Sunday Mail ed’s brutal sacking. The editor of Adelaide’s The Sunday Mail, Megan Lloyd, has been removed from the job by News Limited’s Sydney bosses after 25 years with the company. Crikey understands Lloyd was given the heave-ho on Wednesday night and was not offered another position in the company – a development that has […]
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Mapping a reminiscent non-war in Africa
Trouble in Mali has US and UK forces on alert join a new front in the war on terror. But those rushing to chase al-Qaeda and offshoots in Africa should know the history and complexity.
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Clinton’s star power shone through as Obama’s ambassador
Hillary Clinton has proved herself one of the most successful secretaries of state the US government has ever seen. Will she make a tilt for the presidency? Keep an eye on her actions …
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After shaky start, 2012 a triumph for feminism
Despite all the claims that feminism is dead, 2012 proved a landmark year for women around the world — from Julia Gillard’s misogyny speech to Hillary Clinton. Is social media facilitating a new wave of feminism?
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Why it has to be Hillary (but it shouldn’t be)
The prospect of Hillary Clinton running for US president in 2016 is delicious to many Democrats. Which isn’t to say it’s the best idea for a post-Barack Obama era.
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Defence spending: the most expensive ‘free ride’ in history
Australia is not “free-riding” on the US. Instead, we’re doing what everyone else, including the US itself, is doing and cutting unnecessary expenditure. Only US contractors lose.
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Tips and rumours
So, what about the 2016 presidential race? … no papers for Griffith … alcohol and a charity auction don’t mix …
READ MOREGillard takes Pacific shopping list to regional forum
Australia is taking a substantial diplomatic shopping list to the Pacific Islands Forum, as the region is briefly catapulted into the limelight.
READ MORE‘Softly-softly’ policy on Vietnam sparks debate
A visit by US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton to Vietnam on July 10 has drawn a stark contrast to Australia’s “softly softly” approach on Vietnamese human rights.
READ MOREChelsea stops denying she’s a Clinton
Chelsea Clinton, daughter of Hillary and Bill, recently accepted a job as a NBC reporter. It’s the latest step in her move to a more public life, says Amy Chozick in this fascinating NY Times profile.
READ MORECyberspace freedom … except where they upset the copyright industry
The Obama Administration’s Cyberspace strategy places heavy emphasis on freedom, but in practice it’s only as much freedom as the copyright industry wants
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Photoshopping the news … send in the clones
The camera may never lie, but Photoshop can tell some outrageous porkies.
READ MOREClinton gets photoshopped out of history
The iconic image of the White House Situation Room during the Osama bin Laden raid appeared in Hasidic newspaper Der Tzitung but Hillary Clinton, who was holding her hand over her mouth in horror, had been removed.
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America wrestles its conscience post-bin Laden
Hillary Clinton stood shoulder to shoulder with Kevin Rudd earlier today in Washington, two life-long opponents of the death penalty, praising the extra-judicial killing of an unarmed man. But it changes everything when it’s Osama bin Laden.
READ MORESo long, farewell, or maybe another president Clinton?
Hillary Clinton has announced she will not stand for a second term as Secretary of State, and The Atlantic notes the four clear reactions to the news: sadness, scepticism, speculation or succession.
READ MOREWhen governments know less than their citizens
The traditional asymmetry of information between people and their governments has been upended in recent months. It’s unlikely to ever be restored.
READ MOREEgypt: Mubarak’s hair-brained promises just a comb-over
If Mubarak’s war on his own people widens, Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton will have to consider what role they played, however indirectly, in encouraging it with their inept and slow-witted response.
READ MOREAll the single ladies …
Women in politics — a series of headlines.
READ MORELebanon’s status still a regional conflict fault line
Lebanon’s political crisis is set to deepen as the UN prosecutor’s findings into the 2005 assassination of former Prime Minister Rafik al-Hariri were filed on Monday, writes freelance political writer Antoun Issa.
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Ted’s still firing on law and order
It is clearly hard to get out of that election mode when posturing about tough on law and order is seen by politicians as a pre-requisite for success.
READ MOREThe Canberra Cables
This will not be end of Kevin Rudd’s starring role in the WikiLeaks Canberra cables, writes Luke Miller.
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Rudd deserves points for confronting some brutal truths
The leaked conversation between Hillary Clinton and Kevin Rudd contradicts the perception that the former Australian prime minister was “soft” on China, writes Dr John Lee, a foreign policy fellow at the Centre for Independent Studies
READ MOREWikiLeaks cheat sheet: the most explosive stuff dropped so far
As news agencies throughout the world scramble to be the first to break the most scandalous, outrageous or bizarre cables, here are a few of the best so far, writes Crikey intern Alison Drew-Foster.
READ MORELeigh Sales: Behind-the-scenes at my Hillary Clinton interview
ABC journo Leigh Sales spills the beans on meeting US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton on her recent Australian visit, from making small-talk with Hillary about the security risks of kangaroos to her promise of a future one-on-one interview.
READ MOREAnother vintage ‘let’s get Rudd’ story
Rudd’s not a gatecrasher, a DFAT source says. His enemies, and there are many, should get over him and let him get on with his job and his life.
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