A journalist employed by Rupert Murdoch expresses his personal take on Australia’s indigenous population: “At the NT [Northern Territory] News, we don’t give a fuck about Aborigines”.…
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Good morning to fascism
Israel welcomes a fascist into its government and the world stands silently by. In many ways, this may be a positive move towards the growing international isolation of the Jewish state. Avigdor Lieberman advocates the ethnic cleansing of Palestinians and Arabs. He has demanded that Israel bomb the Aswan Dam. Many around the world will…
Failure incorporated
Afghanistan remains a failed state. Mainstream journalists are starting to openly discuss the Pakistani intelligence services’ role in the country’s instability, but Ajai Sahni in the Asia Times explains the real situation on the ground: The US-led coalition is unambiguously losing the war in Afghanistan, and it is important, at this stage, to reiterate the…
Sprouting the Friedman line
The New York Times foreign affairs commentator Thomas Friedman is a man who likes to make big statements on the world, war and the environment. He needs a reality check. Some lessons are forthcoming.
The powerful revealed
The just-released unauthorised biography of Sydney shock-jock Alan Jones, “Jonestown“, has caused the expected outrage. Conservatives are incensed that author Chris Masters has “outed” Jones – as if this wasn’t already known – and dared to examine the effect of his sexuality on his various personal dealings. Of course, most of these critics haven’t actually…
The money trail
Thoroughly tragic but predictable news from Africa: More than $380bn has either been stolen or wasted by Nigerian governments since independence in 1960, the chief corruption fighter has said. Nuhu Ribadu told the BBC that Nigeria has “nothing much” to show for the missing money. He said the worst period for corruption was the 1980s…
The roadshow continues
As I travel around the country talking about My Israel Question, Middle East politics and Zionism, my latest stop last weekend was Adelaide. The Sunday Mail reports: A heckler who ranted that the holocaust never happened failed to disrupt a lecture by journalist and author Antony Loewenstein in Adelaide yesterday. Mr Loewenstein, in town to…
And on it goes…
After nearly three months on the shelves, My Israel Question is now in its 3rd reprint and remains on many best-seller lists around the country. The latest edition comes with a booklet: The 60-page booklet features the Sydney launch speech of David Marr and the Melbourne Writer’s Festival speeches of some of Australia’s finest thinkers…