Articles

ABC Unleashed/The Drum
2012Why boycotting Israeli academia is necessary and principled (December 18) My 2012 PEN Free Voices lecture on free speech and why it matters (June 28)2011CHOGM perfect place to hold Sri Lankan war criminals to account (October 12) Palestine statehood bid signals long struggle ahead for equal rights (September 27) 9/11 legacy is an Israeli/American catastrophe (September 13) The West has much to learn post Bin Laden death (May 5) What Wikileaks Gitmo files says about our Western “values” (April 28) Hypocrisy trumps policy in Western alliance with Libya (March 3) A little taste of what kind of democracy Egypt deserves (February 11)2010Wikileaks exposes the bromance between journalists and politics (December 10) Where’s the media guts over Wikileaks? (December 2) A one-eyed view of Sri Lanka (October 22) Roll up for another few decades of settlement expansion in Palestine (October 1) American led show a Middle East no go (September 9) Australian “green” company linked to Israel’s occupation in Palestine (June 16) Secrets and lies between friends over Mossad murder (March 1) Searching for China (January 14)2009Analysis must not be a war casualty (December 9)2008Israel no victim (December 31) The end of Israel as a Jewish state? (November 7) Let the patriot games begin (August 15) An insignificant Iraq withdrawal (June 3) Is Iran next? (May 8 ) In bed with Mugabe (April 28) Spot the news story (April 10) A non-existent Iraq (March 3) Burqas, blogs and bombs (March 26) www.censorship.com (March 19) Why I won't be celebrating 60 years of Israel (March 13)
Adbusters
2009The eternal victim (January 26)
Al Akhbar English
Al Masry Alyoum
Amnesty International Australia
2008Engaging, not hectoring, China (August 6) Confusion through the Beijing smog (July 30) How not to help the Chinese, part 9 (July 23) The Beijing countdown continues (July 16) Rise of human rights consciousness (July 8 ) China is not a one-sided story (July 2) Democracy is not a foreign word (June 25) Dissent with a Chinese face (June 18 ) The disaster that opened the door (June 11) Free speech, Beijing-style (June 4) Trouble in the Communist “paradise” (May 28 ) Earthquakes, Twitter and compassion (May 21) Growth + power = abuse? (May 14) Reflections on China (May 7) Human rights, boycotts and nationalism (April 30) Tibet, Zimbabwe and loving China (April 24) Smog, Rudd and Hu Jia (April 16) The torch, boycotts and Tibet (April 9) Net censorship: the basics (April 1) Towards Beijing: March 2008 update (April 1)
BBC World Service
Counterpunch
Courier Mail
Crikey
2012Private military and intelligence still alive and well in Afghanistan (20 April) Pakistan: private security is a state within a state (13 April) Civil strife serious possibility in PNG due to vulture capitalism (16 February) What the resource curse is doing to Bougainville in Papua New Guinea (10 February)2011Supporting BDS and Palestinian rights as a Jew (13 December) Serco-run prison on isolated Australian island (1 December) What Australia is doing to refugees in the middle of the steamy desert (30 November) Woodside in the Kimberley; Exploitation Inc (29 November) Strange bedfellows: new nexus between Israel and far Right (25 October) Contracting in Afghanistan is turning that country into a deformed beast (6 September) Where are the Arab voices in Aussie BDS debate? (15 April) Australian Greens candidate faces abuse and lies over backing Israel sanction (17 March) Warning, NSW: companies like Serco aren’t your real friends (14 March) Villawood: asbestos still present despite government claims (23 February) Villawood guards blow whistle on abuses at detention centre (22 February) Habib: my torture at hands of Egypt’s new de facto leader (11 February) Israel doesn’t believe in Egyptian democracy (8 February)2010Australian troops involved in covert and deadly operations for the US (22 November) Australian unions, Paul Howes, BDS and loving Israel (11 November) No transparency in Serco dealings with contractors (2 November) Paper trail of Serco’s detention centre millions raises accountability questions (1 November) Private contractor Serco escapes scrutiny in the detention debate (22 September) Departing ALP member tells of deep Zionist influence in party (10 August) Australia is increasingly owned by somebody else (29 July) Leading IDF lawyer explains how Israel justifies its action (23 June) Overland branded biased by Jewish academics (14 May) It’s a good time to be in the detention centre business. Just ask Serco (5 May) Tamils vote for independence — and will vote against Labor (22 April) Christmas Island ‘pressure cooker’ could explode after UN review (22 March) Australia rolls out the welcome mat for war criminal retirees (1 February) GFM claims success in flying the flag for Gaza (11 January)2009Rudd helps the Middle East story remain one sided (4 December) Israel lobby funds another media tour. Read all about it (18 November) Times changing rapidly in the Middle East (10 November) J Street pushing a policy that leads to disappointment (30 November) The Jewish background of Aceh (26 October) Aceh: the only Jew in the village (20 October) Saree Makdisi: Obama won’t solve the Middle East crisis (September 24) One state, two state…who cares so long as there’s a solution? (September 8) Survey puts Israel and Zionism under scrutiny (September 1) Reaction to Pilger award reveals Zionist lobby’s fear of dissent (August 26) Letter from Gaza: Keep off the grass (July 31) Gaza: flattened, occupied, sick and rootless (July 28) My evening with the New York Times (June 25) Australian government out of step with public opinion on Israel/Palestine (June 18) Palestine, Israel and freedom of speech: striking at the heart of liberal democracies (May 18) The peace activist the Jewish News rejects (March 12) Gaza bloggers report from the ground (January 6)2008 President Bush’s legacy of torture will outlive him (December 9) What Iranian bloggers are saying about the US election (October 3) The dangers of blogging for democracy (July 3) Rudd government reignites campaign against Iranian president (May 15) Israel’s 60th birthday - what the media left out (May 8 ) Our "passionately pro Israel" PM throws compassion out the window (March 13) The Orwellian censorship of Wikileaks (February 20)2007 Neo-con Ledeen praises Howard as “arguably the greatest Western leader of the past decade” (November 28) Ali Allawi: The attempt to refashion Iraq was doomed (November 6) Courting the Jewish vote (October 25) Howard and Rudd show their love for Israel (October 2) Local Jewish leaders warn off Labor’s "anti-Israel ratbags" (September 21) Marrickville meets Bethlehem, controversy erupts (August 29) Postcard from Iran (June 20) When is a Jew not an intolerant Zionist militarist? (March 6) The debate The Oz doesn’t want to have (January 31) Will Iran be the new Iraq? (January 25) The Middle Eastern equivalent of WWII? (January 9)2006Out for Christmas: the US military's 282-page Counterinsurgency Manual (December 19) Israel nuke slip no surprise, but what about Iran? (December 14) The Iranian Holocaust Conference attracts the usual cranks (December 13) Usual suspects come out against "biased" Middle East simulations (December 11) China’s strength as a one-party state a danger to world (December 4) The danger of pretending to be Arab or Israeli (December 1) Iraq's civil war and the American response (November 30) The journalist, the spy and Vladimir Putin (November 29) Mud-slinging moratorium for NSW politicians' big night out (November 23) War and media bias in the UK (November 17) Al-Jazeera International revolution set to launch (November 14) Love-in for Robert Hughes at launch (November 6) West Papuan independence is achievable (November 1) Iraqi bloggers: letters from the inside (October 27) Can Labor win in 2007? (October 26) Under-resourced journos = under-sourced journalism (October 20) Anna Politkovskaya’s legacy (October 19) The truth about peace in the Middle East (October 10) The world mourns Anna Politkovskaya (October 9) Was the Heathrow terror "plot" a political concoction? (October 3) Edgar and Adams talk up a storm about TV (September 29) The values debate we don't have to have (September 27) Time for the media to offer the unvarnished truth (September 22) The real role of the writer: to cause offence, stir and provoke (September 18) Are the media "poisoning the well of public life"? (September 14) Young Labor Left discuss the Middle East with party's older heads (September 11) John Howard: the sanest man in the Lodge since Menzies? (September 6) The unreality of Greg Sheridan (September 4) Mark Steyn and the conservatives - a night to remember (August 16) The truth about the pro-Israel lobby's influence (July 31) What's Israel's real agenda? (July 17) Australian media wimps out on Middle East balance (April 20) Spielberg's timely plea for understanding (January 31)2005Israel: Loewenstein vs Danby (August 26)
Dawn
2008The policy on Israel (December 23)
Eureka Street
Green Left Weekly
Haaretz
Harvard University
Huffington Post
Kill Your Darlings
Mondoweiss
2012On tour: imagining “After Zionism” in Israel and Palestine (24 August)2010Israel supporters using Wikileaks to promote attack on Iran are ignoring Arab public opinion (6 December) Meeting Alan Derhshowitz in Sydney (October 3) Aslan says 2-state solution is dead, and Indyk calls him a liar (July 24)2009What it means to advocate the ‘Sri Lanka model’ for Israel/Palestine (December 10) Stories from Gaza (July 30) Hope lives in Gaza despite siege, desperation and anger (July 26) Cruel but necessary: Israeli opinions about the settlements and Obama (July 22) In Bethlehem, students are warehoused behind the wall (July 20) While the US and Israel spar over settlements, Israel continues ethnic cleansing in Jerusalem (July 19) A day in the West Bank shows ‘the soldiers are settlers but in uniform. They both symbolize the occupation' (July 19) Dirty couches, dogs without water, synagogue seats, and teenage boys with light mustaches (Loewenstein visits an outpost) (July 13) Loewenstein: Looking for God in a West Bank colony, Jews shoot me death stares (July 11) Why would anyone who can get along with Arabs want to exalt the two-state solution? (July 2) Israel’s beach in Central Park brings frenzy and protest (June 22) When it comes to Obama's Cairo speech, what matters are actions, not fine words (June 4) Salute to Israel 2009 (June 2) Loewenstein: Jews are getting the image of being afraid of debate (March 31)2007Antony Loewenstein, on racism and 'Jewish-born' critics of Zionism (April 24)
New Matilda
2013"A state of perpetual war" (22 May) Prisoner x scandal should be wake-up call for myopic Zionist establishment (18 February)2012Haiti is disaster capitalism ground zero (28 September) Australian Zionist lobby keen to brain-wash young student leaders in Israel (16 August) False lure of mining riches in Papua New Guinea (12 March)2011Exclusive: Serco hires untrained guards in Australia (November 9) Exclusive: no audit requirement for Serco in Australia (November 9) Exclusive: Australian government contract with Serco revealed (November 9) BDS isn’t akin to Nazi Germany and damn those who say so (August 25) Obama’s Middle East words as empty as air (May 25) On Murdoch smearing, the Greens and truth in the Middle East (April 4) The Greens, Palestine and defending BDS during NSW election (March 30)2010Israel's Choice Is Clear (June 1) The Jewish Diaspora Is Turning On Israel (March 31) Violence is a means and an end: an interview with Mark Danner (March 2) Getting Into Gaza (January 13)2009Is Washington's Peace Process Over? (November 13) Introducing…Miss Aceh (October 21) Can Fayyad Make A Difference? (September 25) Gaza Blockade Is Great For Al Qaeda (August 26) The View From Gaza (August 3) These are not the conditions for peace (July 16) 'If You Don't Agree With Us You're Antisemitic' (July 7) Where To Now For Jewish America? (June 24) Fear In The Lobby (May 12) Israel To Bomb Iran? Don't Believe The Hype (April 22) Time Is Running Out For Israel To Adapt (March 31) Stay Home Hillary, If That's All You Got (March 9) An Israel Of The Mind (February 19) Gaza: Where To From Here? (January 28) Israel, You've Gone Too Far (January 9)2008Obama: New Neo-Con? (December 4) So Now What? (November 12) Political Vaudeville (October 23) Besieged From the Inside? (September 29) Blogging Their Way to Freedom (September 4) Vote 1: Militant Zionism (August 12) Telling it Like it Isn't (July 22) Battle of the Brainwashed (July 3) No Such Thing as Humanitarian Intervention (June 10) Weapons of Mass Instruction (May 21) A family affair (April 29) We must engage Hamas (April 7) Iraq five years on (March 20) URL not available (February 26) An accidental war (February 6) Democracy is poison to Arabs (January 18)2007Not negotiable (December 10) The forgotten war (November 21) Iran: The Rudd delusion (October 30) Life (and death) above the law (October 9) Self-hate or glasnost? (September 18) A terror for our time (August 22) What was Blair up to? (August 8 ) Kingdom of contrasts (July 11) The hidden story (June 20) Democracy rising (June 6) Paradise Lost (May 7) The essential Al Jazeera (April 11) A New Voice for Australian Jews (March 21) Blogging and Islam (February 28) Independent Jewish voices (February 7) The Great Turnaround (January 17)2006That Old 'Saigon Feeling' (December 6) What Other Voices? (November 16) Figures Don't Lie (October 25) Silence is Complicity (October 4) Who are the Terrorists? (September 13) Questioning Israel (August 16) Who Decides What's Fit to Print? (July 19) Empire Unlimited (June 28) Citizen Journalists Arise! (June 7) Drug Companies on Trial (May 17) Who's Watching the Media? (April 26) The Roadmap to Nowhere April 5) Israel's Hidden Shame (March 15) Next Stop, Iran (March 1) A New Dawn in the Middle East? (February 15) Osama's Book Club (February 1) Ariel Sharon's War (January 18)2005A future for Israel/Palestine? (December 21) The revolution will not be televised (December 7) Toeing the line on terror (November 23) The New York Times, the CIA and Iraq (November 2) Fisk in Australia (October 19) Keeping us in the dark (October 5) Fear works (September 21) Manne overboard (September 7) The mother of all smokescreens (August 17) Our media asleep at the wheel (July 20) Democracy for our friends and dependence for our enemies (July 6) Israel's bleak future (June 22)
New Statesman
New Zealand Herald
Online Opinion
Overland
Sydney Ideas Quarterly
Sydney Morning Herald
2012What the MSM isn’t telling us about the war in Afghanistan (10 March)2011Ignore the world’s warming and pay a heavy price (10 December) The silent horrors of Sri Lanka still resonate (17 September) What US occupation looks like on the ground (30 July) The Net Delusion is alive and well (June 4)2010Western politicians prefer to ignore Israel’s inherent racism (October 28) Hungry for a kinder regime (October 16) Disaster capitalism envelops us all (October 1) How to report on a descent into African hell (July 3) Why internet censorship is a fool's game (May 13) Gaza's suffering is Israel's shame (January 6)2009Truth proves elusive in a confusing trouble spot (September 12)2008The victim recalls a war crime (November 29)2007 Beyond the green zone (December 15) Denounced, but Jewish dissent grows (February 6) Bloggers of the world, unite (January 20)2006How to spot a liar (March 18)2004Conflicts of interest (October 30) Clicking with voters (October 9) Burning Down My Masters' House (May 1) Simpson and his insane donkeys (January 24) 2003 In the line of fire (December 9) Why the War Was Wrong (December 6) The blogs of war (October 21) Defiant Israel blind to what it has become (July 3)
Sydney PEN
Sydney Sun-Herald
2012Since when did Australia protect its future through mining interests? (1 April)2011Getting inside the head of Julian Assange (20 November) A blinkered view of the war on terrorism (16 October) A man out to save young, innocent lives in Asia (2 October) This is Australia's past and future? (August 28) Australia’s future is not ignoring human rights in the region (August 21) When politicians and journalists dance incestuously (August 7)2010How Wikileaks has opened our eyes to the world (April 10) David Hicks shows us what we became after 9/11 (December 19) Mental health cure isn’t available with a pill (September 26) Underbelly of Japan (February 28)2009Right’s new radicals (November 22)2008 How occupation has corrupted Israel's soul (March 30)2007 Provocative president points finger at Israel (March 18)200651st state? (October 1) Mourning for a morally compromised US (August 6)2005 What makes a human bomb tick (September 11) Refugees' fate beyond the wire (August 14) Call to arms could signal calamity (June 12) Oppressed in their own land (May 22) God Under Howard (February 20) In praise of Soeharto the despot (February 13)2004 Questions for John Pilger (December 19) 'Democracy' at a terrible price (November 28) Herzl's Nightmare (September 26) A Certain Maritime Incident (August 29) War of words: how President Bush got it wrong (August 8 )
Tehelka
The Age
The Australian
The Australian Financial Review
The Big Issue
2006Continental Shift (June 5-20)
The Canberra Times
The Conversation
The Daily Star
The Guardian
The Nation
The National
Tikkun
Washington Post
Webdiary
2004 Sleeping lies dogging the media over Iraq (June 23) al Jazeera awakens the Arab world (June 9) The latest casualty: Webdiary's interview with Phillip Knightley (May 23) Manana journalism after Jayson Blair (May 13) Joseph Wilson: the Webdiary interview (May 5) How America's media backs Bush's war (April 28) Mordechai Vanunu: the price of truth telling (April 26) Memo for a saner world (April 19) Tools to stop them engineering your consent (April 8 ) Dumped and stateless on Manus Island (April 1) The New York Times' role in promoting war on Iraq (March 23)2003 More than two sides to Ashrawi fallout story (November 18) Real Sydney people meet Hanan Ashrawi (November 10) Ashrawi and Brandis: the great debate (November 6) The battle for minds (November 5) Love thy neighbour (October 29) The truth tramplers: Media war spin on trial (October 1) Abbott's slush fund zoo: the Western Australian connection (September 18) Who's who in Abbott's slush fund zoo (September 10) Heh, I'm more Australian than you (September 2) Bring on the real agendas (August 26) Capital punishment: Honest John goes all postmodern (August 18)