In many countries, the Western powers that back military dictatorships in places such as Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Jordan, Algeria, Yemen and Libya:
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Why did most Western elites not want to see Arab anger?
Al-Jazeera’s director general Wadah Khanfar on the Arab revolution that most in the West simply didn’t expect. Why? Because we fear Islamists, because we hate the idea that Arabs may vote for parties we don’t like and because we fear that poor little undemocratic Israel may be challenged. Times are changing: Indeed, it should surprise…
Al-Jazeera is more than just a news channel
Nir Rosen understands how the Middle East has changed: Its hard to imagine the revolutions sweeping the Middle East happening without al Jazeera. Yes Tunisians started their revolution, taking the first steps, and it took Jazeera a couple of weeks before it focused on Tunisia. But once its started and Jazeera was on its war…
A non-controversial proposal; Arabs have right to vote for whomever they want
Here’s to small blessings. A rather good editorial in today’s Sydney Morning Herald that calls for a re-thinking of years of imperial attitudes in the Arab world and an opening to Islamists who get elected. Bravo: The patronising orientalism that the Arabs or even Muslims in general are somehow culturally conditioned to political slavery is…
Life inside a Pyongyang university
This is a truly remarkable film. Two film-makers received exclusive access to the Pyongyang University of Cinematic and Dramatic Arts and were able to follow the lives of some highly privileged North Koreans in service to the Dear Leader:
Opportunities America should grab in the Middle East (but probably won’t)
Only on Al-Jazeera. The wonderful show Empire – a news service that actually acknowledges what Washington is – discusses the changing role of the US in the Arab world in light of the various uprisings. Honest about Israeli actions and America’s real intentions in the Middle East – loving Israel to death and oil –…
Memo to Washington; Israel will bring your downfall
Marwan Bishara, senior political analyst at Al Jazeera English and host and editor of the television program Empire, talks to Democracy Now! about the desperate need for America to see the world in a way other than through a Zionist frame: Everyone was caught in the headlights—What is going on? Who are these people?—not realizing…
This is how American friends deal with peaceful protesters
America must be proud of its close friend, Bahrain.
US intelligence is a contradiction in terms
The idea that Facebook and Twitter should be closely monitored by Washington to determine where the next Middle East revolution may occur simply proves the sheer waste of billions on the intelligence services annually. You have to laugh: