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Israel lobby friend and Murdoch man defames Arabs in a good day’s work
It can’t be easy for a Murdoch editor to find new ways to damn Palestinians but the… Herald Sun’s Alan Howe constantly comes through with the goods. Here’s his latest that proves once again that the Zionist lobby, who sends people like Howe to Israel, creates individuals who loathe Arabs even more than before they left:…
Why Zionist repression must be met with true resistance
This story, told in Mondoweiss, is precisely the reason Israel is increasingly isolated globally. Outrageous behaviour but sadly typical: I am an American citizen. I went to American schools my entire life, graduated from an American university and work as an architect in New York City. Why was this happening to me? It all started…
African speaks at pro-refugee rally in Israel
Resistance to Israel’s growing fascism is weak but at least it exists. Evidence for the prosecution:
Obama’s “kill list” and presidential power to murder at will
Washington’s drone war is increasingly exposed as a brutal weapon with countless civilian casualties. America is expanding its use. A major piece in this week’s New York Times provides chilling details of Barack Obama’s major escalation since taking office of killing “terrorists” without any judicial or independent oversight (a new book, Kill or Capture, discusses…
David Hicks speaks out, as a man who knows US torture, in support of Wikileaks
Last night in Sydney around 200 people protested outside the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade in support of Julian Assange and Wikileaks. I spoke about the importance of an organisation that deeply challenged the power elites in both politics and the media. A key speaker was David Hicks, the former innocent Guatanamo Bay detainee…
Sending Tamils back to Sri Lanka’s police state
How dare we lecture the developing world about human rights when this happens (via the Independent)?: Dozens of Tamil asylum-seekers will be forcibly removed from Britain on a secretive deportation flight today despite credible evidence that they face arrest and retribution on their return. A chartered plane, PTV030, is due to take off at 15.30…
This isn’t democracy, no matter what IMF/EU/”sensible” capitalists tell you
Slavoj Žižek in the London Review of Books highlights issues that are covered in Left Turn, namely that so-called austerity is a disaster and vulture capitalism must be resisted: Greece is not an exception. It is one of the main testing grounds for a new socio-economic model of potentially unlimited application: a depoliticised technocracy in…