Egypt lawyer: Israel, US plotted protest shooting of Egyptian protestors

Report: "The United States and Israel plotted the killing of Egyptian protesters during last year's 18-day uprising that toppled longtime leader Hosni Mubarak, a lawyer for his former interior minister claimed Thursday."

On Auschwitz liberation anniversary Germans confront latent anti-Semitism

As Germany commemorates the liberation of the Nazi death camp Auschwitz, The Local wrtier Miriam Widman explores just how widespread anti-Semitism continues to be in Germany nearly 70 years after the WW2 Jewish Holocaust (5-6 million killed, 1 in 6 dying from deprivation). 

Zionist Jewish publisher resigns over column calling for 'hit' on Obama

Israel Hayom: "The owner and publisher of the Atlanta Jewish Times, who sparked outrage with a column he wrote earlier this month suggesting that Israel consider assassinating U.S. President Barack Obama, has resigned, the Jewish Telegraphic Agency reported Monday.

Senior "Age" editor: Why we can't trust [Oz PM Julia] Gillard any more

Michael Short (a senior Age editor): "We have a duty to lead and inspire our young people, in particular.

John Pilger: the war on democracy by the US and UK Establishments

John Pilger: "From the Chagos Islands to Pakistan, innocent civilians are pawns to America, backed by Britain.

The Iraq War: A criminal war the US lost

David Finkel: "After hundreds of thousands of civilian deaths, the devastation of war and the humiliation of an eight-year occupation, the hideous tyranny of Saddam Hussein has been replaced by the prospect of endless sectarian war in which, among other ruinous developments, I …

Vanity Fair writer Junger on US Marines urinating on dead Afghans

Sebastian Junger (contributing editor at Vanity Fair, author of War and the director of the 2010 film Restrepo, both re US troops fighting the war in Afghanistan): "For the past 10 years, American children have absorbed these moral contradictions [re torture], and now they are f …

Commentary on huge US veteran suicides (circa 50,000 in last 10 years)

John Birmingham (Australian writer): "in the US, which has been at war for over 10 years now, a serving member of the military takes their own life every 36 hours.

US Marines urination on Taliban video an artefact of war, says expert

Dr Ben Wadham (sociologist in the School of Education, Flinders University, Adelaide, South Australia): "It is an artefact of military culture that soldiers at different times will engage in the desecration of the bodies of those they have killed.

Israel's race-based marriage law keeping Indigenous Arab families apart

Martin Linton: "The Supreme Court ruling - by 6 votes to 5 - has sparked off a long overdue debate in Israel about discriminatory laws. But family unification is only the tip of the iceberg.

U.N. Human Rights Council Slams US State Terrorism, Citing 228 cases

Iran’s envoy Seyed Mohammad Reza Sajjadi: “The U.S.

Huge, epidemic US veteran suicide rate (20% of 30,000 suicides pa)

Report: "While the government keeps no official tally of veteran suicides, the VA last year said that veterans account for roughly 20 percent of the estimated 30,000 suicides annually in the United States."  

Roberts: The Dismal US Economic Outlook For The New Year

Paul Craig Roberts (former Assistant Secretary of the Treasury for Economic Policy, associate editor of the Wall Street Journa,  columnist for Business Week, Scripps Howard News Service, and Creators Syndicate.

Australian researcher: 2012 cometh: how to prepare for the apocalypse

Australian researcher Dr Joseph Gelfer: "Most people understand the 2012 end-of-the-world phenomenon to have something to do with the end of the Mayan calendar. In some ways, this is the case.

UK storm over Black MP tweet attacking "white" "divide and rule"

Black UK MP Diane Abbott (Hackney) tweeted "white people love playing "divide and rule". We should not play their game #tacticasoldascolonialism".

A "The Conversation" editor: 2011, the year that was: Politics & Society

Rory Cahill: " It is a Chinese proverb repeated so often as to verge on cliché: “may you live in interesting times”. And 2011 was nothing if not interesting.

John Pilger on Indian poverty: Glossy façades can't hide an Indian spring

John Pilger: "From Jammu Kashmir to Maharashtra, in a land of empty advertising slogans and fantastic wealth that barely conceals vast poverty, you can see the first signs of a popular new uprising."

Australian historian: Turbulent times, but journeys to remember in 2011

Professor Geoffrey Blainey (historian, author of "A Short History of the World" and "The Tyranny of Distance"): "This was the year of the televised disaster.

The Conversation editor: 2011, the year that was: Energy & Environment

Jane Rawson: "Towards the end of the [coming] year the climate parties will once more meet in conference (COP18) to come up with a replacement for the Kyoto Protocol.

Law professor: Follow the money: better rules on political funding needed

Dr Graeme Orr (Associate Professor, University of Queensland Law School): "After a decade of stop-start debate on the issue, a Commonwealth parliamentary report into the funding of political campaigns has proven to be a timid achievement.

ANU economist: Is using native forests for energy really carbon-neutral?

Dr Judith Ajani, economist, ANU): "Australia’s forest conflict gets easier to solve as every day passes.

Australia defence force (ADF) seeking expert Anglo recruits from overseas

News report: "A report on maintenance in Australia's navy suggested that as many as 200 engineers are needed to rebuild lost expertise.

Proposed Israeli ban on loudspeakers for worship directed at Muslims

ABC re[port: "It's the same story in Arab towns and neighbourhoods right across Israel. Every morning the local muezzin rises around 4am and with the use of a microphone and loudspeaker calls the faithful to prayer.  But now many Jewish Israelis have had enough.

US suppression of breakthrough research into deadly bird flu strains

Report: "By using ferrets in a lab, Dutch researchers proved that it was possible to change the H5N1 virus into an aerosol transmissible virus that can be easily spread rapidly through the air.But the discovery alarmed the US National Science Advisory Board for Biosecurity (N …

ABC AM - Palestinian Jerusalem schools reject Israeli censored textbooks

Report: "Palestinian schools in East Jerusalem are considering legal action to challenge a new Israeli policy which would force them to use Israeli-issued textbooks that remove many references to Arab history or Arab identity.

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