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New poll finds most Americans not keen on being droned to death
Satirist… Andy Borowitz has the exclusive results in the New Yorker: In a possible setback for the Administration’s controversial drone policy, a new poll conducted by the University of Minnesota shows that a broad majority of Americans are opposed to being killed by a drone strike on U.S. soil. The poll, which has a margin of…
Al-Jazeera tackles the question: on the road to Israeli apartheid?
After Israel introduces apartheid-style, separate buses in the West Bank for Palestinians, Al-Jazeera features a discussion about this worrying yet unsurprising development:
Hating Arabs is Netanyahu’s gift to Israelis
Gideon Levy in Haaretz: Benjamin Netanyahu’s children attacked an Arab cleaning man on the seaside promenade in Tel Aviv and caused him serious injuries. They attacked an Arab waiter in a Tel Aviv restaurant with chairs and their fists. They attacked an Arab from Upper Nazareth at the shore of Lake Kinneret because they heard…
Wikileaks helps expose US-backed torture and death squads in Iraq
A cracking report that reveals the depravity of the US and Western mission in Iraq. And let’s not forget that Wikileaks provided the initial impetus to investigate: The Pentagon sent a US veteran of the “dirty wars” in Central America to oversee sectarian police commando units in… Iraq… that set up secret detention and… torture… centres to get information…
Max Brenner soon to open at leading Australian university?
Max Brenner is a chocolate shop that deserves all the protests it receives, namely because it supports the Israeli military. Here’s the latest development in Australia in a story by Ammy Singh in Tharunka newspaper from the University of NSW: The probable opening of a Max Brenner chocolate store at UNSW this year has prompted…
What resistance in Bougainville, PNG means
The resource curse has hit Papua New Guinea more than many other countries in the world. Massive mineral and energy wealth is largely squandered by a corrupt government and Western multinationals. It’s an issue I’ve investigated in my forthcoming book and documentary about disaster capitalism. There’s a great website by Dr Kristian Lasslett that details…
10 years on, Iraq is broken
Patrick Cockburn, one of the finest mainstream journalists around, writes for the UK Independent… from Iraq about the state of the nation we invaded and occupied in 2003: Iraq is disintegrating as a… country under the pressure of a mounting political, social and economic crisis, say Iraqi leaders. They add that 10 years after the US…
Israel introduces Palestinian only buses aka apartheid
The kind of news that shouldn’t surprise anybody. Apartheid has been a feature of Israeli rule in Palestine for decades. Just further evidence (via Ynet): The Transportation Ministry announced that starting Sunday it will begin operating designated lines for Palestinians in the… West Bank. The bus lines in question are meant, according to the ministry, to…
Sins of the Vatican
There’s a remarkable documentary by US Oscar-winning film-maker Alex Gibney called Mea Maxima Culpa: In the House of God. It’s about the role of the Catholic Church in America and globally in hiding sexual abuse for decades. Nobody is spared, and rightly so. Testimony is given by deaf men who were assaulted as boys. Their…