Balloon Juice highlights a startling passage in a Washington Post story: But many residents near Kandahar do not share the view. They have lodged repeated complaints about the scope of the destruction with U.S. and Afghan officials. In one October operation near the city, U.S. aircraft dropped about two dozen 2,000-pound bombs. In another recent…
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Israel lobby welcomes image of naked people engaged in sexual acts
America’s leading Zionist lobby, AIPAC, loves pornography. And many other tales here.
What “Miral” does for the Palestinian cause
Last night in Sydney at the Palestinian Film Festival I saw an amazing new film by Jewish film-maker Julian Schnabel, Miral. This is a deeply moving tale about the Palestinian experience, from the 1948 Nakba to the Deir Yassin massacre, the 1967 war and the first intifada. Is it this generation’s Exodus, asks Mondoweiss? Its…
Nazis in public radio; call the police
Fox News head Roger Ailes displays his charming side (for which he later apologised): They [National Public Radio] are, of course, Nazis. They have a kind of Nazi attitude. They are the left wing of Nazism. These guys don’t want any other point of view. They don’t even feel guilty using tax dollars to spout…
Who makes money when more “illegals” are locked away?
While corporate politicians mostly talk about increasing prison numbers and locking more people away, public opinion over the issue is far more complex (if tabloid hysteria is ignored). However, in an increasingly privatised world, this recent NPR story in the US speaks volumes about an unhealthy relationship between a cash-strapped government and private interest: Last…
Speaking to Norman Finkelstein about viability of two-state solution
I recently interviewed leading American Jewish dissident and writer Norman Finkelstein at an inter-faith event in Sydney organised by Father Dave:
Headline of the week: “Obama’s hand in your crotch”
Shame about the editorial in the Washington Times, asking for intense scrutiny and profiling of Muslims to avoid “terrorism”. Perhaps we should just lock all Muslims in a large cage.
Washington’s global footprint is as subtle as the BFG
We often hear about the military industrial complex, but what does it mean in practice? Exhibit number one: The construction projects are sprouting like mushrooms: walled complexes, high-strength weapons vaults, and underground bunkers with command and control capacities — and they’re being planned and funded by a military force intent on embedding itself ever more…
John and Julie in Alaska are paying for Israeli apartheid
What Israeli “democracy” is all about, funded by the US taxpayer: Travelers along the “original” West Bank roads, the ones enabling drivers to bypass Palestinian villages, can see signs declaring “USAID from the American People.” The roads are one of the initiatives of the United States Agency for International Development for building infrastructure in underdeveloped…
True reporting is not being friendly with the establishment
MSNBC’s Keith Olbermann on news values, bias, being liberal and real journalism post 2003: