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America first: US President Donald Trump’s administration’s broader engagement with the Middle East has been, to put it charitably, a study in contrasts, says the writer. Photo: The White House

Hollywood keeps foretelling same script as history

Donald Trump is not Harry Truman, 2026 is not 1945 and Iran is emphatically not Japan

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The world we refuse to see as is

We are doomed: Not by fate or lack of intelligence but because we insist on pretending that we live in a normal world

NASA to publish long-awaited UFO report

There have been more than 800 “events” collected over 27 years, of which two to five percent are thought to be possibly anomalous

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Pentagon tracking Chinese spy balloon over US

The balloon’s presence comes amid slowly simmering tensions between the United State and China over Taiwan

A supporter in a costume of the Statue of Liberty holds a placard in support of Wikileaks founder Julian Assange, outside the Royal Courts of Justice in the City of London on August 11, 2021, during a preliminary appeal hearing of the US case for the extradition of Assange to the US.(Photo by Justin Tallis/AFP)

Julian Assange: A day in the death of British justice

John Pilger examines the latest arguments presented by the US in its bid to extradite Julian Assange, and the continuing persecution of the whistleblower and his partner Stella…

US president Donald Trump. (Drew Angerer/Getty/AFP)

Pentagon authorizes $1 billion for Trump’s border wall

Move draws condemnation from both the president’s rival Democrats and fellow Republicans, who warned it was an abuse of presidential powers

‘Independent thinker’ – former physicist tipped to be new US defence secretary

Veteran Washington insider, Ashton Carter, is an independent thinker whose opinions have not always aligned fully with those of the president.

Al-Shabab names new leader, vows revenge

Sheikh Ahmad Umar Abu Ubaidah has replaced slain Al-Shabab leader Ahmed Godane, who was killed in a US air strike.

Revealed: High-rank Pentagon officials in charge of torture in Iraq

General David Petraeus and ‘dirty wars’ veteran Colonel James Steele were behind commando units implicated in detainee abuse.

Iran moves ahead with missile testing

Iran moves ahead with missile testing, faces more sanctions

Iran is testing missiles near the Strait of Hormuz, underlining threats to close the vital oil-transit waterway as the West prepares more sanctions.

Obama seizes momentum to push economic agenda

China concerns evolve: US to send marines to Darwin

US President Barack Obama will use a visit to Australia next week to announce that America will station marines at a base in Darwin.

9/11 commemorations draw to a close

Jittery US unites in grief during 9/11 anniversary

A jittery US has come together in grief during the 10th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks which killed almost 3 000 people and plunged it into war.

Terror threat casts shadow over 9/11 ceremonies

Terror threat casts shadow over 9/11 ceremonies

President Barack Obama has vowed that the US will never waver in its fight against terrorism as Americans mark the 10th anniversary of 9/11 attacks.

Gates: US missile strikes in Pakistan to continue

President Barack Obama is retaining a powerful but controversial US weapon left over from the Bush administration’s battle against terrorism.

Obama closes Guantánamo, names conflict envoys

Barack Obama on Thursday ordered the closing of Guantánamo prison and named veteran trouble-shooters for the Middle East and Afghanistan.

Pentagon denies Pakistan fired on US helicopters

The Pentagon on Monday denied reports that Pakistani troops fired on two US military helicopters after they crossed into Pakistan from Afghanistan.

Israeli jet exercise ‘was warning to Iran’

Israel carried out a large-scale military exercise earlier this month as a warning to Iran, Pentagon sources confirmed on Friday.

US military HQ in Africa put on the back burner

Controversy surrounding the United States military’s new Africa Command has forced the Pentagon to put plans for establishing a headquarters in the continent on a slow track.

Burma death toll soars as diplomats tour delta

Burma’s ruling military junta took diplomats on a tour of the storm-ravaged Irrawaddy delta on Saturday as its toll of dead and missing soared above 133 000 people, making…

Big guns roll through Red Square once more

Seventeen years have gone by since T-90 tanks last rolled across the historic cobbles of Moscow’s Red Square. But on Friday they were back — with an unmistakable diesel-fumed…