Adam Shatz in the London Review of Books: The ceasefire agreed by Israel and Hamas in Cairo after eight days of fighting is merely a pause in the Israel-Palestine conflict. It promises to ease movement at all border crossings with the Gaza Strip, but will not lift the blockade. It requires Israel to end its…
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Disaster capitalism alive and well in USA
Via the Guardian: It’s almost as if… Rahm Emanuel… was lifting a page from… Naomi Klein’s Shock Doctrine… – as if he was reading her account of Milton Friedman’s “Chicago Boys” as a cookbook recipe, rather than as the ominous episode that it was.… In record time, Emanuel successfully exploited the fact that Chicago will host the upcoming… G8… and… Nato… summit meetings to…
Thank you developing world for allowing us to exploit you so quietly
If this doesn’t fit the definition of disaster capitalism, the term has no meaning (via the Guardian): The scale of the rush by speculators, pension funds and global agri-businesses to acquire large areas of developing countries is far greater than previously thought, and is already leading to conflict, hunger and human rights abuses, says Oxfam.…
What Breivik’s manifesto tells us about his hatred of our way of life
Jeff Sharlet is the American author of the bestselling book The Family and expert on Christian fundamentalism in the US. He speaks on Democracy Now! about the massacre in Norway and the details of killer Anders Behring Breivik’s manifesto largely ignored by the corporate media: AMY GOODMAN: What were you most shocked by, Jeff Sharlet,…
What will it take for the love affair with Israel to cool?
With Israel under intense pressure to wind back its colonial project, the role of dissident Jews is vital, to make the wider community knows that we don’t support the actions of the Jewish state. Jews don’t speak with one voice. It’s important, therefore, that the mainstream media is noticing. Take this piece in today’s Sydney…
The oil is running out, part 8621
Naomi Klein, author of Shock Doctrine, appears on Fox News to discuss the role of energy security (and aptly deals with two typically clueless Murdoch hacks)
Complicit in silence
My following article appeared in yesterday’s Guardian Comment is Free section: During the current Israeli siege of Gaza – correctly described by Saree Makdisi as “strangulation”, Israel’s ambassador to Australia issued a plea for understanding the Jewish state’s position. The ambassador, Yuval Rotem, argued that, “the people of Gaza are not the enemy”. He also…
The more wars the better
In case anybody still believes that Hillary Clinton would seriously alter the incestuous relationship between government and companies for whom 9/11 has been wonderful business, read on: Just days after the sixth anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks, Hillary Clinton and several Democratic lawmakers will be getting uncomfortably cozy with moneyed interests who have stood…
Israel is running out of time
Gabriel Kolko, Anti-war.com, March 17: The United States has given Israel $51.3 billion in military grants since 1949, most of it after 1974 – more than any other country in the post-1945 era. Israel has also received $11.2 billion in loans for military equipment, plus $31 billion in economic grants, not to mention loan guarantees…