Show Notes
The US-Iran ceasefire is already fraying. We go through what's actually happened in the last 24 hours: the ten-point plan Iran had on the table for weeks before Trump presented it as a win, the Pakistan PM's copy-paste tweet, Israel's strikes on Lebanon, and the Strait of Hormuz closing again. The signals are contradictory and the official narrative doesn't hold up.
From there we get into Ben Roberts-Smith. His arrest and the campaign to strip his VC have split opinion sharply. We look at what his case reveals about how Australia treats its soldiers, what combat actually does to people, and whether this country still has any appetite for what war requires.
In the Plus+ extension: the Fabian Society, Annie Besant, George Bernard Shaw, and the eugenics program that ran underneath progressive thought in the early 20th century. The Fabians wanted to remake society from the top down and they were patient about it. We trace how their ideas moved from the drawing room into education, law, and bureaucracy, and how utopian language kept covering for what was a project of population management and elite control.
Links
- New Deadline Looms for U.S. and Iran as Truce Wavers - The New York Times
- The Empire Backs Down, For Now
- Iran Rejects U.S. Narrative That It Must Adhere to Trump’s ‘Disingenuous’ Negotiation Framework
- Did Trump Just Make Iran Great Again?
- What the Hell Happened with the Rescue of the F-15E WSO in Iran?
- "Oh, this is unbelievable. The edit history on this tweet shows that Pakistan Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif originally copied and pasted everything he was sent, including: "*Draft - Pakistan's PM Message on X*" Now, obviously, Sharif's own staff don't call him "Pakistan's PM," https://t.co/lm2vSEElkb" / X
- SAS hero Ben Roberts Smith arrested over alleged war crimes
- Patriotic Aussies rally behind war hero Ben-Roberts Smith
- Australian Defence Force takes out war breach adverts in newspapers | The West Australian
- Ben Roberts-Smith and the confused battlefield | The Spectator Australia
- The Truth of War: Lethality in Combat, a Study of the Real Nature of Battle eBook : Lewis, Doctor Tom: Kindle Store
- Overview | Air Force
- War Hero or Political Scapegoat?
- "“But the curse of every ancient civilization was that its men in the end became unable to fight. Materialism, luxury, safety, even sometimes an almost modern sentimentality, weakened the fibre of each civilized race in turn; each became in the end a nation of pacifists, and then https://t.co/EwYKh5gdIn" / X
- "@infantrydort Teddy, along with John Stuart Mill, well understood this phenomenon. https://t.co/6LKAr6NCQC" / X
- China Produces "Baby Shahed" Kamikaze Drones For $500 | ZeroHedge
- India to Release Venomous Snakes and Crocodiles Onto Its Border to Thwart Its Own Migrant Crisis - American Renaissance
- "In Sweden they have released an advert where White Women are loud and annoying on public transport and Black men are the one's being quiet and upset about this The anti-white propaganda is unbelievable https://t.co/3onCm1xk2a" / X
- Race-Swapping - by Celina101 - Celina's Substack
- "My family owned a caravan at the caravan park in Gerringong for nearly 20 years. Never once seen this many Indians or Asians in this part of Australia — 2 hours south of Sydney." / X
- The Blackening of Europe: Ideologies & International Developments
- ‘Everyone is thinking about oil prices’: is Iran using the war to hide a surge in executions? | Iran | The Guardian
- Victoria Cross recipient Ben Roberts-Smith charged with war crimes, taken into custody - ABC News
- Caleb Bond: Ben Roberts-Smith arrest a ‘national disgrace’
- Calls grow for Royal Commission into Bondi Beach terror attack after AFP commissioner downplays religious motives | Sky News Australia
- 2Worlds Collide | Resilience Podcast
- Ben Roberts-Smith seeking to reopen failed defamation case against Nine over Nick McKenzie recording - ABC News
- No bodies, no murder weapon; Ben Roberts-Smith case challenging | Up Late with Ben Harvey
- Inside Britain (@insidebritain): "This is Fajila Patel — a candidate in the local council elections for Darwen, Lancashire."
- Fajila Patel Bids To Become First Niqab-wearing Tory Councillor
Plus+ Extension
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- Fabian Society
- Annie Besant | Indian Nationalist, Theosophist, Writer
- George Bernard Shaw
- Totalitarianism and the Seduction of the Superman
- Catalog Record: The decline in the birth-rate | HathiTrust Digital Library
- Eugenics and the master race of the left – archive, 1997 | Politics past | The Guardian
