Fascinating and disturbing story by Haggai Matar in +972: The Israeli blogger ”˜Eishton”˜ has been questioned by civilian and military police in an attempt to make him reveal a whistleblower who supplied him with unclassified military documents. His interrogation has attracted media attention to the anonymous blogger and his writing. Eishton (a combination of the…
ABC Radio National on pop culture in 2012
What a relief to be able to speak on ABC Radio National’s Common Knowledge about my popular culture highlights of 2012 that include Breaking Bad, #Destroythejoint and Louis Theroux:
The trauma suffered by an American drone operator
The life of an American drone pilot is rarely examined. This story in Der Spiegel… reveals the human cost of America’s supposedly clean war (oh, apart from the countless civilians murdered): A soldier sets out to graduate at the top of his class. He succeeds, and he becomes a drone pilot working with a special unit…
Alternative Australian government blindly endorses occupying Israel
Liberal opposition leader Tony Abbott has recently been in London attending the… Australia-Israel-UK Leadership Forum. Unsurprisingly, the Australian media has mostly ignored the event – I mean, hell, why would they want to cover how the Zionist lobby works to enforce a fundamentalist position on Israel/Palestine? – so today’s front page story in Murdoch’s Australian… shows just…
South Africa’s ANC embraces Israel boycott in official policy
Big and welcome news (via Electronic Intifada): For the first time ever, the… African National Congress… (ANC), the ruling party in… South Africa, today made the Palestinian call for… boycott, divestment and sanctions… on Israel part of its official policy. Mbuyiseni Ndlozi of… BDS South Africa… said the decision “by the ANC’s National Conference, its highest decision making body, is by far…
How Murdoch and his cabal corrupts democracy part 974224
One of the team behind the Watergate story, Carl Bernstein, unloads: So now we have it: what appears to be hard, irrefutable evidence of… Rupert Murdoch‘s ultimate and most audacious attempt – thwarted, thankfully, by circumstance – to hijack America’s democratic institutions on a scale equal to his success in kidnapping and corrupting the essential democratic…
Leading American Zionist worries about end of Jewish state
Jeffrey Goldberg (see here for his glorious record of loving American/Israeli-led wars) is one of America’s most read Zionists with access to Barack Obama. That supposedly makes you important in establishment media land when it really means you’re a water carrier for war-friendly policies (especially over Iran). Having said all that, Goldberg has expressed increasing…
In conversation with evocative photographer Teru Kuwayama
Australian clothing brand Saxony recently invited American photographer… Teru Kuwayama to Australia. He’s spent much of the last decade documenting life and war in Pakistan, Afghanistan and Kashmir: I spent time with Kuwayama in Sydney and he is a humane man who has seen the reality of catastrophic Western policies in countries that need more than…
How the Australian Zionist lobby corrupts political process (and politicians and reporters join in)
It’s nearly Christmas and that must mean yet another year of the Australia-Israel-UK Leadership Forum. The Australian media has virtually ignored the whole thing because they’re a) lazy b) not curious and c) clueless how to write about the shamelessness of witnessing so many politicians pall around with pro-occupation Israeli figures. These are the same…