Following the recent ethical tourism campaign for Sri Lanka launched by Britain’s Sri Lanka Campaign, this story shouldn’t surprise anybody; Colombo is proud of committing war crimes against Tamils and would like to make some money from it (via the UK Telegraph): A campaign group for human rights has criticised “tasteless” holiday accommodation built on…
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Charlie Brooker’s 2012 Wipe
The kind of 2012 round-up that beautifully skewers the leeches who often inhabit the news media and public life:
How the Australian Zionist lobby corrupts political process (and politicians and reporters join in)
It’s nearly Christmas and that must mean yet another year of the Australia-Israel-UK Leadership Forum. The Australian media has virtually ignored the whole thing because they’re a) lazy b) not curious and c) clueless how to write about the shamelessness of witnessing so many politicians pall around with pro-occupation Israeli figures. These are the same…
UK Israel lobby is most powerful in the country
The power of the Zionist lobby in Britain is far too rarely discussed in the mainstream media. And yet its presence is one of the key reasons London is so blindly supportive of Israel. Here’s a rare perspective, written by Peter Obourne in the UK Telegraph.… Note the fear that the two-state solution is dead/dying/on life…
War on Drugs a massive failure so who’s ready to stop it?
British Deputy Prime Minister and Liberal Democrats leader Nick Clegg speaks the truth about the “war on drugs”: If you were waging any other war where you have 2,000 fatalities a year, your enemies are making billions in profits, constantly throwing new weapons at you and targeting young people – you’d have to say you…
UK Independent urges action not words on Israeli settlements
The kind of editorial we can expect to see a lot more of in the coming months and years: Israel has not only “punished” the Palestinians for seeking and achieving an upgrade of UN status, it has also slapped the face of the UK and of Germany, both of whom withheld support for the Palestinians…
Statement by Antony Loewenstein in support of Canberra Candlelight Vigil for #Assange
The following statement by me was read out last night in front of parliament house in Canberra to support Julian Assange and Wikileaks: In an age of government and corporate media spin, WikiLeaks stands tall as a unique voice of independence that demands support. The last 10 years of the so-called “war on terror” has…
How the media picks “worthy victims” and who deserves a no-fly zone (hint: not Gaza)
The essential Medialens on how our corporate (and public broadcasting) media selects who deserves Western largesse and those “terrorists” who can just “suck on this” (the classic comment of New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman in 2003 when explaining how the Iraqis should see the invading American troops): On March 30, 2011 – eleven days…
Serco and G4S making a killing by British outsourcing craze
(Via The Independent): More than half of the Government’s contract spending on detention services went to just two firms, G4S and Serco, a report reveals today. G4S was this month stripped of a key prison contract in the wake of its shambolic handling of Olympic security but the report reveals it won contracts for a…