MJ Rosenberg, of the Israel Policy Forum think tank, told a conference in New York this week: The American Jewish community is not a progressive force in the country”¦ we are a regressive force on any issue that touches on Israel/Palestine”¦ Barack Obama would put through a peace deal tomorrow if it wasn’t for the…
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Going online in repressive regimes
My following talk was presented today to a full room at Harvard University’s Berkman Centre: Harvard University’s Berkman Centre for Internet and Society Luncheon Series, 25 November 2008 The Blogging Revolution: Going online in repressive regimes Antony Loewenstein Internet censorship is something that only happens in non-democratic states. Regimes that want to crush free speech…
Shifting sands of Israel/Palestine
My following talk was presented today to a full room at Harvard University: Harvard University’s Kennedy School of Government/Centre for Middle Eastern Studies ME Forum, 24 November 2008 The Shifting Sands of the Palestinian-Israeli Conflict: An Australian Perspective Antony Loewenstein Australian Labor Prime Minister Kevin Rudd, speaking in March this year at a United Israel…
Just a few more hitches on the path to freedom
Democracy is on the march in Iraq, we’re constantly told, except blogger Suadad Al-Salhy writes from inside the parliament and finds: It seems like 70% of the Iraqi MP’s have no idea what is in the [status of forces] agreement. This is clear from the complaints and criticisms that I hear when I am listening…
Crushing balls is wrong?
How so many in the Western mainstream media defend the use of torture in the “war on terror” and create euphemisms to disguise its horror.
Is she paying you for the praise?
Perhaps it would be best if actor Alex Baldwin stuck to acting: Sitting less than ten feet from Hillary Clinton at an RFK Memorial event in New York this week, I was overwhelmed by the presence and power the woman carries with her wherever she goes.
History more than repeats
Do the Western powers learn anything from history when dealing with Afghanistan? Robert Fisk answers in the only way possible.
Trying to hide the obvious
A warning to all search engines: your dealing with suspect companies will eventually become public: CCTV reported that Baidu, referred to as China’s Google, had accepted money from illegal medical companies and placed their Web links on top of search results. Baidu’s marketing employees were also reported to have the knowledge of these.The service is…
A dirty background
New York Federal Reserve president Timothy Geithner has been selected to become US Treasury Secretary amid the global financial crisis. The man’s background (largely ignored by the mainstream media here in the US, still in thrall to Obama’s “post-partisanship” postures)? Between 1986 and 1989, U.S. Treasury Secretary Designate Timothy Geithner was employed at Henry Kissinger,…