My following book review appears today in Sydney’s Sun Herald newspaper: Republican Gomorrah: Inside the Movement That Shattered the Party Max Blumenthal (Nation Books, $49.95) Reviewed by Antony Loewenstein Christian fundamentalists have taken over the Republican Party. “It’s become the party of birthers, deathers and Civil War re-enacters,” Max Blumenthal told the Los Angeles Times…
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Coppola praises Assad and we all groan
Neo-conservative bible The Weekly Standard ran this curious story last week and, if true, highlights a sad reality of the Middle East; lies, delusion and outright bigotry: With his new film Tetro billed to open Beirut’s recent International Film Festival, Francis Ford Coppola was diverted from landing in the Lebanese capital when it was learned…
Palin brings out the best in the least fair sex
Andrew Sullivan on le Sarah Palin “phenomenon”: Let’s face it: if Palin looked like Golda Meir, there’s no chance McCain would have picked her. And no one would currently give a damn. She is the Carrie Prejean of politics; and like the Ailes-tested fembots on Fox News. Women are not so dumb as to buy…
Jewish leftists are killing Israel, argues Zionist extremist
The Bureau of Counterpropaganda highlights a Jewish website that discusses the “Jewish Danger in Galilee”: If you read or see CNN or the BBC or even the more even handed FOX news, you may come away with the feeling that the government of Israel’s settlement policy is an illegal impediment to Peace… …the Arabs are…
Annoying Gazans need to start enjoying death
The Goldstone report over Gaza is a defining document. Israel’s crimes are clear to see. For some in the Murdoch press – such as Alan Howe writing in Melbourne’s Herald Sun (the man has form) – “Jews prove easy catch“: The none-too-smart and ideologically unsound United Nations works on more simplistic levels – it sets…
Obama either takes Palestinian justice seriously (or not)
Australians for Palestine public advocate Michael Shaik publishes the following in the Australian: Nine months since the end of the offensive, Gazans continue to live in plastic tents alongside the ruins off their homes because Israel refuses to allow building materials into Gaza. … The Israeli government reasons that, by inflicting such punishment on Gaza’s…
Wiping Persia from the map
John Bolton, neo-conservative, former George W. Bush official and Fox News contributor: So we’re at a very unhappy point — a very unhappy point — where unless Israel is prepared to use nuclear weapons against Iran’s program , Iran will have nuclear weapons in the very near future.
Zionist man predicts flowers and roses in the region
The Israeli Prime Minister’s spokesman, Mark Regev, an Australian, tells a leading Australian newspaper that he is upbeat about the prospects of Middle East peace. It is a serious article.
Rupert needs to believe that you’ll give him what he wants
How Rupert Murdoch gains political influence. It’s rarely about ideology and largely about power. Britain’s Tory party had to romance the old man: When the raw and newly elected Tory leader first met News International’s patriarch Rupert Murdoch, he was intent on projecting himself as a socially tolerant leader with modern ideas who would shake…
Helping start World War III
Discussion in America about a military strike by Israel against Iran has moved from “if” to “when”. Fox News continues the charge: