Cracks, very small cracks, are starting to appear in the age-old blindness towards Israeli apartheid. Why? Because a mute person knows that indefinite Zionist occupation of Palestinian land is bad for Palestinians, awful for Israelis and madness for America and the world (via Politico): Two of the Democratic Party’s core institutions are challenging a bipartisan…
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How post 9/11 world has helped corporations make a killing
Private prisons and detention centres are booming businesses (hello Serco). Crisis, real or otherwise, are exploited by corporations who come in to supposedly save the day (cut costs, increase efficiency etc). The reality, explained in this piece on Alternet about the US, is rather different: In a recently published report, “Banking on Bondage: Mass Incarceration…
This is the puerile level of Zionists pushing for two-state “solution”
The One Voice campaign is left to using a washed up Seinfeld character to support a Zionist state:
Australia and Israeli share the values of embracing occupation and racism?
The American Jewish establishment cares little about Palestinians and prefers to talk about easy access to Zionist paradise. Some, like Peter Beinart, recognise the crisis and the effect of a decades-old Israeli occupation. Rather bad for the Zionist brand. But not to worry, Australia’s Prime Minister sails on regardless, giving the same talking points that…
When “liberal” Barbra Streisand can’t get enough of the IDF
Fund-raising for an occupying army is simply business as usual in Hollywood:
At least somebody is talking about how Murdoch infects the US body politic
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Hard to disagree with Assange calling many mainstream editors shills for power
Yes: Mainstream media and editors came under fire from WikiLeaks’ founder Julian Assange at the Global Editors Network summit in Hong Kong today, as he accused most journalists of entering the profession to “crawl up the ladder of power to become associated with power”. Addressing the conference via Skype, Assange told the audience of editors…
Woodside in the Kimberley; Exploitation Inc
My following investigation appears in today’s Crikey: When West Australian Premier Colin Barnett said recently that he welcomed the announcement of a permanent US military presence in northern Australia, his words were worth considering in a wider context. “We have a large open expanse in northern Australia, we are near one of the most troubled…