An instructive tale of how Zionist spokespeople in the American media are losing power in the new, online discourse.
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What the web has done for honest Mid-East debate (eg. helped)
Following the desperate smear of neo-con Lee Smith against dissenting bloggers on the Middle East, two leading writers weigh in. Max Blumenthal explains how how frustrating it must be Zionists who simply can’t believe that their views are no longer sacrosant. And Israel Lobby co-author Steve Walt explains that the blogosphere has truly liberated debate…
Interview with New York’s Indypendent on Palestine, peace, BDS and the MSM
Here’s my interview published today by a leading New York publication, The Indypendent. It was conducted by wonderful young journalist Alex Kane: With “peace talks” between the Palestinian Authority and Israel seeming more and more like a dead end, many people around the world, including dissident Jewish voices, are turning to grassroots activism to pressure…
Neo-con would like Israel to be a protected species online
A sadly predictable article in Tablet claiming that some prominent online writers and bloggers are “using the Internet to make anti-Semitism respectable.” Seriously, because a handful of comments on a website may be anti-Semitic – and depends who you ask when defining that troubled word – people like Glenn Greenwald and the Mondoweiss website are…
Loewenstein and Abunimah on GritTV
I was interviewed yesterday on leading independent American television show GritTV alongside Ali Abunimah. We discussed the “peace process”, Palestine, BDS, the role of Barack Obama and the importance of the web: More GRITtv
Twitter won’t really help America be more liked
A very revealing essay in today’s New York Times Magazine on the US State Department’s major use of the web, Twitter, Facebook and online tools to push Washington’s agenda globally. The article is curious for its almost complete lack of discussion about whether Obama administration policies are in fact useful or productive but instead focuses…
More journalists must take risks, says Wikileaks head
Wikileaks founder Julian Assange in the Guardian: There has been an unconscionable failure to protect sources. It is those sources who take all the risks. I was at a journalism conference a few months ago, and there were posters up saying a thousand journalists had been killed since 1944. That’s outrageous. How many policemen have…
Journalism finds a safe home in Iceland
The possibility of Iceland becoming a safe haven for investigative journalism has been brewing for some time. The Guardian provides the background to this important development: A resolution proposing the Icelandic Modern Media Initiative (IMMI), has already been unanimously passed by the country’s parliament. The concept crystallised when John Barlow, an American cyberlibertarian, met members…
Google and Beijing get back into bed together
Sadly, Google has caved to Chinese demands and will once again censor some online content. Principles are clearly flexible for the web giant: Google, the US internet search… company,… has agreed to submit to official Chinese censorship. The Chinese government, on its… part,… announced the renewal of Google’s licence to operate in the country. The government’s decision came after…
Australia’s Prime Minister is a pale shadow of nothingness
Dissident writer and academic Scott Burchill on the dead heart at the centre of the ruling Labor party in Australia (and the Prime Ministership of Julia Gillard): Caved in to miners within hours of becoming PM – not prepared to stand up to corporate power in the West, or defend the population’s resources equity Gushed…