Less than an hour after sending an alert to my previous post, targeting the implicit racism of Gladstonian assumptions of Western moral superiority and its attendant right – nay, duty – to bomb and starve mainly brown skinned peoples halfway … Read More »
“This is big”, wrote Moon of Alabama on March 10 in his opener to a piece featured in my post next day. Even corporate media couldn’t ignore it altogether, though they continue to do their level best to downplay its … Read More »
Amid the high drama of the game of chicken playing out between a BBC Director General and a soccer superstar I don’t see blinking – see my other post today, Gary Lineker? Or H.M. Loyal Opposition? – the restoration of … Read More »
G’day world! I’ve been quoting Caitlin Johnstone so often of late that the steel city keyboard’s picked up an Ozzie twang. Fair dinkum though. She’ll be right, mate. I’ve said nothing of Shireeen Abu Akleh, the 51-year-old Palestinian-American of whom, … Read More »
Here’s another Facebook exchange. This one’s about the publication on February 1st of the Amnesty International Report, Israel’s apartheid against Palestinians: Cruel system of domination and crime against humanity. Download the report here. Though 280 pages long, a lot can … Read More »
I don’t really get CounterPunch’s editorial position. I used to, or at least I used to think I did. And I approved of what I thought was its editorial position, to the point of opening up the old wallet when … Read More »
This is what’s at stake in the Assange case. Our right to know what the most deadly elements of the most powerful governments on our planet are doing. That they think it legitimate to imprison anyone who tries to show … Read More »
Two days ago in the centrist Middle East observer, Al-Monitor … Syrians to be deported for eating bananas ‘provocatively’ in Turkey As tensions soar between Turks and their country’s 4 million refugees, a viral trend of young Syrians posting videos … Read More »
Two days ago Israel’s liberal daily, Haaretz, ran this: ‘Israel Was Born in Sin. I’m Collaborating With a Criminal Country,’ Says Former PM’s Son The son of the man who signed Israel’s Declaration of Independence in 1948 is ending his days as … Read More »