Barnaby Joyce was planning to make the pilgrimage to the Mar-a-Lago shrine to Donald Trump midyear. He’d been invited on an all-expenses-paid trip. His wife, Vikki Campion, had another idea. Woolbrook Public School was due to hold its community barbecue at the local Bunnings and Barnaby and Vikki were rostered to work it.

“Your children go to Woolbrook Public School,” Barnaby recounts Vikki telling him. “You’re not going.” He cancelled the trip to the US.

Trump is a false idol and his local franchisee is dumping the brand

Peter Hartcher

Successive governments have quietly deepened the US military footprint across Australia. Communities near proposed submarine and marine bases face risks they have never hears about. The window to push back is closing fast according to Carmen Lawrence and Julie Macken.

Carmen Lawrence, Julie Macken

After a bruising 2024 loss, Democrats are still searching for a clear path forward — but the party’s next generation of national contenders is already beginning to take shape.

Who Will Lead the Democratic Party in 2028?

The list of potential presidential hopefuls includes everyone from Kamala Harris to AOC.

By Tess Bonn

It took less than 24 hours after the polls closed for the Vice President of the United States to say what the President would not. “The reason we lost is the war,” JD Vance posted on X on Wednesday. Donald Trump, meanwhile, told Fox News he did not view Tuesday’s rout as “a hit on me” and congratulated the Democrats on doing “a good job.” Gracious in defeat, and serene in denial.

While Washington argues over who lost the midterms, Moscow and Tehran are doing something more interesting. They are talking, at length and at the top. And Israel may be about to change governments. Put the three stories side by side and you can see the outline of what comes next.

There has been much debate in Britain in recent years about symbols of empire – pulling down statues, or returning museum artefacts. 

But we rarely talk about the fact that British foreign policy is still run by the same institutions which ran the empire. 

The Secretary of State for Business and Trade is still called ‘President of the Board of Trade’, referring to an institution involved in the triangular slave trade.

HOW BRITISH FOREIGN POLICY IS FROZEN IN THE RUINS OF EMPIRE

The impact on people who live under dictators propped up by Britain is immense. British voters have almost no say in what’s going on.

ADAM RAMSAY

Shoalhaven Council has forced Nowra Art Gallery to limit the display of the ‘Wall of Tears’ exhibit commemorating the deaths of 18,745 Palestinian children by the IDF.

The scam is that former Liberal candidate Andrew Constance, now Manager at Shoalhaven Council, decided to reduce the number of days of the display from ten to two, citing risk to the ‘safety of his staff’.

In total agreement with staff from the gallery, the Shoalhaven Friends of Palestine (SFOP) had arranged for the Wall exhibit, a 15 metre long art installation and memorial, to be opened on November 4 and displayed for a further nine days.

Lieutenant General Christian Freuding has been appointed as Germany’s highest military commander, the Defense Ministry said. Having previously led Germany’s Land Forces, Freuding is known for his ardent support for Ukraine and his hardline stance on Russia.

Freuding will take over as inspector general of the armed forces – the highest post a German career officer can occupy – in February 2027, replacing another prominent Russia hawk, General Karsten Breuer, who is moving to head the NATO Military Committee, a senior advisory body that guides the bloc’s leadership on matters of military strategy.

NATO is developing a defense strategy that would allow its forces to strike military targets deep inside Russia, rather than limiting attacks to areas near the alliance’s borders. According to The Wall Street Journal, potential targets include Russian military bases, supply depots and industrial facilities that support the country’s armed forces.

The former Soviet administrative unit that emerged as independent Ukraine in 1991 after the fall of the Soviet Union was bounded by the exact borders of the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic (SSR). That is, it comprised a wholly unnatural polity whose borders and population had been assembled by successive Soviet leaders for the administrative convenience of their brutal communist dictatorship.

by David Stockman 

Australia’s rooftop solar and battery boom shows the energy transition is accelerating, yet anti-renewables politics is gaining ground. Rebuilding regional trust and countering misinformation is now critical.

Melania Trump hosts Russian and Ukrainian envoys at White House (VIDEO)
The meeting follows a humanitarian ceasefire in Alyoshki coordinated with the involvement of the US first lady

Representatives of Russia and Ukraine are meeting at the White House in Washington, DC for talks hosted by First Lady Melania Trump.

The meeting follows a temporary humanitarian ceasefire in Alyoshki, a city in the Russian region of Kherson, coordinated with the first lady’s involvement. 

The White House announced the gathering on November 3, describing it as an “extraordinary moment in American history.”

Russia is represented by Human Rights Commissioner Yana Lantratova and Special Presidential Envoy Kirill Dmitriev, according to Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov. 

SINGULARLY, SARAH PAINE IS LIKE A SNOOZING DEADLY SNAKE IN THE DESERT, WITH NO PREY IN SIGHT... BUT, THE DEMOCRATS, PROUD LIKE DONKEYS GOING UPHILL TO THE MILL, AFTER THEIR WELL DESERVED CONGRESS VICTORY, WILL BE ENTICED BY SUCH WARMONGERS TO DO SOME WARMONGERING...

THOUGH RUSSIA DOES NOT SUSPECT ANY CHANGES TO A SLOW PROGRESS TOWARDS PEACE IN UKRAINE AS "MANAGED [Хигглди-пигглди] BY TRUMP", THEY WOULD BE WARY OF THE WARMONGERING DEMOCRATS RETURNING TO THE BIDEN FORMER AGGRESSIVE POSTURE...

IN THIS LANDSCAPE, SARAH PAINE IS IN CLOVER — OR HER OWN LOVELY SHIT... SUDDENLY HER DANGEROUS VIEWS ARE RESURFACING LIKE SULPHUR [SULFUR] VAPOURS ABOVE AN AWAKING VOLCANO...

MOSCOW (Sputnik) - US AI developer Anthropic's net loss for the first three quarters of the year quadrupled year-on-year to $104.039 billion, according to a filing with the US Securities and Exchange Commission on Monday.

The diluted loss per share attributable to Anthropic shareholders stood at $50.10, compared to $13.90 a year earlier. Revenue for the reporting period surged 13-fold to $33.242 billion.

In the third quarter alone, the company's net loss nearly doubled year-on-year to $23.291 billion, following a loss of $66.309 billion in the second quarter. Revenue increased 12-fold to $23.291 billion.

Anthropic's operating expenses for the third quarter amounted to $17.523 billion, compared to $233 million a year earlier.

After Madagascar, Nepal, Bangladesh, Peru, Morocco, and Kenya, Gen Z is shaking up Europe. Starting in Albania and France, the uprising is spreading to Italy, Germany, Spain, and now Portugal and Greece. The similarity of the slogans — against militarism, austerity, and the genocide in Gaza — and the simultaneous arrival of European youth on the political stage signal the emergence of a new social subjectivity in a continent marching toward militarization.