Interesting development in Britain (via the Guardian) that shows deep concern with the companies both major sides of politics increasingly believe should run the country: Home Office ministers have ordered weekly reports on the progress of two new contracts with the private security companies… G4S… and… Serco… to house and provide support services for thousands of asylum seekers and…
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Yet another way Israel’s Better Place seduces foolish greenies
Israeli electric car company Better Place is rightly challenged by activists as being part of Brand Israel. Its human rights record is troubling. Here’s the latest example (via Electronic Intifada) of how these facts are routinely ignored in the name of being green and embracing “start-up Israel”: An Israeli company that builds infrastructure for the…
The aid economy that fuels Haiti’s misery
I’m currently in Haiti working on my book about disaster capitalism and a documentary with New York film-maker Thor Neureiter. It’ll be a global picture to show how privatisation and outsourcing, in the military, aid, intelligence, detention centres and mineral exploitation businesses, are creating a world of even greater disparity. Cholera remains a massive issue…
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Desmond Tutu rightly calls for Bush and Blair to be brought before The Hague over Iraq war
Legendary South African figure Desmond Tutu pulled out of speaking alongside Tony Blair recently due to the former British Prime Minister’s criminal record in Iraq. Now, writing in the UK Observer, Tutu expands the argument. Everybody in the mainstream media, who still fawn before Tony Blair, take note: If leaders may lie, then who should…
Curious, conflicted but important WPost piece on Israeli nuclear weapons
This piece by the Washington Post Ombudsman Patrick Pexton is an important intervention in an issue that receives virtually no mainstream debate. His final paragraph, where he outs his true position and takes the predictable Zionist view that is vital if you want to survive in a corporate publication, is revealing and rather depressing: I…
Australian Zionists fear Israeli group Breaking the Silence and its message on IDF immorality
This is an instructive story of how mainstream Australian Jewish groups are petrified that a) the public will hear critical and truthful views about Israeli behaviour in the West Bank and b) a desire to “protect” Jews from even understanding what Israeli occupation means. A feature appeared in The Age and Sydney Morning Herald last…
Why we need to start imagining today what comes “After Zionism”
My co-editor on the new book, After Zionism, Ahmed Moor, writes in The National: I recently had the opportunity to participate in a panel discussion on Palestine and Israel at the Frontline Club in London. About a hundred people packed into the intimately sized meeting hall to join in the conversation about the one-state solution.…
Rwanda is the “Israel of Africa”?
Perhaps s0me people see this comparison as a compliment as opposed to idealising a nation that discriminates based on race and religion. Here’s Metro interviewing Rwandan President Paul Kagame: Metro: Rwanda has been described as the “Israel of Africa.” What similarities do you see between the two? And what lessons can you learn from Israel,…