What Zionism is doing to Judaism. Here’s the latest press release from Jewish Voice for Peace: Last night, up to a dozen members of San Francisco Voice for Israel/StandWithUs, a right-wing Israeli advocacy group with a documented track record of aggressively taunting and intimidating grassroots peace activists, attended a Bay Area Jewish Voice for Peace…
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Deep behind “enemy” lines in Afghanistan
James Fergusson on the war in Afghanistan that isn’t being discussed in the New York Times or polite circles: The sound of a propeller engine is audible the moment my fixer and I climb out of the car, causing us new arrivals from Kabul to glance sharply upwards. I have never heard a military drone…
Palin’s words of wisdom
When the Left in the media pat you on the back, quickly reassess where you are and readjust, for the liberals’ praise is a warning bell you must heed. Trust me on that.
Just how desperate is Obama to appease Israeli apartheid?
When there was no settlement freeze in the first place, now the world press continues the charade. Look, over there, the US is begging Israel to reinstate the non-existent colony freeze: Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s seven-member inner cabinet will discuss Saturday an offer by the United States to reinstate a freeze on West Bank Settlement…
Damning Islam and not getting away with it in Palestine
Yet another taste of US-backed “democracy” in the West Bank. Armed, funded and backed by Washington and the international community. This is not a just Palestinian future: A mysterious blogger who set off an uproar in the Arab world by claiming he was God and hurling insults at the Prophet Muhammad is now behind bars…
LA Times damns Israeli settlements and says time is running out
Los Angeles Times editorial that really speaks for itself. Nothing really controversial but note the growing anger from within the US mainstream towards Israeli arrogance. This is only going to get worse: Why, after all these years, are we still writing about settlements? This tiresome controversy has been raging ever since Israel captured the West…
Will more doctors really help Australia’s global war effort?
The real agenda behind this story may be two-fold. Firstly, is the implication that Australia could be even more deeply involved in US-led missions across the world if this issue was resolved? And secondly, which “military operations overseas” are we not able to lead? The Defence Force has conceded it is facing a shortage of…
More weapons, more profits, more death
The privatisation of war is a growing phenomenon across the world. It’s rarely examined (Jeremy Scahill is a notable and noble exception). And now here’s David Ignatius in the Washington Post on the brave new world of killing “terrorists” and not telling anybody about it: A new arsenal of drones and satellite-guided weapons is changing…
Afghan politician wants us gone
Here’s a rarity. An Afghan politician calling for the removal of foreign troops. Note the sneering dismissal of her calls for withdrawal by the “balanced” ABC journalist: MARK COLVIN: Not even the optimists claim the war in Afghanistan is going brilliantly. The NATO force of which Australia is a part is still there largely because…