Australia boasts of belonging to the “Pacific family” and is motivated only by a desire to help its neighbours. It’s hard to reconcile this rosy self-image with Australia’s history of bullying, espionage and greed in East Timor.
Israel’s brutal war against Gaza has cost at least 40,000 Palestinian lives. Now, with the assassinations of senior Hezbollah commander Fuad Shukr in Beirut and Hamas political leader Ismail Haniyeh in Tehran, the situation could escalate into a regional war.
The renewed push for nuclear power is not only about domestic energy policy. It is about the establishment of an entire nuclear industry and a possible future of nuclear weapons.
Iran’s rhetorical support for Palestinian liberation is one of the ways that its brutal dictatorship tries to win popular legitimacy at home and abroad. But its thin pretence of being an axis of resistance is window dressing for a counter-revolutionary domestic and international agenda.
