How the New York Times avoids reporting the realities of American war crimes in Iraq.
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The view from the Murdoch perch
Scott Burchill, Senior Lecturer in International Relations in the School of International & Political Studies at Deakin University, comments on a Murdoch mouthpiece: Quote of the week goes to Liberal Party lunchalot and honorary Republican Party ambassador, Greg Sheridan. According to the Foreign Editor of The Australian, “Rudd will be a tremendous disappointment to the…
Failure: something shared by the US and Israel
Time.com’s senior editor Tony Karon explains the way the Bush administration sees the world: It should come as no surprise that Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki’s disastrous offensive against the Mahdi Army of Moqtada Sadr in Basra has had the exact opposite effect of that intended — strengthening rather than weakening Sadr, and making clear that…
A nonexistent Iraq
My following article appeared in yesterday’s ABC Unleashed: More than five years after the start of the Iraq war, the country remains mired in conflict. The Washington Post highlighted the quagmire this week: Attacks against U.S. troops and Iraqi security forces soared across Baghdad in the last week of March to the highest levels since…
Payment for pimping
When so many bloggers are already encouraging the US to bomb and occupy more Arab nations, this program seems rather redundant: A study, written for U.S. Special Operations Command, suggested “clandestinely recruiting or hiring prominent bloggers.” Since the start of the Iraq war, there’s been a raucous debate in military circles over how to handle…
Finding a difference
Medialens, April 1: On March 22, an Economist magazine editorial described the recent violence in Tibet as a “colonial uprising”, a “revolt” against foreign occupation. This was accurate, as was the implication that China has no legitimate claims over Tibet. (”˜A colonial uprising – Tibet,’ The Economist, March 22, 2008) By contrast, recent media coverage…
Ignoring our own people
Jan Egeland, former UN Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and UN Emergency Relief Coordinator, on the world’s greatest problems in 2008: One is still eastern Congo, catastrophically neglected. It was the biggest loss of lives on our watch these last fifteen years: five million people died. Darfur has spread as a conflict and as a catastrophe…
How occupation has corrupted Israel’s soul
My following book review appears in today’s edition of Sydney’s Sun-Herald newspaper: Israel and the Clash of Civilisations Jonathan Cook (Pluto Press, $42.95) The September 11 attacks on New York and Washington caused the Western media and political elite to seriously examine their behaviour in the Middle East. Most concluded that maintaining client states was…