The following review by Fiona Capp… of my recently released book with Jeff Sparrow… appears in today’s paper: It hardly needs stating that we live in a time of economic crisis and political uncertainty. And yet our leaders offer no alternative visions and pay little heed to stirrings of unrest. As these essays show, and as any…
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“Better Place” reducing fossil fuel use while exploiting occupied Palestinian land
Following yesterday’s open letter to the Australian Greens about not working with Israeli company Better Place or other Israeli firms that talk green but in reality are complicit in the occupation, I just found this recent piece on the Green Car Reports website. The writer clearly states that the company is operating in the occupied…
An open letter to the Australian Greens about Israeli settlements and green-washing
The following open letter has been sent today to every Greens MP in the country and is being circulated widely on social media and in the public (and a petition… to back the campaign): An open letter to The Australian Greens Party The Greens have since their foundation been a party that supports justice and the…
One sorry Australian tale that reveals how the country has become dangerously secretive
This story appeared recently in the Fairfax place then disappeared just as quickly. It’s an important investigation by Philip Dorling about the Australian government’s mostly secret war on supposed trouble-makers. Don’t believe a word of it. It’s largely a fishing expedition with little oversight: The curious case of Timothy Byrnes, a complaint to ASIO and…
Playing politics with Palestine? Perish the thought
Israel’s trusted friend in the Australian media, Rupert Murdoch’s The Australian, today publishes a piece that is so banal as to be comical. Guess what people, BDS supporters and Palestinian backers are daring to “play politics” with human rights in the Middle East. And what exactly does the Zionist lobby and Zionist propagandists in our…
ABCTV News24’s The Drum on Israel/Palestine and uranium sales to UAE
I appeared last night on ABCTV’s The Drum (video here) alongside the Sydney Morning Herald’s Judith Whelan and… … former NSW Liberal leader Kerri Chikarovski. Aside from arguing against Australia selling uranium to UAE – seriously, do we need to provide a brutal dictatorship with a toxic and deadly resource? – and challenging the corporate media to…
Investigative journalism in the era of Wikileaks
Last year, in September, I appeared at Australia’s first… conference (Back to the Source) for investigative journalists in Sydney alongside ABC TV’s… Andrew Fowler, freelance journalist… Philip Dorling and The Australian Financial Review’s… Brian Toohey. We had all in different ways reported on Wikileaks, mostly sympathetically, and the discussion revolved about what the organisation had done to journalism. The…
News flash; Victorian government, police and Zionist lobby upset that public have right to oppose Israel
Following this week’s decision in a Victorian magistrate’s court that found protestors had the right to oppose Israeli chocolate shop Max Brenner in public, now comes the inevitable whinging from the political elites. It’s not fair, they say, that citizens can speak out against wonderful democratic Israel. It’s unfair that people say nasty things about…