Noam Chomsky: The term “stability” has a technical meaning in discourse on international affairs: domination by the US.
Accepting a Jewish state is treasonous
Yitzhak Laor in Haaretz: Recognition of an exclusive Jewish nationality for our country, which Netanyahu is demanding from the Palestinians now, is nothing but a demand to recognize the legitimacy of racist discrimination against the Arab minority in Israel. If this minority had been awarded equal rights, including water rights for agriculture, equality in education…
Where is the necessary progressive movement?
Naomi Klein: We have to build that independent left. It has to be so strong and so radical and so militant and so powerful that it becomes irresistible.
What the unhinged Israel lovers want next
Blogger Andrew Sullivan, recently made aware of the disastrous and destructive actions of radical Jews and hardline Zionists, gets it in one: Peter Beinart heralds it in: “Ever since 9/11, according to opinion polls, Republicans have worried more about terrorism than have Democrats. Initially, this fear translated into overwhelming support for military action abroad. But…
The wannabe porn Zionist
Reclaiming what is theirs: Israel’s foreign Ministry has acquired the @Israel username on Twitter, the social networking site, from the Spanish owner of adult porn sites. The Spaniard, who now lives in Miami, Florida, is called Israel Melendez and he set up the account for free in 2007, when Twitter was still a relatively new…
The Gaza tunnels from the inside
An intimate look at the tunnels running from Gaza to Egypt screened last weekend on Australia’s SBS Dateline. It’s a dirty and dangerous business and continues to serve the people of Gaza, providing a life-line during the stifling Israeli blockade.
The joys of being under the Murdoch gun
Another day, another revelation of Murdoch shamelessness in Britain: Sienna Miller was today expected to become the latest public figure to join the legal assault on Scotland Yard and the News of the World over the phone-hacking scandal. Lawyers for the actor, whose private life has long been a tabloid staple, said she was ready…
KBR and the food shortage in Baghdad
Lessons in corrupt contracting (and something increasingly relied upon by Western allies in Iraq): The U.S. Embassy in Baghdad paid millions to a government contractor for meals and snacks that nobody ate, according to a new internal State Department report. The State Department’s Office of the Inspector General (OIG) found that the embassy overpaid by…
American priorities in Pakistan are keeping drones dry
This is pretty extraordinary (and therefore has received no mainstream media coverage). Feryal Ali Gauhar, Pakistani actress, filmmaker, writer and human rights activist, appears on Democracy Now! and reveals the real role of the US in Pakistan after the devastating floods: …But it is well known, if not acknowledged by—particularly by the state, that the…