OTTAWA – Prime Minister Mark Carney said Thursday he will have one simple message for Vladimir Putin if the Russian president attends the G20 leaders’ summit this December in Florida: “get out of Ukraine.”

“He only understands strength and directness,” Carney said when asked Putin at a news conference in Thunder Bay, Ont.

“The message would be simple: get out of Ukraine, give back all of Ukraine to Ukraine, end this war which is killing more than 30,000 of your people every single month,” Carney said, adding he’s spoke numerous times in the past with Putin.

Ahead of its full-scale invasion in 2022, Russia captured Crimea from Ukraine in 2014.

Unsurprisingly, local politics can be a bit self-absorbed and insular. Denigrating outsiders, even if they’re fellow Australians, is de rigueur, even if using pretentious foreign phrases isn’t. Even so, Premier Roger Cook talking about “east coast clowns” took the state’s favourite pastime to a new level.

WA’s resource riches fuel a politics of greed and grievance

By Mark Beeson

Despite its vast resource wealth, WA’s politics remains fuelled by corporate power, parochial resentment and populist grievance, writes Dr Mark Beeson.

Erwin Schrodinger is the rare physicist whose work escaped the laboratory and entered everyday language, because almost everyone has heard of his cat. Behind that famous half-alive, half-dead thought experiment sits one of the most important equations in all of science, the wave equation that bears his name and still governs how physicists calculate the behaviour of atoms and molecules. He gave quantum theory a language of smooth, continuous waves at the very moment the subject seemed destined for abstraction.

We are war criminals

Of the worst kind ever

As we clog up the urinals

In a pissoir fever

Nuremberg is not for us

We own the corrupt courts

Blaming the dumb nuts

With larcenies of ours

We are war criminals

Proud to be ruthless

Grand turd materials

Screwing you hopeless

And we do care

That you die in pain

Or die in vain

Blown up in the air

By our beautiful bombs

Missiles and rockets

Burying you in tombs

With no regrets

We are war criminals

Of the worst kind

We have no morals

Not even in our behind

From which flows shit

Scheiße, crap, mierda

French merde is it

Complete war Diarrhoea

You believe we’re nuts

We think with our butts 

There is a plethora of data about the impacts climate change has on human health. But one of the main challenges facing researchers, health practitioners and policymakers is how to translate that data into meaningful action for the communities they serve.

Rice and TMC partners secure climate health consortium grant to face climate change and human health

Burroughs Wellcome Fund Climate Health Center of Excellence Grant to Advance Climate and Health Research awarded to Rice University, Baylor College of Medicine and University of Texas School of Public Health.

BY Rachel Leeson

Recently, Russian officials and state media have been deliberately using the toponym ‘Britain’ instead of ‘Great Britain’ and ‘United Kingdom’ to refer to the nation that, just a few decades ago, was known as 'the empire on which the sun never sets'. Speaking at a press conference dedicated to reviewing the results of Russian diplomacy in 2025, Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov commented on this rhetorical innovation. “No offense meant, but I think that this is what it should be called, because Great Britain is the only example when a country calls itself great. Another example was the Great Libyan Jamahiriya, but that country is no more,” Lavrov said. 

Moscow has stopped calling Britain ‘Great.’ Here’s why

Is Europe’s ‘Competitiveness Man’ causing division in Europe?

Ricardo Martins

When you’ve burned all your bridges, go and burn some more.

That seems to be the unspoken strategy of Berlin’s policy toward Moscow, which is the only plausible interpretation of Germany’s fresh efforts to damage its already abysmal relationship with Russia. Not that they have come as a surprise. Since the odd drone incident at the Leipzig/Halle airport at the beginning of August, the German political establishment and its always compliant mainstream media have been preparing the ground for explicitly blaming Moscow.

Berlin’s latest Russia panic is reckless even by its own standards

The far right does not emerge outside mainstream political culture. Its nationalism, authoritarianism and populism draw on ideas with deep roots in Australian life.

The reasons for the rise of far-right politics are often cited as financial stress, housing shortages and frustration with government.

Yet this doesn’t explain why disillusioned voters are drifting toward the far right instead of the left.

Ibolya Losoncz

Dear friends,

The government of Japan is rapidly building a war posture against China. It began in Okinawa and Amami in the mid-2010s, and has expanded to Kyushu, western Japan, and the whole country. Since 2026, Japan has begun deploying long-range missiles capable of reaching mainland China.

Resistance to Japan’s growing ‘war posture’ against China: The Sixteenth Asia Newsletter (2026)

Originally published: Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research on August 26, 2026 by Hiroyuki Takai

In the 1970s, during an era of energy price shocks, NASA began designing a new type of liquid battery.

The iron-chromium redox flow battery contained no corrosive elements and was designed to be easily scalable, so it could store huge amounts of solar energy indefinitely.

Several years later, in Australia, a young chemical engineer at UNSW in Sydney named Maria Skyllas-Kazacos started studying these new kinds of flow batteries.

Within years, she and her research team developed another kind of flow battery, one that used vanadium instead of iron and chromium.

Chinese President Xi Jinping on Tuesday delivered a speech at the 26th Meeting of the Council of Heads of State of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) in Bishkek, the capital of Kyrgyzstan.

Here is the full text of his speech.

Toward Higher-Quality Development of The Shanghai Cooperation Organization

Your Excellency President Sadyr Japarov,

Colleagues,

It is a great pleasure to join you in Bishkek. I would like to thank President Japarov for the thoughtful arrangements for our meeting. Since assuming the chairmanship, Kyrgyzstan has, under the theme "Together Toward Sustainable Peace, Development, and Prosperity," held a variety of activities with remarkable success. China highly commends all this.

On August 22, acclaimed novelist Richard Flanagan delivered a powerful 45-minute speech in Sydney condemning the escalating persecution in Australia of opponents of Israel’s genocidal assault on Palestinians in Gaza. He called for a determined fight to defend freedom of speech and basic democratic rights.

Prize-winning writer Richard Flanagan denounces escalating pro-Zionist attacks on democratic rights in Australia

Richard Phillips

MAKING AMERICA THE LEADER IN DIGITAL ASSETS: Today, President Donald J. Trump signed the GENIUS Act into law, a historic piece of legislation that will pave the way for the United States to lead the global digital currency revolution.

• The GENIUS Act prioritizes consumer protection, strengthens the U.S. dollar’s reserve currency status, and bolsters our national security.
• The GENIUS Act will make America the undisputed leader in digital assets, bringing massive investment and innovation to our country.

PROTECTING CONSUMERS IN THE DIGITAL MARKET: President Trump supports the GENIUS Act because it protects consumers from nefarious actors in financial markets.