The following review appears in this month’s edition: Left Turn: Political Essays for the New Left Edited by Antony Loewenstein and Jeff Sparrow Melbourne University Publishing $27.99 Left Turn, according to editors Antony Loewenstein and Jeff Sparrow, aims to, “argue for positions that don’t often get heard in Australian public life.” The book gives a…
The Wire on Palestinian hunger-striker Mahmoud Sarsak
Growing numbers of Palestinians are going on hunger-strikes to protest their inhumane treatment and incarceration by Israel. I was interviewed by The Wire on one particular case, footballer Mahmoud Sarsak, and the struggle for Palestinian rights in general:
ABC Triple J Hack on Syria, social media and not trusting what we see
The conflict in Syria continues to worsen. I was interviewed on Wednesday’s ABC Triple J Hack program about the role of social media, especially related to the war zone: Children being placed on tanks and used as human shields, that’s happening in Syria according to the United Nations. With the viral nature of social media…
Fanatical Zionist group in US calls for Obama to bomb Iran
The Emergency Committee for Israel once again shows that it’s keen to define Judaism and Zionism solely being about unleashing war:
America’s drone war is both counter-productive and brutal
My following article appears in Lebanon’s Al Akhbar: America’s drone war has countless silent victims. Since President Barack Obama massively expanded his reliance on the weapon from 2009, the number of civilians killed in Pakistan, Afghanistan, Somalia and Yemen have sky-rocketed, but we rarely hear about these murders. The Western corporate media is content rehashing…
What ideological and opinion limits on our ABC?
I appeared on ABC TV’s The Drum on Monday night. Refugees, politics, my book #LeftTurn and Obama’s “kill list” were all discussed. The show aired and the show finished. End of story. And then this happened yesterday: The ABC last night aired an apology to federal opposition immigration spokesman Scott Morrison over comments made by…
Talking #LeftTurn on ABC 702 Sydney
Last Friday I featured on ABC 702 Sydney’s Afternoon program with James Valentine and ABC Radio National’s Jonathan Green. We talked about my new book with Jeff Sparrow,… #LeftTurn, what being Left means in 2012 and responsibility of the people to hold power to account in relation to war, media and the economy:
Assange deepens interview with cypherpunks
Following last week’s first part of his The World Tomorrow interview with cypherpunks, this episode continues the conversation and discusses the growth of the military industrial complex and using the web’s architecture to keep the free flow of information alive:
IDF shooting Palestinians on an average day in Palestine
Day in and day out, this is what Israel does in the West Bank; abuses, attacks and humiliaties Palestinians for the act of resisting occupation: