Peter Dutton’s nuclear plan may well have minimal carbon emissions, but the distant time of arrival, and ignoring the well known drawbacks makes it a dud.

On the face of it, it is all whizzbang white heat of technology (albeit of 60 years ago) and no carbon emissions (never mind the other ones). The problem lies with the nature of the beast.

In 1988, a young professor of international relations at Fudan University in China travelled the length and breadth of the USA for half a year. He wanted to understand that great country in depth, at a time when the Soviet Union was coming to an end, Japan was challenging the US for the status of the world’s leading economy and the latter was intensifying its neoliberal process begun in the 70s.

BY Ricardo Nuno Costa

MOSCOW (Sputnik) - US military officials believe that Kiev's loss of the F-16 fighter transferred to it was probably not connected to a friendly fire from the Ukrainian Armed Forces on its own aircraft, The New York Times reported.

On August 29, the General Staff of the Ukrainian Armed Forces acknowledged the loss of the F-16 fighter transferred to Ukraine; a special commission is investigating the causes of the crash. The Wall Street Journal previously wrote that the F-16 crashed due to pilot error. Ukrainian lawmaker Maryana Bezuhla said that the F-16 had been shot down by the Patriot air defense system of the Ukrainian Armed Forces due to a failure in coordination between the units.

The news in cartoons: France still waiting for its new Prime Minister
Since July 16 and the resignation of Gabriel Attal, France still does not have a new Prime Minister. The current government, which has resigned, is managing current affairs. And the consultations conducted in recent days by Emmanuel Macron at the Élysée were not enough to appoint a new tenant at Matignon.

It has been 45 days – since President Emmanuel Macron accepted Gabriel Attal's resignation, the day after the last legislative elections – that the French government has resigned and is dealing with current affairs. Emmanuel Macron has not yet managed to find a successor to Gabriel Attal, despite the time gained by the head of state during the Olympic Games.

“Internet platforms have a powerful incentive to please important federal officials, and the record in this case shows that high-ranking officials skillfully exploited Facebook’s vulnerability... Not surprisingly these efforts bore fruit. Facebook adopted new rules that better conformed to the officials’ wishes, and many users who expressed disapproved views about the pandemic or COVID–19 vaccines were ‘deplatformed’ or otherwise injured.”—Justice Samuel Alito, dissenting in Murthy v. Missouri 

Russian President Vladimir Putin is not concerned that Mongolia could arrest him on International Criminal Court charges during his upcoming trip, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov has said.

Putin is scheduled to visit Mongolia on Monday for a World War II commemoration. This would theoretically put him at risk of arrest on the ICC’s “war crimes” warrant, as Ulaanbaatar recognizes the court’s jurisdiction.

“We have excellent relations with our friends from Mongolia,” Peskov told reporters on Friday. All issues concerning Putin’s visit have been “worked out separately” he added, noting that Moscow “has no concerns” about the ICC warrant.

The Anglo-American colonial project in Palestine has launched another war to remove the indigenous population from its land.

Israel launches major operation in West Bank; Palestinian officials say 9 killed - Washington Post

The troops were sent in with air support and bulldozers, according to an Israeli military official speaking on the condition of anonymity to discuss a sensitive military operation. Eyewitnesses cited drones scanning the skies and armored personnel carriers carrying troops on the ground.

It is difficult to understand why Senator James Patterson and “dewy eyed” Defence Minister Richard Marles think of China as part of a threat environment. There is a remarkable agreement between these two defence mavens from the opposite sides of politics that has a common source.

Our understanding of the darker foundations of US thinking about the US-China relationship is obscured by the public utterances of presidents, politicians and public policy commentators. This is the froth and bubble of policy, but it does little to reveal the foundations of this visceral fear of China.

A government is in trouble when it has to utter the banal and reiterate the damnably obvious. Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese is certainly struggling of late, a state of affairs all the more unspeakable given the calibre of his opponent. Opposition Leader Peter Dutton barely makes the grade of a two-dimensional politician, but has risen in the polls on a drab mixture of resentment, loathing and fear. Such a political approach does not always work but has done so in the past.

Some US commentators are advocating a recalibration of America’s full-spectrum global posture, while others, including Condoleezza Rice, energetically beg to differ – naturally for the good of the world.

WASHINGTON (AP) — Special counsel Jack Smith on Tuesday filed a new indictment against Donald Trump over his efforts to undo the 2020 presidential election that keeps the same criminal charges but narrows the allegations against him following a Supreme Court opinion conferring broad immunity on former presidents.

READ MORE: Judge delays ruling on presidential immunity in Trump’s hush money case

For months, we have been discussing the concerted effort of Democrats to bar challengers to President Joe Biden from primary ballots and block third-party candidates like Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. and Cornel West from appearing on the November ballots.

THERE IS AN OUTFIT WEBSITE — WE SUSPECT LOVED BY THE BIDEN ADMINISTRATION — THAT CLAIMS TO BE A JOURNALISTIC FACT-CHECKER. IT'S CALLED POYNTER, WITH VARIOUS BRANCHES, INCLUDING POLITIFACT... AS WE KNOW, NOTHING IS EVER CERTAIN AND DEPENDING ON THE SOURCE OF INFORMATION, FACTS ARE RARELY CERTAIN TO VARIOUS DEGREE. "FACTS" COMING FROM THE US ADMINISTRATION ARE RARELY TRUE — BUT POYNTER AND ITS CABALEERS BELIEVE THESE "FACTS" BECAUSE THEY ARE FED BY OFFICIAL SOURCES...

SO IT IS THE SAME WITH THE DENIALS IN REGARD TO THE YUCKRAINIAN BIOLABS RUN BY THE USA. WE HAVE ALREADY EXPLORED THIS ROUTE, BUT IN THE LIGHT OF POLITIFACT, WE'RE CAUTIOUS ABOUT ITS ENTIRE BODY OF WORK WHICH TENDS TO FAVOUR OPINIONS FROM THE DEMOCRATS AND POOPOO OPINIONS FROM THE REPUBLICANS.

WHEN THERE IS A CONTENTIOUS ISSUE SUCH AS SUPPORTING THE WAR IN YUCKRAINE, POLITIFACT SEEMS NOT TO GO THERE...

Fyodor Lukyanov: The arrest of Durov isn’t just about Telegram
Big changes are coming to the global information sphere, and the Telegram founder’s standing is a canary in the coal mine

The arrest of Telegram founder Pavel Durov, when he had decided to take a little trip to Paris, has caused a stir in various spheres – from the business and tech world to media and politics. We will focus on the latter, especially as the incident is becoming another milestone in a wider political reorganization.

Waihopai is a Secret U.S. Spy Base in New Zealand Designed for War-fighting

The news that the Waihopai spy base was going to be built led to the birth of the Anti-Bases Campaign (ABC) in 1987. ABC has campaigned for the closure of Waihopai ever since (our most recent protest there was in 2023).

 Murray Horton