Everybody’s favourite American supporter of bombing civilians to freedom, Thomas Friedman, writes in yesterday’s New York Times that the rift between America and Israel is serious. I’ll believe this when Israel’s colonisation program actually decreases. Until then, it’s cheap rhetoric, at best: I am a big Joe Biden fan. The vice president is an indefatigable…
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Iran is fearful and may therefore want the bomb
Noam Chomsky, speaking last week at Harvard, says that the Islamic Republic has every right to fear American foreign policy and is therefore acting rationally to protect itself: No one in their right mind wants Iran to develop nuclear weapons. If they’re not developing a nuclear deterrent, they are crazy.
Goldstone threatens the chances of killing civilians, anywhere
Surprise, surprise. So the real issue with the UN Goldstone report over Gaza isn’t really the innocents killed, it’s that the recommendations could be used against the West (via the Forward): In Congress, New York Democrat Gary Ackerman, chairman of the House Subcommittee on the Middle East and South Asia, is one of those leading…
How many American Jews are upset with Israel?
The Jewish Forward newspaper is unhappy (sure, it’s pitifully weak, but unlike the Australian Jewish News, Israel can occasionally step out of line): There were the expected handshakes and bear hugs, the slaps on the back and supportive words amiably expressed before the media. Just what ought to happen when Israel welcomes the vice president…
Murdoch casts a spell over already gutless corporate reporters
Former executive editor of the New York Times Howell Raines writes in the Washington Post that American mainstream journalists are scared of the power of Fox News and should fight back: Why has our profession, through its general silence — or only spasmodic protest — helped Fox legitimize a style of journalism that is dishonest…
Obama is managing America’s empire very nicely, thank you
Worried that Barack Obama is not protecting and expanding the American empire? Rest easy, writes Alexander Cockburn: Obama is just what the Empire needed. Plagued though it may be by deep structural problems, he has improved its malign potential for harm – the first duty of all U.S. presidents of whatever imagined political stripe.
How many more online addicts will we soon find in Havana?
What is the effect of Washington’s recent decision to allow web companies such as Google and Yahoo to operate in closed societies, such as Cuba and Iran?
Slowly realising why the Middle East is on fire
Gee, things are tough in the Middle East when Murdoch’s Australian sounds depressed. Maybe, just maybe, more corporate journalists based in Israel will start to write about the reasons for the bleakness; fundamentalist Jews: The Middle East peace process was in tatters last night and Israel’s coalition government faced crisis after it announced a huge…
What happens when Bush destroyed the city of Fallujah? Cancer, that’s what
I’ve written over the years about the many health effects of depleted uranium in Iraq. American forces stand accused of causing a massive rise in cancer amongst the local population. Now, more questions are being asked about the Iraqi city of Fallujah, after at least two massive American attacks in the years after 2003. Al-Jazeera…
Just one more sign that Washington loves Israel like its only child
The predictable Israeli slap to America’s modest demands should surprise nobody. Besides, the real test of America’s love affair with Israel and contempt for Palestinians is clear: Secretary of State Hillary Clinton will be the keynote speaker at this month’s annual meeting of the American Israel Public Affairs Committee, The Cable has confirmed. Clinton will…