American independent journalist Jeremy Scahill believes in actual reporting. Controversial idea in an age where the vast majority of corporate hacks in the MSM barely leave the office or simply receive sanctioned leaks. He’s just returned from Yemen where he finds the Obama administration conducting a violent counter-terrorist program that is achieving little more than…
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ABCTV News24 on Iran, faltering economy and racism
Last night I appeared on ABCTV’s The Drum (video here) alongside Joe Stella and The Punch editor Tory Maguire. We talked about the faltering global economy – why oh why is the IMF treated with such respect after years of failed forecasts and neo-liberal “reforms” that have only caused misery for millions globally? – and…
Thanks Tom Friedman for telling Egyptians what their revolution should be
The New York Times foreign affairs columnist is rightly ridiculed for pontificating as if he sees himself the spokesperson for America itself. What’s good for the US often seems to be his priority. He recently spoke in Cairo (in between interviewing Muslims he didn’t think the West should bomb, yet), and found some people less…
Keep those Ayrabs away from Australia, they look funny
The level of “conservative” debate in Murdoch’s Australian yesterday, in a piece by Hal G.P. Colebatch. I’m sure he’s seen heaps of Muslims on the TV and knows many of them intimately: Middle Eastern migrants, except in exceptional circumstances, appear to be making little attempt to assimilate and are bringing in polygamy, honour killings and…
When far Right hearts Zionism, sensible folk run (yet so many Jews are smiling)
There’s nothing like hating Muslims to get the juices flowing of the nationalist Right and some Zionist organisations. Islam is the enemy and must be obliterated (that’s their view, not mine). It’s an issue covered in the book On Utoya in which I contributed this year and deserves far more scrutiny. This kind of alliance…
Fascism lands in Israel and the West doesn’t blink
Powerful piece by… Shaul Arieli in Haaretz: The erosion of Israel’s image and credibility among world leaders and global public opinion is presented as “that same anti-Semitism in other garb.” The process of delegitimizing the booming settlement enterprise and the opposition to continued Israeli control of the territories are termed “wild incitement.” The latest excuse: The…
Israel’s growing anti-democratic tide deepens
My following essay appears in Lebanon’s Al Akhbar English: Radical Jewish colonists in the occupied Palestinian West Bank have been attacking Arabs for decades. In the past these incidents barely rated a mention in the Israeli press, let alone the global corporate media. It was only this month after a small group of Zionists rioted…
Calling all McCarthyists; Zionism needs you now
Debate over Israel/Palestine is shifting. Can you imagine even five years ago a Palestinian-American such as Ahmed Moor (co-editor with me on a book coming out in 2012 called After Zionism) talking constructively to a Jewish Rabbi about the one-state solution? Meanwhile, in mad Zionist land, where another Holocaust is always around the corner, the…
