When US President Donald Trump took the unusual step of using a Game-of-Thrones-inspired meme to announce the restoration of oil sanctions for Iran, HBO — which produces the TV series — was not amused.

Trump’s strategy against Russia and China

by Alfredo Jalife-Rahme

The war in Syria has shown that when it comes to conventional weapons, the US Armed Forces are no longer the top dog. Russia is now in control. Moscow has brought a new resource onto the war pitch: the most recent generation of hypersonic nuclear carriers. This introduction should see Russia getting ahead of the United States in nuclear warfare. Unwilling to lag behind and seeking to make up lost ground, the Pentagon intends to profit - in as much as time remains for it to do so— from its quantitative superiority, to impose its choices on Russia and China.

We can’t be sure precisely when Australia’s major political parties lost the public on the issue of offshore detention, but the morning of August 20 confirmed it.

It was day one of a planned three-month Kids Off Nauru campaign, initiated by World Vision, and it began with Rupert Murdoch’s conservative tabloid newspapers firmly on the bandwagon.

Scott Morrison is ploughing on regardless — business as usual. There is no need to change direction. Rather the imperative is to go on pretty much with what we are doing, but more aggressively.

Quinlan: Come on, read my future for me.
Tana: You haven’t got any.
Quinlan: Hmm? What do you mean?
Tana: Your future’s all used up.

Today we borrow cartoons from around the world that illustrate the status of Homo sapiens on this planet. Warning: this is a sad lot, not because those who concocted the drawings are mad, but because their subjects are completely bonkers…

Indigenous Affairs Minister Nigel Scullion says he first heard about Tony Abbott's special envoy role through media speculation — and not from Prime Minister Scott Morrison.

This cartoon by Giles is quite torrid. Especially for the press... Giles made quite a few when Princess Beatrice was born on 8 August 1988, at 8:18 PM in The Portland Hospital for Women and Children, the first child of the Duke and Duchess of York, and fifth grandchild of Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh. She's currently eighth in line to the throne...