As Anzac Day approaches, the history of Gallipoli offers a warning about the risks of uncritical loyalty to powerful allies and the consequences of decisions made elsewhere.

The world is shifting from the ‘rules-based order’ to a ‘fools-based order’. We’ve seen this before. It happened in 1914-15. What happens to us in such a new order when we cling uncritically to our perceived protector?

This week we commemorate the Gallipoli landings of 25 April 1915. Consider the events leading up to that day.

Douglas Newton

Born out of the need for safety, Israel today finds itself navigating a reality defined by recurring conflict and persistent insecurity. As another Independence Day has passed, for West Jerusalem the sense of permanence it was meant to symbolize remains elusive. Military strength has grown, yet lasting security continues to slip out of reach.

War without end? How Israel became trapped in its own security doctrine

As West Jerusalem moves past another Independence Day, the promise of lasting security looks increasingly uncertain

By Elizaveta Naumova

"Between us, you've never been able to properly execute a good punch-up..."

THIS ILLUSTRATION FROM "L'ASSIETTE AU BEURRE" [1904] IS DESCRIBING WHAT WE UNFORTUNATELY STILL FACE IN 2026...

The New South Wales premier, Chris Minns, has defended the actions of police at a rally against Isaac Herzog’s visit, after video footage emerged showing officers repeatedly punching a number of protesters.

The premier on Tuesday rejected suggestions his own anti-protest restrictions had created what he deemed to be an “impossible situation” for police dealing with thousands of protesters outside Sydney’s Town Hall.

Rally organisers, Labor backbenchers and Green MPs accused Minns and police of creating an “unsafe situation” for attendees.

As people worldwide celebrate Earth Day, Pittsburgh residents are going outside to connect with nature and coming together to advocate for a better planet.

Imagine arriving at a hotel that claims to have infinitely many rooms: room 1, room 2, room 3, and so on forever. You walk to the front desk and say, “I need a room.” The manager looks up from her ledger and says, “Every room is taken—but don’t worry, I can make space.” She phones every guest and says,

“Please move to the room with the next highest number.”

So the guest in room 1 goes to room 2, the guest in room 2 goes to room 3, and so on.

Since there is no “last” room, everyone shifts to the room with the next highest number, which frees up room 1 for you. This scenario—the Infinite Hotel Paradox, also called Hilbert’s Paradox of the Grand Hotel—illustrates a mathematical paradox showing how infinity behaves: A system can be completely full and yet make space for more.

The saga of TACO Trump (i.e., Trump Always Chickens Out) continues to add new chapters… A few hours before the end of the two week ceasefire with Iran, Trump unilaterally announced an indefinite extension of the ceasefire (see image above), but also kept the blockade in place. After threatening to end Iran as a civilization, Trump backed down… And thank God he did.

Trump Does TACO Tuesday, But Still Sabotages Exit Ramp… JCPOA 2

by Larry C. Johnson

In How I Saved the World, Jesse Watters takes readers on a tour of his life from basement-dwelling Fox minion to pampered champion of right-thinking Americans. He has divined great truths about the nature of our country while stumbling across beaches asking oblivious college students basic political questions and while stumbling out of Air Force One with the President.

How I Saved the World

Jesse Watters

The war with Iran has been a strategic disaster for the US, leaving President Donald Trump in a weaker position at home and damaging American credibility, Quincy Institute co-founder Trita Parsi has told RT. He added that the conflict, which he said Israel had pushed for, had not unfolded as Washington expected.

The unprovoked war against Iran by the USA and "Israel" has failed in spectacular fashion, with the Israeli colony in tatters, Washington looking for a way out while Iran holds the upper hand in peace “negotiations” proposed by Pakistan. Further, Tehran’s newly asserted control over shipping traffic passing into and out of the Persian Gulf (which neither the USA nor anyone else can shake) has given it tremendous new economic leverage.

Iran survives terrorist war and emerges a major power broker

Tim Anderson

Drill baby drill! Are Angus and Pauline being unAustralian? Angus Taylor and Pauline Hanson want us to drill more. But who is “us”, who does this drilling? Foreign multinationals, that’s who.

We follow the money, from the foreign influence operation which is News Corp – which is owned by Americans and pays no tax – to the Australian Energy Producers gas lobby which represents foreign players such as Exxon, Shell, INPEX, Chevron and others.

Are Angus and Pauline patsies for a foreign influence operation designed to rake out massive profits from the export of our gas without paying royalties and tax? Surely not!

How One Nation and the Coalition sold out Australians | The West Report

by Michael West

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U.S. President Donald Trump was denied access to his nation's nuclear codes by a high-ranking U.S. military official, according to explosive reports.

Retired CIA analyst Larry Johnson revealed on the popular YouTube program Judging Freedom that during an emergency meeting on Saturday, Trump attempted to access the nuclear codes.

"One report coming out of that meeting at the White House is that Trump wanted to... use the nuclear codes, and General Dan Caine stood up and said 'No'. He invoked his privilege as the head of the military, so to speak. It was apparently quite a blow-up.

This is the review that the mainstream media would not run – Louise Adler on Booker-Prize winner Howard Jacobson’s latest novel Howl.

Howl is a jeremiad, a 300-page essay on the immutability and inevitability of antisemitism thinly disguised as a novel.

Louise Adler

To some, it may be heresy, but charging tolls for passage through the Strait of Hormuz looks reasonable in a Trumpian world, Michael Pascoe argues.

If, unlike Richard Marles, you accept that the US has annihilated the “international rules-based order” and that under Trump’s rules, whatever you can get away with is now legal, Iran’s tolling ships passing through its territorial waters seems relatively reasonable.

Tolling the Strait. Is Iran acting with reason in a Trumpian world?

by Michael Pascoe

Most immediately, the idea of opening the Strait while the US blockades Iranian ports is Trump-level insanity.

In the near-immediate term, the tolls are cheap.

Twenty-four satellites disabled in minutes.

No explosions. No debris. No visible attack.

And yet — every system that depends on them goes silent.

Because modern warfare is not held together by ships, aircraft, or missiles.

It is held together by something invisible… orbiting above the Earth.

And the question no official briefing is answering directly is the one that matters most —

what happens when the system that tells the entire military where it is… suddenly stops working?