Just in case you weren’t sure, Nir Rosen is one of the finest war reporters in the world. His new book, Aftermath: Following the Bloodshed of America’s Wars in the Muslim World, highlights Washington’s idea that guns and a few loaves of bread don’t bring love: Supporters of General Stanley McChrystal, the former US commander…
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When torture isn’t really about crushing a child’s balls
How we love the New York Times…to obfuscate our crimes: “Reports indicate meatbag tenderizing procedures”; “War logs show bothersome physical solicitations”; “Leaked war logs reveal that for which there is no emoticon” Hitting the refresh button repeatedly, one can view dozens of other absurd headlines. The absurdity is the point, Rob Beschizza told me in…
Maybe America likes to fail in the Middle East
Steve Walt on Washington’s knowing cluelessness when it comes to Middle East “peace-making”. Yes, bringing on-board more failed “leaders” like Bill Clinton and Jews like Martin Indyk is going to work.
Colombo is being watched and we won’t stop
At least some Western countries want to hold Sri Lanka to account. Australia remains silent, gutless as ever: David Cameron made clear today that given the serious allegations and alleged evidence that continues to surface in relation to war crimes during the closing weeks of the civil war in Sri Lanka an independent investigation was…
Western politicians prefer to ignore Israel’s inherent racism
My following article appears in today’s Sydney Morning Herald: Imagine a mainstream Australian politician saying that Aborigines should be banned from leading tourists around Uluru because they might “present anti-Australian positions” to visitors. The outcry would be furious. But a bill is currently before the Israeli Knesset, led by a parliamentarian from the “moderate” Kadima…
No laws allows Iraqi deaths at the hands of our private firms
Pratap Chatterjee on Democracy Now! talks about the Wild West of military contracting in Iraq: Custer Battles had a man whose job it was was to buy guns on the black market. And he explained to me how he would go outside, you know, dressed in local clothes, buy black market guns and supply them.…
Culture of degradation in Iraq
Britain’s Channel 4 Dispatches on the Wikileaks Iraq revelations. Real journalism, not tabloid fodder. Murders that we created. Watch the Najaf cemetery, the biggest in the world, and its heaving bodies:
Dancing the BDS Flashdance
The Philly BDS Coalition dances into action in a local grocery store chain to push them to deshelve Sabra and Tribe of Hummus; both brands support Israeli war crimes. This marks the launch of our campaign: www.phillybds.org
Nuclear waste should be placed in the backyard of the multinationals
The idea of dumping nuclear waste material on Aboriginal land is being resisted, and rightly so. The question unanswered in the ABC Radio piece below is which local and foreign companies would financially benefit from this if it moves forward. I’m investigating: TONY EASTLEY: Plans to build a national nuclear waste facility in a remote…
What Wikileaks coverage should be avoiding
Many in the mainstream media are defensive about their role in focusing on the personal life of Julian Assange of Wikileaks over the countless examples of abuses and crimes in the latest Iraq logs. Go for it, Assange, against Larry King: