An interesting debate from al-Jazeera English after last year’s AIPAC conference (before Obama won the election). The kind of discussion that rarely happens in the Western media:
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Spreading the word of a crazy Jesus
The West wonders why many Muslims hate the Americans? Military officials at Bagram are caught on tape urging US soldiers to evangelize in the Muslim country. UPDATE: The US military has responded to the al-Jazeera story…by shooting the messenger.
Like Israel, Sri Lanka can expect years of revenge
A “war on terror” in Sri Lanka that will achieve nothing other than hatred and retribution. The final days of the decades-old war?
A chance to discuss Israeli PR
Only on Al-Jazeera English. A necessary debate about the role of Zionist spin in the American media and the reporting of the Gaza war:
American war criminals inc.
Laith Mushtaq was… one… of only two non-embedded cameramen working throughout the April 2004 ‘battle for Fallujah’ in which 600 civilians died. He recounts the harrowing US-led massacre: One day, I think it was April 9, 2004, someone with a loudspeaker in Fallujah’s main mosque said: “The Americans will open a gate and women and children can…
We have no idea what is going on there
Philip Rizk, 27, is a freelance journalist and blogger who has been reporting from Gaza since 2005 and was taken by Egyptian security forces after a pro-Palestinian rally in Cairo on February 6. He was released a few days later without being charged. While in Gaza, he filmed The Palestinian Life, a documentary highlighting non-violent…
The terrorists must be heard
Al-Jazeera shows the rest of the world what real journalism means: speaking to the “terrorists” in Sri Lanka is essential to understanding the conflict:
Hamas still rules, aka Israeli failure
American investigative reporter Seymour Hersh speaking at an al-Jazeera conference in Doha, Qatar about the recent war in Gaza: Suppose Israel did less bombing, They would have done better. I saw no reporting on the six month period leading up to the conflict in which Israel attacked Gaza. The Israelis didn’t know that much about…
Behind the evil
My following review of Paul McGeough’s book, Kill Khalid: Mossad’s failed hit…and the rise of Hamas, appears in the March edition of the Australian Literary Review: At a pro-Israel rally in London in January, one Jewish participant compared fighting Hamas terrorism with treating cancer: “When you treat cancer you kill some of the innocent blood…
Yes, this is a democracy
Al Jazeera on the media wars in Venezuela and the ways in which so much of the Western press, including the New York Times, simply echo Washington’s positions: