NOVANEWS
* Tripoli gets privatised mercenaries at bargain prices
- Britain suddenly discovers that democracy is a jolly good idea?
- Australia’s distaste for Muslims gets noticed globally
- A non-controversial proposal; Arabs have right to vote for whomever they want
- West has rather liked Gaddafi for quite some time
- CNN reports from inside Libya
- Villawood guards blow whistle on abuses at detention centre
- Just another day in British democracy (by selling weapons to thugs)
- Talking to Finkel, Anderson and Stewart in India on occupation
- Just how many Afghans is Australia murdering in Afghanistan?
Tripoli gets privatised mercenaries at bargain prices Posted: 22 Feb 2011 05:40 AM PST
Really:
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Britain suddenly discovers that democracy is a jolly good idea? Posted: 22 Feb 2011 05:10 AM PST
Sure, British Prime Minister David Cameron is traveling the Middle East selling weapons of death and yet he’s also giving this curious speech about allegedly backing democracy. So I presume he’ll be calling for immediate engagement with Hamas and Hizbollah, then?
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Australia’s distaste for Muslims gets noticed globally Posted: 22 Feb 2011 04:59 AM PST |
A non-controversial proposal; Arabs have right to vote for whomever they want Posted: 22 Feb 2011 02:17 AM PST
Here’s to small blessings. A rather good editorial in today’s Sydney Morning Herald that calls for a re-thinking of years of imperial attitudes in the Arab world and an opening to Islamists who get elected. Bravo:
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West has rather liked Gaddafi for quite some time Posted: 22 Feb 2011 02:07 AM PST
These were the good old days; 2005:
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CNN reports from inside Libya Posted: 22 Feb 2011 01:59 AM PST
CNN’s Ben Wedeman reports from eastern Libya, reportedly the first Western TV reporter to enter the country during the current revolution:
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Villawood guards blow whistle on abuses at detention centre Posted: 22 Feb 2011 12:32 AM PST
My following investigation appears in today’s edition of Crikey:
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Just another day in British democracy (by selling weapons to thugs) Posted: 21 Feb 2011 04:31 PM PST
And the West wonders why the Arab world regards its calls for democracy as hollow as Netanyahu’s love of freedom for Palestinians:
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Talking to Finkel, Anderson and Stewart in India on occupation Posted: 21 Feb 2011 03:41 PM PST
I recently attended the Jaipur Literature Festival in India and moderated a session with three men who know something about war and conflict. Brit Rory Stewart, New Yorker’s Jon Lee Anderson and the Washington Post’s David Finkel.
The video of the event is now online (the sound and picture aren’t perfectly in sync but you’ll get the idea). |
Just how many Afghans is Australia murdering in Afghanistan? Posted: 21 Feb 2011 03:31 PM PST
It’s called counter-insurgency but in many cases this is simply operations to train, capture and allow the subsequent torture (and/or murder) of supposed Afghan insurgents. A failed strategy that deserves exposure:
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