While the American media patronises the people of Haiti and refuses to provide any context for the country’s poverty, Patrick Cockburn offers some perspective: The US-run aid effort for Haiti is beginning to look chillingly similar to the criminally slow and disorganized US government support for New Orleans after it was devastated by hurricane Katrina…
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What is Google now doing in China?
My following article appears today on ABC Unleashed/The Drum: Google has threatened to withdraw entirely from China in protest at the authoritarian regime’s oppressive online censorship and continuing attempts by Chinese hackers to gain sensitive information of local human rights workers. Perhaps most significantly, Google’s Chinse search engine, Google.cn, now allows once banned material to…
John Yoo allowed to breeze through an interview without seeing balls being crushed
Bush administration lawyer John Yoo, a key architect of the torture regime, is given a pretty soft interview by Jon Stewart. Is it too much to expect that Yoo would be faced with some of the horrific acts of torture allowed to occur under his watch? The Daily Show With Jon Stewart Mon – Thurs…
Getting into Gaza
My following New Matilda article is published today: While the rest of us toasted the New Year, newmatilda.com correspondent Antony Loewenstein was in Cairo for the Gaza Freedom March In late December, one year after Israel’s brutal military assault on the Gaza Strip, some 1300 people from 43 countries descended on Cairo to draw attention…
Are we gearing up for Gaza 2?
Another war against Gaza? Here’s what establishment figure Bruce Riedel thinks. His bio speaks for itself: He’s a senior fellow at the Saban Center for Middle East Policy in the Brookings Institution. He advised Presidents Bush, Clinton, Bush and Obama on the Middle East and South Asia in the National Security Council of the White…
Osama Bin Laden and Jewish joy in December
The Jewish festival of Chanukah as imagined by George W. Bush in 2001: The Daily Show With Jon Stewart Mon – Thurs 11p / 10c
America always acts “unselfishly”, argues Dick Cheney
Former US Vice President Dick Cheney offers his considered view on Fox News about the amazing country known as America: Sean Hannity: You said about Barack Obama that he is projecting weakness to America’s enemies. Expand on that. Dick Cheney: Well, I think most of us believe and most presidents believe and talk about the…
What it means to advocate the ”˜Sri Lanka model’ for Israel/Palestine
My following article is published on US website Mondoweiss: It is easy to frame the conflict in Israel and Palestine as inherently unique. In many ways it is – decades-old occupation, US-supported racial discrimination and failure of Western journalism to hold the powerful to account – but other struggles have eerie similarities. This year Sri…
Copenhagen is about the first world helping the rest
The Copenhagen climate summit is causing massive global coverage. Some in the US press are rightly claiming that the world is relying too much on Barack Obama, but writer Naomi Klein argues that Washington should not be viewed as the savior: The highlight of my first day at COP15 was a conversation with the extraordinary…
Bolivian democracy in action (and the West should notice)
Bolivia this week re-elected an inspirational man to lead the country for another five years. The Wall Street Journal isn’t pleased (rambling about dictatorships), but the Guardian editorial perfectly explains the reason why Noam Chomsky calls the country a leading example of real democracy: President Evo Morales won a stunning victory in Bolivia yesterday, taking…