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Picture the scene. You’ve spent three days researching, writing, editing and polishing a piece on, say, Australia’s housing crisis, or the slow-motion collapse of the NDIS, or whatever fresh new hell or train-wreck of a dumpster fire in a nuclear power plant the week has served up. But of course that would be if you don’t count issues you have spent your adult life discussing, arguing, living and…

A note on length: This piece is shorter than the war’s supply chain disruptions, but longer than the attention span of the man who started it. If you want the sanitised version, Fox News is still on. If you want the truth, it’s going to take about thirteen minutes—roughly the same amount of time it took for the US Navy’s blockade to be mocked by a drone and a radio message. So. Here we are. The…

The war now has the smell of salt, oil, and old empires trying to defy the tide. Thirty-three kilometres. That is the width of the Strait of Hormuz at its narrowest navigable point: two shipping lanes, each two miles wide, one in, one out, with a median strip of Iranian territorial water between them. Through those lanes passes approximately 21 million barrels of oil every single day. That is…

The US and Israel are not only eager to illegally attack Iran, even to invade; they are at war with the rules of war itself. In a move largely ignored by our corporate media, they have dramatically extended the range of what they treat as legitimate targets. Since Trump’s war began on February 28, 2026, American and Israeli troops have struck more than 13,000 targets across the country, dropping…

“Human beings are members of a whole, in creation of one essence and soul. If one limb is afflicted with pain, other limbs uneasy will remain.”— Saadi Shirazi, 13th century. Inscribed on the wall of the United Nations, New York. On the morning of April 7, twelve hours before his own deadline for Iran to reopen the Strait of Hormuz, Donald Trump reached for his phone and posted to Truth…

“Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed.” *Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1953* To make sense of this war, imagine a Russian babushka doll. The outer doll is the story we are fed in Australia: a daily Pentagon briefing, wrapped and rebroadcast by News Corp,…