“ we make all our achievements in science and technology serve mass murder; we educate our youth into uniformed killers, deliver the people to the soulless tyranny of a bureaucracy, put men from the cradle to the grave under police supervision, erect jails and penitentiaries, and fill the land with whole armies of informers and spies. [...]
Archive for April, 2010
Why withdraw when you can just linger on and on?
April 29, 2010
An article by Tom Englehardt who runs the Tomdispatch site, concerns the position in Afghanistan and Iraq and he sums up the US position quite well when he say that the US is,” like the famed guest who came to dinner, broke a leg, wouldn’t leave, and promptly took over the lives of the entire [...]
Chomsky on Peace in Palestine
April 28, 2010
There is a new book by Noam Chomsky ready to be released. It is titled Hopes and Prospects. A short article with some references to the book is available at the Tomdispatch site at link. The article is titled “Eyeless in Gaza” and is sourced and footnoted from the book Hopes and Prospects. It contains [...]
Monbiot video
April 26, 2010
There is an extremely good video available at the Guardian site where George Monbiot talks with several leaders in the UK about the present and future commitment to fossil fuels. The video lasts for about 7 minutes and is good listening and watching. The video can be seen at link. You can see first hand the [...]
Asylum in an Asylum
April 26, 2010
In a television news report today the reason or at least a reason for the cessation of processing asylum seekers from Afghanistan and Sri Lanka was said to be that the government thinks that conditions in those countries are ‘improving’ If for instance that is the case as far as Afghanistan is concerned then it [...]
Propaganda and where it leads
April 25, 2010
The end product of misinformation and propaganda whether it was in Nazi Germany, or the present day US and UK, or still growing in countries like Australia, is rather well summed is by Dallas Darling (link) in an article as,” The magnetism of U.S (for US you can substitute a large number of similar initials). censorship [...]
India and the miracle
April 24, 2010
There is a very interesting video interview at the Realnews site. Paul Jay interviews Dr. Jayati Ghosh who is Professor of Economics and currently also Chairperson at the Centre for Economic Studies and Planning, School of Social Sciences, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. Educated at Delhi University, Jawaharlal Nehru University and the University of Cambridge [...]
Chomsky on Terrorism
April 24, 2010
A recent talk by Noam Chomsky is very instructive. When he comes to consider 9/11 he suggests.” Awful as the crime was, one can imagine worse. Suppose that al-Qaeda had been supported by an awesome superpower intent on overthrowing the government of the United States. Suppose that the attack had succeeded: al-Qaeda had bombed the [...]
The Earth needs all the help it can get
April 23, 2010
There is a rather informative article by Rebecca Solnit that comments on a recentt book and movie. She starts the article in this fashion,” The movie is called “Climate Change,” and you can tell its plot in a number of ways. In one, the alien monsters taking over the planet are called corporations, while the [...]
US financial chaos
April 22, 2010
You may have been looking at the Bill Black video interviews at the links supplied on this page. He is the Professor from the University of Missouri who speaks in such straight forward and simple fashion about the fraudulent nature of the recent financial crisis in the US that infected the top down economic systems [...]
The $US and what to do
April 20, 2010
There is series of videos at the Realnews site dealing with the US dollar. The last of four videos sums up the position being put by the economist being interviewed. You can view that video at link. Whether you put much or any faith in economic mumbo jumbo these videos are at least a somewhat [...]
Conservation activist
April 20, 2010
This is what was said in part by Malgorzata Gorska when accepting a prize for her work as an environmental activist,”I’m so pleased to win this prize today because this will – I hope – promote the protection of Natura 2000 sites. The Via Baltica campaign and saving the Rospuda valley showed that it is [...]
Torture testing Afghans
April 20, 2010
This is what we here in Australia support by sending troops and other support people to Afghanistan. This is the real face of the Rudd ‘presence in the Middle East’ policy. British forces handed over suspected insurgents to the Afghan secret service with a clear risk they would face “horrible abuse” and torture, the high [...]
Sustainability
April 19, 2010
What is sustainable development? The word sustainable seems to be becoming some sort of cover all description used in many contexts. A good starting point is to suggest that “sustainable development” implies that the development can use present resources without damaging or depleting the resources as far as future generations are concerned. However, in all [...]
Israel and its continuing fight to dominate
April 18, 2010
Recent matters that concern Israel and the never ending Zionist expansion have served to highlight the fact that governments like the US, the UK and Australia are only serving the interests of a small group of crazed zealots in Israel and the world wide Jewish sympathy and support for the slaying, siege and devastation of [...]
Pilger article. Is your gun loaded?
April 18, 2010
John Pilger has written an interesting article about the US and what may well be our last war. You can read the whole article at link. “Here is news of the Third World War. The United States has invaded Africa. US troops have entered Somalia, extending their war front from Afghanistan and Pakistan to Yemen [...]
Goldman Sachs a fraud story?
April 17, 2010
There is very great interest in the action taken against Goldman Sachs over what is an alleged fraudulent scheme. It may represent the beginning of actions in the general investment area at Wall Street. There is a good argument that most if not all investment activity on the world’s various stock exchanges is inherently unlawful, [...]
“Infiltrators” and Israel
April 16, 2010
What is an “infiltrator” according to the Israelis? Ends up it means anyone in the West Bank without a permit. The penalty can be up to seven years gaol. We are seeing what may well be the final ethnic implementation of Zionist policy in the area. The objective is to get rid of all Palestinians. [...]
The US and corruption in Afghanistan. How we follow the leader
April 15, 2010
A recent Tomdispatch article by Alfred McCoy is required reading if you want to look through the media mist and the propaganda put in place by those in power and the CIA in Afghanistan. What he describes in the article is the price we here in Australian have to pay for the tongue kidding praise [...]
Dying for no real reason
April 15, 2010
There are many unknown and hidden costs of war. The brutality and the senselessness of it all does not end when you hang up your uniform. Consider the position in the UK as reported in the Guardian, link, Last year a study by the National Association of Probation Officers estimated that the number of veterans [...]
Holyland Bribes
April 15, 2010
The former Mayor of Jerusalem has landed in a bribery scandal involving allegations of large sums of money changing hands and laws being changed to allow the transformation of what have been described as “unsightly” buildings in Jerusalem. Despite denials the former Mayor Uri Lupolianski, “ was remanded into custody, was accused of taking money [...]
Iraq and Afghanistan killing civilians US style
April 13, 2010
The availability of the video of the US helicopters and the deaths they caused in Iraq to civilians may allow some people to reassess just exactly what they think about the wars in the Middle East. A recent article by Tomdispatch has some comments.( link.) There is a link to a 17 minute video that [...]
Karzai the US and Afghanistan
April 8, 2010
There is an extremely good article by Eric Walberg about Afghanistan and present developments. You can read it at link. Walberg’s opening is that,” Lieutenant Colonel Brian Christmas (I’m not making this up) recently threatened the village elders in Sistani, a village near Marja, with “the choice between American guns and American resources”. Read: turn [...]
The Lawful CIA???
April 7, 2010
You really cannot say any more…. “A CIA spokesman, Paul Gimigliano, said: ”This agency conducts its counterterrorism operations in strict accord with the law.” Except to ask,”Whose law?”
Water use
April 7, 2010
Water use has always been a problem, probably from the first time someone dug a well. At that point a few matters became obvious. One is that by far most of the water on the planet is not fresh or pure. Most is of course in the oceans, acquifiers and the like. What then became [...]
Iran: Israel the US and Australian position
April 6, 2010
The time has probably come for the US and other allies to see what is really happening in Iran. Despite all the talk of nuclear programs, there is little evidence to support any actual plan to create nuclear weapons. In fact if they could produce a nuclear device there is anecdotal evidence that it would [...]
World Cup Concentration Camps
April 1, 2010
This is how an article in the Guardian starts,”Children squint as wind whips the grey sand into their faces. A teenager braves the flies and stench of a leaking outdoor toilet to draw water from a standpipe. He stares vacantly along regimented rows of corrugated iron shacks encircled by a tall, concrete fence. No grass [...]
Arctic Ice
April 1, 2010
There are some very intrepid people in the world today. While the climate deniers rest easy there are those who are getting out there and collecting the raw data, like the Catlin Expedition. You can see from this excerpt from the Guardian what they are doing,”We’ve also been seeing vast areas of open water and [...]