From the New York Times yesterday, explaining the White House position: …if a country cannot deal with a terrorism problem on its own, the United States reserves the right to act unilaterally. If any state acts without boundaries or ignores international law, it should be treated as a rogue player.
Showing all posts in June 2019
Jews who love to water-board
At what point will neo-con Jews, who support torture, be regarded as the pariahs that they truly are?
The Zionist reality on daily life
What is life like for Palestinians in the occupied territories? One of the finest chroniclers of the conflict, Jonathan Cook, explains.
The victim recalls a war crime
My following book review appeared in the Sydney Morning Herald on November 29: My Story: The Tale Of A Terrorist Who Wasn’t By Mamdouh Habib; with Julia Collingwood; Scribe, 272 pp, $32.95 Before tortured Australian Guantanamo Bay detainee Mamdouh Habib was released in 2005, then prime minister John Howard said his government didn’t “have any…
A choice between Zionist brutality and occupying Zionists?
What can we really expect from the Obama administration and its policies towards Israel/Palestine?
Keeping Tehran happy
Why are the Iranians seemingly pleased with the passage of the Security Agreement between Iraq and the US by the Iraqi parliament?
Stenographer discovers the real Loewenstein
On the day before Islamic terrorists launched their latest attack on Mumbai, Sydney writer Antony Loewenstein delivered a speech at Harvard University in the US. Readers, it’s time to admit something (already picked up by this crafty Murdoch hack in Sydney.) My words at Harvard this week actually triggered a sleeper cell in India. Blame…
Leaving the MSM in the dust
Twitter comes of age – the Mumbai coverage was way ahead of traditional media.
The modern descendants of Hitler
Settler Nazis continue to cause chaos (and the global Jewish Diaspora remains silent): Israeli settlers attacked Palestinian ambulances in the West Bank village of Dier Esteyah on Wednesday, according to witnesses. Red Crescent ambulances were parked in the northern West Bank city of Nablus on Wednesday when settlers wrote provocative slogans, such as “Death to…
The end of oppression?
The Iraqi parliament voted by an overwhelming show of hands yesterday to end US military control of their country – a crucial turning point in the Iraq conflict. The security agreement, the outcome of lengthy and rancorous negotiations, requires US forces to leave Iraqi cities, towns and villages by 30 June next year. American troops…