Cameron Stewart writes a perceptive piece in the Australian on the troubles for the Australian government. It either stands up for its citizen, Julian Assange, or is made to simply follow Washington’s dictates. The evidence thus far is not good: Australia faces potentially the greatest political fallout of any non-American nation from the WikiLeaks controversy.…
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This is how Australia is seen; vassals used by Washington over Wikileaks
Wikileaks news is coming thick and fast. Some “highlights” over the last 24 hours. One: [Israeli] Defense Minister Ehud Barak Tuesday told the Knesset Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee that a deal was never reached with the United States on a renewed settlement freeze because the US is preoccupied with the mass of documents being…
More allegations that Wikileaks is helping terrorists
More challenges to the heart of the US empire: Wikileaks raised the stakes in its battle with America last night by releasing a secret list of all the global industries and assets that the US most wishes to protect. Security experts said that the cable, published by the whistleblower website as part of an unauthorised…
Finding ways to wipe Tamils from the picture entirely
He’s back. “Terrorism expert” Rohan Gunaratna loves to talk about violence and evil and is very close to the Colombo brutes. Here he is wishing that any resistance to the autocratic Rajapaksa regime would disappear. Dream on: The cancellation of President Mahinda Rajapaksa’s Oxford Union speech and the events leading to that controversial decision is…
Supporting Assange and Wikileaks because shooting the messenger ain’t the answer
While the Australian political elites are desperate to do Washington’s bidding even without too much pressure – “how high would you like us to jump, sir? More wars in the Middle East? Why, of course, we’ve always enjoyed killing Arabs” – there’s finally some movement and support from important quarters. One: Australia’s political leaders are…
Does the Australian government work for its own citizens?
There is a battle looming between a subservient Australian government and its American benefactor: Prominent human rights lawyer Julian Burnside told The Sunday Age Mr Assange’s reference to Mr Hicks was apt, given the government’s apparent enthusiasm to assist the US rather than an Australian citizen. But he said he ”wouldn’t be surprised” if Mr…
Zionist weapons tested on Arabs then sold to the world
A disturbing piece in the LA Times that shows how Israel is profiting from marketing “anti-terrorist” gear. And Palestinians are guinea pigs: As the threat of terrorism spreads, Israel has moved aggressively to turn domestic security technology into one of its biggest exports. More than 400 Israeli companies export about $1.5 billion annually in domestic…
Yes, US involved in shady dealings globally and its standing is still low
Another day and more Wikileaks revelations. Who the hell is saying there’s nothing in these documents? Only people who resent light being shone on the true dealings of the US. More, please. One: Pakistan‘s president, Asif Ali Zardari, whose wife, Benazir Bhutto, was killed in a suicide bombing, has made extensive preparations in case of…
Syria gives US lesson in Mid-East realities
Robert Fisk, in a piece titled, “Now we know. America really doesn’t care about injustice in the Middle East“, writes that the Wikileaks cables are a depressing read of US and Israeli arrogance: One of the most interesting reflections – dutifully ignored by most of the pro-Wikileaks papers yesterday – came in a cable on…
Whispering sweet Saudi nothings into Obama’s ear
One of America’s finest allies in the Middle East: Last year, King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia proposed an unorthodox way to return Guantánamo Bay prisoners to a chaotic country like Yemen without fear that they would disappear and join a terrorist group. The king told a top White House aide, John O. Brennan, that the…