Many nations followed the US lead and conducted their own “war on terror”. Take Sri Lanka. This release on the country’s Defence Ministry website about the recent visit of British Foreign Secretary David Milliband is about as compelling as North Korean PR: The Defence Secretary said it was up to the British delegation to decide…
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Imagine if the NYT became honest
The following letter was not written in 2001 by Nelson Mandela to the New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman (here’s the background story), but its words still resonate today: Dear Thomas, I know that you and I long for peace in the Middle East, but before you continue to talk about necessary conditions from an…
Laughing with war criminals
Fox News believes in free speech until people dare discuss American complicity in crimes. Rupert Murdoch’s proud little baby gets funnier by the day.
Western supported colonialism on show
Another day and another announcement that Israel continues to flout international norms, law and decency: Israel has taken a step towards expanding the largest settlement in the West Bank, a move Palestinians warn will leave their future state unviable and further isolate its future capital, East Jerusalem The Israeli Peace Now group, which monitors settlement…
We’re all bloggers now
A few choice words by Murdoch biographer Michael Wolff on the future, or lack thereof, of the MSM: The NYT [New York Times] will not be owned by the same company 18 months from now. I stand by that.
Tweet that buster
Maureen Dowd of the New York Times meets her match with one of the founders of Twitter: ME: If you were out with a girl and she started twittering about it in the middle, would that be a deal-breaker or a turn-on? BIZ (dryly): In the middle of what?
Israel to bomb Iran? Don’t believe the hype
My latest column for New Matilda is about the relationship between Israel and Iran and the prospects for war: The Israel lobby want to bomb Iran, but calmer heads can see plenty of reasons not to. This time the lobby may not get what it wants, writes Antony Loewenstein Roger Cohen, a columnist for the…
Durban II, the how, why and who
The farce currently taking place in Geneva, known as Durban II, has already thrown up a veritable collection of freaks, distractions, nutty celebrities (what the hell is Angelina Jolie’s dad, Jon Voight, doing there?) and agendas. What follows is a small selection of the issues raised (and yet more evidence that the Western world, led…
We will no longer accept your normal behaviour
Something is stirring at the New York Times. Columnist Roger Cohen has spent the last months writing piece after piece about Iran, Israeli extremism and war. Yesterday he was back with another round, titled, ‘Israel, Iran and Fear‘: A core contradiction inhabits Israeli policy. While talking about a two-state solution — at least until Netanyahu…