The growing global interest in the Middle East has allowed an Iranian graffiti artist such as A1one to gain prominence. He has to work covertly in the Islamic Republic but his blog provides ample examples of his fine work:
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Israel meet Iraq
US Vice President Dick Cheney issues a typically bellicose pronouncement about the “war on terror”: An ideological struggle is underway and in that struggle we can be confident we are doing the right thing. We are confronting the violence, protecting the innocent, liberating the oppressed, and aiding the rise of freedom and democracy as America…
Thanks for the oil
Welcome to Saudi Arabia, a key US ally in the Middle East (thanks to a rare report on the country by Human Rights Watch): The authorities essentially treat adult women like legal minors who are not entitled to authority over their lives and well-being. Saudi women are similarly denied the legal right to make even…
The Jew of reason
The following letter appears in this week’s Australian Jewish News: Just like the constant advances in computer technology, political events and attitudes are changing with great rapidity. A few years ago it was considered a serious sacrilege to offer even the mildest criticism of the Israeli Government. Today, the situation has changed. The publication of…
Ditching the oil addiction
As usual, the global public are far smarter than the political and media elite, according to a new study: World Publics Say Oil Needs to Be Replaced as Energy Source.
When real history isn’t accurate enough
Revealed: how the Zionist lobby attempts to rewrite history and dishonesty change entries on Wikipedia.
Defeat: Why They Lost Iraq
My following book review appeared in the Melbourne Age on April 19: On the fifth anniversary the Iraq War, The Independent’s Patrick Cockburn, the finest Western reporter in Iraq, wrote that the conflict “has been one of the most disastrous wars ever fought by Britain. It has been small but we achieved nothing . .…
Knowing your enemy too well
Israel and Hamas, like two peas in a pod (courtesy of Haaretz’s Gideon Levy.)
All hail the internet giants?
Google has been chosen as the world’s most powerful brand. (Meanwhile, Microsoft’s Chinese arm has been happily drumming up nationalistic fervour.)