Our leaders are not wise or insightful. They’re not even particularly intelligent. Our society is led by plutocrats who only know how to make more money, by unelected empire managers who only know how to dominate and control, and by elected politicians who only know how to say the right words and make the right bargains in order to get themselves elected.…

Our leaders are not going to fix the worst problems in our world. They couldn’t if they wanted to. And they don’t want to.

Our Leaders Couldn’t Fix Our Problems If They Wanted To (And They Don’t Want To)

BY CAITLIN JOHNSTONE

The NSW government is creating a heavily resourced policing unit of around 250 officers, prioritising hate crimes above other violence. Andrew Brown asks why.

Every four minutes in New South Wales, police respond to a domestic violence incident, a relentless cycle of harm that rarely makes front-page news.

Chris Minns’ stormtroopers. Guns for graffiti, silence for the dead

by Andrew Brown

Two women are killed every week in Australia, and hundreds more are assaulted, often behind closed doors, often without the attention or urgency that accompanies other forms of crime.

There is no 250 officer task force for that, no permanent, centralised unit standing ready to respond.

As the Russia–Ukraine war enters its fifth year, hard questions are overdue. In Part 1 of a two-part series, Michael McKinley examines the strategic history behind the conflict and Australia’s uncritical alignment with a US-led approach that offered Ukraine little prospect of victory.

Michael McKinley

Former US President Bill Clinton has reportedly told congressional investigators that he did not have sex with a woman photographed with him in a jacuzzi, and does not even know her name, according to CNN and NBC sources familiar with the testimony about his links to late sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.

Clinton’s closed-door deposition before the House Oversight Committee on Friday lasted roughly six hours and concluded without the former president or his legal team addressing the press. The former president chose to manage the public response through social media, asserting in his opening statement that he “saw nothing” and “did nothing wrong.”

The US has suffered 200 casualties in Iranian retaliatory strikes on bases across the Middle East, the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) has claimed.

Backed by the US, Israel launched what was described as a preemptive operation against Iranian military and nuclear-related targets in the early hours of Saturday, claiming the strikes were aimed at neutralizing threats posed by the Islamic Republic in the region.

US President Donald Trump later confirmed that the White House had supported West Jerusalem in conducting the strikes, citing the failure of nuclear diplomacy as a direct trigger for the move.

Israeli army has initiated a strike against Iran "to remove threats against the State of Israel", the nation’s Defense Minister Israel Katz announced, adding a special and immediate state of emergency has been declared across the country.

"'As a result, a missile and drone attack against the State of Israel and its civilian population is expected in the immediate timeframe," the Israeli authorities add.

https://sputnikglobe.com/20260228/israel-launches-preemptive-strike-against-iran--defense-minister-1123707463.html

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There’s a pet peeve of mine that throws me into a rage whenever I hear it.

I hear it again and again, from some of the otherwise best commentators on geopolitics, who are otherwise pretty incredible when it comes to international matters. Libertarian-Adjacent people and Foreign Policy Critics I’ve been following for almost a decade Like the Andrew Neapolitano Crowd, John Mearsheimer, Col Douglas MacGregor and the Wider Antiwar Libertarian space: Tom Woods, Dave Smith, Scott Horton, and most recently Daryl Cooper. 

Discrimination is a Right

BY KULAK

NOV 25, 2025

People I grew up listening to and who first introduced me to the nature of the regime… and who for a decade or more I’ve considered amongst the best commentators around…

As the Donald Trump administration attempts to push through its ambitious plans for the “reconstruction” of Gaza, a tragedy is unfolding in the Middle East that is forever changing the face of the region. The numbers released by the enclave’s health authorities have already become incomprehensible: 72,070 Palestinians killed, with 171,738 wounded since October 7, 2023. Since the ceasefire agreement in the Gaza Strip took effect last October alone, 612 Palestinians have been killed and 1,640 wounded. That is the price of the so-called Trump ceasefire deal!

The Federal Reserve has appointed longtime Wall Street lawyer Randall Guynn as its new director of supervision and regulation – a move critics say risks entrenching industry influence at the heart of financial oversight, a move that one critic said was worse than “putting the fox in charge of the henhouse.”

Jake Johnson

“This is like appointing a lifelong arsonist as a fire chief,” Dennis Kelleher, president and CEO of Better Markets, said in response to the Fed’s decision to put Randall Guynn in a position to regulate the industry he has long represented.

Financier Jeffrey Epstein spent just 13 months in jail for soliciting an underage girl for prostitution in 2008 in a plea bargain
During plea negotiations, his lawyers had emphasized his close relationship with Bill Clinton
A 2007 letter to the Florida State Attorney's office claims that Epstein helped set up the Clinton Foundation's Clinton Global Initiative
But the former president credited longtime assistant and Foundation director Doug Band with the idea for the Initiative
Epstein is not listed as a director or founder on the non-profit's documents but did give $25,000 through his Swiss bank account
The convicted sex offender's lawyers also mentioned Clinton had been a guest on his jet during a charitable trip to Africa
Foundation also came under scrutiny as critics question how much of the donations goes towards the causes

MR GUS LEONISKY EXTRACTED THE TRUTH [IN CAPS] FROM A FANTASIST ANALYSIS BY DISTINGUISHED SENIOR LIARS, BULLSHITTING AT THE GEORGE W BUSHIT CENTER:

With U.S. and European help, Ukraine WILL LOSE the war THE WEST started…

On this fourth anniversary of Russia’s LIMITED MILITARY INTERVENTION of Ukraine, we take stock of where things stand with Russia and Ukraine and what the West needs to do to help end the worst conflict on the European continent since World War II.

A record 129 media workers were killed worldwide in 2025, marking the second consecutive annual high for such deaths, the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) has reported. The New York-based organization found that Israel was responsible for two-thirds of these killings, making the conflict in Gaza the deadliest for members of the press since CPJ began data collection in 1992.

Israel responsible for most journalist killings in 2025 – report
A record 129 media workers lost their lives last year, most of them in Gaza, the Committee to Protect Journalists has found

Can you hear that sound? That incessant rumbling of republican agitation? The growing protest that Australia remains formally under the reign of the British monarchy, even as a truly dark scandal surrounds it? This disquiet over the fact that the Andrew formerly known as Prince, recently arrested, could theoretically become our head of state?

Why the scandal of the royal formerly known as Prince won’t remove Australia’s King

BY Waleed Aly

The so-called Board of Peace, established by US President Donald Trump, has now begun its work[1]. This body was originally intended only to coordinate and then manage the peace process in the Gaza Strip in the long term. This peace council was indeed authorized to do so by the United Nations.

On the Way to the New Feudalism

By Hermann Ploppa

Global Research, February 27, 2026

However, a subcommittee of this new institution is taking over the administration of the Gaza Strip. Meanwhile, the Board of Peace is already addressing global hotspots, and the impression that it is intended to eventually replace the United Nations Security Council[2] is not entirely unfounded.