Warning to families throughout the Middle East: beware stray bullets fired in celebration.
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Journalistic drivel inc.
Which mainstream media outlet could really do better than this? Hailed by media critics as the fluffiest, most toothless, and softest-hitting coverage of the presidential candidate to date, a story in this week’s Time magazine is being called the definitive Barack Obama puff piece. “No news publication has dared to barely scratch the surface like…
The oil is running out, part 8621
Naomi Klein, author of Shock Doctrine, appears on Fox News to discuss the role of energy security (and aptly deals with two typically clueless Murdoch hacks)
Welcome to the new America
New Yorker journalist and author Jane Mayer, Democracy Now!, July 18: Well, as we all know, September 11th was a sea change. Everybody says everything changed after that. And it did, but I think one of the most important changes that the country hasn’t really thought about is America became a country that, for the…
Communist Party enforcement
David Bandurski, Far Eastern Economic Review, July: They have been called the “Fifty Cent Party,” the “red vests” and the “red vanguard.” But China’s growing armies of Web commentators—instigated, trained and financed by party organizations—have just one mission: to safeguard the interests of the Communist Party by infiltrating and policing a rapidly growing Chinese Internet.…
War criminals dine together in style
A leading American Zionist lobby recently shamed itself by celebrating a criminal and a thug: The American Jewish Committee honored Colombian President Alvaro Uribe last night with its Light unto the Nations Award. “President Uribe is a staunch ally of the United States, a good friend of Israel and the Jewish people, and is a…
Jews on Jews
My following article appears in Online Opinion: The 60th anniversary of Israel’s birth saw a flurry of praise by the worldwide Zionist community. The Australian Jewish News editorialised that “Jews all over the world feel Israel is the most special place on earth”. Furthermore, “the Israeli Defence Forces are the envy of the world ”¦…
The super-power of losers
America, land of the free…and third world statistics: The United States of America is becoming less united by the day. A 30-year gap now exists in the average life expectancy between Mississippi, in the Deep South, and Connecticut, in prosperous New England. Huge disparities have also opened up in income, health and education depending on…