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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…
The power and beauty of protest in Quebec
This is no longer just about rising tuition fees and a government that loathes public protest. It’s the power of the #Occupy movement with a broad base of support. This beautiful film captures a moment:
America invaded Iraq because media backed war for patriotic reasons
It’s therefore pretty depressing seeing MSNBC host Chris Matthews talking about the glories of cable TV to challenge official power: As Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting show, it’s a constant theme of mainstream journalism that America is never the aggressor always the victim. As if.
NATO expands and vulture capitalists make a killing
Salon reports: “Optics!” hissed the NATO summit staffer. “Jesus Christ, optics!” He was right to panic. It was Sunday evening, 6 sharp, the end of the first day of the NATO summit in Chicago. A swarm of global press was gathered around the convention hall’s lone display, a slick industry-sponsored video exhibit of NATO’s ballistic…
Memo to media; still life and death in Iraq
Niqash reports: Iraqi maternity hospitals are seeing a new born trend: children given “neutral” names that don’t reveal their family’s religious or political affiliations. Because in Iraq, having the wrong name in the wrong place can still get you killed. On a Tuesday in mid-May the office at the entrance to the Salam Hospital in…