MH17 Disaster: Putin’s Statement And A UN Resolution
FACED WITH IMMUTABLE international outrage over the wanton murder of 298 civilians in the shooting down of Malaysia Airlines flight MH17, Russian President Vladimir Putin has conceded ground, and...
View ArticlePerspectives On MH17, And On Handling Russia
IN THE AFTERMATH of an atrocity that saw 298 people needlessly slaughtered when their aeroplane was shot down in Ukrainian airspace, Russia has been the target of surprisingly unified international...
View ArticleOn BoJo, Gaza, Ukraine, 18c, And Squaring The Week
WITH AN AWFUL LOT going on this week — both at home and abroad — it has been an inauspicious time to disappear for a few days; yet the Abbott government’s retreat from attempting to modify racial...
View ArticlePolitics’n’Babes: The Putin Titillation Continues
IT IS HARD to believe three years have passed since Vladimir Putin and Dmitri Medvedev hit the presidential campaign trail in Russia, each boasting his own army of scantily clad young women to solidify...
View Article“Don’t Mess With Us:” Putin Threatens Nuclear War
AS WESTERN CONSENSUS concludes that Russia has now invaded Ukraine — with 1,000 of its troops crossing the border into the neighbouring, disputed region of that country — its President has for the...
View ArticleIs Vladimir Putin Welcome At The G20 Meeting In Brisbane?
WITH THE G20 SUMMIT scheduled to take place in Brisbane next month drawing closer, increased debate about whether or not Russian President Vladimir Putin should attend (or is even welcome) seems to...
View ArticleWacky Jacqui And Putin’s “Great” Values
MORE EVIDENCE of a need to change voting methods for the Senate emerged yesterday, with idiot Senator Jacqui Lambie making spectacularly naive claims in extollation of Russian autocrat Vladimir Putin;...
View ArticleLooking At 2015: Six Things That Will Happen This Year
THIS NEW YEAR’S DAY — as the over-indulgent nurse their hangovers and add a vow to never drink again to ubiquitous lists of resolutions, and as the rest of us enjoy a day of relative peace and quiet —...
View ArticleOvert Threats Of Nuclear Attack By Russia Help No-One
AN ISSUE OVERDUE for discussion involves Russian President Vladimir Putin’s remarks that had Russia been confronted militarily over its annexation of Crimea or its mischief in Ukraine, it was ready to...
View ArticlePutin’s Russia: The Nuclear Red Line In Ukraine
AS THE UNITED STATES considers supplying so-called “lethal military aid” to the pro-Western regime in Ukraine, Russia’s nuclear sabre rattling goes on: now taking the form of “warnings” by retired...
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