As a classic settler-colonial state, Israel is doing the only thing it knows how to do. So long as the West keeps cheerleading, that includes genocide.
As a classic settler-colonial state, Israel is doing the only thing it knows how to do. So long as the West keeps cheerleading, that includes genocide.
The case builds that Israel may have invoked its infamous ‘Hannibal directive’, which requires the army to kill Israeli soldiers and civilians rather than let them be taken hostage.
It’s not just unlikely that a Palestinian rocket hit the Gaza hospital. It’s impossible. The media know this, they just don’t dare say it.
Ignore the fake news. Israel isn’t defending itself. It’s enforcing its right to continue ethnically cleansing Palestinians.
The rigged system that worked so hard to rehabilitate this trio of war criminals is exactly the same system now determined to put Trump on trial.
Almost no one seems willing to hold their tongue on the latest claims. Here are my observations: not on the allegations, but on all the noise.
Highlighting the climate crisis is not ‘alarmism’, as critics say. Big Business wants an exclusive focus on climate because it downplays the true reasons for alarm.
On critical matters, our medical authorities have no interest in settling the science. Instead, battles are won in the arena of smear and insinuation.
There’s only one plausible explanation for the continuing silence on excess deaths: governments, media and regulators are frightened of what the research may uncover.
Scapegoating Jews by twisting the left’s lexicon against elites, the far-right has handed the establishment a slur that keeps on giving
Carlson was a genuine aberration in US corporate media. Which is why he is gone – sacked by media “titan” Rupert Murdoch.
First, journalists lapped up Russian culpability. Now they peddle a preposterous James Bond-style story. Anything to ignore the US role.
In an age of distortion, major columnists have powerful tools and a responsibility. His latest column on Russell Brand is an object lesson in how that can go wrong.
By colluding in Assange’s vilification, journalists can avoid thinking about the difference between what Wikileaks does and what they do.
Had we looked inwards rather than so aggressively outwards, we might live in a Pandora, not the last stages of the Anthropocene.
Asked who his allies against racism are, the Jewish comedian was flummoxed. That’s because he’s thrown his lot in with the racists.
Figureheads like the Guardian’s George Monbiot have wrecked the left’s ability to think critically, encouraging an analysis of power politics more suited to the playground
