Posts by Tony Greenstein

Royal Parasites – (no not the British ones!)  Saudi Interior Minister Prince Nayef bin Abdul Aziz (left) with his son and deputy Prince Mohammed in the Saudi holy city of Mecca. (AFP/Getty Images) The shifting sands of Arabia will become the graveyard of Western oil policy It’s not often that I blog with a Telegraph…

Brighton Police Score Another Own Goal with their Unprovoked Attacks At the weekend Brighton staged about its 24th Gay Pride in the city.  For those of us with long memories, we can recall when the Police deployed plain clothes officers, like Sean MacDonald and the new ‘Police Liason Officers’ to hang around public toilets in…

I’ve been in an employment tribunal most of this week in a whistleblowing case, so I’ve had no time to do any posts.  The articles below are therefore a summary of the main things I would have posted on. The major story last week was on the murder of Rachel Corrie and there are a…

Ex-soldiers admit to appalling violence against Palestinian children A young Palestinian protester runs away from Israeli soldiers during a demonstration against the expropriation of Palestinian land by Israel in the village of Kafr Qaddum, near the West Bank city of Ramallah (AFP Photo / Jaafar Ashtiyeh)                                                             Israeli military accused of mistreating children…

In All the Reports of his Trial – No Mention of Breivik’s Support for Israel & Zionism Anders Behring Breivik, left, the suspect in the mass killing in Oslo on July 22, sits in an armored police vehicle after leaving the courthouse following a hearing on July 25. (Jon-Are Berg-Jacobsen, Aftenposten / AP Photo) photo:…

Trevino Fired Not Because He is a Fascist –  But Because He’s a Corrupt Fascist! The Guardian’s Dishonest Statement That Fools No One The racist rat found British readers a little more discerning than the normal Texan Trevino Even Looks the Part of a Neo-Con Nutcase It would be nice to think that the Guardian…

  Searching for dignity This is an article by Rajaie Batniji,  just published in The Lancet, Volume 380, Issue 9840, Pages 466 – 467, 4 August 2012. Rajaie visited his family in Gaza last spring.  If Gazans fire a rocket at Israel then it’s instantly BBC news.  But the death of 800 people from Israeli drones…

Sodastream/Ecostream Based in An Illegal Settlement Sodastream, a carbonated beverage manufacturer is based in the Mishor Adumim settlement industrial zone. Mishor Adumim is an industrial are attached to the residential settlement of Ma’ale Adumim, East of Jerusalem in the Israeli occupied West Bank. Regional context: the SodaStream factory is located at the Mishor Edomim Industrial…

Associated Press/Bela Szandelszky, File photo dated on June 7, 2009 shows Hungary’s far right party, Jobbik’s, Csanad Szegedi, left, and Krisztina Morvai, right, celebrating their entry into the European Parliament after the European parliamentary election in Budapest, Hungary. Szegedi, who was notorious for his incendiary comments on Jews, acknowledged in June that his grandparents on…

 Can’t Pay Won’t Pay –  Council Tax Benefit We Must Oppose it Like the Poll Tax I recently attended a seminar for the voluntary sector in Brighton concerning Council Tax Benefit. Instead of receiving CTB according to how much you receive or earn, and those on JSA/Income support receive 100%, Council’s will now receive only…