Politics

The devastating blitz on Saudi Arabia's oil industry has led to a flurry of accusations from US officials blaming Iran. The reason for the finger-pointing is simple: Washington's spectacular failure...

You can enjoy 'Hustlers,' the new film starring Jennifer Lopez, on its own terms. But to celebrate its heroines – based on real-life scammers who victimized people – as feminist...

With the holiday season still three months away, the city council of Perth is gearing up to make this Christmas a more “culturally diverse experience,” which is just woke code...

The ultimate Brexit casualty could very well be Britain's ruling Conservative Party. Cabinet resignations and the purging of rebel parliamentarians by Boris Johnson point to his party heading for a...

The free-spawning new genders are little more than a narcissistic internet meme, indulged by an establishment too scared to cause offense. Treating them earnestly alienates even the tolerant, and has...

John Bolton's departure from the White House was inevitable – as was his instant rehabilitation by the woke Resistance – but as the reasons for his ouster emerge, the bizarre...

Children being made to eat vegetarian food for lunch in schools in Britain and France, and not allowed meat or fish, raises some serious questions about freedom of choice and...

While protests in Hong Kong and the debacles in the UK Parliament under Boris Johnson have pushed Venezuela out of the media narrative, a recent troop detachment indicates Caracas may...

In 2012, feminist activist Zoe Quinn called her romance with game creator Alec Holowka “adorkable”. Seven years later, she decried the same relationship as abuse. The troubled Holowka was then...

Advertised as the latest tool to give shoppers more convenience, facial recognition comes with deep costs to privacy and security. By the way, can anyone remember Silicon Valley asking for...

John Bolton is no longer Donald Trump's national security adviser and no right thinking person will mourn the departure of this noxious neocon. Though, as befits the chaos of the...

The blowing up of Donald Trump's attempt to end the 18-year Afghan War was the straw which broke the camel's back for the US president, who on Tuesday fired his...

Whenever Hong Kong protesters are destroying public property, there are no cameras of Western media outlets in sight. But when police decide to intervene, protecting their city, Western media crusaders...

The classic British comedy series ‘Monty Python' is 50 years old this month, but the sobering fact is that it, along with other shows of the era, would not be...

The psychological condition known as Stockholm Syndrome, in which hostages irrationally sympathize with their captors, could well be applied to European leaders when it comes to US bullying. The US...

The FBI has been monitoring "anarchist extremists" protesting US immigration policies at the Mexican border, along with "conspiracy theorists" and anyone suspicious of authority. Is there anyone they don't consider...

Vital questions about perhaps the worst alleged presidential scandal in US history remain unanswered. It must again be emphasized: It is hard, if not impossible, to think of a more...

A recent UN Human Rights Council report has exposed the US, UK, and France's role in the destruction of Yemen, prompting conversations about the accountability of those responsible for the...

Not long ago, atheists in ‘God's Country' were shunned like lepers. Today, the non-believers are courted by the powers that be and nobody seems to mind. Is America losing its...

The India-Russia special partnership is strategic. It is growing in new directions, with implications for both China and the United States. The twentieth annual summit between India and Russia on...

The political crisis that has engulfed the UK over the issue of Brexit has been revelatory, exposing the country as a colonial relic whose future appears bleak. First a confession:...

Trump's National Security Advisor John Bolton is being left out of key meetings and to all intents sidelined. No surprise there. He's deranged. Punctuating its history, crazed warmongers – people...

It's not the $500 fine you'll pay. Or that females faint at the sight of male genitalia. It's that sending out a hopeful, unwanted dick pic immediately qualifies you as...

Former vegan stars on social media complain they have been harassed for daring to eat eggs and meat again. Perhaps they should have thought ahead when they were “influencing” millions...

Drawing a line between the 1990s events in Bosnia and the recent mass shootings in New Zealand and the US is an inversion of facts on par with the original...

Poland's decision not to invite Russia but to invite leaders of ex-Axis powers to its WWII 80th commemorations, plus its renewed demand for reparations, shows that old historical enmities are...

Eighty years ago this week, Britain declared war on Nazi Germany. Within months, we stood alone with the Hitlerite hordes, at the Channel ports, preparing to invade us. Our people...

The unraveling of Alec Holowka's life in the days after facing unproven accusations should remind us why, in the first place, civilized society turned away from mob rule to embrace...

Democrats have a Joe Biden problem. The former VP might still lead the polls, but with serious concerns raised about his memory and mental state, nominating him to face Donald...

Harvard University has more money in its endowment than 109 countries have wealth, a recent report said, and it's not the only school with more cash than most nations. For...

From talking visa-free travel with the renegade Serbian province of Kosovo to demanding Serbia renege on a free-trade pact with Moscow, the EU keeps acting as if the impending Brexit...

The summer/autumn of 1989 was a period of great change in Europe, leading to the end of communism and the fall of the Berlin Wall. But have all the changes...

In this hedonistic ‘Me generation', Americans are folding up the proverbial flag and checking their patriotic impulses at the door of their diverse agendas. Does the US require an enemy...

Having US and former Axis leaders attend the 80th anniversary of WWII, but not inviting Russia, shows the event in Poland has nothing to do with paying respects to history,...

“We are not weasels!” FBI chief James Comey told Congress back in 2016. His behavior outlined in the DOJ watchdog report, as well as the memos he wrote himself about...

Is the American dream still alive? The deportation of a Palestinian teen and would-be Harvard freshman allegedly over anti-US comments posted by his friends online suggests that the question is...

After devastating the Middle East through sanctions, warfare, and the backing of extremists to fight proxy wars, the Indo-Pacific region – not the Middle East – is now the Pentagon's...

In his movies, Hollywood's Gerry Butler spends his time kicking ass and chewing bubblegum, as he sets about single-handedly killing America's enemies. The Scottish movie star's latest offering to the...

If nothing else, Brexit has shown us just how fluid the meaning of democracy can be when the people who are entrusted with protecting it start wielding it as a...

The political implosion that is Brexit is a legacy of recent and past British lies and imperial malfeasance. Boris Johnson casting blame on Ireland and the EU for his country's...