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Jeff Sparrow

Reporter · AU

Indexed articles, last 90 days
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Sep 10, 2026
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Top 500K sites
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Aug 17, 2026

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  1. Article · Sep 10, 2026 · Jeff Sparrow

    The arc of Milo Yiannopoulos and the opportunist grift (opens the original)

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    If you like this article, share it with your friends. After seeing far-right influencer Milo Yiannopoulos recently post a picture of himself praying in a mosque, a question came to mind: What do conservatives truly believe? You might remember that, once upon a time, Milo was A Big Deal. As tech editor for the conservative outlet Breitbart, he helped create the so-called “alt right”, channelling a wave of male support for Trumpism by glomming onto “Gamergate”, an insanely complicated pseudo-scand

  2. Article · Sep 2, 2026 · Jeff Sparrow

    Resisting climate desecration means rebuking 'social cohesion' (opens the original)

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    If you like this article, share it with your friends. Back in the day, mainstream efforts to publicise climate change — think of Al Gore’s An Inconvenient Truth or films like The Day After Tomorrow — inevitably featured scenes in which walls of water swept away entire communities. They looked rather like what we’ve just seen in Nepal, where, at the time of writing, floods have killed at least 1,000 people, with around 4,500 still missing, 38 of them Australian. Scientists can’t yet identify the

  3. Article · Aug 20, 2026 · Jeff Sparrow

    If the US can't afford to keep China out, can Australia? (opens the original)

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    If you like this article, share it with your friends. When the Albanese government axed a joint venture between ANU and Shandong University in China on “national security grounds”, there was consternation in the university sector. Speaking at an annual higher education summit on Tuesday, Brian Schmidt, former vice-chancellor of the Australian National University (ANU) and Nobel Prize-winning professor of astrophysics, said since the collaborative program presented “almost no risk”, he didn’t kno

  4. Article · Aug 17, 2026 · Jeff Sparrow

    Universities face increased scrutiny over working with certain foreign nations. Why isn't Israel one of them? (opens the original)

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    If you like this article, share it with your friends. Currently before parliament is a suite of changes to the Foreign Relations Act. If passed, Australian universities will face increased government scrutiny over collaborations with certain foreign nations deemed to “adversely affect the national interest” or be “inconsistent with Australia’s foreign policy”. This could impact institutions in China, Iran, Russia, Belarus, Brunei, Vietnam and Laos. But if it’s legitimate for the government to re

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