A stunning piece of investigative journalism by the New York Times on the News of the World in the UK and its sordid relationship with Scotland Yard: In November 2005, three senior aides to Britain’s royal family noticed odd things happening on their mobile phones. Messages they had never listened to were somehow appearing in…
Iraqi corpses will always haunt the war backers
Jeremy Scahill on MSNBC slams Republicans and Democrats who dare to claim “victory” in Iraq: Visit msnbc.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economy
Dreaming of a two-state solution
As “peace talks” begin between Washington, Israel and the Palestinian Authority, Reza Aslan writes in the Daily Beast that nobody should get excited (including the feckless media which seem to love reporting on renewed colour and movement): I recognize that those of us in the media who want peace for Israel and dignity for Palestine…
Seeing the faces of our world
My photographer mate Conor Ashleigh sent this amazing collection of images by Christian Movila on Romania, Iran, Palestine and people in conflict. Haunting and beautiful: Cristian Movila – Jagged Lines from e-photoreview on Vimeo.
Reporters embedded into the war architecture
Vaughan Smith, founder of London’s Frontline Club, writes that the process of embedding journalists in the military machine (especially in Afghanistan) is increasing the chances of the next war: So-called “embedding”, the term for the practice by which journalists have been allowed to accompany allied troops in the Iraq and Afghan wars, is not just…
Jews looting Palestinian books in 1948
Only a few years after the Holocaust, this reveals the depravity of many early Zionists: The Great Book Robbery is a multifaceted cultural heritage project. It has two major components, a documentary film to be produced, broadcast and screened internationally and this very website which will grow into a multi-function platform. Two European broadcasters already…
Capitalism with some blood and guts
An economist with a brain and heart. Cambridge’s Ha-Joon Chang: Another myth that needs to be busted is the idea that we can discuss economics without any moral implications. What kind of economy we build changes us, so what we do in terms of monetary policy determines who we are.
What’s wrong with humiliating Palestinians?
These two pieces really speak for themselves. The moral corruption of the Israeli occupation in all its gruesome detail. First up, Aluf Benn in Haaretz: The photographs of the female soldier Eden Abergil on Facebook with the young, bound Palestinians did not “shock” me, as did the automatic responses of people on the left who…
Rupert says Iraq war is bloody wonderful
Our favourite Murdoch war booster, Greg Sheridan, in today’s Australian: Iraq is starting to look as though it may turn out to be a great, historic American success.
Iraqis do exist in the thoughts of Times journalist
Here’s that rare thing; a Western reporter, New York Times‘ James Glanz, writing about working with Iraqis in the war-torn country and the ultimate price many have paid. A beautifully moving piece of work: On my last afternoon in Iraq, in December 2008, I drove to a graveyard in Baghdad to have a conversation with…