Dr Scott Burchill taught the theory of International Relations for over 30 years and analyses international politics. Honorary Fellow of Deakin University.
Melbourne & Paris
Joined January 2009
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Oil hits $117 for first time since April on fears of flare-up in Iran hostilities ft.com/content/8948193b-438b…
Ce soir!
Worry hovers in air as Paris boards up for another weekend of protests lemonde.fr/en/politics/artic…
And Sheridan today, of course.
And then in the article he does exactly what the headline warns against - predictably blaming "the left" for most political violence - just like stablemates Credlin and Chambers.
Hypocrisy is totally out of control at the @australian
And then in the article he does exactly what the headline warns against - predictably blaming "the left" for most political violence - just like stablemates Credlin and Chambers.
Hypocrisy is totally out of control at the @australian
AI at universities - a must read by @Jeff_Sparrow theconversation.com/friday-e…
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"The Jewish Bund and political Zionism were born in the same year, confronting the same persecution but imagining radically different futures," writes Sarah Schwartz.
crikey.com.au/2026/10/23/jew…
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This is a jaw-dropper. The vile and venal Jared Kushner, Trump’s son-in-law and bagman…and the 100s of millions of dollars poured into his secret bank accounts…
The GRU hacked into Jared Kushner's iPhone. Dutch military intelligence (MIVD) then recruited a GRU spy who gave them access to the hacked phone. What MIVD discovered was that Kushner had access to two bank accounts --one Azerbaijani, the other Israeli --where Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman and Emirati ruler Mohammed bin Zayed deposited money. It sounds like a slightly far-fetched episode of "Slow Horses," but it's real. And it proves just how eye-poppingly corrupt this administration was and continues to be as its "special envoy" decides the fate of tens of millions in Europe in the Middle East. Simply incredible reporting by Matthew Cole, drawn from his new book on Kushner. vanityfair.com/story/jared-k…
'Protesting is no longer a right, but a risk we have to take': French protestors weigh whether to return to the streets lemonde.fr/en/politics/artic…
One very disturbed individual @votelewko
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Pretty clear that Israel tried to provoke Iran into restarting the full scale war, directly defying Trump. But sure, they're a US ally.
Report: Israeli jets flew to Iran's border in what US sources suspect was a bid to provoke Tehran
timesofisrael.com/liveblog_e…
Remember @simon_schama "Honestly, all we are asking for is to be left alone...". If only.
US and Israel draw up plans for renewed strikes on Iran after elections nytimes.com/2026/10/21/us/po…
Netanyahu made plans to restart Iran strikes earlier this month ft.com/content/eb4d1101-45ed…
Is France spinning out of control? ft.com/content/616c796b-a288…
US and Israel draw up plans for renewed strikes on Iran after elections nytimes.com/2026/10/21/us/po…
Triggering austerity lemonde.fr/en/economy/articl…
The reason pro-Ukrainian Russophobes will not mention, let alone debate the notion of a NATO proxy war is because it opens up the Pandora's box of nefarious US meddling in the politics of other countries.
That's a lid that must be nailed shut even though it is at the expense of a coherent narrative of events which began before 2014 and 2022.
The official Western history of events is that Russia conducted an unprovoked invasion of Ukraine. No previous commitments about NATO's eastward expansion were ever given to Moscow, and the US was simply a neutral bystander to events in Kiev: at no point did it seek to manipulate domestic politics in Ukraine.
This orthodoxy is uncritically accepted by journalists and politicians in the West who have never read any books of history in the area.
It's like the right of self-determination, which must be granted to Jews in Israel but for Palestinians it vaporises to the point of being a non-subject which is never raised. It seems that the best way to deal with uncomfortable truths is to pretend they never happened or don't exist.
Western meddling in no way exonerates Moscow for its violation of international law and subsequent crimes perpetrated against its neighbour.
But Putin must wonder why Trump and Netanyahu can launch an unprovoked attack on Iran, murder political leaders and schoolchildren in the process, and not be held accountable for their crimes of aggression.
It all comes down to who pulls the trigger.
