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Austria Is Invoking the Nazis to Legitimize Mass Death in Gaza
“No explanation, no justification or excuse could ever cover up [the] horror [in Gaza]. It would be best if Israel’s [hasbara] machine didn’t even try to. No stories of “Hamas is responsible for it...
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We Are In A New Cold War
Yanis Varoufakis is an economist and author who served as Greek Finance Minister in the aftermath of the 2008 global financial crash. Since then, he has become one of the most sought after public...
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Banning TikTok Is a Terrible Idea
As outrage at the Israeli war on Gaza and US backing for it continues to grow, US politicians have responded calmly and reasonably with a measure that threads a fine line between advocating for the US...
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“International Stability Won’t Come From Watching Netflix”
Dr. Matthew Alford is an academic working on the relationship between international conflict and the media. This interview was conducted in late 2023 to promote his documentary Theaters of War. It was...
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Oscars Speech Smear Campaign Shows Lying For Israel Is A Good Career Move
Film director Jonathan Gazer’s acceptance speech went viral. But Jewish community leaders know there will be no professional damage for misrepresenting his words Film director Jonathan Glazer poked a...
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Everyday Fascism: Brecht’s Warning about The Serpent’s Egg
“And therefore think him as a serpent’s eggWhich hatch’d, would as his kind grow mischievous;And kill him in the shell” – Brutus in Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar The brilliant scholar, Paul Gilroy, once...
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Israel’s ‘Flour Massacre’ – When A Crime Becomes A ‘Tragedy’
Corporate journalists are indeed ‘masters of self-adulation’, as Noam Chomsky has observed. In fact, they have to be; or at least they have to appear to be. Consider BBC World Affairs Editor John...
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Torture, Executions, Babies Left To Die, Sexual Abuse… These Are Israel’s Crimes
Hostages tortured to death. Parents executed in front of their children. Doctors beaten. Babies murdered. Sexual assault weaponised. No, not Hamas crimes. This is part of an ever-growing list of...
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PragerU’s Moral Case for Capitalism Is Terrible
Prager University has no classrooms. It has no dormitories or cafeterias or students running around playing frisbee on sunny days. It is not a university at all, though it does have a lot of lectures....
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How The Western Media Helped Build The Case For Genocide In Gaza
From obscuring the West’s role in starving Gaza to sensationalised accounts of mass rape by Hamas, journalists are playing the role of propagandists, not reporters.How The Western Media Helped Build...
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Noam Chomsky’s Postage Stamp
The philosopher Noam Chomsky once said his political theory could fit on “on the back of postage stamp”. He meant that he didn’t have much time for fancy formulations by snobby academics. Being a...
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Assange in Plea Deal Talks
Lawyers for Julian Assange and officials of the U.S. Justice Department are engaged in talks for a possible plea deal that could see Assange walk out of Belmarsh Prison in London as a free man,...
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Julian Assange and the Plea Nibble
Be wary of what Washington offers in negotiations at the best of times. The empire gives and takes when it can; the hegemon proffers and in equal measure and withdraws offers it deems fit. This is...
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PEN America Self-Destructs
PEN America, once an important defender of rights for writers, editors and artists, has, under the direction of former State Department official Suzanne Nossel, abandoned its mission, destroyed its...
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‘This Decline in Local Journalism Was Noticed First by Journalists Themselves’
Janine Jackson interviewed filmmaker Rick Goldsmith about his documentary Stripped for Parts. Janine Jackson: Documentary filmmakers don’t start when the camera rolls. The work involves not just...
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The Crucifixion of Julian Assange
British courts for five years have dragged out Julian Assange’s show trial. He continues to be denied due process as his physical and mental health deteriorates. This is the point. Prosecutors...
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Assange’s ‘Reprieve’ Is Another Lie, Hiding The Real Goal Of Keeping Him...
The US has had years to clarify its intention to give Assange a fair trial but refuses to do so. The UK court’s latest ruling is yet more collusion in his show trial The interminable and abhorrent saga...
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UK MEDIA SHOULDN’T BE ‘IMPARTIAL’ – BUT FEARLESS AND TRUTHFUL
We need journalism that is committed to accurate and uncompromising investigation and not a spurious “impartiality” that hides brutal facts of occupation and genocide. The recent comprehensive analysis...
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The Assange Hearing Permission Appeal Judgment: Mad and Bad
The latest judgment by the High Court in the Assange case achieved completely the objectives of the UK and US states. Above all, Julian remains in the hell which is Belmarsh maximum security prison. He...
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UK Court Gives Biden Chance to Dodge Assange Appeal by “Assuring” His Rights
WikiLeaks publisher Julian Assange is closer than ever to being extradited to the United States for trial on 17 counts under the Espionage Act and one count of conspiracy to commit computer intrusion...
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