These kinds of revelations just keep on coming (yet so many in the corporate press can’t stop fawning over the former British Prime Minister). Tony Blair mounted an intense political lobbying campaign to rescue a struggling mobile-phone business owned by a client of the bank that pays him a …£2”…million annual salary. The firm, Wataniya,…
Controlling the Murdoch empire is both necessary and just
Here’s something you will virtually never see in Australia. A mainstream newspaper (in this case, the London Observer) taking on the Murdoch empire, front and centre, calling it out for its smears and lack of rigorous ethics (to put it mildly): Rupert Murdoch‘s News International (NI) is drawing up plans to sponsor an academy school…
Zionist settlers are just like you and me, except for illegally occupying another people’s land
This story really needs to be circulated. Occupation is now as Zionist as hatred of Palestinians but better PR may convince the most gullible people who believe that “nice” people live in the colonies and should be allowed to stay. Oh sure, they have no legal right to do so, Palestinians are given virtually no…
Our selective amnesia when outrages occur
Guy Rundle writes in the Sunday Age of “the contradictions and hypocrisies of much human rights campaigning these days.” It’s so much easier to get outraged over Iranian abuses than to focus closer to home.
The lessons from 9/11 are ignored, buried and dead
Today, on the anniversary of 9/11, The Independent’s Robert Fisk paints a grim picture of a world that doesn’t learn, doesn’t care and only understands the language of violence: Did 9/11 make us all go mad? How fitting, in a weird, crazed way, that the apotheosis of that firestorm nine years ago should turn out…
Christians standing up for rights in Palestine
A moving presentation, via the Ecumenical Accompaniment Program in Palestine and Israel (EAPPI), on life in the West Bank town of Yanoun.
How to protest Israeli crimes within art
Author William Parry discusses his new book on BBC World News 24 about stories of graffiti artists and people affected by Israel’s apartheid wall and the Middle East conflict:
How to skewer a President
Never trust the MSM to report politics fairly. Case for the prosecution: The Daily Show With Jon Stewart Mon – Thurs 11p / 10c Are You Ready for Some Midterms? – MSNBC’s Political Narrative www.thedailyshow.com Daily Show Full Episodes Political Humor Tea Party
When a media mogul has more power than government
Oh my. Democracy is so threatened that some have become fearful of a former Australian media man who trades smears for a living: Senior parliamentarians declined to give evidence in court against a News of the World journalist for fear of upsetting News International, the deputy leader of the Liberal Democrats said today. Simon Hughes,…
Taking on Murdoch bullying front and centre
Australian Greens leader Bob Brown, as recounted by Australian Financial Review journalist Laura Tingle: [Murdoch’s Australian newspaper] sees itself as a determinant of democracy in Australia. It believes it has replaced the people and it’s time to bell the cat. It’s stepped out of the role of the fourth estate to think it’s the determinant…