Committee to Protect Journalists on growing threats to the people who bring us the news: In the 1990s, journalists’ deaths in the Balkans and Africa underscored “the need for a systematic approach to journalists’ physical security,” said Bruce Shapiro, executive director of the Columbia University-based Dart Center for Journalism & Trauma. The shock of the…
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Hello MSM; this is how you challenge Israeli propagandists
More here on the outrageous case of Khader Adnan (who is apparently ending his long hunger strike).
Ideal Jewish future: guns, religion and US tax dollars
In early March Harvard University will be hosting the One State Conference, organised by my co-editor Ahmed Moor on our forthcoming book After Zionism, that aims to bring true justice to the Israel/Palestine conflict. Equal rights for all citizens. Unsurprisingly, Zionist fanatics aren’t too fond of such ideas, rather enjoying living in an American-protected bubble.…
If only the world knew how much we love occupation, Israel muses
Another day and just so many challenges faced by the Zionist state. Should we bomb Iran tomorrow or Saturday? I mean, who knows what the Iranian mullahs will be thinking on the Sabbath. Elsewhere, Israel Apartheid Week is nearly upon us so Tel Aviv must respond. What are they doing? Sending settlers (and others) around…
Murdoch press excel at bigotry; over to you, Charlie Brooker
Rupert Murdoch laughably claims The Sun is one of the finest newspapers in the world. Oh sure, if you hate everybody:
Assange debuts on Murdoch-run The Simpsons
Wikileaks Julian Assange on The Simpsons 500th Episode from LeakSource Archive on Vimeo.
How vulture capitalism in the “war on terror” really works
I’m on a number of global email lists that discuss privatised security post 9/11. This is from an anonymous retired navy captain: Somebody’s civilian friends or benefactors have always been making money on our wars. The funny twist is how the “military industrial complex” of years gone by has evolved into a “personnel support complex”…
Understanding the need for always asking “why”?
Creating Freedom – Part 1: The Lottery of Birth (Trailer) from Creating Freedom on Vimeo. More on Creating Freedom here.
America wants “human terrain” to whitewash occupation of Iraq and Afghanistan
Years after 9/11, the US military believed that counter-insurgency meant learning about the countries you were invading and occupying. Sensible decision but nothing could alter the fact that America was conducting a brutal occupation of Muslim lands. Resistance rightly followed. “Human Terrain Systems” were employed – anthropologists, social scientists and others – to be the…
