Guess who said this in 1989: Israel should have taken advantage of the suppression of the demonstrations in China [Tiananmen Square], when the world’s attention was focussed on what was happening in that country, to carry out mass expulsions among the Arabs of the Territories. However, to my regret, they did not support that policy…
Israel shares its murdering ways with good friends and allies
Just remind me why Western leaders aren’t complicit in countless war crimes? Israel’s military has been training British troops to fly drones similar to those used in alleged war crimes against Palestinians, Sky News has learned. Britain is buying 30 Watchtower WK450 unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) which are based on the Israeli Elbit Hermes 450…
Land of the free, indeed
Wikileaks volunteer Jacob Appelbaum: I dread US Customs more than I dreaded walking across the border from Turkey to Iraq in 2005. That’s something worth noting.
The Supreme Leader may have nimble fingers
Is the Iranian regime trying to be a hypocritical laughing stock? A Twitter account believed to belong to Iran‘s supreme leader has triggered controversy among Iranians whose own access to social networking websites remains blocked. Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, the man who has the final word in Iran, has come under intense criticism from Iran’s many…
Frontline Club discussion this week over Wikileaks
Informative, provocative, important and necessary. Bravo:
It’s like the whites in South Africa wishing the world ‘got’ oppression
You have to laugh (but not too hard). The complete lack of self-awareness amongst Zionists is striking. Do they gather together and draft talking points because so many of their arguments are the same these days. There’s no examination of why Israel is increasingly loathed. Occupation? Killing Palestinians? No, just that “Arabs” and others are…
BDS hits inner Sydney and Greens are leading the charge
A very good piece by Fiona Byrne, the Greens candidate for the electorate of Marrickville in inner Sydney and the current Mayor of Marrickville Council, on ABC’s Unleashed on why BDS is so important and has the support of her constituents. People don’t want to support Israeli apartheid anymore: On December 14 last year, Marrickville…
Jonsdottir challenges typical Wikileaks myths
Icelandic Member of Parliament Birgitta Jonsdottir speaks on Canadian TV about Wikileaks and finding a space for secret, classified material. How many other Western politicians think like this?
A direct challenge to the Australian Greens on Israel/Palestine
The following statement is written by Australian Jewish academic Ned Curthoys. I agree with its sentiments: Antony and I had a dream last night in which the important resolution by the NSW Greens in December of last year in support of an economic and cultural boycott of the colonialist Zionist project in Israel/Palestine was quickly…
The ongoing war against public services (all hail the private)
A charming cover that speaks volumes about the obsessive love of privatisation in the corporate media. The cost to people’s lives is irrelevant; it’s all about “efficiency”. Yes: The Economist doesn’t seem to understand that you can’t actually run the public sector exactly like the private sector. You are not meant to and you cannot.…