I was again invited onto ABC TV News24’s The Drum last night (video here… and my previous appearance is here.) The guests were New South Wales Liberal politician Pru Goward and lobbyist Simon Banks. We discussed a range of issues including the imposition of a detention centre in a small South Australian town (and people wonder…
Sri Lanka likes to flaunt its war criminal status
Credit where it’s due. Rupert Murdoch’s New York Post headlines this story, “‘War criminal’ gets a UN job’. It’s way to bash the UN but also reveals how Colombo feels completely protected within the international system. China protects her. Just like the US protects Israel. While civilians are being murdered: A suspected war criminal who…
Are we addicted or too pleased to notice?
Some startling facts: – There are now more than 500 million active Facebook users, with 50% logging on to the site on any given day. Worldwide, users collectively spend 700 billion minutes a month on Facebook. – Google’s email service Gmail ended July with 186 million worldwide users, a 22% increase from the same time…
Australian troops involved in covert and deadly operations for the US
My following lead article appears in today’s edition of Crikey: Elite Australian soldiers are involved in covert operations for the Americans in the “war on terror”, co-ordinated through the top-secret, Paris-based centre Alliance Base. There has been no public discussion about these missions, but Crikey understands the soldiers are involved in targeting, interrogation and assassinations…
Who really wants conflict with Iran?
As the drums of war continue to beat, just who is really telling the truth about the Islamic Republic? Since 2007, the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) – with the support of the United States, Israel and European allies UK, France and Germany – has been demanding that Iran explain a set of purported internal…
Australia should consider why we’re selling our precious soil
Food security and the selling off of Australia’s farmland to the highest bidder is finally starting to get some mainstream media attention: Much of the dairying industry, from farm gate to supermarket shelves, was carved up by Japan, Europe and New Zealand over the previous decade. It all suggests that other countries are far more…
Yes, my dear Zionist followers, Israel is a peace-loving nation
Didi Remez writes in Israel that some in the local press are capable of detailing the shameless spin of the Netanyahu regime. In the Diaspora, meanwhile, Israel is a holy state that only strives for peace on a daily basis.
We love to privatise everything and make the world a better place
Key Australian opposition figure George Brandis proudly stated on Friday on ABC TV that his side’s 12 years of power led to this: What we were doing in Government was we were privatising Government businesses. We weren’t creating new Government monopolies.
What a bankrupt war breeds
The massive growth in private mercenary companies since 9/11 is exposed with yet another investigation. But the end result? More outsourcing to unaccountable companies who are desperate for wars to continue and expand. Killing is a good business: An Australian-owned security company has been accused of a litany of abuses in Afghanistan – including theft…
British Zionist figure says something truthful about Israel
The fact that people are shocked, just shocked, that a Jewish leader would speak honestly about the true state of Israel shows how utterly constipated is the debate over the Middle East in the Jewish Diaspora: One of British Jewry’s most senior leaders this week shattered a longstanding taboo by publicly criticising Israeli Prime Minister…