NOVANEWS
- Can we have a mature discussion about the war in Afghanistan?
- Israel makes it clear that Palestinians are not fully welcome
- Hating Arabs and getting Murdoch to pay for it
- Bush explains how war has helped the US prosper
- Don’t step out of line on Israel or an irrelevant Australian MP will slam you
- Only US-friendly terror groups are welcome
- Get used to the growing isolation
- The Amazon rainforest remains in trouble despite Murdoch’s best efforts
- Tony Blair is the face of Israel’s new Gaza policy
- Afghan warlords thank the coalition for its kindness
Can we have a mature discussion about the war in Afghanistan?Posted: 22 Jun 2010An aide to General Stanley McChrystal (currently in the firing line for making disparaging comments about Barack Obama over Afghanistan) tells journalist Michael Hastings that, “if Americans pulled back and started paying attention to this war, it would become even less popular.”This story isn’t about McChrystal’s criticisms but about the futile war in Afghanistan and why the West is there. It’s really about empire maintenance and giving the impression of taking the fight to “terrorists”.We lost there years ago. |
Israel makes it clear that Palestinians are not fully welcomePosted: 22 Jun 2010An Haaretz editorial on something that should outrage Jews the world over and yet elicits little more than silence:
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Hating Arabs and getting Murdoch to pay for itPosted: 22 Jun 2010Former Republican Presidential candidate and Fox News host Mike Huckabee loathes Arabs and Palestinians and believes Israel has the right to do what it wants, where it wants. Christian Zionism in action.A New Yorker profile of the man provides an indication of the kind of mindset Rupert Murdoch hires for his “news” channel:
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Bush explains how war has helped the US prosperPosted: 22 Jun 2010Former Argentine president Néstor Kirchner reveals in the new film by Oliver Stone, South of the Border – about the rise of socialism in Latin America – something very revealing of George W. Bush:
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Don’t step out of line on Israel or an irrelevant Australian MP will slam youPosted: 22 Jun 2010Australian NGO APHEDA is the aid arm of the country’s largest union, the ACTU. It has a history of speaking strongly against Israeli aggression and this will only continue in the coming months.So when the APHEDA head recently called for the Israeli siege on Gaza to be lifted, it was almost inevitable that a Zionist-friendly politician would be outraged. What’s so shameless about Labor’s David Feeney’s response is how many of the Israeli government talking points he quotes without question.It’s like a mantra without reason or facts. Israel is always right and the siege is necessary (though, er, Israel has just heavily reduced the blockade, rather ruining one of his talking points).Perhaps one day we’ll have independent thinking from our politicians on the Middle East but it may take a while. |
Only US-friendly terror groups are welcomePosted: 22 Jun 2010The latest decision by the US Supreme Court seems highly problematic, not least because America backs terrorists group every day (hello Afghanistan and Iraq, as two recent examples) yet wants to tell its citizens that they can only back groups that speak in lovely, warming tones about the super-power:
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Get used to the growing isolationPosted: 22 Jun 2010Israeli historian Tom Segev:
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The Amazon rainforest remains in trouble despite Murdoch’s best effortsPosted: 22 Jun 2010Rupert Murdoch’s Sunday Times is forced to acknowledge that a key story that questioned the validity of climate change was riddled with lies and untruths:
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Tony Blair is the face of Israel’s new Gaza policyPosted: 22 Jun 2010Tony Blair’s role in the Middle East is to appear balanced but is in fact designed to please Israel and offer a nice, kind face for Israeli occupation.And now the Israeli press confirms yet more shameless propaganda:
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Afghan warlords thank the coalition for its kindnessPosted: 22 Jun 2010A timely reminder of what the West is actually doing in Afghanistan (removing one dictatorship and helping establish another):
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