As US and Israeli forces use double-tap airstrikes to kill survivors and first responders in Iran, Australia’s silence makes us complicit. Pine Gap is in the kill chain. Anthony Albanese had three hours to decide. He chose wrong.
Category: Geopolitics, Economics, Middle East, Energy, US Foreign Policy
He Was Warned. He Knew. He Did It Anyway.
Trump was warned by Iran, by his own intelligence services, by international mediators and by members of his own Congress. The warnings were not vague — they were specific, on the record, and entirely accurate. Iran had agreed to a nuclear breakthrough the day before. Netanyahu lobbied for the strike. MBS made private phone calls urging it. US intelligence said there was no imminent threat. Trump attacked anyway. Now the region burns.
We Bombed a School Full of Children. Call It What It Is.
Sara Shariatmadar was six years old. She went to school on Saturday morning and did not come home. At least 108 girls died — the governor says 148— when US and Israeli munitions struck the Shajareh Tayyebeh elementary school in Minab, Iran. International humanitarian law is unambiguous. This is a war crime. The perpetrators should be indicted.
Locked, Loaded, and Stuck: Why the Second Iran Strike Won’t Come Easy
Trump says the United States is “locked and loaded.” Israel has Operation Iron
Strike sitting authorised on a shelf. Yet the second blow on Iran hasn’t
landed — and the reason is written not in diplomatic fine print but in depleted
missile stockpiles and the darkening arithmetic of a CRINK alliance that neither
Washington nor Tel Aviv knows how to break. Vulnerability, not virtue, is
driving the pause.
The Mirage of Hegemony: Why War with Tehran May Be a Bridge Too Far
In the Strait of Hormuz, the US and Iran are locked in a silent war of oil, sanctions, and asymmetric tactics. But as Tehran’s shadow fleet outmaneuvers Washington’s sanctions, the real cost is being paid in Texas oil towns and Chinese trading rooms. A deep dive into the economics and human stakes of a conflict America can’t win.
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