Oh my: The lifting of the blockade on the Gaza Strip and permission for Palestinians to leave the Gaza Strip freely through Israeli border crossings. These are the unequivocal demands that President Barack Obama is expected to make during his meeting with Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu in the White House in two weeks. If anyone…
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America can never progress in Afghanistan without leaving
Patrick Cockburn, The Independent, 27 June: General David Petraeus is taking command in Afghanistan to stage-manage a war that the US has decided it cannot win militarily, but from which it cannot withdraw without damaging loss of face. General Petraeus has so far said surprisingly little about Afghanistan, aside from noting how different it is…
A hug and cuddle with Tzipi Livni
This is how the New York Times interviews Israel’s “opposition” leader Tzipi Livni. Soft-ball questions, nothing about the occupation or the real human rights crisis in Gaza or fundamentalist Jewish settlers. Of course not, she’s one of us, remember? The Israeli security cabinet just voted to ease the three-year blockade on Gaza, in the wake…
Midnight on the Mavi Marmara
Norman Finkelstein’s last book, This Time We Went Too Far, is published by new figure on the scene. OR Books. Now, in late July, comes a new title, Midnight on the Mavi Marmara:
Jon Stewart on what journalists should be asking
And it’s not pissing off the US military and missing “access”: The Daily Show With Jon Stewart Mon – Thurs 11p / 10c McChrystal’s Balls – Honorable Discharge www.thedailyshow.com Daily Show Full Episodes Political Humor Tea Party
Reporters must back war, demands Murdoch man
Some journalists, especially in the Murdoch press, see themselves as backers of wars that are invariably “noble”, “important”, “vital” and “about freedom”. So here’s Fox News’ Geraldo Rivera hammering Michael Hastings after his article on Stanley McChrystal: While guesting on The O’Reilly Factor tonight, Geraldo Rivera compared writer Michael Hastings (whose article in Rolling Stone…
Paying compensation to all Afghans
Democracy Now! interviews three US soldiers who have fought in Iraq and Afghanistan and now returned to be campaigning vigorously against them. The interview takes place at the US Social Forum, an event that received very little mainstream coverage: VICTOR AGOSTO: Well, I think General Petraeus will be less critical of the Obama administration’s plan…
Just in case we were worried about Tel Aviv and Washington sharing straws
This headline in Foreign Policy’s The Cable says it all: U.S.-Israel mend fences amid threat of looming U.N. action
Julia Gillard will serve our agendas fine, say Washington and Tel Aviv interests
The elevation of Julia Gillard to position of Australia’s new Prime Minister has been welcomed, indeed blessed, by both the Zionist and American lobbies. Gillard can certainly be relied upon to follow her predecessor’s attitude towards the Jewish state and Washington, namely that independent thought is frowned upon and obedience is the necessary Australian way.…
British unions at the forefront of moves to isolate Israel
The recent news that Britain’s largest union, Unite, agreed to boycott Israeli companies was clearly the beginning of something far bigger: One of Britain’s largest trade unions passed a motion at its annual conference in Bournemouth last week accusing Israel of lying over the Gaza flotilla incident and has called for a complete boycott of…