The Olympic Games, from a Palestinian perspective: So let’s hope that in the next Games we’ll see contestants competing for a medal in events such as constructing a concrete wall, mixing cement, milking cows, cleaning stairs, and digging sewage ditches along the roads of the capital of the host country. And boycotting China? I’m not…
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How would you like your repression?
Welcome to our new Chinese overlords: Police State 2.0 is being perfected in China and we can thank Western multinationals.
Let the patriot games begin
My following article appears in today’s ABC Unleashed: Before the Beijing Games launched spectacularly last weekend, the vast bulk of Australian media expressed general disdain for China, finding little positive to report. It was just the kind of coverage that played directly into the Communist regime’s hands; such is the widespread belief there that the…
Keeping the Zionist flame alive
Poor, little Israel is blocked from selling death to a foreign country (albeit briefly, as Georgia seems to have been the lucky recipient of the Jewish state’s weapons): Israeli security firms have been shut out of the Olympic Games in China and in the process lost lucrative contracts, industry sources said. U.S. pressure blocked the…
Communism for Lhasa?
Are China and the Dalai Lama soon to enter an unprecedented period of rapprochement (such as the Tibetan spiritual leader visiting China for the first time in 50 years)?
The mother of all distractions
How the American mainstream media prays at the alter of corporate China during the Beijing Olympics. Welcome to Police State 2.0.
Dissing the greying crowd
Leading Chinese blogger Isaac Mao: China has a long tradition of people trying to fit into the group, moderating their behaviour to avoid standing out conspicuously – a culture reinforced by the man-made collectivism of the past half-century. Blogs have leapfrogged this tradition, acting as a catalyst to encourage young people to become more individual.…
Being eaten by the dragon
Can we trust the Chinese during the Games? The Beijing Olympics: Are They A Trap?
Engaging, not hectoring, China
My following article appears in the Amnesty International Australia’s Uncensor campaign about human rights in China: The future of human rights in China after the Games will require constant negotiation and patience, writes Antony Loewenstein The Olympics are nearly upon us (and dog is allegedly banned from sale during the event.) Beijing residents are reporting…
