You do not need a conspiracy theory when you have a balance sheet. The Iran war has eliminated America’s two main rivals in the global LNG market. Senator Lindsey Graham told us it was a good investment. He was not wrong.
Category: Commentary
Operation Epic Flurry
Trump’s April 6 deadline is not diplomacy. It is a ten-day window. The Marines are not sailing toward the Persian Gulf for a holiday.
TAGS: Operation Epic Fury, Iran war, Trump, Pete Hegseth, Rupert Murdoch, Strait of Hormuz, ground invasion, Kharg Island, US Marines, 82nd Airborne, Michael Wolff, Netanyahu, doublespeak, Australian complicity
Are we at War with Iran?
INTERVIEWER: Are we at war with Iran?
ALBANESE: No.
INTERVIEWER: Then why did they bomb our base?
ALBANESE: Because they’re Iran.
One interviewer. One Prime Minister. Forty-five satellite dishes, three submariners, one Wedgetail aircraft, a peace negotiation bombed flat, a hundred and seventy schoolgirls, and a pocket square without a mark on it. A political interview in the tradition of Clarke and Dawe.
The Photo-Op Refugee: Australia’s Selective Compassion
Australia granted asylum to six Iranian footballers this week and the ministerial photographs were impeccable. Behind them sits a detention archipelago that cost taxpayers four million dollars per person per year to maintain, a Witness K prosecution that criminalised truth-telling, and legislation introduced the same week to ban entry to entire nationalities without individual assessment. Urban Wronski looks behind the photo opportunity.
Trump’s Iran Blunder
Robert Reich knows Trump has no endgame for his Iran war. What he doesn’t see from inside the American story: the munitions arithmetic is catastrophic, the legal basis non-existent, and Canberra has made us part of it without asking a single question in Parliament.
The CFMEU Setup: How Workers Get Mugged in an Election Year
Imagine Sarah, nurse at St Vincents, on the Number 96 tram, Melbournedusk bruising purple outside the windows. Twelve hours done. Her navyscrubs are faded and soft, worn to the shape of her, the way asoldier’s fatigues eventually become a second skin. She doesn’t looklike someone … Continue reading The CFMEU Setup: How Workers Get Mugged in an Election Year
When Donald Trump declares victory over Iran’s nuclear program, his own intelligence chiefs exchange glances. The IAEA knows otherwise. But in the mind of a man with frontotemporal dementia, facts are optional. This is the story of an empire on autopilot — steered by a president whose most dangerous weapon is his own deteriorating mind.
Pepper Spray for Palestine, Tears for Tehran: Australia’s Selective Sovereignty
On a pepper‑sprayed night in Sydney, Palestinian grief is kettled while Iranian protests are feted as “democratic awakening.” This article traces how Australia’s selective compassion, media framing and think‑tank spin conscript us into the US military‑industrial script for Iran and the region.
The Arson Investigator: How Western sanctions built Iran’s bonfire; and now, the firebugs demand to lead the rescue
Every empire tells itself its mission is not to plunder and control but to educate and liberate. Edward Said wrote that about Iraq. It reads as though written yesterday, about Iran. New two-part series from Urban Wronski examining how Western sanctions engineered Iran’s economic collapse — and why the same powers now present themselves as liberators. Part 1: The Arson Investigator.
The Boys Are Back in Town: How the Liberal Party’s Glass Cliff Claimed Its First Female Scalp
Sussan Ley lasted nine months. The glass cliff, the men’s rights vote, and the conservative faction that never wanted a woman leader — Urban Wronski connects the dots.
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