Who is held accountable for these breaches? Who wrote the words of the contract allowing no public scrutiny? And most importantly, something rarely asked by our media, why are private companies making a profit from managing human misery? The full extent of despair and unrest inside the immigration detention network has been revealed, with documents…
Thanks for telling us who really runs South Australia (and isn’t the government)
The Adelaide News Blog helps us all: Indicating that a special Defence Cabinet would now govern South Australia, Premier Mike Rann will announce this morning that he and all of State Cabinet would be presenting their resignations to the Governor later today. “You’ll hardly notice any difference.” Mr Rann told onlookers at the Norwood Pie…
British banks love the smell of cluster bombs in the morning
Yet another reason that major banks, this time in Britain, regard corporate social responsibility as something that needs to be done, rather than actually believed. Making money, no matter how, is the key reason to get up in the morning. And helping to manufacture death? Bring. It. On: British high-street banks, including two institutions that…
Chomsky: “Pro-Israel Christian Right most anti-Semitic people in the world”
And one of them is possibly the next US President. Will the Jewish mainstream condemn such figures? I’m not holding my breath. Being “pro-Israel” seemingly trumps everything, especially human rights:
Yet another Western firm complicit with Chinese repression
A company that should be named, shamed and shunned (via the Sydney Morning Herald): Cisco, one of the world’s largest technology companies, is being sued by Chinese political prisoners for allegedly providing the technology and expertise used by the Chinese Communist Party to monitor, censor and suppress the Chinese people. Dan Ward, of US law…
GOP front runners believe in Christian theocracy
The world’s only super-power may be soon run by this (via The Daily Beast): With Tim Pawlenty out of the presidential race, it is now fairly clear that the GOP candidate will either be Mitt Romney or someone who makes George W. Bush look like Tom Paine. Of the three most plausible candidates for the…
Web “security” firms doesn’t mean helping autocrats feel secure
Surely companies that assist repressive regimes in their censorship should pay a legal and ethical price in their home country? This is an argument in my book The Blogging Revolution (just re-released in an updated edition). This story is from Guelph Mercury: A Guelph tech firm with a reputation for making tools to control information…
Today’s Murdoch hackery; accusing Israel critics of anti-Semitism
Melbourne Herald Sun writer Alan Howe just doesn’t like Arabs too much. All those free trips to Israel thanks to the Zionist lobby have worked a treat. The Jewish community must be so proud that one of the strongest advocates for Israel in the Australian media also really hates Palestinians. Well done! His latest piece,…