Published 16 January 2009 · Main Posts best internet thing ever Jeff Sparrow Maybe the whole world already knows about this but I’ve just discovered Livestation. You download a little viewer thing and suddenly you have free live access to just about every cable news service. As well as the BBC and CSPAN and the rest, you can watch the Aljazeera English channel. It’s the only network with a journalist reporting live from Gaza (as opposed to watching from the Israeli side of the border). As you might expect, the perspective there is a little different — especially now that the IDF has, apparently, fired white phosphorous shells at a UN refugee agency containing hundreds of civilians. As someone on Aljazeera just said, imagine the outcry if Hamas had fired phosphorous (it works like napalm) at American civilians in a clearly marked UN refugee facility. despite Israeli shells setting the local headquarters of the UN refugee agency on fire earlier today. The building was hit by what appeared to be as Israeli forces pushed deeper into Gaza City. Jeff Sparrow Jeff Sparrow is a Walkley Award-winning writer, broadcaster and former editor of Overland. More by Jeff Sparrow Overland is a not-for-profit magazine with a proud history of supporting writers, and publishing ideas and voices often excluded from other places. If you like this piece, or support Overland’s work in general, please subscribe or donate. Related articles & Essays First published in Overland Issue 228 25 May 202326 May 2023 · Main Posts The ‘Chinese question’ and colonial capitalism in New Gold Mountain Christy Tan SBS’s New Gold Mountain sets out to recover the history of the Gold Rush from the marginalised perspective of Chinese settlers but instead reinforces the erasure of Indigenous sovereignty. Although celebrated for its multilingual script and diverse representation, the mini-TV series ignores how the settlement of Chinese migrants and their recruitment into colonial capitalism consolidates the ongoing displacement of First Nations peoples. First published in Overland Issue 228 15 February 202322 February 2023 · Main Posts Self-translation and bilingual writing as a transnational writer in the age of machine translation Ouyang Yu To cut a long story short, it all boils down to the need to go as far away from oneself as possible before one realizes another need to come back to reclaim what has been lost in the process while tying the knot of the opposite ends and merging them into a new transformation.
