Iran crosses a critical threshold

If it comes, change in Venezuela will be neither abrupt nor immediate. It will have to be built step by step, because in this country it is not just a leader that needs replacing, but a state and an entire nation that must be rebuilt. JSTSituationRoom #Venezuela

Protests in Iran escalated into open confrontation, met by a sweeping and violent crackdown. Security forces used live fire, carried out mass arrests, sealed cities and shut down internet access.

For more than two years now, a small number of Australians have warned that the country was drifting into dangerous territory: not through sudden radicalization but through a steady normalization of hate speech, blurring of moral boundaries and tolerance of rhetoric that often precedes violence. Those warnings were not abstract. They were made repeatedly across […]