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Killing Afghans should not be cost free
This is what can happen to a privatised mercenary in a war zone. Brutal sentence in a tough land but why should we be so shocked? If we believe in accountability, then justice must be served. Allowing foreigners to escape local laws is one of the major reasons so many Iraqis and Afghans hate the…
Australians respect Wikileaks so take a step back
The people have spoken: Australian voters are sharply at odds with the Prime Minister over the release of classified US government cables, a new poll has found. The survey suggests just one-quarter of voters agree with Julia Gillard that the diplomatic cables recently published by WikiLeaks should have remained secret. The findings show 59 per…
Just remind me why the MSM keeps on publishing this man?
Sound familiar? It’s been a very long time since Jewish-speaking peoples brought benefit to humanity by, say, developing new medicines and technology or advancing democracy and human rights. Indeed, the area where the Jews seem most adept at innovation would be terrorism. Airplane hijackings, suicide bombings, and mega-terrorism are among their claims to originality. Oh…
Israel told US it would keep Gaza on brink of collapse
The Middle East’s Only Democracy Inc: Israel told U.S. officials in 2008 it would keep Gaza’s economy “on the brink of collapse” while avoiding a humanitarian crisis, according to U.S. diplomatic cables published by a Norwegian daily on Wednesday. Three cables cited by the Aftenposten newspaper, which has said it has all 250,000 U.S. cables…
Don’t ignore the oppression-backing Better Place gloss
Israeli electric car company Better Place is accused of providing charging stations in the occupied West Bank and being run by former military men suspected of war crimes. The firm has received media coverage in Australia, mainly over allegations of favourable business deals, but nothing about backing apartheid in Palestine. The Zionist state’s attempts at…
The philosophy behind Openleaks
Daniel Domscheit-Berg, once of Wikileaks and now working on the OpenLeaks project, spoke last last year about his plans and how to bring truly transparent information: Here’s a rough transcript. Extract: There’s project staff that has to manage all of this, that has to take care of all the servers. There’s the whole public that…
Two pictures of criminal US adventures in the Middle East
One: Roads, canals and schools built in Afghanistan as part of a special U.S. military program are crumbling under Afghan stewardship, despite steps imposed over the past year to ensure that reconstruction money is not being wasted, according to government reports and interviews with military and civilian personnel. U.S. troops in Afghanistan have spent $2…
US journalists are scared of being seen as anything other than lovers of power
This would be funny if it weren’t so tragic. Here’s Newsweek explaining why so few major American reporters are standing up for Wikileaks. This supposed obsession with “balance” – which usually means little more than siding with the powerful – is spurious and regarded as such across the world (see here): So why are American…