Salon’s Glenn Greenwald rightly concludes that the responsibility-free media class that advocates “for more wars that never touch their lives” should be treated with the contempt they deserve (while, in contrast, somebody like Howard Zinn, who opposed wars, is side-lined or even ignored by the mainstream): I’m periodically criticized for an… “angry” tone in my writing,…
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Fox News is a highly trusted news source in America (believe it)
Americans now want a lack of neutrality in their news (not that objectivity or balance is ever achieved in the corporate press): Americans do not trust the major tv news operations in the country- except for Fox News. Our newest survey looking at perceptions of ABC News, CBS News, CNN, Fox News, and NBC News…
What’s the chances of Israeli politicians being caught in Australia?
Greg Barns writes in Tasmanian newspaper (owned by Rupert Murdoch) The Mercury about the human right’s double standard when our political and media elites discuss war crimes, refugees and Israel: Last week the Right-wing media and their political friends worked themselves up into lather over an assessment by ASIO that a small number of Tamil…
Iran’s “nuclear threat” is far from clear
From the “don’t believe everything you read” department, further evidence that Murdoch’s London paper is pushing spin over Iran’s supposed nuclear capability. Gareth Porter reports: New revelations about two documents leaked to The Times of London to show that Iran is working on a “nuclear trigger” mechanism have further undermined the credibility of the document…
Fox News quality spread around the world
Glenn Beck’s year of wild conspiracies, paranoid delusions and cynical lies.
The ghosts of Gareth Evans
Murdoch columnist Piers Akerman can usually be relied upon to defend the most powerful in society and belittle the least able to respond. He’s a corporate commentator, after all. But a piece this week, writing about Gareth Evans, the new chancellor of the Australian National University and former Australian attorney-general and foreign minister, surprisingly reminds…
Australia snubs Tamil refugees
My following article is published in US magazine The Nation: Sri Lanka’s brutal war against the Tamils, a native ethnic group that has suffered legal, economic and political discrimination for more than half a century, has come at a huge domestic and global cost. Human rights in the Sinhalese-dominated nation are consistently violated, with journalists,…
America always acts “unselfishly”, argues Dick Cheney
Former US Vice President Dick Cheney offers his considered view on Fox News about the amazing country known as America: Sean Hannity: You said about Barack Obama that he is projecting weakness to America’s enemies. Expand on that. Dick Cheney: Well, I think most of us believe and most presidents believe and talk about the…
Rudd helps the Middle East story remain one sided
My following story appears in today’s Crikey: Last weekend the Australian’s foreign editor Greg Sheridan interviewed former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert and provided a platform for him to defend the 2006 Lebanon war, 2008/09 Gaza war and reveal the “most extensive concessions any Israeli leader has ever brought to the table in the search…