Here’s the deal. Zionist Labor MP Michael Danby – an elected politician who seems to love Israel like a beautiful woman and challenge anybody who dares damn Zionist ideology – has complained about an ABC TV program that raised the recent Gaza war. War crimes were committed, but Danby and his media mates won’t tolerate…
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Perhaps they should have their balls electrocuted now
A few words about torture from somebody who would know. Major Matthew Alexander personally conducted 300 interrogations of prisoners in Iraq: The reason why foreign fighters joined al-Qa’ida in Iraq was overwhelmingly because of abuses at Guantanamo and Abu Ghraib and not Islamic ideology. It plays into the hands of al-Qa’ida in Iraq because it…
It’s all about winning the war
Inside the establishment mind of Mark Urban, the Diplomatic Editor of the BBC’s Newsnight programme.
Twittering in Baghdad
Jeremy Scahill wonders about the priorities of the Obama administration: The U.S. State Department has announced it is sponsoring a “New Media Technology” delegation to Iraq to “explore new opportunities to support Iraqi government and non-government stakeholders in Iraq’s emerging new media industry.” Of all of the areas in Iraq in desperate need of attention,…
More media panic for the boys
Mondoweiss understands the point exactly in my latest column on why old media simply don’t understand the changing rules of the game: Smart piece by Antony Loewenstein down under saying that the mainstream media are going away not just because of a technological change but because they’re invested more in the establishment hierarchy than in…
Who will face trial over this?
Western state terrorism of the most brutal kind: Air strikes and artillery barrages have taken a heavy toll among the most vulnerable of the Iraqi people, with children and women forming a disproportionate number of the dead. Analysis carried out for the research group Iraq Body Count (IBC) found that 39 per cent of those…
American war criminals inc.
Laith Mushtaq was… one… of only two non-embedded cameramen working throughout the April 2004 ‘battle for Fallujah’ in which 600 civilians died. He recounts the harrowing US-led massacre: One day, I think it was April 9, 2004, someone with a loudspeaker in Fallujah’s main mosque said: “The Americans will open a gate and women and children can…
Anybody but the Palestinians
Mahmood Mamdani is currently Herbert Lehman Professor of Government at Columbia University and author of the new book, Saviors and Survivors: Darfur, Politics, and the War on Terror. He tells the Boston Globe about the real agenda behind the global Save Darfur campaign: In a context where African tragedies seem never to be noticed, I…
What our job should always be
Democracy Now! host Amy Goodman on the true role of journalists: That media is broken right now. And I think the embedding process has brought the media to an all time low. You have reporters embedded in the front lines of troops in Iraq and Afghanistan. What about being embedded in Iraqi hospitals and Afghan…
Hold the withdrawal parties
283 bases, 170,000 pieces of equipment, 140,000 troops and an army of mercenaries. America won’t be pulling out of Iraq any time soon.