The spin wars about who wins and loses in the US-Iran 'ceasefire' have begun
By Laura Tingle
The US-Iran deal faces five volatile days as questions remain over nuclear weapons and Israel's attacks on Lebanon.
#WorldPolitics #UnrestConflictandWar #GovernmentandPolitics #ForeignAffairs #DefenceandNationalSecurity #TerritorialDisputes #ForeignAid #EconomicSanctions #LauraTingle
Palestinians fear 'archaeology has become a tool' in Israel's plans for West Bank
By Laura Tingle
Palestinians believe there is more to Israel's recently announced plans to develop heritage sites along the West Bank, arguing archaeology has "become a tool, a mechanism, to justify settlement and justify the displacement of Palestinians" across the area.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-06-15/how-israel-is-strangling-the-palestinian-economy/106731964
Palestinians believe there is more to Israel's recently announced plans to develop heritage sites along the West Bank, arguing archaeology has "become a tool, a mechanism, to justify settlement and justify the displacement of Palestinians" across the area.
Britain's defence strategy under fire while global nuclear spending surges
By Laura Tingle
The prospect of nuclear weapons being used in either Ukraine or the Middle East, rather than being fired between Moscow, Washington or Beijing has risen.
#DefenceandNationalSecurity #DefenceForces #GovernmentandPolitics #WorldPolitics #DefenceIndustry #UnrestConflictandWar #NuclearIssues #FederalGovernment #Army #Treaties #LauraTingle
ABC ombudsman declares Laura Tingles Israel analysis "duly impartial"
"Dozens of emails to key individuals at the ABC rather than the usual filling out of a complaints form, a practice that is becoming increasingly common"
RE: https://aus.social/@andyjennings/116541649970117677
I love the way Laura develops & extends her metaphor of military parades over the ages, culminating in anti-parade:
“The US may have 50,000 troops and all sorts of overwhelming hardware on a parade of sorts in the Middle East.
“But it's not much help if you can't land it anywhere. And the risks of using it have become part of the war of words about this conflict.”
This war increasingly feels like a contest between an "all hardware/no strategy" #UnitedStates and a "less hardware/lots of strategy" Iran, at least as far as the war of words is concerned.
The United States continues to talk a big game in terms of how many things it has destroyed in Iran, and is clearly regarded as having the far superior "kinetic" power. But what it doesn't seem to have destroyed yet is Iran's will to fight or its capacity to continue striking at targets in #Israel and the wider Gulf region.
If anything, Iran seems to have become even more aggressive in the past couple of days and in the wake of the election of its new Supreme Leader #MojtabaKhamenei.
It has been demonstrating that it doesn't actually have to fire lots of missiles — or even hit targets — to cause massive disruption to the #global-economy and to Donald #Trump's narrative about how the US is completely winning the war.
It sent missiles or drones in the direction of several regional airports on Wednesday, notably #Dubai's massive international airport. While it was only debris that landed in Dubai, and luckily only four people were injured, it caused more disruption and is part of a pattern of ongoing attacks that have resulted in airlines increasingly cancelling their services to the regional hub and to other regional destinations.
Iran's threat to banks and the regional offices of big US tech companies hasn't even required a missile or drone strike to have banks close their branches or businesses in financial and tech districts to quietly warn their staff to stay away.
Iran has closed the #StraitofHormuz, and seen production of oil and gas reduced in #Gulfstates, mostly by the threat of strikes: insurers won't insure ships, and shipping companies won't move their vessels through the strait even if Iran isn't shelling them (though it struck three yesterday).
In a particular humiliation for the US and Gulf countries, the #WallStreet Journal reports that "Iran is exporting more oil through the Strait of Hormuz than before the war, showing it is in control of a strategic waterway that it has closed off to the rest of the region's oil producers".
"As Gulf Arab oil producers from #SaudiArabia to #Iraq cut production and scramble for new routes that bypass the strait, Iran is conducting business as usual, according to data from tanker-tracking firm Kpler, throwing a financial lifeline to Tehran as it comes under blistering attack from the US and Israel," the newspaper says.
#auspol #uspol #EpsteinWar #TrumpRegime #Iran #LauraTingle
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-03-12/iran-israel-war-daily-news-briefing-laura-tingle/106443288
I am incredibly disappointed that it's taken THIS LONG for #LauraTingle to understand this. Surely not? Surely she has known this the entire time and just hasn't written about it?
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-08-23/vladimir-putin-donald-trump-ukraine-russia-alaska/105667108
JACOB GREBER named new Political Editor for ABC’s 7.30
#730 #ABC #ABCNews #auspol #JacobGreber #JustinStevens #LauraTingle #PoliticalEditor #Politics #SarahFerguson
https://tvblackbox.com.au/page/2025/06/13/jacob-greber-named-new-political-editor-for-abcs-7-30/?feed_id=214410
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