In late July, Australia test-fired a new US-made long-range missile. Its range is 500km, but that can be doubled, easily reaching Indonesian targets. Duncan Graham reports.

Were our friends to the north fearful, seeing this armed streaker as a threat? Tariffs, Gaza and Ukraine have elbowed other news aside, so reaction has been limited. The Indonesian media has yet to make a fuss.

 

Indo relations. Nothing like a missile test to show we care
by Duncan Graham

 

The original news came from the ABC, apparently fed by the army, along with photos of toughies in fatigues looking pleased with their achievement.

As with other wars, questions of provocation, self-defence and divine right or entitlement are central themes of what the Western mainstream media have had to say about the war in Ukraine, the genocide in Gaza, and the attacks on Iran by the US and Israel in June 2025.

 

Peter Blunt

The shabby and ludicrous politics of provocation, self-defence and divine right

 

In wars such as these, which are prosecuted or sponsored by the West (led by the US), it is customary to depict each side — in comic-book style but with deadly intent — as representing either the forces of good or the forces of evil and to allocate “provocation”, “entitlement”, and the right to “self-defence” accordingly.

As we commemorate the 80th anniversary of the Hiroshima and Nagasaki atomic bombings, the world is drifting as close to another nuclear confrontation as it has been in decades.

With Israeli and American attacks on Iranian nuclear energy sites, India and Pakistan going to war in May, and escalating violence between Russia and NATO-backed forces in Ukraine, the shadow of another nuclear war looms large over daily life.

 

80 Years of Lies: The US Finally Admits It Knew It Didn’t Need to Bomb Hiroshima and Nagasaki

By Alan MacLeod / MintPress News

 

 

Eighty Years Of Lies

 

US President Donald Trump’s tariffs are having two broad impacts on the global economy – they are eroding international confidence in US leadership and disrupting global supply chains, and causing rapid geographic restructuring of international trade.

 

Jiao Wang

Beijing steps up as Washington steps back

 

As the most aggressively targeted nation, China has been firm, but measured. While the short-term shocks induced by the trade war put pressure on Beijing, they also propelled other countries towards deeper engagement with China’s long-term initiatives.

An amazing thing has happened. Our taxpayer-funded think-tank Australian Strategic Policy Institute (ASPI) has commissioned analysis by Robert Macklin which shows that the public debate on Australia’s defence has been biased.

The public has been fed grievous underestimates of Australia’s defence capability, because discussion of our potent air capabilities has been sidelined by myopic focus on submarines. Macklin’s message is that those shrieking for Australia to increase its defence spending (ASPI itself, amongst many others) should be discounted.

 

What happens when Jordan Peterson and Naftali Bennett get together to defend the indefensible? From distorted narratives to blatant hypocrisy in an effort to justify positions that so many see as morally bankrupt. Watch now and learn why their narrative must be challenged

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zGbn7cJ0L68

 

Jordan Peterson & Naftali Bennett Are The Worst Humans Alive

 

AND NETANYAHU IS EVEN WORSE !!!!

 

YOURDEMOCRACY.NET RECORDS HISTORY AS IT SHOULD BE — NOT AS THE WESTERN MEDIA WRONGLY REPORTS IT.

 

         Gus Leonisky

Poland’s New President Nawrocki Challenges Zelensky on Bandera LegacyPoland’s New President Issues Ultimatum to Zelensky on Ukraine’s WWII LegacyWorld  » Europe 

Karol Nawrocki, Poland's newly elected president, has drawn a firm red line in relations with Ukraine by demanding Kyiv renounce its glorification of historical figures linked to the Volhynia massacre. This condition, he said, must be met for Polish support to continue.

 

Trump Says Occupying Gaza Is ‘Pretty Much Up to Israel’The president is reportedly planning to "take over" the aid distribution system in Gazaby Dave DeCamp | August 5, 2025 at 4:09 pm ET | Gaza, Israel

President Trump was asked on Tuesday whether he supported a reported plan for Israel to escalate

Those with a regard for their welfare would do well not to get between ASIO chief, Mike Burgess, and a soapbox.

Unlike his predecessors, who were content to remain out of the public glare, Burgess seems unable get enough of it. He’s wearing out soapboxes at the rate of knots. Most recently, he’s mounted one at the University of South Australia to deliver an annual lecture named after R.J.L Hawke, Australia’s 23rd prime minister. His theme was counting and countering the cost of espionage.

 

Paddy Gourley

Mike Burgess on the ASIO soapbox, again

 

It’s a worthy subject, although Burgess struggles to do it justice.

US President Donald Trump praised the outcome of a meeting between his Russia counterpart, Vladimir Putin, and US special envoy Steve Witkoff, calling it “very productive.”

Both sides will work on ending the Ukraine conflict “in the days and weeks to come,” the American leader wrote in a post on Truth Social on Wednesday.

According to Trump, “great progress”was achieved at the meeting in Moscow earlier in the day.

He said he had updated some of America’s allies in Europe on its results but provided no further details. “Everyone agrees” the Ukraine conflict should come to an end, he stated.

Commenting on the meeting, Kremlin aide Yury Ushakov said that Putin and Witkoff had exchanged “signals.”

On June 30, 2025, nearly 300 current and recently terminated EPA officials signed a “declaration of dissent” outlining how President Trump’s ‘politicization of science’ and job cuts were undermining the notoriously far-left agency.  In their closed minds, it is Trump who is ‘politicizing the science’ and not these radicals who have been pushing pseudo-science like global warming for years now.

‘Absolutely the best ship’: Japan wins $10bn contract to grow Australia’s war fleet
Three Mogami-class frigates part of wider deal to replace ageing Anzac-class frigates and give navy a more lethal surface combatant fleet

Japan’s Mitsubishi Heavy Industries has beaten a German rival in the race to build Australia’s new fleet of warships, with the federal government expecting the first to be ready for service by 2030.

Australia will spend $10bn over a decade to buy three Mogami-class frigates, part of a wider deal to replace the ageing Anzac-class frigates and give the navy a bigger and more lethal surface combatant fleet.

“Hey, get down from there!” Quick, am I talking to a cat, a child, or the president of the United States? If you guessed the president, you’d be right. For some reason, Donald Trump got on the roof of the White House briefing room on Tuesday and just sort of ambled around for a bit while shouting to reporters down on the ground.

Trump INSTANTLY FOLDS in Case against Murdoch

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=do67G0XSQm8

Trump has “TACO’d” again and has drop his demand that Rupert Murdoch be deposed “immediately” because he’s “old and sick” in his defamation case against the Wall Street Journal in Miami Federal Court. Michael Popok explains that what likely happened is that Murdoch’s lawyers told Trump’s lawyers that if he doesn’t drop the demand, they will move for sanctions AND immediately take Trump’s deposition the next day.

 

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