by leon | May 22, 2016 | Blogs
(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...
by leon | May 21, 2016 | Blogs
One of the most fascinating developments in the Middle East is the growing connection between Israel and Saudi Arabia. Strange bedfellows but it makes sense. As reported here, a number of nations, including Saudi Arabia, the Gulf States, and Egypt, are interested in...
by leon | May 15, 2016 | Blogs
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...
by leon | May 14, 2016 | Blogs
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...
by leon | May 8, 2016 | Blogs
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...
