As the RBA raises interest rates, the real culprit of inflation—corporate greed—goes unchecked. A searing analysis of how Australia’s economic policies punish workers while protecting profits.
Israel’s War on Iran: The Overkill No One Calls War
Tehran, June 13, 2025, 4:17 a.m. The first explosions light up the sky over Natanz. By dawn, over 100 targets struck. By month’s end, 1,190 dead. Yet the press won’t call it war. This is how empire sustains itself: through euphemism, complicity, and the corruption of language itself.
As Trump Threatens Weekend Strike on Iran, Albanese Pretends Pine Gap Isn’t Complicit
Albanese’s Iran Illusion: How Australia Sleepwalks into Someone Else’s War While our federal government waffles on about rules based order, Iran is rewriting the rules of modern warfare. Trump is threatening regime-change. The Strait of Hormuz has become a kill box where $13 billion aircraft … Continue reading As Trump Threatens Weekend Strike on Iran, Albanese Pretends Pine Gap Isn’t Complicit
The Rules-Based Order: Where America Gets Away with Murder, and Everyone Else Gets the Bombs
The US and its allies including Australia don’t give a fig about Iranian or Palestinian lives. If they did, they wouldn’t be starving Iranians with sanctions that block medicine, food and fuel. They wouldn’t be funding insurgents who turn protests violent, ensuring the regime cracks down harder. They wouldn’t be threatening war while pretending to care about “the brave Iranian people”.
The US’s Multi‑Front War: A House of Cards
President Trump’s “Caracas raid,” enabled by the mysterious “Discombobulator,” epitomized a “Butch Cassidy” approach to international relations: a quick smash-and-grab to seize vital resources. Yet, as the rusty reality of Venezuela’s dilapidated oil infrastructure and a $200 billion repair bill quickly proved, the high-tech crowbar of the Discombobulator couldn’t fix what decades of neglect and sanctions had broken. Now, as a similar high-stakes gambit unfolds in the Persian Gulf against Iran, leaders like Brazil’s Lula caution against the “terrorism on an industrial scale” that comes with mistaking a tactical victory for a sustainable policy.
The War Nobody’s Paid to See Coming
Right now, the USS Abraham Lincoln and nine escort warships are sitting in the Persian Gulf like a loaded gun aimed at Iran’s heart. Not one Australian media outlet can independently verify what this means for Australians when the shooting starts. Are we up shit creek with America again?
An Anatomy of the Abyss: Trump’s $85 Billion ICE Machine and the Price of Canberra’s Silence
As breastfeeding babies are torn from mothers and the American interior turns into a new Heart of Darkness, the Albanese government remains pathologically mute. It is time to stop playing the submissive junior partner and start acting like a sovereign nation that recalls what humanity looks like.
Clarke and Dawe Do Canberra Discipline
In a satirical dialogue, Prime Minister Clarke discusses the appointment of Greg Moriarty as Australia’s ambassador in Washington. Clarke defends the promotion as a form of accountability and claims that survival in politics defines success. The conversation highlights the perceived continuity and unchanging culture within the government, despite promises of reform.
Invasion Day: The Party’s Over
Every January 26, Australia throws itself a birthday party. Tens of thousands of First Nations people turn up with a message: this house was never yours.
Falling Upwards: Labor’s Quiet Reward for Failure
Greg Moriarty’s Washington posting exposes a Canberra culture where failure is rewarded and whistleblowers are punished. From Robodebt to Witness K and Labor’s new hate speech laws, this essay tracks how power protects itself while the “fair go” withers.
Urban Wronski Writes 