The story of Lebanon’s oldest synagogue restored to its former glory, including with the backing of Hizbollah.
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Overland 200
Overland magazine is one of Australia’s finest independent journals. I contributed the lead essay in 2008 about the resource wars. The publication is progressive and proud. It has just released its 200th edition and a number of leading leftists were asked to briefly define the “Left” in 2010 and what it means to them. Here’s…
$100bn to combat climate change
As climate change now threatens a 3.5C rise by 2100, perhaps this will knock sense into people (though probably not, until Manhattan begins to suffer): The world’s most high-profile climate change sceptic is to declare that global warming is “undoubtedly one of the chief concerns facing the world today” and “a challenge humanity must confront”,…
How do you spell Palestinian complicity?
Must we suffer these tiresome articles featuring the supposedly soothing words of Palestinian Prime Minister Salam Fayyad – in office illegally, by the way – talking about his “vision” for a Palestinian state by 2011? Good luck with that, with Israeli and American aid behind you.
Finding arms deals in the strangest of places
A fascinating and murky tale of alleged arms dealer Viktor Bout who clearly was the best friend of anybody who paid, not least the US: Accused of a 15-year run as one of the world’s biggest arms traffickers, Viktor Bout is thought to be a consummate deal maker. Now his future may hang on whether…
No, Murdoch and Fox News havve nothing to do with this at all
Now who could be to blame for this “mis-understanding“? A majority of Republicans believe that President Barack Obama “sympathizes with the goals of Islamic fundamentalists who want to impose Islamic law around the world,” according to a survey released on Monday. That figure, buried at the very end of a newly released Newsweek public opinion…
Daddy, how much money have we wasted in Iraq?
Seven years in Iraq. One million deaths. Mass destruction. US liberation: The shell of a prison that will never be used rises from the desert on the edge of this dusty town north of Baghdad, a hulking monument to the wasted promise of America’s massive, $53-billion reconstruction effort in Iraq. Construction began in May 2004…
Better Tweeting ain’t gonna solve Israel’s massive image problem
This is as tragic as comical. When will the Zionist lobby realise that more “effective” PR isn’t the answer to their problems? Until Israel changes its behaviour, the label “apartheid state” will be an understatement: An Australian plan to spread good news about Israel via social media will be presented at an upcoming international Jewish…
British aid must now help those noble foreign policy goals
So does this mean that Britain, involved in countless covert and illegal conflicts across the world, will be dead keen to “aid” one side in a civil dispute or back militias against London’s “enemies”? The government is to introduce a wholesale change to Britain’s overseas aid budget by demanding that projects in the developing world…
The Right wakes to the Afghan fiasco
The day a leading Australian conservative, Tom Switzer, urged a withdrawal from Afghanistan. Bravo.