Gideon Levy in Haaretz: This is the way they express themselves in private conversations and this is what they think. Justice Minister Yaakov Neeman calls Haaretz “Der Sturmer,” the notorious Nazi propaganda tabloid; Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu considers Haaretz one of Israel’s two greatest enemies, along with The New York Times. Even the denial issued…
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Al Jazeera’s Listening Post on Western murder of Iranian nuclear scientists
The recent murder of an Iranian nuclear scientist by (probably) Israel or America was a huge international story but most of the Western media coverage refused to call the killing by its rightful name, murder. I was asked by Al Jazeera’s The Listening Post to comment about this press issue (my comment appears around 8:53):
Who is truly investigating Wikileaks (and why we have the right to know)
Because we need to put a serious check on out of control executive and corporate power (via the New York Times): This much is known: In its hunt for information about three people it believes to be associated with the whistle-blower site WikiLeaks, the Justice Department has sought to extract details about them and their…
Would Iraq, still under Saddam, have embraced the Arab Spring?
With over one million Iraqis dead and millions displaced since the 2003 invasion, it’s a fascinating question asked in Foreign Policy… (though the idea of US military intervention is hardly an answer to anything, as history always shows): In a tumultuous year that witnessed the fall of Arab tyrants and the U.S. withdrawal from Iraq, proponents…
What being “pro-Israel” can mean
Via the Guardian: The owner of a Jewish newspaper in Atlanta has said he deeply regrets writing a column suggesting that Israel consider “a hit” on… Barack Obama… if he stands in the way of the Jewish state defending itself. Andrew Adler told the Guardian he wrote the column in the weeklyAtlanta Jewish Times… “to get a reaction”…
IDF propaganda trips to Nazi death camps aren’t having desired effect, Israel finds
Interesting and reveals the deep cynicism of such trips in the first place (hey Jews, go to Auschwitz, see how bad those Nazis were, come back and love Zionism and abusing Arabs more). Via Haaretz: The Israel Defense Forces has been “stunned” by the findings of a new study which says an officers’ visitation program…
ABCTV News24 on Iran, faltering economy and racism
Last night I appeared on ABCTV’s The Drum (video here) alongside Joe Stella and The Punch editor Tory Maguire. We talked about the faltering global economy – why oh why is the IMF treated with such respect after years of failed forecasts and neo-liberal “reforms” that have only caused misery for millions globally? – and…