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The winner is Netanyahu

November 7, 2024 OPINION BY GREG RAY The leader of the most extreme right-wing government Israel has ever had is delighted to see his favoured candidate coming back to power. As he fights to stave off corruption charges, to avoid an inquiry into the events leading up to the October 7 Hamas attack, to sidestep calls for an investigation into leaks of sensitive information from his office, to complete his plan to neuter Israel's high court and to placate his extremist supporters, how can Netanyahu exploit Trump's victory for further gain? Benjamin Netanyahu has hailed Donald…

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Read more about the article Shame about democracy . . .
Not ashamed of much. Australian PM Scott Morrison (photo by Kristy Robinson) and NSW Premier Gladys Berejiklian

Shame about democracy . . .

Somebody wrote a few weeks ago how shocked many Americans had been to realise that shame was the only thing that had been protecting them from political tyranny. The writer meant that the only reason, until now, that no US president or political party had pulled the stunt of stacking the Supreme Court with a last-minute appointment, as Donald Trump has done, was that they feared the shame it would bring on them. Same with all the voter-suppression dodges the Republican Party pulled out of the hat this year. While voter-suppression isn’t new in the USA,…

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Read more about the article Biden their time until whatever comes next . . .

Biden their time until whatever comes next . . .

Well, US Democrats: what did you honestly expect? You did away with the only inspiring candidate you’ve had in years – Bernie Sanders – and put up instead a doddering old warmonger with creepily wandering hands. Because deep down your party machine is happier to live with Trump in the White House than it would have been to face the risk of the political and social reforms your country sorely needs. Because the status quo is what feeds the army of careerists in your party, and the status quo is what your billionaire sponsors want to…

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