Showing all posts in June 2019

Conservative American commentator Andrew Sullivan thinks the US should “fight this war the way Americans have always fought: humanely but relentlessly, for a better, freer world.” Sullivan’s delusion rests on one false presumption: the Bush administration has sullied the good name of the US – with torture, rendition and the like – and if only…

Israel’s finest journalist, Amira Hass, explains the reality behind the Gaza “disengagement”: “The Supreme Court justice’s response to the legal claim that Israel effectively has control over the Gaza Strip contained a mocking note. This is what transpires, at all events, from a short report in the Hebrew edition of the Haaretz of December 12,…

Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice predicts that this week’s Iraqi elections will bring the most democratic government “in the entire Middle East.” Israel has been officially side-lined as an autocracy.

Shulamit Aloni, Ynet, December 13: If we thought the strategy of power and more power and still more power had come to an end, that the policy of destruction and assassination “over there” and terror attacks here in response had come to an end, if we’d hoped we’d reached the end of the systematic extra-judicial…

Following the ongoing racial violence in Sydney, something positive: Close to one hundred activists, students, ethnic community reps, Union reps and a handful of Shire locals gathered in Sydney’s University of Technology last night to discuss a unified response to the deplorable events at Cronulla last weekend. The consensus? The Unite Against Racism Rally WHEN:…

It seems like Ariel Sharon is a man of peace? Well, not quite: “Prime Minister Ariel Sharon published a special statement Tuesday night in which he totally dissociated himself from quotes in Newsweek attributed to his pollster, Kalman Gayer, in which Gayer claimed the prime minister was ready for territorial concessions. “‘The remarks attributed to…

PR Watch is conducing an annual “Falsies Awards“, those individuals and organisations that lie, misrepresent, misinform and con the public through media and government. It’s a long list.

1000 days after invasion, some facts on the Iraq war: $204.4 billion The cost to the US of the war so far. The UK’s bill up until March 2005 was …£3.1 billion2,339 Allied troops killed98 UK troops killed30,000 Estimated Iraqi civilian deaths0 Number of WMDs found8 per cent of Iraqi children suffering acute malnutrition$35,819m World…

Sydney continues to experience racial tensions: “Sydney erupted in a second night of racial violence last night as Middle Eastern mobs fired shots into the air, attacked women and smashed shops around Cronulla, while up to 600 young men – armed with guns and crowbars – prepared for a battle.” al-Jazeera wonders why: “…Tensions between…

The US President wants the world to understand that Iraqi deaths are a price worth paying for “liberation”: “U.S. President George W. Bush said on Monday about 30,000 Iraqis have been killed since the Iraq war began and predicted this week’s election will not be perfect but will be part of a Middle East turning…