My following article appears in today’s edition of Crikey: Antony Loewenstein, on a US book tour, writes from New York: Outgoing US President George W Bush has a few regrets. “The fight in Iraq has been longer and more costly than expected”, he said last week. But he has never apologised for his administration’s use…
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How to define a robust Jewish chat
After a wonderful day in upstate New York with leading American Jewish dissident writer and blogger Phil Weiss – a generous, warm-hearted, critical yet optimistic man – I left feeling strangely empowered. Despite all the attempts by the Zionist lobby and its courtiers, the horrendous reality in Palestine is becoming clearer to the world by…
Keeping Tehran happy
Why are the Iranians seemingly pleased with the passage of the Security Agreement between Iraq and the US by the Iraqi parliament?
Stenographer discovers the real Loewenstein
On the day before Islamic terrorists launched their latest attack on Mumbai, Sydney writer Antony Loewenstein delivered a speech at Harvard University in the US. Readers, it’s time to admit something (already picked up by this crafty Murdoch hack in Sydney.) My words at Harvard this week actually triggered a sleeper cell in India. Blame…
The end of oppression?
The Iraqi parliament voted by an overwhelming show of hands yesterday to end US military control of their country – a crucial turning point in the Iraq conflict. The security agreement, the outcome of lengthy and rancorous negotiations, requires US forces to leave Iraqi cities, towns and villages by 30 June next year. American troops…
Money wasted on vulgarity
Just what exactly is the massive US embassy in Baghdad exactly for? A monument to what?
A menace to society
I’m dangerous, allegedly. Am I am threat to Jews/Muslims/terrorists/insurgents/US soliders in Iraq/all of the above?
Just a few more hitches on the path to freedom
Democracy is on the march in Iraq, we’re constantly told, except blogger Suadad Al-Salhy writes from inside the parliament and finds: It seems like 70% of the Iraqi MP’s have no idea what is in the [status of forces] agreement. This is clear from the complaints and criticisms that I hear when I am listening…
Line them up in the dock
One of Britain’s most authoritative judicial figures last night delivered a blistering attack on the invasion of Iraq, describing it as a serious violation of international law, and accusing Britain and the US of acting like a “world vigilante”.