Nobody in Canberra gets the Trump 2.0 administration. When Albanese meets Trump on 20 October, Canberra will bang on about submarines. The real conversation should be critical minerals—where Australia actually has leverage and America has desperate need. China controls the supply chains that power everything from semiconductors to missiles. Australia can break that stranglehold. If we’re smart enough to see it.
“Australia is offering Trump $1 billion in AUKUS funding to secure a defence deal. But Trump has a notorious track record of abandoning agreements—and it could backfire spectacularly.”
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.
The genius of modern repression is that it doesn’t require jackboots or midnight knocks. It requires bureaucracy. Forms. Watchlists. De-banking. IRS audits. Loss of tax-exempt status. It’s not a gulag; it’s a compliance nightmare. You’re not disappeared; you’re just financially ruined and socially destroyed. Much more civilised.
Trump’s second term is powered by Project 2025, militarized crackdowns, oligarch-backed financing, and billionaire profiteers. This satirical exposé reveals how Trump’s Deepfake Presidency turns out the lights on truth, democracy, and accountability.
An unflinching examination of how Murdoch’s media empire evolved into a cathedral of manufactured outrage, now weaponized by tech oligarchs and autocrats—and why the resistance that matters happens at the edges.
This isn’t a peace plan. It’s a blueprint for entrenching occupation and calling it stability. For managing ethnic cleansing and calling it security. For weaponizing the very concept of peace to justify ongoing war in slow motion.
A vivid, incisive exploration of how Donald Trump and Pete Hegseth are reshaping the Pentagon—prioritising loyalty over strategy, fantasy over reality, and risking catastrophic failure.
The moment captures Donald Trump’s chaotic entrance into the UN General Assembly, marked by a mechanical failure of the escalator and the Teleprompter. Trump blames others for these failures, showcasing an absurdity that mirrors the dysfunction of authority and democracy, revealing deeper tragedies within the spectacle of power.
The memorial for Charlie Kirk was less about mourning and more a spectacle for political mobilization, showcasing emotional manipulation and propaganda reminiscent of fascist pageantry. Trump’s address weaponized grief to promote division, turning Kirk into a martyr for the MAGA movement, while undermining true dissent and civil discourse in American politics.
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