Let parochialism run wild: Almost two-thirds of American newspapers publish less foreign news than they did just three years ago, nearly as many print less national news, and despite new demands on newsrooms like blogs and video, most of them have smaller news staffs, according to a new study. Who can really rely on the…
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Keeping girls “pure”
Saudi Arabia is one of the most gender-separated nations on earth. The idea, suggested by some leading Saudi bloggers, to “segregate the blogrolls on blogs for the links of female and male Saudi bloggers”, is a sign of religious insanity. One female blogger explains: …A number of bloggers have separated the blogrolls and posted them…
Telling it like it isn’t (on Israel/Palestine)
My latest New Matilda column is about the Western media’s delusions over the Middle East: Distortions, delusions, misrepresentations. No wonder Western leaders and media don’t understand the popularity of groups like Hezbollah and Hamas in the Arab world It shouldn’t come as any surprise that Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah is consistently voted the most popular…
Arrest, detain, torture, kill
How do blogs, new technology and good ol’ fashioned web activism help reporting in conflict zones? Discuss.
More bombs are coming
Robert Fisk talks about the fact that until Washington partly disengages from Israel – something that simply won’t happen under Barack Obama – the Middle East will remain mired in crisis (which suits the Western powers just fine):
Questioning the “chosen” people
The life and times of orthodox Jewry in America. A story of loss, pain and fundamentalism.
How to create anti-Israeli activists
Israeli human rights group B’Tselem releases a video that reveals yet more evidence of the Jewish state’s brutality in the occupied territories: Today, B’Tselem is publishing a video clip documenting a soldier firing a rubber coated steel bullet, from extremely close range, at a cuffed and blindfolded Palestinian detainee. The shooting took place in the…
Despotism fought
A new generation of activists in Burma are starting to challenge the brutal junta: “Now we want to get weapons,” said a monk known to other dissidents by the nom de guerre “Zero” for his ability to organize and vanish without a trace. “The Buddhist way is lovingkindness. But we lost. So now we want…
