I was asked by Green Left Weekly for my book of 2012: Antony Loewenstein Journalist, author, documentarian The Silenced Majority: Stories of Uprisings, Occupation, Resistance and Hope By Amy Goodman and Denis Moynihan The corporate media’s reach into our lives can sometimes feel suffocating, with the same voices telling us that globalisation is good for…
Tale of principled Sydney University academic on Palestine and BDS
The following story appeared in Rupert Murdoch’s Australian newspaper yesterday on its front page: The Sydney University’s Centre for Peace and Conflict Studies, which has thrown its support behind controversial Palestinian leaders, has cited its boycott of Israel for refusing to help an Israeli civics teacher who has designed programs for both Jewish and Arab…
Kim Kardashian loves autocratic Bahrain
The “star” recently travelled to Bahrain on a nice junket to promote…milkshakes: Anybody with a brain or eyes knows that Bahrain is a brutal, US-backed dictatorship. Marc Lynch in Foreign Policy writes: Kim Kardashian’s December 1 trip to Bahrain to promote milkshakes brought all the Middle East tweeps to the yard. Her visit attracted both…
3CR interview on Palestine/Israel and international justice
I was interviewed this week by 3CR’s Different, Like Us radio program about the recent UN vote on Palestine and the possibility of taking Israel to the International Criminal Court:
My Q&A with Federal Senators about Australia’s future in Afghanistan
On 4 December I went to Canberra to give testimony at the Foreign Affairs, Defence and Trade References Committee on Australia’s overseas development programs in Afghanistan (here’s my opening statement with links). The following transcript is the Hansard record of my statement and questions from the Senators… (they were Greens MP Lee Rhiannon, Liberal MP Helen…
The death of the two-state solution is live on TV every day
A fascinating Empire on Al-Jazeera English with Rashid Khalidi, Tony Karon, Ethan Bronner and Peter Beinart. Liberal Zionists can only issue platitudes towards a “peace process”. A blind man sees that a just partition of the land is over. What comes next? That’s the conversation that needs to happen now, not rehashing failed policies of…
Assange: “The internet is a threat to human civilisation”
Here’s an extract from the new book by Julian Assange and friends called Cypherpunks. Buy a copy: This book is not a manifesto. There is not time for that. This book is a warning. The world is not sliding, but galloping into a new transnational dystopia. This development has not been properly recognized outside of…
My evidence at the Senate committee on Australia’s overseas development programs in Afghanistan
On 4 December I gave testimony in Parliament House in Canberra at a Senate committee on Australia’s role and responsibilities in Afghanistan after the vast bulk of Western forces leave in 2014. I submitted a short statement to the committee back in September and was then invited to travel to Canberra for a more thorough…