A quote from the just released unauthorised autobiography: Vanity in a newspaperman is like perfume on a whore; they wear it to conceal a dark whiff of themselves.
Showing all posts in June 2019
Theatre at the UN over Palestine, nothing to see here, move on, please
Unelected Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas spoke. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu spoke (and issued every paranoid Zionist cliche in the book). Only one man is democratically elected (and that’s Netanyahu). Both men spoke to different audiences but neither has either the ability nor interest to bring true justice to the situation. How much longer must…
Corporate loves making a killing from Troy Davis killing
Sigh: The tragic debacle that has been the Troy Davis execution has another dimension to it beyond racism, classism, and the miscarriage of justice in a flawed system. That dimension is capitalism: specifically, the corporatization of the prison-industrial complex. If you’ve noticed some angry tweets directed at @correcthealth… in the past day,… that’s because “CorrectHealth” is the…
At least some (establishment) figures talking sense on asylum seekers in Australia
VIDEO: Richo on the PM’s failure
Obama disaster on Israel/Palestine (and why he should be shunned)
Daniel Levy, former Israeli peace negotiator: There is virtually no thread of reason running between the way he related to the rest of the world and its developments, particularly in the Middle East, and the positions he espoused on Israel-Palestine. Palestinian freedoms, rights and self-determination are somehow supposed to be attained without the recourse to…
So this is what “victory” looks like in Afghanistan?
Thuggery, criminality and in all likelihood illegality. And this is our side (via IPS): U.S. Special Operations Forces have been increasingly aiming their night-time raids, which have been the primary cause of Afghan anger at the U.S. military presence, at civilian non- combatants in order to exploit their possible intelligence value, according to a new…