My latest investigation is a joint piece for Declassified Australia and Declassified UK on the rush to exploit Afghan resources (mostly since 9/11): The Taliban’s takeover of Afghanistan in August last year has caused the country to implode. It was already on life support after more than 40 years of war but the swift removal…
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How the UK could end its war on drugs
My piece appeared in the Guardian yesterday: Britain is in the midst of a drug emergency. The country is witnessing unprecedented rates of Class A drug use; Border Force officers are seizing more cocaine than at any time in recorded history. The problem is particularly bad in Scotland, which has the highest rateof drug deaths…
In solidarity with Julian Assange and Wikileaks
I’m honoured to have signed this statement, alongside some of the world’s best journalists, in support of Julian Assange and the vital work of Wikileaks since 2006: Julian Assange, founder and publisher of WikiLeaks, is currently detained in Belmarsh high-security prison in the United Kingdom and faces extradition to the United States and criminal prosecutionunder…
Jews were killed and that’s not funny
Documentary maker and writer Max Blumenthal – I saw him tonight in New York and he’s an intriguing man who will be working on more projects related to apartheid Israel in the coming months and years – made this short film about Holocaust denier David Irving in 2008. The world needs more people like Blumenthal:…
1939 over and over and over again
Israel’s new Ambassador to the US Michael Oren reminds the world that Holocaust exploitation is alive and well in the Zionist mind: They [Iran] could accomplish in a matter of seconds what they deny Hitler did, and kill six million Jews, literally.
Don’t define this as a Jewish state
Israeli Arab media personality Lucy Aharish on the growing outspokenness of 20 percent of the country’s population: There is a new generation of Arabs who don’t give a hoot what anyone thinks and will do everything they can to get into high positions. We have other things to get over besides the occupation and discrimination.…
Occupation can’t be spun
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s communications chief, Ron Dermer, tells the Melbourne Age that his country has a PR problem. Why can’t the world just love us (and our hatred of Arabs)? It is not enough for Israel to say that it wants peace. You must also say that you are not a thief. We…
A good definition of being Jewish
Naomi Klein, a hero for backing a global boycott against Israel, said in Ramallah last week: There is a debate among Jews – I’m a Jew by the way. The debate boils down to the question: “Never again to everyone, or never again to us?… [Some Jews] even think we get one get-away-with-genocide-free card…There is…
Iranian rape inc.
The reality of the Iranian uprisings is still being written but this piece in the Nation is pretty good. What ordinary Iranians suffered is painfully recounted by an 18 year old man: “I was kept in a van till evening that day and then transferred to a solitary cell where I was kept for two…
