From Tyrie’s scaffold to Riyadh’s bone saw: the World Cup, the FIFA Peace Prize, and the audit that removed the crimes before it began. Urban Wronski looks.
Tag: Human Rights
The Siege Within: How Clarity Died in the Aftermath of Bondi
After the Bondi Beach massacre, Australia promised solidarity and reform. Instead, Labor delivered riot shields and silence. This essay traces the descent from empathy to enforcement—and asks whether the soul of Australian democracy can still be reclaimed.
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 seeing stones. Australia and its New CIA-Made Friend.
“Pure undistorted truth burns up the world.”Nikolai Berdyaev(Also, apparently, Palantir’s unofficial mission statement.) I. Enter the Magical Spy Orb, Stage Right In Tolkien’s Middle-earth, the palantír was a sort of medieval CCTV camera with attitude. A seeing stone that showed you just enough truth to … Continue reading The seeing stones. Australia and its New CIA-Made Friend.
The Pressure Cooker Has Exploded: Gaza, Genocide, and the Great Western Amnesia
October 7 did not fall from the sky like a biblical plague. It was not spontaneous combustion. It was the predictable detonation of a pressure cooker sealed shut by decades of occupation, humiliation, and the kind of slow-motion strangulation that would make Kafka blush. Yet here we are; watching Western leaders clutch their pearls while the Israeli war machine turns Gaza into a graveyard, all under the banner of “self-defence”.
The Nobel Peace Prize and the Price of Aspiration: María Corina Machado and the Trumpification of Virtue
The Nobel Committee’s 2025 Peace Prize to Venezuela’s María Corina Machado reveals not moral clarity but the creeping Trumpification of virtue; another act in the long theatre of Western self-absolution.The enshittification of the Nobel Peace Price- Prof Greg Grandin, Yale University.
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