Following Yahoo!’s shameful behaviour in China towards web users, Facebook is reportedly keen to enter the soon-to-be biggest internet market in the world: Facebook appears to have decided on acquisition as its preferred method of entering the booming Chinese market, after months of speculation about how the social networking website would tap the country’s rapid…
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They can’t help it
When a leading donor to America’s leading Zionist lobby, AIPAC, claims that the group is offering too much support for the Palestinians in advance of next week’s “peace” conference in Annapolis, it’s clearly time for a reality check. AIPAC’s modus operandi has always been to undermine any peace initiative in the Middle East. Their Australian…
The tried and true lesson of political journalism
Never, ever trust a political commentator who barracks for one side of politics. That makes them a political hack, not a serious columnist (Australian example of the day.) The situation in American is little better, where supposedly serious magazine “liberal” commentators continue to profess what the Democrats should do to win office. Salon’s Glenn Greenwald…
The forgotten war
My latest New Matilda column is about the Iraq war and the mainstream media’s inability to report perspectives other than those uttered by the US military: Mainstream media coverage remains tied to reporting ”˜progress’ from the mouths of American reporters and American officials, most of whom remain journalistically and morally embedded. One Iraqi reporter recently…
The decision is clear
Nadia Hijab, Institute for Palestine Studies, Number 22, November 13: Throughout the decades of occupation, the international community has “urged” Israel to change its policies. Western donors also invested in major infrastructure during the Oslo peace process, like the Gaza airport that Israel later destroyed. Donors have also tried to mitigate the worst consequences of…
Not going there
The New York Times is supposedly the finest newspaper in the world (well, they certainly think so.) Two articles to dispel those myths here and here. Simply put, the paper is designed to tell the establishment how to think and what to think. For example, its relatively recent opposition to the Iraq war – after…
Disaster is approaching (but nothing to see here)
Murdoch’s Australian broadsheet tackles the big issues in the election campaign. Such as this front page yarn today: The accident-prone campaign of star Labor recruit George Newhouse has hit another pothole, with a leaked email revealing his campaign manager has espoused anti-Zionism. The revelation that Mr Newhouse’s campaign manager, Rose Jackson, has spoken out against…
The price of “freedom”
The New York Times page one story today is about Baghdad’s improved security. The facts seem to speak for themselves. And yet: The security improvements in most neighborhoods are real. Days now pass without a car bomb, after a high of 44 in the city in February. The number of bodies appearing on Baghdad’s streets…
Do not accept lollies from this man
Next time you hear somebody demanding the West bombs/invades/”liberates” Iran, make sure it’s not leading neo-con Amir Taheri. The man breaths untruths.
Blocking the friendship group
Syria bans Facebook. (Procrastinators in the West would never survive.)