Jewish Voice for Peace, a US-based group, is starting to be heard in a big way. The New York Times covers them below. Furthermore, note the contrast to mainstream Zionist groups, backing repression because it supposedly benefits Israel. That really helps the brand, people: Hundreds of people, mostly Arab-Americans, are expected to gather Saturday in…
Watching the US empire crumble in the Arab world, live on TV
How is America viewed in the Arab world, especially Egypt? Ancient, reactionary, dictator-loving, Zionist obsessed and increasingly incapable of influencing events. This is a wonderful thing, as Washington’s main contribution to the Middle East in the last sixty years has been backing brutes and supporting Israeli occupation. Change: In days gone by, it was pretty…
A mature country would welcome its own citizen Assange back
Of course: WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange has called on the Federal Government to help him return to Australia. Mr Assange is due to appear in a London court next week where he faces extradition to Sweden on possible sexual assault charges. In a pre-recorded video played at a forum in Melbourne this evening, Mr Assange…
Jews don’t have a monopoly on victimhood?
Reading some in the Israeli press, you would think the Egyptian uprisings are all about Israel and maintaining its fiction of “democracy” in the Middle East. In other words, democracy for Jews but hell for Arabs. Bradley Burston in Haaretz outlines the well-worn Zionist lines (repeated ad nauseum by the Zionist lobby and many Jews…
Serco misbehaving and avoiding responsibility (as usual)
When a British multinational is being paid hundreds of millions by the Australian government to imprison asylum seekers, some kind of responsibility should be expected. Alas, these two examples below show that the company is either outsourcing key tasks to a volunteer company or involved in abuses in remote detention centres. One: When it was…
Troubles on Gaza/Egypt border
No wonder Hamas wants to maintain “order” in Gaza. A truly open border between Egypt and Gaza threatens their rule in the Strip:
As if the West is trusted over Egyptian transition
This Associated Press video montage is revealing. While Britain, America and the UN “condemn violence” and “urge restraint” in Egypt, citizens are suffering across the Muslim world due to Western-backed thugs:
American propaganda watch
It must be seeping into the water: The American Museum of History, on the Mall in Washington, DC: One of the popular exhibitions in recent years was “The Price of Freedom: Americans at War”. This included a tribute to the “exceptional Americans [who] saved a million lives” in Vietnam, where they were “determined to stop…
Fisk on America’s lost opportunity (which they were never going to take)
Egyptians are rising up and America is looking to install a torturing autocrat in place of Mubarak? Robert Fisk on the streets of Cairo: Well, immense courage displayed by those who are demanding the overthrow, effectively, of Mubarak, oddly matched by the complete gutlessness of the U.S. administration. In fact, the cowardice of the language…