President Barack Obama has maintained a network of torture-prisons during his “war on terror”, including a secret prison in Afghanistan. President Bush and President Obama; different Presidents, same criminality.
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Maybe Israel and Iraq ain’t that different
Foreign Policy’s The Cable blog perhaps doesn’t realise that its reference to Israeli politics is very revealing. This isn’t just about a comparison to Israeli politics but a belief that somebody like Tzipi Livni is essentially sharing the same message as current Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. Different rhetoric, same belief in Zionist exceptionalism. Maybe Iraq…
The three New Zealanders who said “no” to US aggression
Spending time in New Zealand brings fascinating tales of a nation with a radical and independent streak. Admirable and pretty unique. I’ve been told by a number of different people about this story from March this year, an example of a non-violent protest against US wars that resulted in a great deal of local sympathy…
What some American Jews really want is unlimited cash for Israel and no questions asked
Many Jews are America are worried that the Obama administration hasn’t continued the blind rhetorical support for Israel. They’ve become rather used to it. Now we learn that the White House has hosted a numbers of meetings between officials and Rabbis to calm the nerves of the poor Zionists: Efrem Goldberg, the rabbi at Boca…
Israel and Iraq questions provide double whammy in Auckland
I’m currently at the Auckland Writer’s Festival. Wonderful event. Speaking to hundreds of people every day – mainly about the Middle East but also on the importance of alternative voices online – and the one message that keeps on coming up is how rarely dissenting Jewish perspectives or those critical of Israel appear in the…
The one-minute explanation for the “war on terror”
Lessons on terrorism that every American should know:
Running women are a danger to the House of Saud
Saudi Arabia bans women from jogging down a street allegedly for reasons of safety. Sure thing. Just another day in a US-backed dictatorship.
As long as Israel remains an American obsession, things will decline badly
Josh Landis @ Foreign Policy thinks that Russia is looking at the Middle East with added interest and I wonder why: So long as America’s No. 1 foreign-policy goal in the region is to hurt Iran and help Israel, Russia will be drawn back into the region and a new Cold War will take shape.…
Americans murdering Afghans, says Seymour Hersh
The journalist who helped break the story that detainees at the Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq were being tortured by their US jailers told an audience at a journalism conference last month that American soldiers are now executing prisoners in Afghanistan. New Yorker journalist Seymour Hersh also revealed that the Bush Administration had developed advanced…
Why internet censorship is a fool’s paradise
My following article is published today by the Sydney Morning Herald/Age online: We live under the illusion that governments can protect us from the evils of the world. Paedophilia, extreme violence, lessons in self-harm and suicide, race hatred and terrorism. We have every right to expect governments to monitor hate and terror sites and arrest…