Wikileaks releases the UK Counter Insurgency Operations Doctrine 2007 that “details British counter-insurgency operations in a number of conflicts, including Northern Island”: In the past many terms have been used to describe those opposing the established authorities, terms such as guerrilla, revolutionary, terrorist, dissident, rebel, partisan, native and enemy all spring to mind. In order…
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Getting Saddam’s riches
I received this hilarious spam email this morning: Hello My name is Sagt Jeff Frawley, I am an American soldier in peace keeping force in Iraq, I am serving in the military of the 1st Armored Division in Iraq, as you know insurgents everyday and car bombs are attacking us. We managed to move funds…
Why do they hate us, Tommy?
New York Times foreign affairs “expert” Thomas Friedman really can’t understand why his beloved US of A is so disliked around the world these days. Let’s see, maybe this comment has something to do with it: We should have done better in Iraq. Yep, that Iraq war has been rather disastrous. Oh well, Friedman must…
Pariah or friend in need?
Three prominent academics take part in a virtual round table to discuss how commentators can best influence Israeli politics.
Doing what the mainstream fears
Leading American journalism academic Jay Rosen offers a concise definition of “citizen journalism“: When the people formerly known as the audience employ the press tools they have in their possession to inform one another, that’s citizen journalism.
The Beijing countdown continues
My following article appears in the Amnesty International Australia’s Uncensor campaign about human rights in China: It is time for Western human rights activists to pressure China in new ways, writes Antony Loewenstein With less than one month until the start of the Games, Beijing is trying to make itself more beautiful. Pollution is still…
Stealing their youth
As a video emerges of a child being interrogated at Guantanamo Bay in Cuba, the moral and legal bankruptcy of the “war on terror” is clearer by the day:
After the bombing
The brutal face of Iraq through the eyes of an embedded, American photojournalist. (Such honesty is often not welcomed by the Bush administration.)
Looks like the Zionists are a little late
Tony Karon, The National, July 12: Despite all the posturing, Israel, for reasons both political and technical, can’t attack Iran without US permission; the US, meanwhile, remains unlikely to give that permission, or do the job itself. Among the reasons: ”¢Iran’s facilities are too dispersed and hardened to be sure that air strikes – which…
Getting out the vote
Although blogs often simply reflect a person’s political bias, they also encourage greater political participation. Discuss.