Murdoch’s Australian desperately tries to spin the importance of John Howard’s recent trip to Washington: John Howard’s trip to the US, Canada and Ireland, which has already achieved substantive benefits for Australia and the world, demonstrates this. But even more importantly, the trip has shown just how far Australia has come in the past 20…
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Sticking with the big boys
Iraqi “democracy” isn’t really going as planned: The US-backed Iraqi government sent an official representative to this week’s meeting of the Arab League Boycott Office in Damascus, The Jerusalem Post has learned, prompting criticism from members of Congress and the Bush administration. Liaison officers from 14 countries met for four days this week to discuss…
A shining light
US Zionist lobbyists AIPAC are notorious for flexing their intimidatory muscles towards any politician who dares challenge “accepted” Middle East policy. Now, one Congresswoman is fighting back. Michael Massing explains: The letter below was sent by Representative Betty McCollum, a Democrat from Minnesota, to the executive director of AIPAC. The bill mentioned, H.R. 4681, the…
Drug companies on trial
My latest New Matilda column is about Western multinational drug companies exploiting those in the developing world: Globalisation has brought undoubted benefits to multinational drug companies. New and emerging markets have allowed a wider range of test subjects, many of whom are illiterate and desperate for money. A generally unregulated environment means companies can get…
Chew on this
The US food lobby isn’t happy with Eric Schlosser: As “Fast Food Nation” a fictionalized movie based on Eric Schlosser’s book, is set to have its premiere at the Cannes Film Festival tomorrow, an array of U.S. food companies are sharpening a campaign to rebut the allegations in the film and a new book that…
The waiting game
A British academic takes an important stand against Israel: A British professor has refused a request to write an article for an academic journal funded by Israeli universities. Professor Richard Seaford, from the University of Exeter in England, refused to write the article, saying he was taking part in the academic boycott of Israel. “Alas,…
Being gay
The State Department recently released its annual list of gay-hating nations: 1) Uganda 2) Iran 3) Egypt 4) Saudi Arabia 5) Nigeria 6) United Arab Emirates 7) Cameroon 8) Poland 9) Nepal 10) India Homophobic violence is on the rise in many nations, not least in Poland. The story of Krystian Legierski, a Polish-born black…
She’s baaack
Judith Miller – former New York Times reporter, WMD propagandist and Chalabi friend – returns (part two is here.) Writing about WMD. For the Wall Street Journal. Which of the following words does the WSJ not understand? Disgraced journalist who pushed WMD fantasies over Iraq has no credibility. At all.
The “moral” state
Yossi Melman, Haaretz, May 17: Amir Peretz thinks of himself as a “social” defense minister. As someone who comes from the civilian world, he has an opportunity to also be a moral defense minister – not only in his approach toward the Palestinians, but also in the way the defense ministry affects foreign policy. I…
A leader among men
Gay journalist Michelangelo Signorile explains the agenda of recently deceased New York Times “legend”, A.M.Rosenthal: Rosenthal, who attacks anti-Semitism in the media, never realized that the way he was treating the AIDS epidemic wasn’t much different from the way that news organizations treated the Holocaust early on. More on the homophobic, Reagan-loving, death-squad excusing Rosenthal…