At least one mainstream media journalist, from CNN, questions the morality and legality of Israel using US-provided “defensive” weapons when killing Palestinian civilians. And while most Jewish groups remain silent or complicit in the current futility, I praise this brave Jew from Vermont who correctly compares… the situation in Gaza to the Warsaw Ghetto. Jews…
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Change is only a word
Alexander Cockburn, co-editor of Counterpunch, on a necessary reality check: Obama invokes change. Yet never has the dead hand of the past had a “reform” candidate so firmly by the windpipe. Is it possible to confront America’s problems without talking about the arms budget? The Pentagon is spending more than at any point since the…
From Zionism to Communism
Israel is seemingly happy to sell weapons to anybody in the world and also train repressive regimes: Israel Police held secret training for Chinese police officers ahead of the recent Olympic Games, Haaretz has learned. The approximately six-week course was held in Israel for about 20 selected officers of the People’s Armed Police Force, to…
How to buy friends and make them hate you
The United States, protector of the civilised world: The Bush administration is pushing through a broad array of foreign weapons deals as it seeks to rearm Iraq, Afghanistan, contain North Korea and Iran, and solidify ties with onetime Russian allies. and From tanks, helicopters and fighter jets to missiles, remotely piloted aircraft and even warships,…
Just helping the kids
The vast majority of mainstream media lives and works close to the establishment, unwilling or unable to challenge the order of society because their livelihood relies on supporting the status-quo. MSNBC correspondent Tucker Carlson is the perfect example of this phenomenon. During last week’s Republican National Convention, Carlson was attending an event sponsored by arms…
The Russian murder machine
The industry of death can always find new friends: Russian arms exports may reach at least $6.1 billion by the end of 2008, a senior official at Rosoboronexport, Russia’s largest state arms exporter, said on Friday. Russia has doubled annual arms exports since 2000 to $7 billion last year, becoming the world’s second-largest exporter of…
Very elastic values
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is allegedly the “new Hitler” unless, of course, there is some money to be made, in which case… An Israeli company has recently supplied thousands of high-tech security systems to Iran for the protection of its president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Israel Radio reported on Tuesday. Israel Radio said Iran bought more than…
A deadly legacy
Who was responsible for dropping cluster bombs during the recent war between Russia and Georgia?