Hunkered down in Canberra after 11 November with the ‘caretaker’ conditions imposed by the Governor-General on Malcolm Fraser, there was a sense of unreality and nagging doubt about the future. The political and social fabric of trust had been torn. Would it keep tearing?

John Menadue

Western politicians are focused only on exploiting Ukraine’s far-right-allied government for personal and geopolitical gain and have no concern for the country’s ordinary citizens, musician and human-rights activist Roger Waters has said.

Speaking to RIA Novosti on Tuesday, the Pink Floyd co-founder accused senior Western officials, particularly in the UK, of helping to prolong the conflict with Russia. Waters argued that members of the political establishment are not expected to “do anything sensible” because they are primarily “out to fill their pockets.”

“Does [former UK Prime Minister] Boris Johnson or [current UK Prime Minister] Keir Starmer or [US President] Donald Trump care about… Ukrainian soldiers? No, of course they don’t,” he said.

At the beginning of July, the Foreign Ministry Collegium held a regular meeting; however, the topic was anything but routine. The discussion focused on information and communication technologies, specifically the new challenges posed by artificial intelligence. Though the results were summarised in an official news release, the meeting was merely the first step in a far broader effort. It marked the launch of a substantive intra-ministry debate and the ministry’s adaptation to addressing AI-related challenges within the international dimension of this vast topic.

Neocolon-AI-lism

by Maria Zakharova, Russia’s Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman

New dependency mechanisms

Washington D.C.’s proxy war against Russia in Ukraine continues to grind up lives. Increasingly, the war looks like an indefinite hellscape, though there have been bright moments of hope. U.S. President Donald Trump has at times seemed sincerely committed to ending the war. In August, he hosted Russian President Vladimir Putin at a diplomatic summit in Anchorage, Alaska. It was encouraging to watch an American leader at least treat the head of a state which possesses 6,000 nuclear weapons with basic respect.

Keeping up with Ukraine’s Nazis
Originally published: Antiwar.com on November 13, 2025

by Scott Horton and John Weeks

Deals for supplying fighter jets to Ukraine remain promises, not firm contracts. Nevertheless, they draw France and Sweden deeper into the conflict with Russia.

LYUBA LULKO
Empty Fighter Jet Deals: Europe’s Unrealistic Pledges to Ukraine Exposed

During his visit to France, Volodymyr Zelensky signed a declaration of intent outlining the delivery of 100 Rafale fighters and other weaponry to Ukraine over the next ten years. The arrangement, valued at around €20 billion, far exceeds the budgetary capacities of either country. France’s 2025 budget allocates only €58 million for military support to Ukraine—barely enough for a handful of spare parts, not an entire squadron of modern aircraft.

Two funding mechanisms are currently under discussion:

Swiss executives gave luxury gifts for US President Donald Trump shortly before Bern and Washington announced a new trade deal that reduces the steep US import tariffs, according to media reports.

The deal, announced on Friday, cuts the Trump administration’s 39% tariff on the country’s goods to 15% and includes a pledge by Swiss companies to invest $200 billion in the US economy. The tariff hike took effect in August, after Trump’s ‘Liberation Day’ speech in April outlining a global trade overhaul.

Somewhere around 2085, give or take a few years, the last baby boomer will die. But their story is not, in the end, a story about age.

It is the biography of a system of capitalism in its most confident, expansive and self-mythologising phase. The Boomers were not the authors of that story so much as its children and its protagonists, born into a time when growth was god and history appeared to have direction.

Stewart Sweeney

The age of promise

Government ministers from around the world are preparing for a final few fraught days of talks at the UN climate summit as they bid to secure a deal that demonstrates global resolve amid increasing assertiveness from developing nations.

The job will not be easy. Countries are now digging into some of the toughest issues – many of which have been left off the formal agenda to ensure the talks keep moving even if one issue gets hung up.

Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva is also expected to arrive on Wednesday to help rally consensus among parties at the summit in the Amazon city of Belem ahead of Friday’s final scheduled session.

There is a strange paradox at the heart of the whole de-dollarization trend. Both the BRICS upstarts seeking alternatives to the dollar and the aging hegemon trying to forestall this process have, at least officially, coalesced around a similar but not entirely accurate narrative: that the gradual pivot away from the dollar is primarily driven by Washington’s weaponization of its currency.

Why Washington and BRICS tell the same story about de-dollarization
The odd convergence of a focus on sanctions risk as opposed to the fraying economic foundation of dollar hegemony serves the interests of both sides of the geopolitical divide

BY Henry Johnston

Ukrainian forces have begun using the TFL-1 terminal guidance system, which increases the accuracy of FPV drones and ensures effective control even in the case of communication disruption.

The situation in the Pokrovsk-Myrnohrad agglomeration remains tense, and ongoing fighting on the approaches to the city is intensifying internal difficulties for Russian units operating in this direction.

https://newsukraine.rbc.ua/news/russia-s-losses-in-ukraine-as-of-november-1763361546.html

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The Indo-Pacific Game Intensifies

Vladimir Terehov

The meetings between leading states in the region in the second half of October on the sidelines of the ASEAN and APEC calendar events show that the Asia-Pacific region is growing increasingly complex.

Ninety-five-year-old Richard Falk—world renowned scholar of international law and former UN special rapporteur focused on Palestinian rights—was detained and interrogated for several hours along with his wife, legal scholar Hilal Elver, as the pair entered Canada for a conference focused on that nation’s complicity with Israel’s genocide in Gaza.

‘National Security Threat’? 95-Year-Old Human Rights Scholar Richard Falk Interrogated for Hours by Canada
“Clearly, the international repression of the Palestinian cause knows no bounds.”

BY JON QUEALLY

One common explanation for last week’s “blue-bath”—the election night triumph by Democrats just one year after President Donald Trump retook the White House—is that the GOP’s “multiracial coalition” collapsed.

There’s just one problem: That coalition never existed, at least not to the extent imagined by doomsaying Democrats and wish-casting Republicans. Grasping this basic reality is necessary to understand the macro trends in American politics.

Federal Opposition Leader Sussan Ley denies claims her policy of abandoning net-zero emissions targets would make Australia an international pariah. Ms Ley also denies the Liberal Party's newly-adopted policy to abandon net-zero would put Australia in breach of what has signed up to as part of the Paris Climate Agreement, although she has also stated she is not afraid to upset people at places like the United Nations, if people there disagree with her policy.