by leon | Sep 20, 2016 | Blogs
The war in Syria could transform the world. It is important in two ways. First, it can reshape the Arab world. More importantly, it has implications for the world order and western society. It’s a war that has drawn the US, Russian, Iranian, Turkish, and French...
by leon | Sep 12, 2016 | Blogs
So the big news for the week was Australia’s unemployment slipping down to 5.6 per cent, the lowest rate in three years. The Coalition has been bragging about it with Christopher Pyne telling Parliament that the Government had create over 200,000 jobs over the last 12...
by leon | Sep 10, 2016 | Blogs
When it comes to Russia, the US is playing a double game. Take for example the focus lately on Donald Trump’s extraordinary support for Russian president Vladimir Putin. As reported by Politico, Trump inflamed the situation on Thursday by criticizing US foreign policy...
by leon | Sep 9, 2016 | Blogs
We are now seeing the collapse of truth in politics. The system is being ripped apart by the outrageous lies of Brexit on one side of the Atlantic and the rise of Donald Trump on the other. As Jonathan Freedland writes in The Guardian, we are now in the era of...
by leon | Aug 28, 2016 | Blogs
During the week, we had the Australian Treasurer Scott Morrison trash talking the Australian economy, warning that Australia risked falling into a recession. It’s not a good look. He also talked about “the taxed and the taxed-nots”. Not exactly an original phrase. He...
by leon | Aug 18, 2016 | Blogs
Australia has a deep tradition of racism towards its First People and the Turnbull government’s calling of the Royal Commission into the abuse of youths in the Northern Territory corrections system following explosive revelations aired on the ABC’s Four Corners...
by leon | Aug 13, 2016 | Blogs
Donald Trump’s candidacy for President of the United States has been an example of kamikaze politics. Who in their right mind would run for President of the United States and alienate the Hispanics, the one group the Republicans need to get on board in order to win?...
by leon | Aug 7, 2016 | Blogs
The populist anger expressed in the Brexit vote and the underlying support in the US for the dark vision of Donald Trump can be sheeted home to the central banks around the world. Following the global financial crisis in 2008, central banks in the US, Europe and Japan...
by leon | Jul 23, 2016 | Blogs
Politico reports that Nielsen ratings data shows that an extraordinary 32.2 million people watched Donald Trump accept the Republican nomination on Thursday night across ABC, CBS, NBC, Fox News, CNN, MSNBC, Univision, Fox Business Network, CNBC and NBC Universo. In...
by leon | Jul 17, 2016 | Blogs
There are historical parallels with China saying it will declare an air zone over the South China Sea after the international tribunal in The Hague rejected China’s argument that it enjoys historic rights over most of the South China Sea and saying that China had...
