Only on Al-Jazeera. The wonderful show Empire – a news service that actually acknowledges what Washington is – discusses the changing role of the US in the Arab world in light of the various uprisings. Honest about Israeli actions and America’s real intentions in the Middle East – loving Israel to death and oil –…
How Washington looks for pliable Latin American allies
Wikileaks strikes again: Paraguay president Fernando Lugo, a center-left politician who was elected to office in April 2008, was seen as a potential ally to the U.S. by the U.S. embassy in Asuncion, so long as he had “more than just a little help from ’upstairs’ to govern as president” which Lugo was apparently willing…
Memo to MSM; your job isn’t to pimp for foreign wars
VIDEO: WORLD EXCLUSIVE: Night raid in Mirabad Today’s Murdoch press features this “world exclusive“: The commando raiding party approaches the mud-walled qala, or compound, after a long night march from the helicopter insertion point. As they move in with their infra-red laser sights beaming and their alien-like night vision “eyes” switched on, all hell breaks…
Murdoch press likes race-baiting over asylum seekers
This is the front page story of today’s Sydney Daily Telegraph (surprised the lead isn’t about Lady Gaga or welfare mothers on crack robbing homeless men): Dozens of asylum seekers are on the run, with fears they are being supported by underground networks. Of the 47 people to have escaped last year, 12 had been…
Being archived online for whatever future we may have
Last year I was approached by the National Library of Australia and asked if I would agree to have my website archived by Pandora, an ever-growing system that documents this country’s digital history. It’s now live with regular archiving in the future. Thanks for the opportunity.
CNN can’t even acknowledge that Israel occupies Palestinian land
Here’s Helen Thomas being asked to explain comments that dared tell Israelis to get off colonised Palestinian land. Note the CNN host, demanding that Jewish suffering is worse than anybody else’s:
IDF and Hizbollah, sitting in a tree…
Israeli writer Etgar Keret has a way with words: Perhaps this is the time to mention that the title of “most moral army in the world” is, to my ears, akin to being lauded as “man with least facial hair in the Hezbollah leadership.” Because, after all, an army’s purpose is not to feed the…
Aboriginal intervention in Australia about allowing whites to control black lives
Australian independent journalist Austin G. Mackell travels to the north of Australia to examine the deleterious effects of the Northern Territory Intervention. Just the latest stage of white paternalism towards our first inhabitants:
Why Marrickville and the Greens (and a few Labor types) must be supported over BDS backing
How do we know the boycott, divestment and sanctions campaign against apartheid Israel is working? A member of the Knesset this week said that the state was losing millions of dollars. Meanwhile, Tel Aviv simply believes that by expanding the occupation in the West Bank, the world will love it more. Washington is keen to…