A helpful historical reminder from Scott Burchill: … It is wrong to assign a power of policy veto over the West to one favoured dissident, as appeared to happen in the 1990s with Myanmar’s Aung San Suu Kyi. [The Australian’s Foreign Editor] Greg Sheridan, Asian Values, Western Dreams (Allen & Unwin, St Leonards 1999), p.315.…
Serco looks deaf, dumb and blind in Australia
Another day and another tragedy in Australia’s detention centres. It’s clearly too much for the media to investigate… the role of the company that runs the places, Serco: Detainees at the Villawood Immigration Detention Centre in Sydney are planning a hunger strike today after the suicide of an inmate. It is the second suicide at…
Pepper-sprayed for being a peace activist over Palestine
What Zionism is doing to Judaism. Here’s the latest press release from Jewish Voice for Peace: Last night, up to a dozen members of San Francisco Voice for Israel/StandWithUs, a right-wing Israeli advocacy group with a documented track record of aggressively taunting and intimidating grassroots peace activists, attended a Bay Area Jewish Voice for Peace…
What suffering Iranians are facing
An Iranian friend sent me this tragic video. Partly in Farsi, the message is clear. Too many Iranians are having kidney transplants simply to get money:
Deep behind “enemy” lines in Afghanistan
James Fergusson on the war in Afghanistan that isn’t being discussed in the New York Times or polite circles: The sound of a propeller engine is audible the moment my fixer and I climb out of the car, causing us new arrivals from Kabul to glance sharply upwards. I have never heard a military drone…
Who knew? Keeping roads in public hands works best
Behold a rarity. Some questioning in the mainstream media about privatising everything: TONY EASTLEY: For years now, toll roads and tunnels have been all the rage in many Australian states. Under the preferred model, the private sector takes the risk, finances the project and earns the profit but critics say the toll road model takes…
Jews cry “anti-Semitism’ to distract from attacks on Israel
Here we go again. Israel faces growing international criticism over its behaviour towards Palestinians. And what happens? Jewish lobby groups cry “anti-Semitism”. If anybody faces hatred simply because they are Jewish, that’s utterly unacceptable. But legitimate arguments against Zionist occupation, West Bank settlements, the siege on Gaza and racism inside Israel isn’t anti-Semitism and no…
Palin’s words of wisdom
When the Left in the media pat you on the back, quickly reassess where you are and readjust, for the liberals’ praise is a warning bell you must heed. Trust me on that.
Safed would like no Arabs, thank you
Not wanting Arabs in your town? Not racism, just run-of-the-mill Zionism: In the winding stone alleys of this Galilee hill town, a centuries-old center of Jewish mysticism, a campaign is underway. It is being waged by the town rabbi, Shmuel Eliahu, who along with other area rabbis issued a religious ruling several months ago forbidding…
Wikileaks makes first steps to find home in Iceland
A true democracy would embrace Wikileaks to prove its commitment to transparency: Whistleblower WikiLeaks has registered in media-friendly Iceland its first known legal entity — a business that so far has no office or activity, the website’s spokesman said Friday. Wikileaks is now mulling whether to use the firm to fundraise or for information gathering,…