Infamous whistleblower website WikiLeaks has found ideological and technical support in The Pirate Party, a Swedish pro-privacy anti-copyright group that also hosts the contentious BitTorrent website The Pirate Bay.
For an old bird, she sure gets around. Queen Elizabeth II has nodded at a remarkable amount of people over the years, from every US president since Harry Truman to pop star Lady Gaga.
This week's ten year anniversary of the sinking of Russia's Kursk submarine, in which 118 people died, also marks roughly a decade of Vladmir Putin's so-called "power vertical" - his controversial and much maligned military-style system of government.
UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has called for urgent international assistance for flood-stricken Pakistan, but Opposition Leader Nawaz Sharif has boldly reacted by claiming Pakistan does not need aid from the west.
The Haiti earthquake earlier this year provoked an outpouring of aid from US donors. Problem is, while the Pakistan floods are also horrific, much of the cash has already been spent.
Up to 20 million people are currently homeless because of Pakistan's epic floods, leaving an already politically embattled nation struggling to survive and UN chief Ban Ki-moon pleading for aid from foreign donors.
The idea of a nuclear Iran has both the US and Israel freaking out and an Israeli attack against Iran is becoming a genuine possibility. Jeffery Goldberg speculates how it would unfold.
Check out this horrifying photo gallery of Pakistan battling its killer floods, where babies are being passed above rivers and belongings are tied around survivor's necks.
The departing Labor member for Fowler, Julia Irwin, has revealed the deep influence of the Zionist lobby on the ALP and the inner workings of her party towards the Middle East.
While we bemoan the absence of true political leadership in the current election campaign, it could be worse. We could be Pakistanis.
