Here’s the AAP story on today’s Wikileaks rally in Sydney: More than a thousand advocates of free speech have taken to the streets of Sydney in support of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange. Australian-born Mr Assange has enraged the United States by leaking American diplomatic cables that embarrassed world leaders. He is currently on bail in…
Notes from today’s speech in Sydney to support Wikileaks
Today’s rally in Sydney was a good event, attracting around 1000 people, all of whom wanted to show solidarity with what Wikileaks stands for; transparency and real free speech. My speech addressed the often complicity of the mainstream media in keeping government secrets away from the public. They want to be gate-keepers, close to power.…
Colombo murdered Tamis with impunity and wonders why world doesn’t respect
The New Yorker’s Jon Lee Anderson writes a masterful essay about the fall of the Tamil Tigers in Sri Lanka. What now for Sri Lanka? Thus far, it’s clear what President Rajapaksa wants. A docile public and a police state. He’s achieved that. But justice and accountability is sorely missing. Anderson: It should not be…
Default position of US media elite is to urge violence against everybody
The frequency with which supposedly respectable mainstream commentators write about violence and killing civilians is handily compiled by Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting. Remind me why these cretins continue to be published? Because they beautifully serve US foreign policy: The discussion of violent and paranoid rhetoric in the media is long overdue, whether or not…
“Bra-gate” brings clarity to Middle East reporting
Al Jazeera’s Sherine Tadros is based in Jerusalem: As female journalists working in this region we constantly find ourselves putting clothes on to please Hamas and taking them off to please the Israelis.
What’s dead Afghans in the bigger picture of Afghan “liberation”?
The colonial mindset is a shocking thing to see. Here’s Paula Broadwell, a research associate at the Harvard Center for Public Leadership (her new book is All In: The Education of General David Petraeus) writing glowingly of American fire-power in Afghanistan. A “Destroying the village in order to save it” mentality. The West deserves to…
Why Wikileaks is so dangerous for the ruling class
Julian Assange speaks exclusively to John Pilger in this week’s New Statesman: I think what’s emerging in the mainstream media is the awareness that if I can be indicted, other journalists can, too. Even the New York Times is worried. This used not to be the case. If a whistleblower was prosecuted, publishers and reporters…
Wikileaks fight back
Good on them: “WikiLeaks condemns US embargo move” WikiLeaks today condemned calls from the chair of the House Committee on Homeland Security to “strangle the viability” of WikiLeaks by placing the publisher and its editor-in-chief, Julian Assange, on a US “enemies list” normally reserved for terrorists and dictators. Placement on the US “Specially Designated National…
Australian mainstream politician (“left-winger”) shows yet more love for Zionism
What an undignified state of affairs. Here’s Anthony Albanese, Australia’s federal minister for transport and infrastructure and the federal member for Sydney’s Grayndler, writing in today’s Australian about the supposed problems with the Sydney Marrickville council backing BDS. The piece is filled with mistakes, untruths and glaring omissions, such as: – Albanese is married to…