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How Obama admin brutalises Bradley Manning
Remember this the next time the US talks about spreading democracy around the world: Bradley Manning, the US soldier being held in solitary confinement on suspicion of having released state secrets to WikiLeaks, has spoken out for the first time about what he claims is his punitive and unlawful treatment in military prison. In an…
This must be the “transition” in Egypt Obama was talking about
Australian independent journalist Austin Mackell films in Cairo’s Tahrir Square that the thugs are still in charge:
Obama is the change Bush could believe in
Shameful: The Obama administration, which famously pledged to be the most transparent in American history, is pursuing an unexpectedly aggressive legal offensive against federal workers who leak secret information to expose wrongdoing, highlight national security threats or pursue a personal agenda. In just over two years since President Barack Obama took office, prosecutors have filed…
Washington; enough of this Arab democracy talk
Evidence one: As more than 100,000 protesters descended into the streets on Friday, women uniformly dressed in black flowing robes carried signs saying, “Revolution: The only solution.” Three weeks of pro-democracy protests in this island nation have followed the pattern of those in Egypt and Tunisia, with cellphones and Facebook posts propelling the movement and…
Hypocrisy trumps policy in Western alliance with Libya
My following article appears today on ABC’s The Drum: The latest BBC interview with Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi, situated in a fancy restaurant on the Mediterranean, was painful to watch. Clearly delusional and blaming drug-addled youth and al-Qaeda for the ongoing revolution in his country (which he claimed he didn’t lead, the “masses” were in…
Tariq Ali: who is denying democracy to Arab world?
In many countries, the Western powers that back military dictatorships in places such as Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Jordan, Algeria, Yemen and Libya:
“This will be a war in part because we support the Israelis”
Hearing Michael Scheuer on the Colbert Report talking about al-Qaeda and its ilk hating America and the West because of our support of Arab “tyranny” and Israel is refreshing. And true:
Gaddafi says he isn’t going anywhere
Though he may soon have no choice: The full 20 minute BBC interview with Gaddafi.
What Israeli left?
Many in the West, including the Zionist Diaspora, talk about the Israeli Left as bravely challenging Israel’s descent into a fascist nation. Hugh Naylor writes in The National that this is a convenient myth: Left-leaning Jewish groups in the United States defied the pro-Israel lobby and criticised the US veto last week of a UN…