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Curtis O’Toole writes on Aus-PNG Defence deal Coming Home? Integration of PNG Defence Force into the Australian Defence Force internationalaffairs.org.au/australianoutl…

@WhiteHouse Reminiscent of Nixon-Khrushchev 1959 Kitchen Debate?

The goal is always peace.

@NikkeiAsia @azelin A profoundly important scholar in our field and great loss.

Joseph Nye, Harvard scholar who coined 'soft power,' dies at 88 s.nikkei.com/4jU2Jrx

Samantha Marshall - granddaughter of former member for Wannon and Prime Minister Malcolm Fraser has come out in support for Alex Dyson #auspol #wannonvotes #auspol25 #ausvotes #AusVotes2025 #AusVotes25 #Auspol2025

@rogermacginty Found it. tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

@rogermacginty Hi Roger. I look forward to reading and sharing. What is the citation? (Link is to Durham Uni library)

@JohnBarronUSA @Planet__Claire Ah… this could be simply explained in @ABCTV. Can’t wait for your Tariff analysis.

@Planet__Claire Sadly there is no Planet America tonight Claire - we are on a two week show break due to the Melb Comedy festival (of all things) - Back next Weds. A few funny weeks after that with a Weds show repeated on Friday (ANZAC/Good Fri).

Interesting...

@JohnBarronUSA Just curious about when the next episode will be airing. (I’ve looked for scheduling on @ABCTV but there is no statement).

A preview of tonight's Planet America as Trump goes to war with the justice system. facebook.com/reel/213287302…

@palestrinomirko @EuroJournIR Thanks Mirko. Great paper. I mentioned I had read it to a hardened warrior (now scholar) here at #ADFA and he simply observed. "I have had a garden on every one of my deployments". Next paper: gardening on the frontlines?

Hot off the press!🚒🔥🧯My new article on wartime gardening and the meaning and politics of military victory is now out #openaccess in @EuroJournIR at journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/13…. What does it argue? A 🧵

@rogermacginty Sad and short-sighted. As the US removes funding to critical organisations such USAID and USIP, who will fill the vacuum? China?

Tariq Ali, what is your attitude when dictators are toppled  in Iraq, Libya and now Syria? There is no cause for celebration when these acts are carried out by Western imperialisms under the leadership of the United States.When they are toppled by their own people I celebrate. The West removes the people it doesn't like at a particular moment. Saddam of Iraq was a hero when he acted for the US and started a war with Iran. He became a 'Hitler' only when he invaded Kuwait imagining he had a green light from the US. Then after 9/11 they finished off him and a million other Iraqis. Five million orphans. Then they lynched Saddam,. Cause for celebration? I wrote against him produced a documentary mocking him when he was alive. In Libya NATO killed over 30,000 Libyans to push through regime change and lynch Ghaddafi. 'We came, we saw, he died' was Hilary Clinton's celebration. French and British politicians took money from him. The LSE  begged for a big donation and its professors wrote young Ghaddafi's PhD for him. Lord Giddens compared his work to Tony Blair's own great ideas. The same people supported NATO's assault. I criticised him severely for many years.  I did not celebrate his death. What is there to celebrate in the antics of Western imperialism. The same for Syria where an internal Ba'ath coup toppled Assed and they're stitching up a deal with the US and Turkey. Iraq has not yet recovered. Libya is a wreck, ruled by rival jihadis. Syria has already been divided. The huge triumph of the West in the 90's is still playing itself out. They are no longer ashamed of displaying their double standards as we observe in the Israeli genocide in Palestine, but NATO's useful idiots in London, Paris, Rome, Berlin, adornments of the bourgeois media and their supporters in the barely existent left, still pretend that advances are being made. In one of his remarks on theatre, Brech stressed that he preferred to start withe new bad things not the old good ones. There are no longer any good ones left. Centuries before him, Spinoza who has just had his sentence of expulsion rescinded by the Synagogue in Amsterdam offered his own advice: 'Neither to laugh nor to cry but to understand'. NATO liberals should reflect on it.

ADFA Graduation Parade Day (from my office window)

@JewishWarrior13 Very useful summary. Thank you

🧵Everyone has been hearing the term “Syrian Rebels” a lot the past few days, and I wanted to break this very general characterization down into specifics. Below you will find a brief description of the major armed groups in Syria and whose interests they represent. Learn!

The UN General Assembly on Tuesday overwhelmingly adopted a resolution reiterating its call for achieving a comprehensive, just and lasting peace in the Middle East The text received 157 votes in favour and 8 against, with 7 abstentions Read more ⤵️ news.un.org/en/story/2024/…

The United States on Wednesday vetoed a UN Security Council draft resolution that demanded an immediate and unconditional ceasefire in the Gaza Strip as well as the immediate and unconditional release of all hostages news.un.org/en/story/2024/…

Not a bad start for Scrabble

@KerryBurgess x.com/abierkhatib/st…

@KerryBurgess Australian PM, Anthony Albanese might consider the crisp international legal interpretation of his namesake.

I love Francesca.

@AndrewMessenge2 Thanks Andrew… keep the analysis coming.

First numbers are in for the 2024 #ACTelection. No clear trend yet.

Deputy Prime Minister Richard Marles launches new IST Strategy at #ADSTAR24