Last Straw

There’s a doc­u­ment­ary drama on the UK’s Chan­nel 4 tomor­row night at 9 PM, telling the story of Thomas Hurndall’s murder by an Israeli sniper, and his family’s fight to uncover the truth.

I met Tom on the human shield action to Iraq in 2003. He left Iraq when war became inev­it­able and trav­elled on to Gaza where he was even­tu­ally shot in the head by Hayb, an award-winning Israeli marks­man, while try­ing to save Palestinian chil­dren who were hav­ing pot shots fired around them by Israeli snipers.

One of the most anti-democratic and destabil­ising fea­tures of global cap­it­al­ism is the lack of con­trol gov­ern­ments have over the flow of cap­ital and cor­por­a­tions; cap­ital and cor­por­a­tions freely move to wherever profits are highest, costs are low­est and gov­ern­ments are most fear­ful of the way global mar­kets will react to their policies. So if […]