Salam Pax, the famous exiled Iraqi blogger who endorsed my book The Blogging Revolution, returns to Iraq.
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Let the UN take over?
Halewistan is an intriguing new blog by a “perennial student, Canadian national and global citizen.” The name? / ha / le / wi / from the semitic root of the author’s name, meaning join, connect for mutual benefit; alternatively, a wanderer, a consecrated person, ”˜adherent, client, devotee (of god)’ / stan / from Persian -stan…
Let’s hope I’m “problematic”
Should I be expecting a visit soon? The Immigrant Absorption Ministry announced on Sunday it was setting up an “army of bloggers,” to be made up of Israelis who speak a second language, to represent Israel in “anti-Zionist blogs” in English, French, Spanish and German… During the war, we looked for a way to contribute…
How to look up democracy in the phone book
My recent book, The Blogging Revolution, continues to extend its reach. The Prospects of Cyberocracy, a post by US-based academic Patrick Meier – a Harvard-based Fellow who works on “conflict early warning and crisis mapping” – explains the ways in which the internet can impact democracy-promotion around the world. Meier is using my book, amongst…
Would you like sex with your child killing?
Jews Sans Frontieres: Israel is the only country in the Middle East where the government uses feminine sexuality to market mass murder.
Propaganda for the converted
Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps have launched a plan to start 10,000 blogs for the paramilitary Basij forces as a counter-weight to the perceived liberalism of the country’s blogosphere.
Israel, you’ve gone too far
My latest article for New Matilda is about Israel’s lies in Gaza: The international Jewish community is divided over the latest offensive in Gaza, writes Antony Loewenstein When the fighting eventually ends between Israel and Hamas, what will remain of the Gaza Strip and its people? One local Zionist leader will have us believe that…
The net effect
The following essay about the web and my book The Blogging Revolution, by Richard King, appeared in the Sydney Morning Herald on January 3: Good, bad or a bit of both? Richard King asks whether the internet serves us, or we serve it. Perhaps new technologies meet with suspicion because of the perception they extend…
Gaza bloggers report from the ground
My following article appears in today’s edition of Crikey: Despite Israeli denials, a humanitarian crisis in Gaza is clear and vast numbers of civilians are being bombed and fired upon by invading forces. As The New York Times reports, hospitals, such as Shifa, are struggling with multiple amputations and scant resources. Gisha, an Israeli human…
Bring your own presents
A wedding invitation that perfectly captures the current “love” between Israel and Egypt. From one US-backed dictatorship to a US-backed client state. Feel the love.