Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting on another corporate media moment of ignorance and bias: The headline of this Washington Post piece today (4/26/10) is certainly not promising: “Sharing a West Bank Highway Proves a Tall Order for Israel, Palestinians” The highway in question was built by the Israeli government on occupied Palestinian territory. Since 2000,…
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A view of the UN from Latin America
Miguel D’Escoto, former president of the United Nations General Assembly and former foreign minister of Nicaragua, tells Democracy Now!: Palestine has not been given statehood. And when the split of Palestine for a Jewish state and an Arab state, when that was decided upon—not really decided upon, when that decision was imposed, with all kinds…
Iranian autocrats will have a harder time blocking material
Whenever any repressive regime tries to censor online content, rest assured somebody somewhere will find a way around it (Western governments also take note): While the Iranian government has intensified its aggressive efforts to expand Internet filters, Austin Heap, a young programmer in the U.S., says he has developed software that would enable Iranians to…
America wants to send weapons above the atmosphere
We’re seen the future and it’s militarised space: The Pentagon’s test launch of two unmanned space vehicles this week have highlighted the efforts being made by the United States to develop a new generation of high-altitude weapon systems. The United States Air Force (USAF) and the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) test launched a…
What is happening in the West Bank away from clueless journalist’s eyes
Day in and day out the sight of armed Israeli soldiers in the West Bank protecting settlers and destroying Palestinian land, all illegal under international law, continues. Most of the world’s media refuses to show these images. Poor, little Israel must be protected. Joseph Dana, an American Jew living in Israel, continues to blog about…
The Israeli boxer from the former Soviet Union (but don’t feel patriotic)
Heard about the Orthodox boxing champ Yuri Foreman, studying to be a Rabbi, soon to fight in Yankee Stadium?
Message to non-Jews: don’t mention Jews unless you say you love them every five seconds
God help the Zionist lobby. This joke, told by US National Security Adviser James Jones at a Zionist think-tank, has offended the Anti-Defamation League. Seriously. Yes, it’s impossible to tell a joke about Jews without some Zionist group thinking a non-Jew is straying into inappropriate territory. Another own goal by the Zionist Diaspora:
Count the Jews on the side of angels today (only two hands are needed)
A wonderful column by Jerusalem Post commentator Larry Derfner. What humane, powerful and morally concise writing looks like: Judge Richard Goldstone, talking last October with a group of liberal North American rabbis, explained why he agreed to head the UN’s investigation of the war in Gaza. “I knew,” he said, “there would be strong and…
Give me the internet, Twitter, Facebook and YouTube
A nation of addicts proudly (and desperately?) need their daily fix: American college students are hooked on cellphones, social media and the Internet and showing symptoms similar to drug and alcohol addictions, according to a new study. Researchers at the University of Maryland who asked 200 students to give up all media for one full…