"Donald Trump's phone call is now politically messy for Scott Morrison on two levels" This is just your everyday political cartoon story, in which the ABC News gets some things right and some things awfully wrong - for whatever reason.  They get things wrong here on rather more than two levels. The first thing that... Continue Reading →

"Ukrainian delegation signs Steinmeier formula during session of Contact Group" A remarkable achievement occurred yesterday during the contact group meeting on the situation in the Donbass region of Ukraine.  Details are in the TASS report above, but this is a significant moment towards peace. Of course more needs to be done, including legislation and changes... Continue Reading →

"RBA governor Philip Lowe says further interest rate cuts inevitable as he calls for government action" 'Government action'?  Hah!  There is nothing the government can do.  This is bigger than any government.  We have been building up to this race to the bottom for a long, long time.  I think that is fear I see... Continue Reading →

"US disrupts operation to evacuate refugees from Rukban camp, says Russian-Syrian statement" How to describe Americans?  'Thoroughly nasty bastards' goes some way towards that but it is not really adequate without the inclusion of words and phrases like 'inhuman', 'rotten to the core', 'despicable turds', and many others which so as not to get too... Continue Reading →

'Civil War On', declares Kunstler. Phew!  Hot stuff, if you can get your head around it.  And if I understand it correctly it means that the American political system, dragging in the American intelligence system and the American legal system, is about to self destruct. Everything that Jim has been saying over back a while,... Continue Reading →

Allow me to say that I have great admiration for young Greta Thunberg.  A mere slip of a girl at sixteen and a year less than that when she first began her journey to become a household name around the world.   A journey that has meant that she has needed to overcome the natural reticence... Continue Reading →

"Russia, US maintain constructive cooperation on Arctic problems - Russian Security Council" Russia, do not trust the Americans. I am sure you are well aware of their agenda - which does not perceive any other nation as their equal, and which permits them, actually requires them, to undermine, deceive and destroy any other nation that... Continue Reading →

"Establishment & media sympathize with Greta’s ‘Fridays for Future’ movement… So how is that a ‘protest’ exactly?" Confirming for me, as if I wasn't already convinced, that RT is just another corporatist, capitalist, sensationalist, dirt rag.  Everything about this article smells of being pro-climate-change-action - since that is all about extending the faltering life of... Continue Reading →

"A Dumpster Fire on a Garbage Barge" I used to think that referring to US politics as a Snake Pit or merely as The Swamp, was quite sufficient to provide a flavour of its essence.  And here I do not distinguish between the elephants or the donkeys - both being each just one side of... Continue Reading →