Donald Trump is closing in on Hillary Clinton. According to the RealClearPolitics poll, Trump has narrowed Clinton’s lead to a single percentage point. Clinton’s lead has shrunk to 3 points in the NBC News/Wall Street Journal survey http://www.nbcnews.com/meet-the-press/clinton-s-lead-over-trump-shrinks-3-points-new-nbc-n577726 and Trump is up by two points in the ABC News/Washington Post poll http://www.langerresearch.com/wp-content/uploads/1177a1ClintonTrump.pdf And the latest poll…

(picture: David Rowe AFR) The Turnbull government has turned Australia into a police state with the National Broadband Network raiding the office of former Labor Minister for Communications Stephen Conroy. The raids were in relation to leaked documents given to The Sydney Morning Herald, The Australian Financial Review, The Australian, the ABC and Delimiter detailing cost…

The Boston Globe reports that Clinton will consider putting another woman on the ticket. For sure, there are Democrats who think Hillary Clinton is creating a dream team if she picks Elisabeth Warren as her running mate. They say it would generate energy and attract women, young liberals and older white liberals. She’s also beloved by Democrats on the…

At the beginning of the twentieth century, Germany was exerting its influence as a new and growing political and military power. The result was the First World War. We could be seeing the same thing happening with China now. Beijing is setting itself up to be repeatedly provoked in the South China Sea Tensions are…

The rise of Sadiq Khan, the son of a bus driver and seamstress who grew up on a public housing estate and who has just been elected mayor of London – and who happens to be Muslim – is nothing short of extraordinary. But it might also tell the Labour Party how it could win the next…

So Greece received something like 128 billion Euros in all those bailouts. But a new study by the European School of Management and Technology (ESMT).has found that most of the money went to the banks. “Most of the money was used to actually transfer risks from private creditors to public creditors,” EMST Jorg Rocholl told Deutsche Welle. “This…

On April 19, cattle-ranch empire S. Kidman & Co., the largest landholder in Australia, agreed to a sale to a mostly Chinese consortium for A$370.7 million (US$289 million). Then, 10 days later on Friday to be precise with an election looming Australian treasurer Scott Morrison blocked the deal, saying that because of the portfolio’s size and significance, its…