Further bloodshed in Syria looks certain now that President Bashar al-Assad has decided to play it tough.
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Guy Rundle: Libya … US move really a police intervention
It’s the Libyan rebels who’ve shown a capacity to be reflexive, risk-taking, and radically oriented to the future and its possibilities — including the possibility that it may go terribly wrong.
Guy Rundle: Rundle: Libya and how support has gone from Lenin to Godot
How did the anti-imperialist left get to this pitiful point, where the consistent expression of their policy on a revolution is a more or less tranquillised indifference as to what might be done to help it?
Guy Rundle: Rundle: Pollyanna rhetoric hiding the truth on helping Libyans
The question of outside support for Libya through the means of a no-fly zone and other measures, has become urgent — if it is not already too late.
Rundle: deconstructing Gaddafi from the left and right
By now, as the revolution in Libya overtakes all the Arabian uprisings so far in its importance and power, it has presented both right and left in the West with a dual challenge — the politics of military support and intervention.
Missing the point on WikiLeaks
The WikiLeaks cables — far more significant than anyone has acknowledged — will change governments. But both the mainstream media and the federal government appear to be completely oblivious to the fact.
Lay off Joe, he makes total sense on banks
Shadow Treasurer Joe Hockey was torn to shreds for making the most sensible suggestion regarding Australian banks that this nation has heard since the global financial crisis, writes author and blogger David Llewellyn-Smith.
Rundle: is feminism failing? Imperial feminism, perhaps
Is feminism failing, as Virginia Haussegger argues? It’s a stupid question, and misses the point. Imperial feminism is where the war is being lost, writes Guy Rundle.
The Coalition is scared of scrutiny
Tony Abbott’s disastrous press conference in Canberra last night - following the three amigo independents’ request for Coalition Treasury costings - is putting his chances of securing the Prime Ministership in danger.
Crikey Says: Bullying Your ABC
Having satisfactorily completed its role in the dispatch of a prime minister last week, News Limited has redirected its firepower towards another pesky adversary: the ABC.
Defence: New force protection measures, and not before time
The Budget brought new Defence Force initiatives as a result of the Force Protection Review. Not before time, says defence analyst Mark Thomson.
Stokes’ transformative WesTrac deal will go down in history
Yesterday, the $2 billion Seven-WesTrac deal got the official thumbs up. Now Kerry Stokes can celebrate the $1 billion of his private debt now safely housed in his new 68% owned listed conglomerate.
Stokes poised for media domination after Seven mining move
Kerry Stokes wants to tighten his hold on the the Seven Network by selling his huge WesTrac business into Seven in exchange for a controlling interest in the group. He’s turning Seven into, essentially, a construction company.
Guy Rundle: The Australian can’t tell its left from right
The thinkers that The Australian chose for its left series weren’t leftists, they were labourists – submitting their intellectual abilities to the pre-ordained goal of selling a stunningly unambitious political programme.
Weekend magazine reading: from the truth about calories to splits in Iranian Shiism
Some ideal weekend reading from the world’s magazines
Cake and Bindi Irwin? There are bigger gummi bears to fry
Icon of crocodile stuff, Bindi Irwin, is spruiking packet chocolate cake mix, and Rosemary Stanton isn’t happy. Nor is David Penberthy. But they’re both missing the point, writes David Gillespie.
Overnight market sell-off a sign of things to come?
Even when the economic wheel turns, real financial and economic stability returns and consumers resume spending and companies investing, the legacy of the crisis should act as a throttle on growth.
The sugar fix that earned a Heart Foundation tick
Why is the Australian Heart Foundation handing out ‘ticks’ to confectionery, asks David Gillespie?
Inside Pakistan’s Jalozai refugee camp: an eyewitness account
Jalozai refugee camp is once again packed with destitute people. Shakira Hussein remembers visiting the camp in 2000 and 2001, to interview its previous inhabitants.
Pakistan will give no quarter
With a showdown between the Taliban and Pakistan looming in Swat Valley, residents are fleeing: they know Pakistan’s army will use maximum firepower and overwhelming force.
Nine News memo: Calvert has his work cut out for him
The Nine Network’s latest attempt to save its Sydney 6pm news was detailed in a memo last Thursday from Mark Calvert, the Network’s news boss.
Channel Seven to buy Fairfax?
Citigroup research released over the weekend lays out the case for a complex bid by the Seven Network to buy Fairfax Media, writes Glenn Dyer.
The Racing Kangaroo and De Ronde
De Ronde is a race for the hard men of cycling, not the anaemic mountain goats that characterise stage races such as the Tour de France, writes Tim Watson.
