What kind of state only allows a right of return for one religion and people and not another indigenous population?
Just how many in government are in the pocket of Murdoch?
Thank God for the non-Murdoch press because without them we would never have known about the ongoing scandal at the News of the World. Ethics at News Limited? Somewhere in the offices of the Crown Prosecution Service, there is a file that will be of great interest to any independent inquiry that attempts to tell…
Eyal Weizman in Sydney; decolonising architecture
Please join us for the upcoming lecture series by Eyal Weizman titled “Political Plastic”. The lecture series is hosted by the School of Architecture at the University of Technology Sydney and the MAA Urban Design. Eyal Weizman is an architect and director of the Centre for Research Architecture at Goldsmiths, University of London. He studied…
Blair “miscalculated” and he shrugs his shoulders
A softball ABC interview with Tony Blair where he essentially acknowledges he was wrong about Iraq and Afghanistan, and yet we’re still supposed to take him seriously on Middle East “peace”?
The never-ending struggle of the Corrie family
Who knew that Israel continues to lie over its killing of Rachel Corrie?
What BDS says; don’t expect Holocaust guilt to get you through
To those who doubt the viability and effect of the growing BDS movement, this piece in Haaretz should be mandatory reading: The entire week was marked by boycotts. It began with a few dozen theater people boycotting the new culture center in Ariel, and continued with a group of authors and artists publishing a statement…
Our communications are never private
Leading investigative journalist Nicky Hager, a New Zealander, regularly breaks tough stories that nobody else does, especially on intelligence matters. Take this piece from January 2010: Go to the heart of one of Telecom or Vodafone’s mobile phone exchanges and you’ll find the whole system – covering a quarter of the country – is run…
Protecting workers isn’t seen as priority
Here’s a report ignored by most of the mainstream media. Wonder why? (hint; too many corporate journalists and owners are close to these organisations): Many European companies that publicly embrace workers’ rights under global labor standards nevertheless undermine workers’ rights in their US operations, Human Rights Watch said in a report issued today. The 128-page…
Israel’s next generation of defenders
After Orthodox Jew Peter Beinart recently wrote in the New York Review of Books that growing numbers of young American Jews are turning away from Israel – oncoming fascism doesn’t help – a number of Zionist sociologists have rejected his thesis. Young Jews? They still love Israel, what a wonderful democracy, wholesome and fun.