Sadly, many of the countries below that repress bloggers are the same nations I feature in my book, The Blogging Revolution: The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) has just released a list of the ten worst countries in which to blog. Topping the list is Burma, followed closely by Iran, Syria, Cuba, Saudi Arabia, Vietnam,…
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The Brotherhood is silenced, again
The issue of Egypt’s repression of dissenters and Muslim Brotherhood bloggers gets little coverage in the West. Is this because Egypt is a “moderate and pro-Western” dictatorship? Perhaps. I was interviewed last week by the US radio show, The World, about the detention of blogger Abdel Rahman Fares: [display_podcast]
We shouldn’t be grieving for the death of newspapers
My following article appears today in Online Opinion: As a journalist who spends the vast majority of my life online, the seemingly never-ending debates about the future of the media and newspapers can be exhausting and predictable. The same mantras are heard over and over again. Where will the news come from when newsprint dies?…
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…
Showing the world still cares
Victory: Part of a 99-vehicle convoy bringing medicine, food, clothing and toys from the UK has reached Gaza after a 24-day journey through Europe and Africa. Organised by the Viva Palestina group and backed by UK MP George Galloway, the convoy entered Gaza from Egypt.
You can’t keep them silent forever
Life in the repressive lane for a reliable US dictatorship: Egyptian authorities should immediately charge or free Diaa Eddin Gad, a blogger held since February 6, 2009, Human Rights Watch said today. Gad is among a number of bloggers and activists arrested in relation to protest in Egypt since the beginning of the Gaza offensive…
Does anybody actually want to solve this?
At least the Guardian editorial writers understand the situation, if most of the Western media still refuse to accept reality: Pledging aid for is the easy bit. Getting it delivered to Gazans living in tents after Israel‘s three-week bombardment is another matter. The $3bn that donors promised in Sharm el-Sheikh yesterday will have to penetrate…
And it’s just beginning
Who says the boycott, divestment and sanctions campaign against Israel isn’t starting to bite? Although the Israeli economic media doesn’t concern itself with the moral dimension of the attacks on Gaza, the economic dimension of recent events have created a rising level of concern. In order to demonstrate this trend, here are summaries of four…
It’s true because we say it is
A timely exert from Noam Chomsky’s book, Understanding Power, in which he proves yet again the gutlessness of the mainstream media: [A] few years ago George Will wrote a column in Newsweek called “Mideast Truth and Falsehood,” about how peace activists are lying about the Middle East, everything they say is a lie. And in…
If you want progress, do this now
Will the US soon embrace “terrorists”? Looks like it (as without engaging Hamas, peace in the Middle East is literally impossible, something that pleases the Zionist lobby no end): US Middle East Envoy George Mitchell expressed support for Egyptian efforts to forge a Palestinian national unity government, indicating that America could take a new tack…