My following article appears in the Amnesty International Australia’s Uncensor campaign about human rights in China: Western critics of Beijing should be careful what they wish for during the Games, writes Antony Loewenstein Amnesty International’s latest report on China’s human rights record makes for depressing reading. “We’ve seen a deterioration in human rights because of…
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How not to help the Chinese, part 9
My following article appears in the Amnesty International Australia’s Uncensor campaign about human rights in China: Sport isn’t the only thing on the minds of multinationals in Beijing, writes Antony Loewenstein Human rights issues? What human rights issues? With only a few weeks until the start of the Beijing Games, this seems to be the…
Keeping girls “pure”
Saudi Arabia is one of the most gender-separated nations on earth. The idea, suggested by some leading Saudi bloggers, to “segregate the blogrolls on blogs for the links of female and male Saudi bloggers”, is a sign of religious insanity. One female blogger explains: …A number of bloggers have separated the blogrolls and posted them…
Telling it like it isn’t (on Israel/Palestine)
My latest New Matilda column is about the Western media’s delusions over the Middle East: Distortions, delusions, misrepresentations. No wonder Western leaders and media don’t understand the popularity of groups like Hezbollah and Hamas in the Arab world It shouldn’t come as any surprise that Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah is consistently voted the most popular…
Arrest, detain, torture, kill
How do blogs, new technology and good ol’ fashioned web activism help reporting in conflict zones? Discuss.
Getting out the vote
Although blogs often simply reflect a person’s political bias, they also encourage greater political participation. Discuss.
I’ll blog it for free
Is blogging challenging the reign of serious critical writing in the mainstream media? (Hint: yes, and we should be pleased with this democratisation of opinions.)