The time to read quality

Chris Hedges, Democracy Now!, July 29: The average reader of the paper copy of the New York Times spends forty-five minutes reading the paper. The average viewer of the New York Times website spends about seven minutes. The internet is not designed for a literate society. We are moving into a post-literate society, a society…

Quick easy steps to help terrorism

Pakistani journalist Ahmed Rashid on the disastrous effects of the Bush administration’s “war on terror” policies. Democracy Now!, June 10: And now you have huge efforts by al-Qaeda to train European Muslims, to train white European converts to Islam. They’ve set up training camps now with language facilities. That means if you’re a German Muslim,…

Reporter under fire

Yet another victim of the “war on terror”. An al-Jazeera cameraman was kidnapped in Pakistan in 2001 and transferred to Guantanamo Bay, where he has resided for years without charge. His brother in Sudan said the following to Democracy Now!: I don’t simply want to appeal to people’s feelings. I want them to use their…

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