Salon’s Glenn Greenwald provides direction: The Rules of American Justice are quite clear: (1)… If you are a high-ranking government official who commits war crimes, you will receive full-scale immunity, both civil and criminal, and will have the American President demand that all citizens Look Forward, Not Backward. (2)… If you are a low-ranking member of the…
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While Israel and its Western lobbyists push for war against Iran, some history
Robert Fisk explains (and mainstream journalists, including on ABC Radio’s AM this morning, who continually repeat White House and Tel Aviv propaganda against Tehran, should take note): Turning round a story is one of the most difficult tasks in journalism – and rarely more so than in the case of Iran. Iran, the dark revolutionary…
2011 was a year to remember
2011 In Review: Nation Shocked To Find Out Elizabeth Taylor Wasn’t Already Dead
Do Neo-Nazis have the right to free speech in Australia? (hint: yes)
This morning I was interviewed on Radio Adelaide about the limits (if any) of free speech in Australia: It’s festival season, the Fringe, Adelaide Festival, WOMAD – and we’re all picking out which events we’ll go to – but what about the neo-Nazi aligned Hammered festival? It’s to be held in Queensland– unsurprisingly it will…
Al Jazeera’s Listening Post on Western murder of Iranian nuclear scientists
The recent murder of an Iranian nuclear scientist by (probably) Israel or America was a huge international story but most of the Western media coverage refused to call the killing by its rightful name, murder. I was asked by Al Jazeera’s The Listening Post to comment about this press issue (my comment appears around 8:53):
Who is truly investigating Wikileaks (and why we have the right to know)
Because we need to put a serious check on out of control executive and corporate power (via the New York Times): This much is known: In its hunt for information about three people it believes to be associated with the whistle-blower site WikiLeaks, the Justice Department has sought to extract details about them and their…
Would Iraq, still under Saddam, have embraced the Arab Spring?
With over one million Iraqis dead and millions displaced since the 2003 invasion, it’s a fascinating question asked in Foreign Policy… (though the idea of US military intervention is hardly an answer to anything, as history always shows): In a tumultuous year that witnessed the fall of Arab tyrants and the U.S. withdrawal from Iraq, proponents…