Australia rebuffs calls to commit to joining hypothetical US-China conflict | PM Anthony Albanese says he doesn’t support unilateral action in Taiwan amid reports Washington seeking guarantees about how Canberra would respond in event of Indo-Pacific conflict
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US demands to know what allies would do in event of war over Taiwan | Trump administration says it is trying to prevent war but raises eyebrows by calling for commitments from Australia and Japan
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The Pentagon is pressing Japan and Australia to make clear what role they would play if the US and China went to war over Taiwan, in an effort that has frustrated the two most important American allies in the Indo-Pacific
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Heritage Citizenship: How They’re Rebuilding the White Republic
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Criminalising Dissent and the True Public Cost of Privatisation
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America Doesn't Care About What's Real Anymore | Anne Applebaum & Preet Bharara
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AUKUS pact: Trump’s United States could make Australia pay more for submarines | Australia is facing the prospect of a Trump administration review demanding it pay more for submarines under the $368 billion AUKUS pact and guarantee the boats support the US in a conflict over Taiwan
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Australia is urgently investigating "concerning" new 200% tariff on pharmaceuticals announced by the United States, repeating that the nation will not be bullied into weakening its Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme in order to escape it
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The New Nuclear Arms Race | As American power recedes, South Korea, Japan, and a host of other countries may pursue the bomb
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Elon Musk’s Grok Chatbot Goes Full Nazi, Calls Itself ‘MechaHitler’
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Chalmers rules out using PBS as bargaining chip in face of Trump’s pharma tariffs
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Big Pharma being cunts.
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What Makes Trump & MAGA So Cruel? A Psychiatrist Explains
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How to Fight Fascism in America — with Timothy Snyder
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Is America a Police State? Malcolm Nance asks lawyer and Newsweek/Slate editor Dahlia Lithwick if America is finished
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Soldiers Are Taking a Stand Against Trump’s Abuses - On the Fourth of July, members of the military are calling on Congress to protect service members who disobey the president’s immoral or unlawful orders
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New laws to make it harder for large Australian and foreign companies to avoid paying tax
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Canada’s New Nationalism | This country has spent 250 years fighting American aggression. Here we go again
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Team Trump Is Serious About Unleashing the Espionage Act on the Media | It is more likely a matter of when, not if, the administration tries to prosecute journalists using the arcane law
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White, Legally Armed, and Primed for Political Violence | How the NRA and Gun Industry Targets White Men for Gun Sales | The gun industry’s sales tactics - playing up paranoia and glorifying combat - may be creating a pipeline of extremists willing to open fire
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King Donald and His Vassals | The NATO secretary general had one mission: Keep Trump happy. And to keep Trump happy, you sacrifice your dignity and treat him like a monarch
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Is the decline of reading poisoning our politics? Your brain isn’t what it used to be | VOX [archive link in comments]
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Genesis of the Modern American Right | During the Great Depression, financial elites translated European fascism into an American form that joined high capital with lower middle-class populism
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As the US chooses destruction over diplomacy in Iran, Australia has to decide between principle and prostration | Allan Behm | The Guardian
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Hastie calls PM’s response to US strikes on Iran ‘too slow and too passive’
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