My following investigation appears in today’s edition of Crikey: The Middle East “quagmire” is largely “the fault of Israel”, according to Paul Howes, national secretary of the Australian Workers Union (AWU). In an interview with Crikey, the author of Confessions of a Faceless Man said that he was a “critical friend of Israel” and the…
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Privatisation; the drug of a nation
Wall Street Journal article from 2007 that accurately summarises what’s happening to America: Is U.S. Government ‘Outsourcing Its Brain’?
Being young, cool and cluey means embracing Palestine
The idea of supporting Israel and occupation simply doesn’t wash with many young Americans, including Jews, and the generational split is growing (see here). Who wants to defend settlements and apartheid? Years ago, backing Israel was cool. These days, with the internet and satellite TV, increasing numbers of people know that Palestinian rights is one…
Nir Rosen; a journalist’s job is to investigate and challenge power
Nir Rosen talks on Democracy Now! about his new book, Aftermath: SHARIF ABDEL KOUDDOUS: And what’s happening right now in Iraq? There’s been a long stalemate following the parliamentary elections in March. You were in Iraq many times since 2003, and you documented very closely, for example, Muqtada al-Sadr and the Mahdi Army. Where does…
Privatising war is a beautiful racket most people can’t play
The military industrial complex is a term casually thrown about today and yet it’s become a reality in the US and many states. State expenditure on the military and arms sales has never been higher. A new documentary explains: Cultures of Resistance: A Look at Global Militarization from Cultures of Resistance on Vimeo.
How Palestine inspires the people of Kashmir
Arundhati Roy in the New York Times powerfully expresses the conflict in Kashmir, America’s willful impotence and the mood of resistance: A week before he was elected in 2008, President Obama said that solving the dispute over Kashmir’s struggle for self-determination — which has led to three wars between India and Pakistan since 1947 —…
What the US press follows closely
This is “news” on the Huffington Post: Michelle Obama shines at state dinner in India
Sell everything to the highest bidder (cos the state won’t pay)
Great American writer and Rolling Stone contributor Matt Taibbi has a new book out, Griftopia. It tells the story of America’s financial crisis and its outsourcing to various shady characters from across the world. Privatisation on speed (something I’m also examining in a forthcoming book): In the summer of 2009 I got a call from…
Don’t forget what Hillary Clinton really represents
Most of the Australian corporate media have fawned over Hillary Clinton’s current visit (an article in the Australian today is headlined, “Then the ladies did lunch”). This photo protest is a necessary exception, reminding us of the rapacious nature of the US state and its killing machine across the Middle East and beyond: