Treasurer Jim Chalmers has warned those on the progressive side of politics not to “scold” or “mock” potential One Nation voters but instead to take seriously the task of persuading them away from the insurgent party. 

By directly acknowledging the seriousness of One Nation’s support and advancing a strategy for tackling it, Chalmers is underscoring that the party is a threat to Labor, not just to the Coalition. 

Delivering the Bernie Fraser Oration, sponsored by the Australia Institute, a progressive think tank, on Tuesday night, Chalmers also had a sobering message for straitened households. Reserve Bank and Treasury forecasts did not expect economic conditions to get much better in the next three months, he said, although they did expect things to get “a bit better” over the next year.

Republicans could be looking at a major wipeout in the midterm elections. 

Their tiny House majority was always going to be difficult to maintain, but the Senate should not be in play at all. Yet it surely is, with Democrats leading in nearly all the toss-up races, including in the reddest states, and competitive in at least a dozen of the contests that will determine which party controls the upper chamber.

BY W. James Antle III

It is more likely that Beijing will regard the issue as one relating to European competitiveness and demand, not merely to Chinese “unfairness”.

Europe and China Trade Negotiations: Can Brussels Face Reality?
Part 2

Ricardo Martins

That is to say, Brussels wishes for China to alter certain aspects of its economic behaviour. Beijing, on the other hand, wants Europe to look at its own competitiveness and refrain from imposing protectionist restrictions. These constitute very different negotiating positions.

Notice how the state and billionaire-owned media impose certain obligatory preconditions on politicians before they’re allowed to join the national conversation as respectable, and respected, participants. There are many examples, but let’s take two of the most obvious:

1. Do you condemn Hamas?
2. Does Israel have a right to exist?

Both relate to Israel, and both serve to strictly police political discourse — and in ways that extend far beyond the specific issue of Israel.

By Jonathan Cook

Our readers are familiar with the arguments put forward by the “Collective West” to justify the wars currently underway — and likely those to come as well; they are well known and need not be repeated ad nauseam; they are hollow and utterly disingenuous. As a consequence of these “justifications,” the West views Russians as aggressive subhumans who will attack the West to achieve their imperialist goals — not for the first time, but time and again. Yet every time, it was the West that attacked and brought death and destruction upon Russia.

I Have a Dream!

George Galloway — veteran British politician, seven-time MP, and one of the UK's most compelling speakers — visits Fudan University to share his observations on the evolution of British politics, shifting global dynamics, and East-West relations. Drawing on five decades of public life, Galloway offers a candid and thought-provoking perspective on a changing world.

George Galloway: The West is trying to stop the sun from rising — on China, NATO, Trump and WWIII

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-xl-7GGYzo4

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YOURDEMOCRACY.NET RECORDS HISTORY AS IT SHOULD BE — NOT AS THE WESTERN MEDIA WRONGLY REPORTS IT — SINCE 2005.

         Gus Leonisky

The opposition leader has sought to give his troops a rev-up in the joint Coalition party room, telling the room that 'project Albanese has failed'.

His broad speech covered everything from interest rate hikes and fuel prices, to coal-mine approvals, immigration policy and defence spending.

It echoed the speech Angus Taylor gave to CPAC over the weekend, where he sought to convince the conservative heartland the Coalition was "the most credible alternative government".

MOSCOW (Sputnik) - Reform UK party leader Nigel Farage on Monday called Ukraine one of the most corrupt countries in the world.

"Look, you know, this is one of the most corrupt countries on Earth. All right, we know that. I've been very, very worried about where some of our money has gone... Zelensky's administration has been rocked by corruption claims, which perhaps makes at some point a general election there an important thing to do," Farage said at a press conference.

At the same time, the politician said that it is still necessary to support Kiev. In this regard, it is important to closely follow the situation, so corrupt official do not take the UK taxpayers' money, he added.

Donald Trump is thrashing about wildly as if to escape somehow the fate that awaits him in the US midterm elections in three weeks. He thinks he is impressing the world with his immense power. In truth, he is demonstrating the impotence of power.

When Trump gets a thrashing at the midterms, four words will come back to haunt him

Peter Hartcher

Ricardo Lopez Tugendhat believed he was going to die and wanted the world to know who he thought was going to kill him.

The former manager at a mining company linked to Australian billionaire Gina Rinehart spelt out his fears in a chilling letter to an Ecuadorian news outlet. 

“Being familiar with the character and temperament of Mr Carlos de Miguel III, I am deeply concerned that the threats I have received from him … are carried out,” read the letter, published by the outlet. 

McLarens, Mar-a-Lago and machine guns: Introducing Gina Rinehart’s controversial new frontier point man

By Marta Pascual Juanola

“I hereby publicly hold the aforementioned Carlos de Miguel III responsible for any attack against the life or physical integrity of my family or myself.”

Pope Leo has condemned capital punishment as an attack on human dignity amid growing criticism of the US military’s plans to livestream the execution of the convicted Fort Hood shooter.

US Secretary of War Pete Hegseth announced last week that Nidal Malik Hasan would face a military firing squad on December 3. President Donald Trump has confirmed that he personally authorized the broadcast.

Writing on X on Saturday on the international World Day Against the Death Penalty, Leo criticized capital punishment as a concept, but did not name Hasan or directly address the livestream.

In this speech, James Curran reflects on Paul Keating’s foreign policy legacy and argues that Australia has lost the strategic confidence and autonomy needed to shape its own future in a changing Asia.

The arc of Australian political culture has been stretched a long way from March 1996 when Paul Keating left the Lodge.

Then, his ‘big picture’ was farewelled – some thought for good – from the stage at Bankstown Sports Club as he conceded defeat to John Howard.

James Curran

WE HAVE EXPOSED THIS CONUNDRUM BEFORE [16 March 2026]... BUT IT IS COMFORTING TO SEE IT BEING DISCUSSED BY CNN TODAY... 

The Iran war was supposed to be a short, sharp strike that brought down the regime within a few weeks. Instead, the US finds itself enmeshed in a conflict that’s upending the world’s energy system.

The Russian war against Ukraine is now half-way through its fifth year, rapidly approaching the length of World War II. The European NATO countries have become more and more heavily drawn into that conflict, which many observers believe has already cost more than a million lives.

Sir Jacob William Rees-Mogg and the Dangerous NATO Propaganda-Bubble 

BY RON UNZ