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Jeremy Scahill on US media ignoring US-led war on terror black sites
Here’s Schaill’s stunning Nation story on CIA-led black sites in Somalia.
Bleating of the oppressed Murdoch multinational
Life is tough for an organisation that constantly speaks about high morals and noble wars and yet finds itself under the spotlight as a corporation that bullies opponents and conducts illegal acts in the name of “journalism”. Hilariously, Murdoch’s Australian today says the glorious empire remains glorious and dedicated to holding politicians to account. Apart…
Liberal Zionists struggle with brutal Israeli realities
Some, like editors of the Australian Jewish News, simply don’t see themselves as liberal at all and prefer to blindly back Israeli policies because they perceive their role as Diaspora Jews to be robots without thought. That’s what Zionism has done to my people. Witness a recent editorial on BDS: The hostile mob arrayed outside…
How to deal with fracking when it comes knocking in town
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Murdoch investigates himself and let’s guess the outcome?
As growing numbers of citizens across the world rise up and challenge the pro-war, race-baiting that the Murdoch press perpetuates, we learn that the empire still doesn’t understand how to respond appropriately: Just when we were beginning to wonder when The Wall Street Journal would actually start to cover the meltdown at its proprietor’s company…
Ahmadinejad’s Iran looking to isolate itself bit by bit
What a paranoid and fundamentalist regime looks like: Iran has stepped up online censorship by upgrading the filtering system that enables the Islamic regime to block access to thousands of websites it deems inappropriate for Iranian users. The move comes one month after the United States announced plans to launch new services facilitating internet access…
Only a fool doesn’t know the kind of “journalism” offered by Murdoch empire
Sigh: A number of key members of the family which controlled The Wall Street Journal say they would not have agreed to sell the prestigious daily to Rupert Murdoch if they had been aware of News International’s conduct in the phone-hacking scandal at the time of the deal. “If I had known what I know…
Obama success; US more hated in Arab world than during Bush
What does Washington expect when Israel is allowed to brutalise the Palestinians, drone attacks are killing countless civilians and Arab dictatorships are warmly embraced? The hope that the Arab world had not long ago put in the United States and President Obama has all but evaporated. Two and a half years after Obama came to…