War - Rationale Magazine

19 Apr

Anzac Day: Misconceptions and the real meaning of commemoration

19/04/2024
By James Fodor
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In late October 1914, following a long period of rising tensions between the two nations, the Ottoman navy conducted a number of raids ...

31 Jan

Law & Politics

If you want peace in Palestine, don’t start from here!

01/02/2024
By Ian Robinson
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There is an oft-told joke about someone lost in a rural area who finally encounters a local and requests directions to their destinatio...

30 Oct

Ethics & Religion

Truth and consequences in a world of liars

30/10/2023
By Geoffrey Barker
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The world watches horrified as bombs and rockets kill thousands and reduce Ukraine and Gaza to smoking rubble. Australians agonise over...

27 Oct

Law & Politics

Thinking clearly about the Gaza problem

27/10/2023
By Paul Monk
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Truth, an old saying has it, is the first casualty in war. Why would that be? Because the universal tendency of human beings to partial...

06 Aug

History

Everyone can help forge a safe ending to what Oppenheimer began

06/08/2023
By Tilman Ruff
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The Oppenheimer film is a significant artistic work, and by all accounts – including of Kai Bird, the surviving author of...

24 Dec

History

Gorbachev’s appeal for peace and freedom

13/02/2023
By Reg Naulty
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As a world statesman and a student of world affairs, Mikhail Gorbachev’s perspective is worth having. His 2019 book, What Is at Stake N...

06 Apr

Law & Politics

Both facts and fake news about the Russian invasion of Ukraine are spread on social media

22/07/2022
By Richard Lachman
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As the story goes, in the 1780s, a former lover of the Empress of Russia wanted to impress her with his efforts to build empire in what...

07 Mar

History

Ukraine as a ‘borderland’: A brief history of Ukraine’s place between Europe and Russia

One interpretation of the name 'Ukraine' is borderland. This needs to be taken seriously. Borderlands are all about diversity and co...

01 Mar

History

Ukraine crisis: The Russian leader’s vision of the past

22/07/2022
By Paul Monk
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The day that Vladimir Putin sent Russian forces into Ukraine, President Biden spoke publicly about the sheer mendacity of Putin’s propa...

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