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Four weeks after Israel signed the US-brokered Abraham Accords with the UAE and Bahrain on 15 September 2020, Tel Aviv’s Higher Planning Council approved 4,948 new settler units in the occupied West Bank. No public fanfare. 

No tanks rolled in – just signatures authorizing another layer of occupation. The first wave of expansion advanced quietly, legitimized by the language of “peace.”

The Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB) has announced it will cease its operations early next year after losing its budget to US President Donald Trump’s cuts.

Operations will be gradually wound down over the next few months, the CPB announced on Friday. Founded in 1967, it has been responsible for stewarding over 1,500 public television and radio stations, including major US broadcasters PBS and NPR. 

DXY is a flamed-out rocket. AUD chaos! AUD big short still intact. Lead boots into the pit. Gold up, oil down. Metals mixed. Mining big bear plods on. EM bust. Junk down, yields down, growth no bueno. Stocks smashed. ISM was soft. US jobs and PCE were a bad combination Thursday and Friday. PCE was

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A Republican Party social media post on Friday aimed at promoting American manufacturing has drawn ridicule online after users identified the car featured in the image as a presumably Soviet-made Lada, not a product of the US auto industry.

LARRY PICKERING WAS A POPULAR RIGHT WING AUSTRALIAN CARTOONIST. HERE GUS MISCHIEF ONE OF HIS MOST INCISIVE TOON ABOUT THE STATE OF THE USA IN THE 1970s.

Senior members of the US Democratic Party and their benefactors are listed in the Epstein documents, X owner Elon Musk has claimed.

A reality of our day: The Israeli Government, with the full support of the United States, is conducting genocide in Gaza. Numerous other countries, including Australia, as well as a multitude of corporations worldwide are complicit.

Question: Why are Australian institutions so silent, so quiet, in the face of obvious and evident mass slaughter, another holocaust?

At the end of 2024, CoreLogic (now Cotality) reported that Australia’s housing affordability—both to purchase and rent—was the worst on record, as illustrated by the graphic below. Home prices relative to incomes, the percentage of income required to service a mortgage, the number of years taken to save a deposit, and the percentage of income

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The EU was not “feared enough”during negotiations with the US on the newly-signed trade agreement between the two, French President Emmanuel Macron has said, according to Euractiv. 

Thanks to the government’s draconian new anti-protest order, it’s almost impossible to tell whether you are or are not breaking the law.

By George Monbiot, published in the Guardian 30th July 2025

I packed a toothbrush, books and a notepad in a small rucksack, took my laptop from the house and hid it, gave my phone to a friend to look after and put a “bust card” (lawyers’ details and legal advice) in my back pocket. I wasn’t certain I would be arrested, but I wanted to be ready. Then I stepped, with other, much braver people into a legal labyrinth.

Rising costs are putting real pressure on the wind industry, undermining investor confidence. So why this is happening – and could wind make a cost comeback?

The Marinus Link undersea power cable has been given the green light in an extraordinary series of events that will likely sink the Tasmania Liberal government.