A new documentary features some key global figures saying that a fundamental re-thinking is required. It’s called Breaking the Taboo:
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Evangelical Christians pouring millions into Israel and the Zionist cause
Here’s an interesting recent piece in Haaretz that should cause alarm to any human beings who reject fundamentalism. The sad reality is that far too many evangelicals back the most extreme forms of Zionism and occupation: With two mobile phones and a pair of sunglasses in one hand, a white handkerchief to wipe away sweat…
2SER Radio on Israel/Palestine and Australian UN vote
I was interviewed on Friday: Relations between Australia and Israel remain tense after the Foreign Minister Bob Carr called in Israel’s ambassador on Tuesday, to convey strong concern over plans to expand settlements on Palestinian land. Carr told the ambassador that building new settlements threatens the viability of a two-state solution. Israel announced the plan…
My book of the year
I was asked by Green Left Weekly for my book of 2012: Antony Loewenstein Journalist, author, documentarian The Silenced Majority: Stories of Uprisings, Occupation, Resistance and Hope By Amy Goodman and Denis Moynihan The corporate media’s reach into our lives can sometimes feel suffocating, with the same voices telling us that globalisation is good for…
Kim Kardashian loves autocratic Bahrain
The “star” recently travelled to Bahrain on a nice junket to promote…milkshakes: Anybody with a brain or eyes knows that Bahrain is a brutal, US-backed dictatorship. Marc Lynch in Foreign Policy writes: Kim Kardashian’s December 1 trip to Bahrain to promote milkshakes brought all the Middle East tweeps to the yard. Her visit attracted both…
My Q&A with Federal Senators about Australia’s future in Afghanistan
On 4 December I went to Canberra to give testimony at the Foreign Affairs, Defence and Trade References Committee on Australia’s overseas development programs in Afghanistan (here’s my opening statement with links). The following transcript is the Hansard record of my statement and questions from the Senators… (they were Greens MP Lee Rhiannon, Liberal MP Helen…
The death of the two-state solution is live on TV every day
A fascinating Empire on Al-Jazeera English with Rashid Khalidi, Tony Karon, Ethan Bronner and Peter Beinart. Liberal Zionists can only issue platitudes towards a “peace process”. A blind man sees that a just partition of the land is over. What comes next? That’s the conversation that needs to happen now, not rehashing failed policies of…
My evidence at the Senate committee on Australia’s overseas development programs in Afghanistan
On 4 December I gave testimony in Parliament House in Canberra at a Senate committee on Australia’s role and responsibilities in Afghanistan after the vast bulk of Western forces leave in 2014. I submitted a short statement to the committee back in September and was then invited to travel to Canberra for a more thorough…
Everybody in the US is under surveillance now
NSA whistleblower… William Binney explains how the surveillance state is now so vast and unaccountable that every piece of communication is searchable and available to authorities. Privacy and secrecy is so very yesterday: