How Rupert Murdoch’s Empire of Influence Remade the

The Hall of Silence, located at the centre of the Sydney War Memorial, is striking in its starkness, and has a powerful effect on visitors.

The UNO destroyed by US « exceptionalism »

by Thierry Meyssan

Now weakened in comparison with their Russian and Chinese competitors, the United States have returned to their historical reflexes. In terms of foreign relations, they have abandoned the liberal international order and returned to the doctrine of exceptionalism. By questioning their own engagement with the Security Council, they have opened the way to the deconstruction of international Law and the end of the United Nations. This evolution, which shocked the countries of Western Europe and plunged them into confusion, had been anticipated by Russia and China, who were preparing for it.

The Coalition will have to win re-election if it is to deliver its long-touted surplus, which the Budget tips to be $7.1 billion next financial year. 

Mueller’s Record of Framing Innocent People – Part One

Eric Zuesse

The new science adviser to President Donald Trump wants to usher in a new golden era of U.S. science—but with less gold from the federal government.

Pauline Hanson has claimed One Nation is the victim of selective editing, entrapment and a “political attack” by al-Jazeera in co-ordination with the ABC, in her first public appearance since an explosive secretly filmed documentary was revealed.

The mystery is how this woman without qualities, with all her incapacities, infelicities and ineptitudes, ever came to hold the highest office. Or why she wanted it. No one made her do it, greatness was not thrust upon her; indeed, it’s said she planned for it all her life.

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One Nation MP Mark Latham, who was elected to NSW's Upper House at the weekend, has attacked an investigation into the party's stance on gun laws as a "do over".