China now has 172 million Internet users and roughly four million new users going online every month. While the Chinese regime parades its new leadership to the world, change is occurring within the country far away from the 17th National Congress.
Showing all posts in June 2019
Power in a few hands always corrupts
An interesting way to view the ongoing controversy over the Mearsheimer/Walt, Zionist lobby debate. (Of course, many Jews would rather this debate didn’t happen at all.) UPDATE: Jewish blogger Phil Weiss reports on a weekend conference in New York of one of America’s leading Zionist media monitoring groups, CAMERA: The reason It’s hopeless for the…
Just try and stop us
The recent crackdown in Burma continues to reverberate around the world. The bravery of the monks and the general population is a testament to the will of the human spirit. The internet was a key factor in the dissemination of information. A new report from OpenNet Initiative, a leading group tasked to monitor web filtering…
What we have created
Riverbend, October 22: By the time we had reentered the Syrian border and were headed back to the cab ready to take us into Kameshli, I had resigned myself to the fact that we were refugees. I read about refugees on the Internet daily”¦ in the newspapers”¦ hear about them on TV. I hear about…
The changing media landscape
Bloggers beware: Disgruntled fans of Sheffield Wednesday who vented their dissatisfaction with the football club’s bigwigs in anonymous internet postings may face expensive libel claims after the chairman, chief executive and five directors won a high-court ruling last week forcing the owner of a website to reveal their identity. The case, featuring the website owlstalk.co.uk,…
I love the taste of Persian blood in the morning
The rhetoric against Iran seems to be increasing by the day. As if the situation wasn’t complicated enough, now we have evangelical Christians almost begging Iranian Jews to leave because their situation is apparently life-threatening: Evangelical Christians in the U.S. have brought dozens of Iranian Jews to Israel in recent months, offering cash incentives and…
The never-ending ATM
Naomi Klein, Los Angeles Times, October 20: ”˜We didn’t want to get stuck with a lemon.” That’s what Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff said to a House committee last month. He was referring to the “virtual fence” planned for the U.S. borders with Mexico and Canada. If the entire project goes as badly as the…
The God complex
… An Israeli soldier describes the experience of being in the occupied Palestinian territories: ‘The most important thing is that it removes the burden of the law from you. You feel that you are the law. You are the law. You are the one who decides… As though from the moment you leave the place that…
Killing for a good cause (ie. money)
The global arms industry likes to grease the corridors of power: The US arms industry is backing Hillary Clinton for President and has all but abandoned its traditional allies in the Republican party. Mrs Clinton has also emerged as Wall Street’s favourite. Investment bankers have opened their wallets in unprecedented numbers for the New York…