The Israel Project is a Zionist propaganda unit based in the US. They’ve recently released a TV advertisement that reminds viewers: “They [Palestinians] turn perfectly healthy children into hateful robots…” It is about as useful as telling Americans that all Israeli soldiers are baby-killers or that all Jews hate Palestinians and Arabs. Ramallah Online wants…
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Naughty Ken
London Mayor Ken Livingstone is suspended for offending a Jewish journalist: The Mayor of London has denounced government watchdogs who today punished him with a four-week suspension from office for comparing a Jewish reporter to a Nazi concentration camp guard. The Adjudication Panel for England found Ken Livingstone guilty of bringing his office into disrepute…
Helping Scooter
Lewis “Scooter” Libby is an author, patriot and friend of democracy. Well, according to a new website raising money for his legal costs, he “has been one of the unsung heroes in fighting the war on terror, working diligently and making countless contributions on some of the most critical life and death issues that our…
What is happening?
While SBS Television censors a “controversial” episode of South Park, the Justice Minister is supposedly defending the use of torture. Today’s Crikey reports: Federal Justice Minister Chris Ellison dropped a proverbial bomb at the Law Summer School in Perth yesterday during a debate on the lofty topic of the juxtaposition of anti-terrorism laws and the…
An Iraqi weeps
Iraqi blogger Treasure of Baghdad reflects on the latest violent outrage: And now, I am sad to see a country suffered from tyranny will suffer from a civil war. I am afraid that we’ll have the same fate of Lebanon. I don’t know if this civil strife will stop or continue. Even under dictatorship and…
Zaki Chehab
Zaki Chehab is a London-based journalist and author – his latest is Iraq Ablaze – and one of the finest Arab reporters in the Middle East. A Lebanese Palestinian born in a refugee camp, he is now political editor of al-Hayat and of the Arabic TV channel LBC. He has worked for the BBC, Guardian…
Finding reasons
While the issue of some US ports being run by companies from UAE continues to simmer – and Gulf News highlights one possible cause: Islamophobia – an Armenian blogger concludes the story is tragic for another reason: On October 18th, 2005, I had a meeting with someone who worked for the Department of State in…
The blind spot emerges
David Hirst, The Guardian, February 23: If the Hamas assumption of power is truly a watershed, it will be an Arab and Muslim, not just Palestinian, one. It has long been said that in so far as Arabs and Palestinians ever formally accommodated themselves to Israel it was Arab despotism, not democracy, that made it…
News bytes
– Noam Chomsky reminds a US audience that the Venezuelan government, “by sending gas for heating to poor, homeless people for free and at very low prices for those who can pay…is giving a great example of cooperation and solidarity with the people of the United States.” Furthermore, the intriguing case of Posada Carriles, ex-CIA…