Israel using excessive force and abusing civilians? Just another day on the job: Israel Defense Forces soldiers used excessive force while taking over a Gaza-bound aid ship organized by Jewish and Israeli activists,… the boat’s passengers… said Tuesday, countering the military’s official version claiming that the takeover had been uneventful. Earlier Tuesday the IDF reported that Israeli…
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Hoder sees the darkest side of Ahmadinejad’s brutality
The outrage of imprisoning Iranian blogger Hossein Derakhshan for 19.5 years, the longest sentence ever given for anybody in his position. A profoundly insecure and undemocratic regime has shamed itself before the world.
The real cost of outsourcing asylum seeker care is more pain
How unsurprising. Shocking cases of mistreatment in Britain’s detention system, most of which are run by private companies, such as Serco. But let’s not have a robust debate about whether multinationals should be managing people coming from torture and trauma: Millions of pounds in compensation is being paid to migrants who have been traumatised after…
Your friendly financial institution assists killers
Did you know that one of Australia’s major banks, ANZ, is funding companies that make cluster bombs?
Mental health cure isn’t available with a pill
My following book review appeared in yesterday’s Sydney Sun Herald: Crazy Like Us Ethan Watters Scribe, $35 About one in five adult Australians will experience mental illness at some point. In the US, about 27 per cent of people aged 18 and older suffer from a mental disorder each year. These are startling figures that…
The Sri Lankan Mark Regev steps right up
Welcoming (some) Tamils to Australia and Colombo’s Israel-style Canberra ambassador (aka the least credible man this side of Mark Regev’s identical brother):
Hold Western military powers to account (and the Hague beckons)
The message is clear; Western powers can’t be exempt from thorough examinations of their war crimes. Hardly a revolutionary idea and yet such plans are virtually absent from “polite” discussions: A United Nations investigation into alleged war crimes in Afghanistan should be launched to identify and prosecute individuals responsible, says a former top-ranking UN official…
Times are changing for the best; Zionist bigotry is simply not tolerated
The only way to mark Harvard’s shameful honouring of racist Zionist Marty Peretz is protest loudly. But of course, Zionists can’t be racist, right?
The mainstreaming of Sinhalese fascism
The shameful lies of Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapaksa to the United Nations General Assembly… on September 23: No nation on earth can wish Sri Lanka’s Tamil community more good fortune than Sri Lanka itself. The truth is far uglier.
Finally, some light on Serco but so much more needed
At last, some coverage in the Australian media about Serco, the British multinational running the country’s detention centres. It doesn’t offer much new – and there is a desperate need for a thorough examination of the real relationship between Serco and the government – so more, please: On Monday before the 36-year-old Fijian Josefa Rauluni…