The Podcast Network is a massive global community of citizens. I was interviewed on Friday about the war in Gaza, the role of the US, the Zionist lobby and the ways in which the Western media obscures the truth about the Palestinians. An interesting footnote: With the help of my two assistants Tim Grainger and…
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Bypass the autocrats
A letter to the new US President: Dear President Obama: in talking to China, remember its people.
Possible friends dropping like flies
While Gerry Adams, the former Irish “terrorist”, calls for engagement with Hamas, many Arab bloggers have started a campaign to cease using the word “Israel” and instead refer to the Jewish state as “Israhell“.
What to do about US-backed despots
Online dissidents in authoritarian states such as Egypt thrive on sites like Facebook, according to Harvard University’s Ethan Zuckerman, because, “the government can’t simply shut down Facebook, because doing so would alert a large group of people who they can’t afford to radicalize.” It is the Dictator’s Dilemma, an issue I cover extensively in my…
Closing the net
The following news story, by Peter Hackney, appeared in leading gay publication SX on January 21: With the mandatory internet filtering trial to begin any day now, Peter Hackney explores what it might mean for our community. The words ”˜gay’ and ”˜lesbian’ are hardly offensive. They merely describe a sexual orientation. But as any journalist…
Salam Pax is back
Salam Pax, the famous exiled Iraqi blogger who endorsed my book The Blogging Revolution, returns to Iraq.
Let the UN take over?
Halewistan is an intriguing new blog by a “perennial student, Canadian national and global citizen.” The name? / ha / le / wi / from the semitic root of the author’s name, meaning join, connect for mutual benefit; alternatively, a wanderer, a consecrated person, ”˜adherent, client, devotee (of god)’ / stan / from Persian -stan…
Let’s hope I’m “problematic”
Should I be expecting a visit soon? The Immigrant Absorption Ministry announced on Sunday it was setting up an “army of bloggers,” to be made up of Israelis who speak a second language, to represent Israel in “anti-Zionist blogs” in English, French, Spanish and German… During the war, we looked for a way to contribute…
How to look up democracy in the phone book
My recent book, The Blogging Revolution, continues to extend its reach. The Prospects of Cyberocracy, a post by US-based academic Patrick Meier – a Harvard-based Fellow who works on “conflict early warning and crisis mapping” – explains the ways in which the internet can impact democracy-promotion around the world. Meier is using my book, amongst…
The way not to win war
Such a noble goal to defeat an “enemy”, Hamas, that is impossible to defeat: Israel supporters respond to the cyber-attacks launched by Islamic hackers through DDoS. A group of students have developed an application that allows Israel sympathizers to use their computer resources and Internet bandwith in order to knock Palestinian websites offline. The online…