On the massacre in Houla, Syria

Strong piece by Jon Lee Anderson in the New Yorker: Sooner or later, every armed conflict in which victory is determined by control of the civilian population—as opposed to, say, physical territory—has its My Lai, its Srebrenica, its Sabra and Shatila. And Syria’s civil war (because that, in the end, is what it is) now…

People of PNG question whether LNG boom will help them

This is the key question for poor nations with resource wealth. Beyond all the energy company rhetoric and government spin, how do average people benefit? This report, in today’s Sydney Morning Herald, asks the same kind of questions I discussed recently with Green Left Weekly: A failure to work with the community could undermine the…

Talking about war without celebrating war

It’s a tough call on mainstream, corporate TV. And so rare. This segment, Up With Chris Hayes on MSNBC, is an interesting attempt. Even talking about the immorality of US-led wars is a concept almost absent from so-called polite debate: Visit msnbc.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economy

Mining and gas company vandalism in Papua New Guinea

My following interview appears in this week’s Green Left Weekly: Independent journalist and author… Antony Loewenstein… visited Papua New Guinea in January and February as part of his research for an upcoming book and documentary about disaster capitalism and privatisation. He spoke to… Green Left Weekly‘s… Ash Pemberton… about the influence of the resource industry in PNG, its links with…

Trusting Woodside is a fool’s game

The struggle over James Price Point in Western Australia is a key issue of our time. I visited there in late 2011 and reported about the forces against Woodside and the government to protect the pristine environment from destruction. The battle over natural resources will only increase during this century. This recent piece in the…

What Gitmo did to one man

The horror and outrage of Guantanamo Bay continues to this day. A legal and moral black hole sanctioned by the highest levels of the US government. No justice. No mercy. This New York Times feature on just one man, innocent and never charged, shows how America has become a country that proudly shuns international law.…

Another day and yet more evidence that Serco thrives through failure

The Guardian investigates: A leading private health company, poised to win much of the new wave of… NHSoutsourcing contracts, is under investigation for allegedly providing an “unsafe” out-of-hours GP service, and over claims that it manipulated results where it failed to meet targets. Serco, which runs a large range of outsourced services for the government and…

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