I’m proud to sign this letter: This is an open letter to Foreign Minister Kevin Rudd and Attorney-General Nicola Roxon. It calls on the Australian government to take steps to ensure Julian Assange’s human rights are protected. It will be delivered on 19 December 2011, but we encourage members of the public to sign the…
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How Fox News serves us daily a whole heap of goodness
2011 has been a Fox News year with a Muslim American President, socialism in the class room, terrorists in the White House and: Elie Wiesel, Mr Murdoch, is a Holocaust survivor but he has used his fame to care about all kinds of causes (including, according to Norman Finkelstein, exploiting groups and firms involved in…
New Libyan government shows true colours; mercenaries welcome
Sigh: As rival militias in postwar Libya wage turf wars in Tripoli and the interim government struggles to form a national army, Western mercenaries are moving in to fill the security vacuum in the oil-rich North African state. Under the circumstances, it’s not surprising that the executive bureau of the National Transitional Council, striving to…
US and Israeli backed Egyptian state thugs causing mayhem 17 December
Washington and Tel Aviv must be so proud:
John Pilger rightly salutes the vital importance of Wikileaks
DID YOU HAVE ANY IDEA? – with John PILGER from CaTV on Vimeo.
United Nations should regulate people smuggling industry?
Australian human rights organisation Project Safecom releases a timely and important press release today that won’t receive the serious consideration it deserves: “Ultimately the United Nations has no choice but to regulate the international informal travel broker industry in order to minimise deaths at sea and in order to separate fly-by-night opportunistic profiteers from the…
We leave Iraq a ruined nation
After America withdraws most of its troops, the New York Times, a key paper that backed the invasion in 2003, editorialised yesterday and sounded contrite (a little, though no mention of the mainstream media’s drum-boat towards the conflict): America’s reputation has yet to fully recover from the horrors of Abu Ghraib. The country is still…
If this is Bradley Manning’s big opponent, he sounds like he’s on the US payroll
The accused Wikileaks leader Bradley Manning faces his first day in court today in the US. Expect the prosecution to claim he’s the devil incarnite. In fact, he’s a bloody hero who should be celebrated for bravely speaking out against countless American crimes. And then there’s this slimy guy, Adrian Lamo. Seriously, he sounds like…
American Dream comes crashing down
This is the country we’re supposed to admire? Squeezed by rising living costs, a record number of Americans — nearly 1 in 2 — have fallen into poverty or are scraping by on earnings that classify them as low income. The latest census data depict a middle class that’s shrinking as unemployment stays high and…