They’re alive and they’ve stuck at the heart of the British establishment, interrupting the Israeli Philharmonic Orchestra during the Proms:
The morally corrupt Israeli political elite
A truly brilliant piece of art featuring the right-wing racist, main opposition leader, war monger, settler and Prime Minister (and yes, they all love each other):
Guess who was helping Gaddafi stay in power?
The role of Western companies helping repressive regimes monitoring their citizens is only getting worse, as I document in my book The Blogging Revolution. This week the Wall Street Journal secured a cracking exclusive about Libya and the fine, upstanding people helping Gaddafi remain thuggish: On the ground floor of a six-story building here, agents…
Of course Muslim hatred would help fund Zionist extremism
Sigh: A colouring book about the events of 9/11, complete with pictures of the burning twin towers and the execution of a cowering Osama bin Laden for children to fill in, has provoked outrage among American Muslims. We Shall Never Forget 9/11: The Kids’ Book of Freedom has just been released by the Missouri-based publisher…
Fighting back against those raping the Earth
It’s encouraging that growing numbers of communities globally are challenging the right of unaccountable corporate raiders to pillage the natural resources of the world. This is the definition of the resource curse and it’s vital that indigenous peoples challenge the outrage. This recent piece in the UK Guardian by Melody Kemp highlights the trend: Have…
So now we know who has been talking to the US covertly
Philip Dorling writes in Fairfax in Australia that there are serious questions about who holds vital information, who releases it, who should horde it and where responsibility lies in an age where Wikileaks (rightly) forces governments and journalists to own up to their own culpability in human rights abuses and cover-ups: Confirmation that the full…
Why the Murdoch empire in Australia threatens democracy
Melbourne academic Robert Manne rightly calls for a neutering of Murdoch empire power in Australia: The company’s domination of our newspaper market poses a real and present danger to the health of Australian democracy … Unquestioning support for American foreign policy led the paper to conduct an extraordinarily strident campaign in favour of an invasion…
That’s a relief; Greens Senator isn’t anti-Semitic
The fact that Lee Rhiannon has to write this letter to Murdoch’s Australian shows the debased nature of the “debate” in this country: David Syme’s accusation that I am anti-Semitic is false (Letters, 30/8). On many occasions I have condemned anti-Semitism. I regularly speak out in support of multiculturalism and human rights and oppose racism…
How 9/11 showed a West unsure of who it wanted to kill
This week’s New Statesman editorial: Above all, the doctrine of liberal intervention, even on so-called humanitarian grounds, was gravely undermined by the misadventures in Iraq and Afghanistan. Mr Blair’s dream of a new, interdependent world order turned out to be no more than the delusion of a western triumphalist who believed that history was moving…
New website emerges and call for cash
Regular readers will see that today my new website was launched, designed and structured by Matthew Kerr. Cleaner, easier to navigate and sharper in style, it’s been two years since the last overhaul. It was time. Take a look around and tell your friends. Hopefully everything works as it should. If not, please be patient…