Vic Alhadeff - 5/09/2012 - 24 comments

The Chinese democracy movement and organizations

by Chin Jin - 21/12/2012

Turning back the boats - back to the future on asylum policy

by Adam Fletcher - 1/02/2012 - 25 comments

Indonesia, myths and elections

by Kevin Evans - 29/03/2012 - 2 comments

Australia's support essential for Bougainville referendum

by Julie Bishop - 13/04/2012 - 2 comments

No hope for Golan agreement while Assad remains

by Graham Cooke - 19/04/2012 - 4 comments

China’s looming conflict between energy and water

by Christina Larson - 3/05/2012 - 6 comments

US election campaign arrives

by Justin Barbour - 7/05/2012 - 2 comments

The election capital of the world

by Julie Bishop - 10/05/2012 - 2 comments

Jurisprudence and Julian Assange

by Max Atkinson - 15/05/2012 - 2 comments

Australia and authoritarian China: in the end, it appears money rules the world

by Chris Lewis - 29/05/2012 - 7 comments

No one hears the poor

by Kathy Kelly - 31/05/2012 - 4 comments

Risky business: war on the Greens will hurt Labor

by Robert Simms - 16/07/2012 - 15 comments

The sky as it falls

by Kathy Kelly - 27/07/2012 - 3 comments

Wet dreaming

by Melinda Boh - 1/08/2012 - 4 comments

Amity, not always enmity

by Warren Reed - 18/10/2012 - 2 comments

Africa's best time is ahead

by Berhan Ahmed - 7/09/2012 - 2 comments

Big oil funding US politics

by Daniel Graeber - 4/10/2012 - 7 comments

Defence policy: in what direction after Afghanistan?

by Andrew Farran - 26/04/2012 - 3 comments

Iran bomb fever ratchets up in Israel

by Graham Cooke - 15/08/2012 - 19 comments

New orders

by Hamish Ford - 6/01/2012 - 28 comments

Left's profitable Pauline conversion?

by Daniel Kogoy - 19/01/2012 - 57 comments

Time to move on Syria

by Julie Bishop - 17/02/2012 - 60 comments

Major problems for new Chinese leader

by Graham Cooke - 7/12/2012 - 5 comments

What right to bear arms?

by Alan Beasley - 27/12/2012 - 13 comments

Iran and its multiple diversions

by Abolghasem Bayyenat - 7/02/2012 - 5 comments

The Asian Century

by Andrew Leigh and Lisa Singh - 30/04/2012 - 7 comments

Nanny knows best in the country of her birth

by Chris Ashton - 8/05/2012 - 6 comments

Foreign aid: moral imperative and national interest

by James Dryburgh - 28/05/2012 - 14 comments

It's time we recognised the Blair government's criminality

by John Pilger - 20/02/2012 - 7 comments

The wonder of Indian democracy

by Ashutosh Varshney - 2/03/2012 - 2 comments

What China’s leadership transition means for the United States

by Dean Cheng - 8/03/2012

India’s lost economic opportunity and its implications

by Derek Scissors - 6/06/2012 - 2 comments

Iran's nuclear threat: is it real, or a domestic diversion?

by Arash Falasiri - 18/06/2012 - 2 comments

Will G20 foreign aid talks make Gillard go red?

by Heath Jamieson - 19/06/2012 - 1 comment

Perpetual peace

by Neve Gordon - 3/07/2012 - 1 comment

Leadership change is no progress for the African Union

by Peter Run - 19/07/2012

Sri Lankan High Commissioner: Blood on his sword

by Bruce Haigh - 23/07/2012 - 4 comments

Palestine poison pill paralyses UNESCO

by David Singer - 9/02/2012 - 10 comments

Can we trust ASIO?

by Sasha Uzunov - 9/02/2012 - 13 comments

The growing resilience of Iran’s nuclear program

by Abolghasem Bayyenat - 29/02/2012 - 5 comments

Phony 2012

by James Rose - 19/03/2012

Our aim is to please

by Bruce Haigh - 4/04/2012 - 6 comments

The dismissal of Bo Xilai

by Hsin-Yi Lo - 12/04/2012 - 2 comments

Erasing the Nakba

by Neve Gordon - 18/05/2012 - 17 comments

From indignation to citizen rescue plan: the first year of 15 May Movement

by Daniel Raventós and Julie Wark - 5/06/2012 - 1 comment

China's economic data are (still) not credible

by Derek Scissors - 23/01/2012 - 3 comments

Refugees: realism v righteousness

by Syd Hickman - 31/01/2012 - 16 comments

Palestine - flag flies, UNESCO cries, legality dies

by David Singer - 9/01/2012 - 37 comments

No room to die

by Deirdre Pirro - 20/02/2012 - 5 comments

Palestine: racist and apartheid policies plague peace proposals

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History is the enemy as 'brilliant' psy-ops become the news

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Future of nuclear talks between Iran and P5+1

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Palestine: integrating Jordan's two banks could reap big rewards

by David Singer - 31/10/2012 - 27 comments

Israel set to extend its sovereignty into the West Bank

by David Singer - 4/07/2012 - 9 comments

The battle of logics: Iran and Western nuclear positions

by Abolghasem Bayyenat - 16/07/2012 - 2 comments

US-China confrontations: Is a new Cold War likely?

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The dangers of exceptionalism: Israel , the USA and others

by Stuart Rees - 9/08/2012 - 14 comments

Palestine: burying the past, faking the future

by David Singer - 23/08/2012 - 49 comments

Africa: looking beyond statistics

by Peter Run - 27/08/2012 - 2 comments

Palestine: Jordan - part of the problem - part of the solution

by David Singer - 7/09/2012 - 4 comments

Palestine: narrowing the great divide

by David Singer - 14/09/2012 - 14 comments

Palestine: a match made in heaven

by David Singer - 24/09/2012 - 12 comments

Palestine: great expectations founded on fiction

by David Singer - 23/10/2012 - 44 comments

How country psychology interacts with national circumstance

by Jeff Schubert - 24/10/2012 - 1 comment

The Olympics: never just about sport

by Hsin-Yi Lo - 13/08/2012

Vision not worth paper it's written on

by Gary Johns - 7/11/2012 - 2 comments

The political trial of a caring man and the end of justice in America

by John Pilger - 9/11/2012 - 8 comments

An interview with Arthur Berman

by James Stafford - 19/11/2012 - 9 comments

Impartial only through an imperial lens

by John Pilger - 26/11/2012 - 33 comments

Palestine - hands up those who hate Jews

by David Singer - 7/12/2012 - 117 comments

Zionist history: a short quiz

by Neve Gordon - 9/05/2012 - 6 comments

Palestine - Israel has had enough

by David Singer - 14/05/2012 - 42 comments

Never forget that Bradley Manning, not gay marriage, is the issue

by John Pilger - 22/05/2012 - 3 comments

China drowning in money: what it means for the rest

by Derek Scissors - 31/05/2012 - 4 comments

America and Iran recklessly ride the escalation ladder

by Marko Beljac - 24/01/2012 - 5 comments

South Africa: what's in a label?

by Neve Gordon - 15/06/2012 - 7 comments

G20 must be creative on jobs for sake of youth

by Oliver Theobald - 20/06/2012 - 1 comment

God save the Queen

by Heidi Kingstone - 20/06/2012 - 5 comments

Washington bullying Iranian opposition group

by Abbas Rezai - 20/03/2012

Uprooting 30,000 Bedouin in Israel

by Neve Gordon - 10/04/2012 - 4 comments

Why the U.S. will never recapture its greatness

by Mark Christensen - 8/06/2012 - 9 comments

Mecca of resistance

by Heidi Kingstone - 25/06/2012 - 16 comments

North Korea shows it really is a Mickey Mouse operation

by Bruce Klingner - 13/07/2012 - 10 comments

Palestine: Australian political interference dressed up as humanitarian aid

by David Singer - 18/07/2012 - 18 comments

Palestine - Jews and Arabs, the Mandate and the law

by David Singer - 1/08/2012 - 8 comments

The African boom: China and India investments and the implications for Australia

by David Dorward - 13/08/2012 - 4 comments

You owe your life to Stanislav Yevgrafovich Petrov

by Steven Meyer - 29/08/2012 - 14 comments

Apartheid never died in South Africa: it inspired a world order upheld by force and illusion

by John Pilger - 24/09/2012 - 3 comments

Mali trembles from revolution

by Heidi Kingstone - 10/07/2012 - 3 comments

Palestine - cutting Abbas down to size

by David Singer - 16/10/2012 - 10 comments

Attack on Malala raises serious questions

by Syed Atiq ul Hassan - 19/10/2012 - 6 comments

Making the world a more dangerous place: the eager role of Julia Gillard

by John Pilger - 26/10/2012 - 16 comments

The ideology of hatred

by Neve Gordon - 16/11/2012 - 5 comments

End the Jew hatred and end the conflict

by David Singer - 8/10/2012 - 22 comments

Palestine: reunification trumps confederation

by David Singer - 28/12/2012 - 37 comments

Grave beyond a splash in the Olympic pool

by K.C. Boey - 10/08/2012

Muslims move into mainstream in Rwanda

by Heidi Kingstone - 28/08/2012

Palestine - where to from here?

by David Singer - 30/08/2012 - 16 comments

Learning from the other side of the world

by Sonia Caton - 24/09/2012

Palestine: Romney recognizes reality, rejects Arab revanchism

by David Singer - 1/10/2012 - 4 comments

A rat's progress in Afghanistan

by Heidi Kingstone - 5/10/2012

Asia pivot a go-go

by Marc-William Palen - 28/11/2012 - 4 comments

Is the USA in 'irreversible decline'?

by Steven Meyer - 17/07/2012 - 68 comments

War and the Olympics

by John Pilger - 30/07/2012 - 6 comments

Palestine - don’t repeat the Syrian fiasco

by David Singer - 15/08/2012 - 13 comments

European Parliament's controversial October trip to Iran

by Abbas Rezai - 15/10/2012 - 1 comment

Abortion a key factor in deciding this year's US election.

by Rose Espinola - 2/11/2012 - 25 comments

Recognising the Asian Century at last

by Rory Medcalf - 2/11/2012 - 8 comments

All take and no give

by K.C. Boey - 2/11/2012 - 7 comments

Afghan women's tea

by Heidi Kingstone - 9/11/2012 - 1 comment

Argo: from Hollywoodism to Iranophobia

by Ismail Salami - 9/11/2012 - 39 comments

An Australian agenda for the UN Security Council

by Peter Jennings and Anthony Bergin - 29/11/2012 - 6 comments

Palestine: democracies in diplomatic disarray

by David Singer - 20/12/2012 - 10 comments

Kabul diary week one

by Heidi Kingstone - 29/06/2012 - 3 comments

Defence: fact, folly and fiction

by Bruce Haigh - 24/05/2012 - 32 comments

Palestine - semantic skullduggery scuttles sensible solutions

by David Singer - 26/06/2012 - 51 comments

No gold at the end of the rainbow

by Bruce Haigh - 24/08/2012 - 11 comments

Salam Fayyad, the World Bank and the Oslo game

by Neve Gordon - 28/09/2012 - 1 comment

West Bank: should Australia be concerned?

by David Singer - 25/07/2012 - 12 comments

Sub-Saharan Africa by the numbers

by Steven Meyer - 15/08/2012 - 8 comments

Brave and principled Ecuador: protection of an Australian citizen

by Stuart Rees - 20/08/2012 - 72 comments

A sigh of relief from France

by Alan Austin - 9/11/2012 - 3 comments

Palestine: realities overtaking fairy tales

by David Singer - 14/11/2012 - 20 comments

Charles Murray: I don’t do solutions very well

by Mark Christensen - 19/11/2012 - 5 comments

Politicians' version of Gaza: lazy, blind and dangerous

by Stuart Rees - 22/11/2012 - 19 comments

Palestine: Gaza conflict sure to resume

by David Singer - 23/11/2012 - 17 comments

Palestine: Sharon's Gaza gambit

by David Singer - 30/11/2012 - 5 comments

Sending them home: whatever it takes

by Bruce Haigh - 10/12/2012 - 12 comments

Wrist-slapping unlikely to halt Israeli military sales to Australia

by Henry Lebovic - 19/12/2012 - 36 comments

Israel's Iron Dome: a global game changer?

by Steven Meyer - 30/11/2012 - 15 comments

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