During last year’s war between Russia and Georgia, conflicting narratives were flying around the world, something I wrote about in the Guardian. One year on, it now appears that Western-led, PR companies are leading the way to capture the hearts, minds and wallets of the global elite (via the Guardian): The war between Moscow and…
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Beating the western drum
My following essay appears in the Guardian today: During the recent war between Georgia and Russia, bloggers on both sides of the conflict provided searing accounts of atrocities and manoeuvres unseen by western journalists. In a country such as Russia the space for alternative and critical views are rare. The war showed an authoritarian regime’s…
Feeling the earth move
Ali Abunimah, Bitterlemons International, September 4: In the wake of Russia’s counterattack against the Georgian invasion of the breakaway region of South Ossetia last month, Turkish President Abdullah Gul observed that the era when the United States alone could set the world agenda had ended. “I don’t think you can control all the world from…
Blogging their way to freedom
My latest column for New Matilda is about the ways in which the web can challenge dictatorships around the globe and the complicity of Western firms in assisting repression: Antony Loewenstein takes a look at the work of bloggers monitoring and resisting their authoritarian governments With the Beijing Olympics now a distant memory — and…
A deadly legacy
Who was responsible for dropping cluster bombs during the recent war between Russia and Georgia?
The new kind of war
The tale of a Russian cyberwarrior who wanted to know how much damage he could create on the Georgian side.
How to piss off the neighbours
Israel and Georgia, two countries that know a thing or two about aggressive provocation.
We decide the global rules
The New York Times finds heroes in Tbilisi – In Baghdad, only terrorists.