Who Is Driving the Global Privatization of Domestic Infrastructure?
An otherwise informative post about the extent and hazards of infrastructure sales misses who the real bad actors are.
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“Powder Keg in the Pacific, How China’s Challenge Revived America’s Position in Asia and the Pacific”
A reader critical thinking exercise in the form of a neocon justification of US efforts to contain China.
Read more...The Sanctions Poison Pill in Putin’s Peace Offer
A discussion of Putin including a not-much-discussed deal term that the West will never accept: sanctions relief.
Read more...A Short Overview of Making Colonial Empires by European Powers from the Time of the Vienna Congress up to WWI (1815−1914)
A high level recap of how European powers built out their empires in the century before the Great War.
Read more...Biden New Cold War Weapon in the Indo-Pacific Backfires
The Biden Administration demonstrates it can’t shoot straight with respect to an economic deal meant to counter China.
Read more...European Gas Price Spike Highlights Painful Exposure To Global Markets
A strike in Australia could reduce global LNG supplies by 10%. European energy security is not what it used to be.
Read more...The Decline In Coal Appears To Have Been Exaggerated
Carbon reduction promises get thrown out the window as countries like the UK, Australia, and China embrace king coal.
Read more...The U.S. and UK’s Submarine Deal Crosses Nuclear Red Lines with Australia
Why has Australia signed up for a pricey and security-diminishing nuclear sub deal?
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Read more...A Disordered World – Part 3: Pathways
Satyajit Das’ final post on where the world order is headed.
Read more...Addiction Instead of Taxation
Increasing duties on tobacco is least effective amongst the least advantaged segments of the community at decreasing smoking. Over time, the effect of approaches such as this is to push an increasingly larger share of the burden for government revenue onto a smaller, and more disadvantaged and addicted section of the population.
Read more...When Labor isn’t Labor and Liberals aren’t Liberal
As Victoria prepares for the coming state election, Labor is likely to win despite its public corruption and lack of accountability to working people. In the absence of any decent opposition, “teal” independents opposing the Labor party without the baggage of the conservative Liberal Party will help to protect traditionally anti-Labor seats.
Read more...The Australian Labor Party Embraces the Authoritarianism of a Political System in Crisis
By John McGregor, a translator and political violence researcher Australia is currently lurching from one revelation to another through a constitutional crisis that nobody near power will acknowledge the severity of. As it emerges that the former Liberal Prime Minister Scott Morrison secretly appropriated a number of ministerships for himself, the now-ruling Labor Party is […]
Read more...Australia’s Grand Plans to Export Solar – A Lesson from the ‘Gas Crisis’
By John McGregor, a translator and political violence researcher As perverse as it seems, achieving the dream of linking Australian renewable energy to Asian energy buyers may generate a household electricity crisis as artificial as the current gas crisis. As with LNG, large scale solar projects are set to largely, perhaps even entirely, bypass domestic […]
Read more...Reject CPTPP, Stay Out of New Cold War
Aiee, the TPP is back as the CPTPP. Same bad features but no US market access. What’s not to like?
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