Paul Weyrich – Republican Operator – Moral Majority & The Heritage Foundation funded by Coors & in Koch Network

Kevin Roberts has been the president of the Heritage Foundation since 2021. His tenure has been marred by controversies.

The cost-of-living squeeze is worsening but Labor is doing nothing to protect living standards. This will only fuel the rise of One Nation.

Vatnik Soup: Your most comprehensive resource on pro-Kremlin disinformation and propaganda.

Article in The Harvard Gazette from McCarthy titled ‘Exxon disputed climate findings for years. Its scientists knew better.‘ analysing Exxon and others’ global warming forecasts from the 1970s

The Limits to Growth (LTG) is a 1972 report that discussed the possibility of exponential economic and population growth with a finite supply of resources, studied by computer simulation. The study…

Renewable electricity is cheaper than ever.

The researchers report that Exxon scientists correctly dismissed the possibility of a coming ice age, accurately predicted that human-caused global warming would first be detectable in the year 200…

The Kremlin launched its full invasion of Ukraine claiming it was facing biological attack. Now the disinformation has come back to bite it

An Australian man who bought an American pick-up truck the size of a two-storey townhouse because he thought it would make him look tough, has pulled his head in a little after realising he may be spe...

Greenpeace have the Powell Memo on their website ‘The Lewis Powell Memo: A Corporate Blueprint to Dominate Democracy‘, a summary of headings follows below.

Martin Shaw, who argued that Israel was beginning to commit genocide in October 2023, examines the tensions between recognition and denial as the Burnham Government tries to reset its Palestine policy.

Israel’s October 7 leaders mourned the dead – and celebrated their own survival

The ties between Nigel Farage’s Reform UK and the United Arab Emirates (UAE) have been described as “extensive and troubling” in a new report.

The share of gasoline cars in global vehicle sales fell below 50% for the first time ever as the Hormuz shock and the resulting record-high fuel prices accelerated the previously sluggish shift toward...

Allies of Hamas Iran and Hezbollah were not forewarned of October 7, but Egypt and UAE had warned Netanyahu before October 7? Egypt being adjacent to Gaza would probably have very good intelligence…

In the final episode of The Populist, Sarah Martin traces Pauline Hanson’s journey from Australia’s first ‘cyber politician’ to her leading role in the rightwing nativist movement that is sweeping the...

Inflation is again being used as an excuse for acts of vandalism on some of Australia’s important institutions * Get our new political email, free app or daily news podcast When the Reserve Bank of Australia lifted its cash rate on Tuesday, with more rate rises in the pipeline, it did so ostensibly to combat an inflation rate swollen by petrol prices and gas bills, not by avaricious wage claims. Apart from a few beneficiaries, among them Pauline Hanson, the RBA’s move amounts to an act of pointless aggression against the majority of Australians. An overheating economy is not the cause of the recent inflation spike. Its cause is a war of choice in the Gulf. Since US and Israeli bombs began falling on Iran, the strait of Hormuz has turned into a toll booth, shipping insurers have tripled their premiums, and tankers have been diverted around the Horn of Africa. In Australia, a tiny minority connected to the energy oligopoly raked in exorbitant profits while the vast majority felt the pain. The interest rate hike deepens the majority’s pain without delivering much gain. Continue reading...

Annual population growth for the North American nation has slowed to just 0.5% – and the economy is ‘adjusting’ * Get our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcast Would slashing net overseas migration “trash the economy” or deliver the necessary population “reset” to restore Australia’s stagnant living standards? Labor and an ascendant One Nation have presented starkly different visions of what a migration program in the national interest looks like. Continue reading...

Australia avoided the populist-right breakthroughs seen in the US and Europe for longer because prosperity, stronger institutions and a more equal income distribution absorbed the shocks. Those protec...

The Israeli-sourced documents now appear to undercut that propaganda line. While they show that Hamas maintained contacts with Iran and Hezbollah, they also suggest that neither Tehran nor Hezbolla…

‘The Population Bomb’ ‘Unfortunately, despite being absolute made-up nonsense, book has functioned as a permission structure for the worst people since it first came out. Affected policy worldwide.

Australia has a choice between investing in the future we can already see – or subsidising a fossil-fuel past that is rapidly losing its grip.

The Israeli-sourced documents now appear to undercut that propaganda line. While they show that Hamas maintained contacts with Iran and Hezbollah, they also suggest that neither Tehran nor Hezbolla…

Inflation is again being used as an excuse for acts of vandalism on some of Australia’s important institutions

Janine di Giovanni explores the pursuit of justice for victims of war crimes in a special mini-series created by The Reckoning Project, with Byline Times. This time - Propaganda as a War Crime with...