My following article appears in today’s edition of Crikey: Overland is a quarterly publication published in Melbourne since 1954 and aims to give, in the words of… editor Jeff Sparrow, “space for radicals and liberals”. Over the past few years a handful of articles have appeared written by Jews (including me, principally on peak oil)…
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Privileged Australian Zionists moan about censorship while Palestine disappears
A sorry saga that needs no introduction. Independent Australian magazine Overland recently received this letter from six Jewish academics. It was sent to the editors of the publication and the editorial board: 20/4/10 Dear members of Overland Editorial Board, We are writing to express our grave concern about your journal’s unbalanced coverage of Israeli-Palestinian issues…
Fox knows close to nothing about environmental issues
A television network of mass disinformation: In the wake of the catastrophic oil spill currently occurring in the Gulf of Mexico, Media Matters reviews Fox News’ fervent advocacy for offshore drilling. Its activism has including promoting Sarah Palin’s “drill, baby, drill” mantra and pushing myths suggesting that drilling is environmentally safe.
Murdoch man says the Left is the Devil warmed up
The Australian’s Foreign Editor Greg Sheridan – predictably pro-Murdoch, pro-Israel and pro-American – offers his latest gem: The Left in Australia has great staying power. It is forever on the long march through the institutions. It creates nothing, but its destructive power is fantastic.
Another example of Murdoch media manipulation (that failed)
The sheer awfulness of the Murdoch press. Quality journalism, indeed: Gillian Duffy, the Rochdale pensioner whom Gordon Brown described as “a sort of bigoted woman”, turned down the chance to make a small fortune from selling her story to The Sun because the newspaper wanted her to say things she did not believe. The offer…
Poor Murdoch clan, British public don’t take their cues from The Sun
Key lesson for the day. Rupert Murdoch and his minions don’t like being attacked (or not helping to select future leaders of a country. Real democrats): After a lifetime at the helm of the world’s most powerful media organisation and in the crosshairs of the left, Rupert Murdoch has, of necessity, developed a reasonably thick…
Murdoch cares for nothing more than being close to the big boys
Briton David Yelland, former editor of Murdoch’s Sun newspaper and now PR man, writes a very insightful column in the Guardian. A rare understanding of the Murdoch view of the world – namely, power at any cost with ideology a long way behind: I doubt if Rupert Murdoch watched the election debate last week. His…
Chomsky fears the rise of fascism in the US
We have been warned: Noam Chomsky, the leading leftwing intellectual, warned last week that fascism may be coming to the United States. “I’m just old enough to have heard a number of Hitler’s speeches on the radio,” he said, “and I have a memory of the texture and the tone of the cheering mobs, and…
Israel is behaving like Fidel Castro, says Fox News
Fox News interviews reporter Judith Miller recently on the Anat Kamm case. Host Shep Smith seems outraged that supposed democratic Israel would censor information and put an individual under house arrest. “This is very Fidel Castro”, he says. He tells viewers that when anybody says anything even mildly critical of Israel they are accused of…
Murdoch publishes pro-Colombo propaganda
What kind of newspaper publishes an article by an “expert on defence policy in the Indian Ocean” that argues post-war Sri Lanka is a place of harmony and peace, treating all its minorities with compassion and equality? Murdoch’s Australian. And the writer is Sergei DeSilva-Ranasinghe. The article is about as credible as Zionists claiming that…