Hamas' horrific October 7 attack and Israel's massive retaliatory war have fundamentally changed the dynamic of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. New political, psychological, and factual regional ...

This writer published a book some years ago Ending War which argued that war is an endemic aspect of human nature (with some convincing evidence). He asserts on another OLO blog, Do we have free will?

The realities of ASEAN as a regional political grouping are not encouraging. It could be argued that the stature of ASEAN has been on a downward trajectory, since the end of Thailan's Dr Surin ...

Prime Minister Anthony Albanese and Treasurer Jim Chalmers blame the rising cost of living on everything from the war in Ukraine to the former Coalition government and Opposition Leader Peter Dutton.

The only way to enter is to either change the nature of an industry through innovation, or create a completely new one. Sustainability doesn't survive in such an environment. From these perspectives, ...

Dr Chin Jin is a maverick, activist, campaigner, essayist, freelancer, researcher and organizer with the vision to foresee a new post-Chinese Communist regime era that will present more cooperatively, ...

Let's consider Canada. In May 2021 an Indian band in Kamloops, British Columbia claimed ground-penetrating radar had discovered "soil disturbances" that evidenced unmarked graves containing the ...

Australia's current Environment Minister, Tanya Plibersek, has gone the way of others, slipping in a few more mining approvals before the festive season in the hope that few would notice. The ...

Nigel Biggar CBE is Emeritus Regius Professor of Moral Theology at the University of Oxford and Distinguished Scholar in Residence at Pusey House, Oxford. He holds a B.A. in Modern History from Oxford ...