Barack Obama is the new US President and the global media has not been shy in praising his history-changing election. Alas, race relations remain woeful in America, not least in New York:
Showing all posts in June 2019
Who killed the blogosphere?
Is independent blogging really on its last legs, being subsumed by mainstream and corportaised versions of the medium?
Moving towards some kind of balance
How could anybody complain about this necessary, though minor, shift? Australia has switched its position to vote against Israel on two resolutions at the United Nations, ending the Howard government’s unswerving alignment with the United States and raising concern from the Jewish community. The move also signals to the incoming Obama administration that the Rudd…
Since when is stupidity a positive?
When will the US anti-intellectual intellectuals – supposed conservatives, many of whom are radical Zionists, who praise the “working class” yet live in self-absorded bubbles – face a reckoning for years of supporting a culture war that shuns nuance and celebrates militarism and simplicity? Not a moment too soon. As for Jews in this sordid…
Government uploads hypocrisy with internet censorship
My following article appears in today’s Melbourne Age: Before this year’s Beijing Olympic Games, Prime Minister Kevin Rudd chastised the Chinese authorities for blocking full access to the internet for the assembled world media: “My attitude to our friends in China is very simple”, he said. “They should have nothing to fear by open digital…
Why blog?
Australian blogger Amy Bradney-George on the ever-increasing importance of blogging in our media landscape: A few years back, around the beginning of 2006, I began reading blogs by friends and family as a way of keeping in touch with them. From there I realised how many people across the world are actually utilising this form…
Friendship isn’t enough
Why we have to hope that Barack Obama will not be a “friend of Israel.” Instead, as former Haaretz editor David Landau said, the Jewish state needs to be “raped” by America to achieve any semblance of peace with the Palestinians.
The “terrorists” speak
The Hamas leader in Gaza, Ismail Haniyeh, said on Saturday his government was willing to accept a Palestinian state within the 1967 borders.
