Leading American journalist Seymour Hersh has more explosive revelations: The U.S. military is not just fighting wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, America’s most renowned investigative journalist says. The army is also “in a war against the White House — and they feel they have [President] Obama boxed in,” Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter Seymour Hersh told several…
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Judge Obama on what he does, not what he says
Howard Zinn on Obama’s peace prize: I was dismayed when I heard Obama was given the Nobel Peace Prize. A shock, really, to think that a president carrying on wars in two countries and launching military action in a third country (Pakistan), would be given a peace prize. But then I recalled that Woodrow Wilson,…
Not buying the Obama “dream” in Indonesia
The following article appears in Saturday’s Jakarta Post: A discussion about writers’ views on the United States President Barack Obama and on the Middle East peace process stole the show during the third day of the annual Ubud Writers and Readers Festival on Friday. Speaking at the discussion were Benazir Bhutto’s niece, Fatima Bhutto, Australian…
The Bhutto legacy in a younger generation
During my current visit to Indonesia, I’ve been spending time with Fatima Bhutto, the niece of assassinated Pakistani politician Benazir Bhutto. Fatima is a determined, passionate person, angry at her government’s complicity with the US and its war against supposed “terrorists”. Here’s a short extract from a 2008 Guardian profile: Fatima is at great pains…
My Israel Question Sydney launch
My Israel Question will have its Sydney launch on 17 September at Gleebooks in conversation with Australia’s leading foreign correspondent, Paul McGeough: At this event, Antony Loewenstein will have just returned from the Middle East and Paul McGeough from Afghanistan. Loewenstein and McGeough are the foremost Australian journalists and writers covering these war-torn, troubled countries.…
The faces of a Muslim nation
Friend and colleague Mustafa Qadri has spent much of the past two years in Pakistan. He’s a fine reporter; astute, brave and incisive. Here’s a photo essay of his observations:
US aims to convince Muslims that killing them is for their own good
Barack Obama films a Ramadan message and tells the Muslim world that he cares deeply about Pakistan, Afghanistan and a two-state solution between Israel and the Palestinians. Yet again, this is effective PR dressed up as policy. Muslims across the globel aren’t going to be seduced by pretty words from the US President when Israel…
Democracy is possible not with government your
Barack Obama gives his first interview to a Pakistani newspaper but the headline on the story is intriguing: Beat extremists you can, says Obama.
Obama in Cairo
My following article was published today on the popular US website Mondoweiss: Back in 2005, then US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice gave a rousing speech at Cairo’s American University. “For sixty years”, she argued, “my country, the United States, pursued stability at the expense of democracy in this region here in the Middle East…