The role of public intellectuals in Western society is an interesting question, especially when so few individuals dare challenge “established truths”, preferring to suck on the drip-feed of media, government or business connections. ABC Radio National broadcast in January the following event: The literary magazine, Overland recently invited [in late 2008] two public intellectuals –…
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Destroying Palestine with American help
President Barack Obama, as friendly to corporate criminals as any other leader before him: Over the objections of church groups, peace organizations and human rights activists, President Barack Obama decided to return to Illinois to visit the headquarters of the Caterpillar company, which for years has violated international law, U.S. law and its own code…
Sri Lankan crisis statement
The following statement was released in Australia today and can be signed by concerned citizens: We are Australian citizens who share a deep concern about the escalating civilian crisis in Sri Lanka. We call on the Australian government to demand the Sri Lankan authorities and the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam declare an immediate ceasefire.…
Some kind of dodgy science
Complicity in Israeli atrocities should not be tolerated, even in far away lands: Quite extraordinarily, the Science Museum in London and the Manchester Museum of Science and Industry have both been made available (on 3 and 5 March respectively) for an event called “Israel Day of Science”. The museums argue they are not sponsoring the…
Reducing the collaborator pool
That’s some Zionist victory: Palestinian intelligence agents, working for Israel in its recent “Operation Cast Lead,” were exposed and many of them captured or killed in the aftermath, U.S. officials said.
Please find us more wars
American author Jeremy Scahill discusses the future role of Blackwater, the mercenary contractors:
What all of us can do now
Dr Jake Lynch is the head of Sydney University’s Centre for Peace and Conflict Studies department. His latest column for Transcend Media Service talks about the role of the individual in challenging Israeli war crimes in the occupied territories.
What happens at the checkpoints
Israel’s Back Yard is a just released blog in English focusing on testimonies from Israel’s checkpoints in the West Bank. Written by an Israeli human rights activist, this blog has been running for over a year in Hebrew, and has been launched this week in an English version.
The logic of “liberation”
A confidential NATO report from January reveals that civilian deaths from the war in Afghanistan have increased by 46% over the past year. The 12 page report was authenticated and released today in full by the transparency group Wikileaks.