The New Yorker editor David Remnick attends a major Zionist event in America and shows, intentionally or not, that the American and Israeli political classes are insular fools who don’t care a hoot about Arabs (so what’s new, right?): Hillary Clinton is running for President. And the Israeli political class is a full-blown train wreck.…
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How the internet can threaten our freedom as we know it
Julian Assange talks to Democracy Now!: Human civilization has merged with the internet. Every society has gone onto the internet, with communications between all of us as individuals but also communications between businesses, economic transfers, and even the internal communications and external communications of states. So there is no barrier anymore between the internet and…
The American horror inflicted on Bradley Manning
If anybody doubts the brutality of the US “justice system” and the ways in which anybody deeply associated with Wikileaks is deemed an enemy of the state, the treatment of Bradley Manning is nothing less than torture. The reality of a tattered super-power. The Guardian reports: Shortly before… Bradley Manning… was arrested in Iraq under suspicion of…
Statement by Antony Loewenstein in support of Canberra Candlelight Vigil for #Assange
The following statement by me was read out last night in front of parliament house in Canberra to support Julian Assange and Wikileaks: In an age of government and corporate media spin, WikiLeaks stands tall as a unique voice of independence that demands support. The last 10 years of the so-called “war on terror” has…
“The employment of Palestinians is forbidden”
Yet more evidence that a great part of the American and Israeli relationship is about assisting the defence industries in both countries. The Washington Post reports: The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers plans to… supervise construction of a… five-story underground facility for an Israel Defense Forces complex, oddly named “Site 911,” at an Israeli Air Force base…
How we’re all targets now; journalists increased killed by state actors
Being a war reporter was also dangerous but the risks are increasing. Here’s a powerful piece by the always interesting David Carr in The New York Times: The setting at the Waldorf-Astoria hotel on Tuesday represented the height of refinement, but Alan Rusbridger, editor in chief of The Guardian, reminded the black-tie crowd at the…
New frontiers of “free speech”: pressuring Twitter to ban Hamas
Disturbing post by the ACLU about the growing pressure in the US to try and silence ideas or groups that certain interest groups don’t like (but who live and operate in the real world): With one major exception, the Roberts Court has been quite protective of unpopular (and even revolting) speech under the First Amendment.…
