The United Nations Security Council (UNSC) effectively endorsed the US-Israeli war against Iran Wednesday with the passage of Resolution 2817 (2026). The text “condemns in the strongest terms” Iran’s retaliatory strikes on the Gulf states, while saying nothing about the nearly two-week-long bombardment of the country of 90 million people by American imperialism and its Israeli ally.

United Nations condemns Iran’s self-defence strikes amid American imperialism’s war of extermination

BY Jordan Shilton

The Australian Labor Party (ALP) consistently fueled voters' horror of American leader Donald Trump and the "US trade war with the whole world," and then skillfully exploited this fear, turning it into votes and gaining a stunning majority in the House of Representatives. 88 seats is an unexpected result, even for those who supported the Labor Party during the 2025 election campaign and wished them victory.

ASIO operates lawfully, in proportion to threats we are investigating, and in line with the standards and expectations of the Australian community. ASIO does not just do what is legal, we do what is right. 

The Australian Security Intelligence Organisation Act 1979 (ASIO Act) defines security for the purposes of ASIO’s work—and in doing so carefully limits the scope of ASIO’s activities. These are commonly referred to as the ‘heads of security’ and include the protection of Australia and its people from:

Some observers of the current EU ‘elites’, including this author, used to believe that their defining feature – apart from things such as complicity in genocide and wars of aggression with Israel and the US, bigoted xenophobia about Russia and China, and, of course, pervasive corruption – was an absolute inability to learn.

The EU never learns – except for the wrong lessons

The bloc’s economic situation was dire even before the shocks of the Iran war, and yet it doubles down on supporting the US and Israel

BY Tarik Cyril Amar

We must admit, we stand corrected: Those running the EU are able to learn. The real problem is their relentless compulsion to learn the wrong thing. We are not dealing with non-learners but anti-learners: where others progress from experience, they regress.

As the US-Israel offensive against Iran reshapes the Middle East, new alliances are forming between Muslim-majority states such as Turkey, Pakistan, and Saudi Arabia in response to Bibi’s ‘Greater Israel’ ambitions.

Greater Israel: What’s Next After Iran?… Turkey? Pakistan?

BY Aleena Im 

Before getting dressed in the morning, we should think of what make us human… We should look at ourselves naked in front of the mirror, assess what our inner child has grown into. There, we need to dismiss all the ideologies that came with the uniforms of civilisation. For the last 150 years, for a male, certainly in the Western world, this uniform has taken the relative convention of the suit and tie…

This uniform has seen many styles and adaptation but the basic cloths, folds and stitches are encoding a status. The soldiers know this. the hierarchy is going to be defined by the uniform and the cap, the numbers of stars and stripes.

We should stand there naked in front of the mirror and ask who are we? For at least twenty minutes… who are we going to be today? Oh, stand still… don’t evade the reflection of all of you. 

What unfolded at the Security Council on Wednesday is not merely a diplomatic misstep — it is another demonstration of how far the world’s most powerful states have drifted from justice, truth, and responsible leadership.

When the Security Council Cannot Utter the Truth

The world deserves better than this choreography of half-truths and strategic silences. It deserves leaders who act with integrity, not calculation, writes Annette Morgan.

The resolution’s use of the word “unprovoked” is not just inaccurate; it is a deliberate inversion of reality. Iran acted under Article 51 of the U.N. Charter after suffering attacks on its own territory by the United States and Israel — attacks that the resolution pointedly refuses to acknowledge. 

The KGB was reputed to favor a characteristic test to take the measure of a man: Place him in a deliberately trying situation and observe how he responds. The premise was deceptively simple: Under acute pressure even a carefully composed façade would collapse, and true nature would stand revealed.

Prof. Schlevogt’s Compass No. 46: Dirty work by proxy – The ethics of the Kanzler’s outsourced war
Across civilizations, ethics converge: Power without restraint is tyranny. The war on Iran is the latest proof.

Mars is the sternest examiner of would-be statesmen. Although truth is famously said to be war’s first casualty, it nevertheless prevails in one decisive respect: It reveals character.

The facility where detained Venezuelan leader Nicolás Maduro has been taken is a notorious New York jail that has held a string of high-profile and celebrity criminals, from drug cartel leaders to hip-hop stars.

From the outside, the Metropolitan Detention Center (MDC) looks like a series of beige multi-storey office buildings.

For those on the inside, it's been described as "hell on earth".

Retired Gen. Charles Wald had a word for it.

“One glitch with a girls’ school,” he told Fox News anchor Martha MacCallum, “which was really sad.”

When religion is fused with ambition and power, it becomes a tool of division and social exhaustion, writes Mohamed Elbaikam. 

FAITH IS MEANT to be a private moral bond between human beings and God. But when it is fused with ambition, fear and power, it becomes a language of division that leaves societies morally exhausted.

My grandmother used to scatter sugar for ants, so that life could continue.

Israel’s Foreign Minister praised Penny Wong for Australia’s Iran War stance, urged other states to pursue Queensland’s speech bans in Zionist leaders briefing. Stephanie Tran reports. 

Israeli Foreign Minister Gideon Sa’ar praised Australia for expressing the “right positions” on the US-Israeli war with Iran in a conversation with Minister for Foreign Affairs, Penny Wong.

Sa’ar made the remarks during a Zoom briefing on Sunday evening hosted by Jeremy Leibler, the president of the Zionist Federation of Australia, according to a transcript obtained by MWM.

The Israeli minister said he had spoken with Wong twice over the past week and, despite “deep disagreements with regard to the Palestinian issue”, praised Australia’s position on the conflict with Iran.

While NATO bombs were still falling on Tripoli in the summer of 2011, a different kind of predator was circling the Libyan capital from the safety of a Manhattan townhouse. Newly released 2026 US Department of Justice documents reveal that Jeffrey Epstein, the disgraced financier and alleged Israeli intelligence asset, was also a geopolitical vulture looking to feast on the remains of the Libyan state.

Forget the island: Jeffrey Epstein’s secret war for Libya’s billions

New DOJ documents expose a 2011 plan by Epstein and former intelligence operatives to seize $70 billion in frozen Libyan assets

For almost two weeks now, the US and Israel have been waging war on Iran. What Washington initially presented as a military campaign that would swiftly alter the strategic balance and put Tehran in a vulnerable position has proven to be far more complex. Over the past months, the White House has maintained that Iran could be on the brink of total defeat by the end of the first, or at most, the second day of a conflict. Apparently, the American side expected a rapid dismantling of Iran’s capabilities and a serious destabilization of its government. However, recent developments tell a different story.

Iran war reality check: Why the US miscalculated Tehran’s political resilience

America tried to break Tehran; instead, it exposed its own miscalculation