My following talk was presented today to a full room at Harvard University: Harvard University’s Kennedy School of Government/Centre for Middle Eastern Studies ME Forum, 24 November 2008 The Shifting Sands of the Palestinian-Israeli Conflict: An Australian Perspective Antony Loewenstein Australian Labor Prime Minister Kevin Rudd, speaking in March this year at a United Israel…
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Crushing balls is wrong?
How so many in the Western mainstream media defend the use of torture in the “war on terror” and create euphemisms to disguise its horror.
The resource wars
Overland is Australia’s finest literary journal. I was commissioned to write the lead essay for the new edition, The Resource Wars, on energy, Israel, Zionism, the Middle East and the role of the US in the region: In a striking 2005 essay for the Atlantic, Richard A. Clarke, former chief counter-terrorism adviser on the US…
How we will miss the master
President Bush is pushing through a ruling that will make it more difficult for women to get contraceptives. The loosening of restrictions makes it easier for health care workers to conscientiously object to filling birth control prescriptions and the like. The ruling also enjoys the support of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops, which…
Line them up in the dock
One of Britain’s most authoritative judicial figures last night delivered a blistering attack on the invasion of Iraq, describing it as a serious violation of international law, and accusing Britain and the US of acting like a “world vigilante”.
So now what?
My latest New Matilda column is about a necessary reality check on President-elect Barack Obama: Talking about morality in international affairs is easy. What about action? Antony Loewenstein examines the tough foreign policy challenges facing the President-elect An unprecedented amount of hyperbole from the international media heralded last week’s election of Barack Obama to the…
Is all this about to be in the past?
Glenn Greenwald, Salon, November 9: As the Bush administration comes to a close, one overarching question is this:… how were the transgressions and abuses of the last eight years allowed to be unleashed with so little backlash and resistance?… … Just consider — with no hyperbole — what our Government, our country, has done.… We systematically tortured…
Kill more Arabs, save democracy
Not sure what Barack Obama’s win means for the world? Allow Melanie Phillips to explain: …America is in the process of changing – not just demographically by becoming less white and more diverse, but as the result of a culture war in which western civilisation is losing out to a far-left agenda which has become…
Are the end times approaching?
Is the war in Iraq coming to a close but hardly “on the terms of those who initiated it?”