Oh dear: A major Zionist organization has withdrawn an advertisement because it featured images mocking the torture of prisoners at Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq. The United Israel Appeal (New South Wales) – Keren Hayesod last week withdrew the ad for a young adult UIA event, which was issued as a press release as well…
Robotic and privatised warriors make war far too easy
Malcolm O’Neill, the assistant secretary of the US Defence Force’s Acquisition, Logistics and Technology division: I see in the future a US army with 547,000 active soldiers like we have today and 547,000 ranger buddies – wingmen that would hopefully go into combat with them and hopefully stand in front of them and sacrifice their…
Chinese are far more resourceful online than most in the West
The Columbia Journalism Review explains that China isn’t simply an authoritarian state where freedoms are suppressed: The resourceful ways that Chinese netizens have responded to the social injustices that surround them and to the limitations of their country’s carefully censored press, and indeed the sheer pace of change in this world, highlight one of the…
Headline of the week: “Obama’s hand in your crotch”
Shame about the editorial in the Washington Times, asking for intense scrutiny and profiling of Muslims to avoid “terrorism”. Perhaps we should just lock all Muslims in a large cage.
Washington’s global footprint is as subtle as the BFG
We often hear about the military industrial complex, but what does it mean in practice? Exhibit number one: The construction projects are sprouting like mushrooms: walled complexes, high-strength weapons vaults, and underground bunkers with command and control capacities — and they’re being planned and funded by a military force intent on embedding itself ever more…
John and Julie in Alaska are paying for Israeli apartheid
What Israeli “democracy” is all about, funded by the US taxpayer: Travelers along the “original” West Bank roads, the ones enabling drivers to bypass Palestinian villages, can see signs declaring “USAID from the American People.” The roads are one of the initiatives of the United States Agency for International Development for building infrastructure in underdeveloped…
The Wire on detention centre suicide and role of Serco
The suicide yesterday of yet another asylum seeker in Villawood detention centre in Sydney reminds us of the climate of over-crowding and mental trauma perpetuated by the government. I was interviewed by The Wire about the incident and the responsibility of Serco:
Now that’s progress; Israelis take on apartheid
A great pro-BDS flashmob was carried out by Israeli activists on November 15 outside the Tel Aviv Opera House to coincide with the premiere of the the Cape Town Opera production of Porgy and Bess:
As if Friedman isn’t Israel’s best bloody friend
Read this for a laugh. A cover story in leading Israeli daily Ma’ariv slams New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman for being too critical of Israel and “jealous” of Netanyahu: You, Mr Friedman, are no Grossman and no Barnea. You’re just an American journalist. There are hundreds and thousands like you the world over. Many…
True reporting is not being friendly with the establishment
MSNBC’s Keith Olbermann on news values, bias, being liberal and real journalism post 2003: