“Most people don’t understand what they have been part of here,” said Command Sgt. Major Ron Kelley as he and other American troops prepared to leave Iraq in mid-December. “We have done a great thing as a nation. We freed a people and gave their country back to them.” “It is pretty exciting,” said another…
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Evidence from the horse’s mouth; Australian immigration loves to punish most vulnerable
Late last year I visited Christmas Island and Curtin detention centre in the Kimberley to investigate the role of British multinational Serco in controlling and managing asylum seekers. The picture was grim; isolation and long spells inside maximum security prisons are how we treat refugees fleeing persecution. This front page today in today’s Australian newspaper…
American drone killings leading to one thing; predictable blow-back
Washington’s drone wars against countless countries receives far too little media scrutiny (is it because the White House says they’re killing “terrorists” and clueless reporters believe it?) and… private companies are increasingly involved. Joshua Foust writes in the Atlantic that the US should be worried: The Intelligence Community (IC) as a whole has been reoriented to…
So Murdoch hacks hacked British government they increasingly opposed?
Interesting, if true (via the Independent): Police investigating computer hacking by private investigators commissioned by national newspapers have uncovered evidence that emails sent and received by Gordon Brown during his time as Chancellor were illegally accessed. Mr Brown’s private communications, along with emails belonging to a former Labour adviser and lobbyist, Derek Draper, have been…
Unaccountable companies assisting America’s drone wars
The future is here, corporations who know the US military (and other countries, too) love nothing better than finding new ways to kill “enemies” (via McClatchy Newspapers): After a U.S. airstrike mistakenly killed at least 15 Afghans in 2010, the Army officer investigating the accident was surprised to discover that an American civilian had played…
First they came for the Tweeters
There are growing signs of collusion between the Zionist lobby, fundamentalists who want the government to tell us what to hear and see and politicians such as Joe Lieberman who never saw a war against Muslims they didn’t like. Now this. It must be resisted: Twitter has been threatened with legal action by an Israeli…
Keep those Ayrabs away from Australia, they look funny
The level of “conservative” debate in Murdoch’s Australian yesterday, in a piece by Hal G.P. Colebatch. I’m sure he’s seen heaps of Muslims on the TV and knows many of them intimately: Middle Eastern migrants, except in exceptional circumstances, appear to be making little attempt to assimilate and are bringing in polygamy, honour killings and…