John Pilger, speaking this week to a PEN meeting in London to honour the dissidents in Burma: The news is no more from Burma. The young monks are quiet in their cells, or they are dead. But words have escaped: the defiant, beautiful poetry of Aung Than and Zeya Aung; and we know of the…
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Isolating those in need
Israel’s real agenda in Gaza? Haaretz explains (despite the wishes of Zionist lobbyists in the US, who just wish those anti-Israel Haaretz journalists would keep their mouths shut and show public solidarity with the Jewish state): There is an enormous gap between the reasons Israel is giving for the decision to impose significant sanctions against…
The moment of death
In 1995, Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin was murdered by a religious, Jewish fanatic (and today, far-right Jewish groups regard Rabin’s killer as a hero.) Enhanced video of that fateful night has recently surfaced:
We know heaps about gulags
The Decider speaks: “The socialist paradise [Cuba] is a tropical gulag.” Oh, the irony. A few years ago, Amnesty head Irene Khan called Guantanamo Bay, the US base in Cuba, the “gulag of our times.” Yes, Bush believes in human rights, freedom and democracy. Shame about the over one million dead in Iraq.
How far he’s come (ie. waking up to reality)
Leading conservative American commentator Andrew Sullivan, days after September 11: The middle part of the country – the great red zone that voted for Bush – is clearly ready for war. The decadent left in its enclaves on the coasts is not dead – and may well mount a fifth column. Sullivan, today, after hearing…
I can feel a Afghan liberation coming on
As another Australian soldier is killed in Afghanistan by the Taliban, our media rarely asks the key question: what is the West doing there and is the situation improving? In fact, it is getting worse and the increasing number of civilians killed by “our” forces is causing extremism to breed. The Taliban can undoubtedly be…
Failing at the most basic tasks
Sidney Blumenthal, Salon, October 25: As [Walter] Lippmann observed almost ninety years ago, the crisis of journalism cannot be disentangled from the crisis of national government. Government and journalism now share a crisis of credibility, trust, and competence. At the least, the crisis of journalism reveals a changing standard for and definition of “objectivity.” Journalism,…
Open-source everything
An Al-Jazeera English discussion between the founders of Wikipedia and Craigslist. The future of the media?
The West/East divide
Tony Karon, Rootless Cosmopolitan, October 23: When the Zionist right in America “defends Israel” by going after one of Israel’s most respected newspapers which happens to tell the truth about the occupation and related matters, it’s not hard to see why Pipes & co. have little cause for optimism. The Zionist moment is over, because…
Courting the Jewish vote
My following article appears in today’s edition of Crikey: The fight for the Federal seat of Wentworth is between the self-appointed, Honorary Jew (Malcolm Turnbull) and the proudly Zionist, True Jew (George Newhouse.) Pitching directly at a recent Jewish Labor Forum, Newhouse told the assembled crowd that, “Malcolm’s recent discovery of the Yiddish vernacular is…