Gaza 2009: Revisiting the Goldstone Report

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[PDF file]: […] man”, and – he proclaimed on Israeli television – on a par with Auschwitz “Angel of Death” Josef Mengele’.10 All this and more was directed against a liberal Zionist, a strong supporter of Israel, who had dared to document and condemn the brutal collective punishment of the people of Gaza in 2009. Eventually Goldstone […]

007’s real mission continues

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[PDF file]: […] Sir Anthony Blunt, the Surveyor of the Queen’s Pictures. While Straight claimed not to have provided the Soviets with any useful information, as publisher of his family’s liberal New Republic magazine, he did print some of Philby’s articles. With Michael Straight’s confession, passed on to the British MI5, it was decided to have Philby’s […]

Julian Assange and the European Arrest Warrant

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[PDF file]: Julian Assange and the European Arrest Warrant Bernard Porter The Assange affair rumbles on. Assange is still holed up in the Ecuadorian Embassy, at a cost of God knows how much to the taxpayers of Ecuador, and more to those of the UK, to pay for the police stationed around it ready to whisk him […]

Operation Just Causes’s Unjust Aftermath

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[PDF file]: […] against Noriega by an unusual pair of allies: the right-wing Senator Jesse Helms, who hated Panama’s cozy relations with Cuba and Central American insurgent groups, and the liberal Senator John Kerry, who deplored Panama’s human rights 26 Kempe (see note 6) pp. 3-4. Washington Post, November 4 and 28, 1995, and March 5, 1996; […]

Rupert Murdoch: An Investigation of Political Power by David McKnight

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[PDF file]: […] The reason for this absolutely ferocious assault was that Labour under Kinnock had not yet embraced Thatcherism, was still recognisably a social democratic rather than a neo- liberal party, might have taken a look at the question of media ownership and might not have keep the unions hobbled. Blair was to change all this. […]

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[…] Sir Anthony Blunt, the Surveyor of the Queen’s Pictures. While Straight claimed not to have provided the Soviets with any useful information, as publisher of his family’s liberal New Republic magazine, he did print some of Philby’s articles. With Michael Straight’s confession, passed on to the British MI5, it was decided to have Philby’s […]

Israel, the lobby and its critics

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[PDF file]: […] abused him as a ‘self-hating Jew’. The occasion was when the young Marqusee first measured the behaviour of Israeli forces against the humane, Judaism-derived principles of his liberal family in New York. Norman Finkelstein has long been targeted by the US lobby for Israel, most famously losing his battle for a tenured teaching post […]

The view from the bridge

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[PDF file]: […] of the party. The thin white ghost Julian Assange fell out with the major media partly because of a culture clash between the radical hacker movement and liberal journalists; but mostly because he wanted to control how they handled the material. As everyone discovers eventually, you can’t do that: you give it to them […]

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