The George W. Bush library and think-tank. Really.
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Tell me it’s not true!
Murdoch’s Australian scoops the nation with this “news” item: John Howard and his wife, Janette, walked barefoot in the sand in fading light on Broome’s Cable Beach yesterday after the Prime Minister’s VIP plane dropped the pair off on the way home from The Philippines. Broome, in northwest Western Australia, is a long way from…
Money well spent
Thank God the Iraq war has been successful for the US because the total cost is so insignificant. $1.2 trillion and counting.
Getting out of the hole
My latest New Matilda column discusses the war in Iraq, the influence of the Zionist lobby and the new direction of the conflict: Many Jewish organisations supported the decision to invade Iraq in the misguided belief that a regional enemy of Israel would be obliterated. A number of Zionist groups still back the occupation, and…
Walking into hell
As the Arab world begins a new conversation both with itself and the world via blogs – perspectives that are routinely ignored by our mainstream press, as if only extremists represent the Arab “street” – former Iranian President Mohammad Khatami warns the American people that the Bush administration’s insistence on further entrenching the Iraqi occupation…
West Bank apartheid
Israel’s status as an apartheid state is confirmed yet again with the emergence of the following video showing Israeli settlers in Hebron abusing a Palestinian family living in a cage (full story here):
Western-sponsored death
Ilan Pappe, The Electronic Intifada, January 11: On this stage, not so long ago, I claimed that Israel is conducting genocidal policies in the Gaza Strip. I hesitated a lot before using this very charged term and yet decided to adopt it. Indeed, the responses I received, including from some leading human rights activists, indicated…
A man’s man
“Japanese Foreign Minister Taro Aso, front centre, poses with Bulgaria’s sumo wrestlers during the opening ceremony of a donation to Bulgarian Sumo Federaton, in the Bulgarian capital Sofia, Thursday”:
Attack Iran
Leading investigative journalist Seymour Hersh has made a career out of quoting unnamed sources, though he remains one of the great, living Western reporters. The editor-in-chief of the Arab Times has published a report that is hopefully woefully inaccurate: Washington will launch a military strike on Iran before April 2007, say sources. The attack will…
For the defence
An interesting use of YouTube here, as a defence attorney explains his role in representing a detainee at Guantanamo Bay: