How not to conduct an interview with the West’s “new Hitler”, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad:
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Iran is the target
The New Yorker’s Seymour Hersh examines the Bush administration’s desire to deal militarily with Iran. That’s quite a “legacy” for George W. Bush.
Fighting the bastards
A blog post and news article from The Economist about the Global Voices Citizen Media Summit 2008 in Budapest. Around 200 people from every corner of the globe have gathered here in Hungary. I’ll be writing much more over the coming days and weeks about the event, but it’s been fascinating to discuss online censorship…
Watching the censorship debate
My speech today at the Global Voices internet censorship conference in Budapest was streamed live across the world (starts at one minute): Webcast powered by Ustream.TV The event was liveblogged, too.
Towards a total human rights outlook
I gave the following speech at the Global Voices Citizen Media Summit 2008 in Budapest today: NGO’s and on-the ground activists: Defending the Voices How can NGOs seeking to advance freedom of expression most effectively work with on-the-ground free speech activists to combat censorship? As a journalist, author and blogger living in Sydney, Australia, the…
Global Voices Citizen Media Summit 2008
The issue of internet censorship has become a global concern. Harvard University’s Global Voices is one major organisation that translates bloggers from across the world and campaigns for imprisoned activists. The Global Voices Citizen Media Summit is taking place on June 27 and 28 in Budapest, Hungary. More than one hundred writers, dissidents, bloggers, journalists…
Our brave boys and girls
Noam Chomsky, on Iran’s Press TV last week, talks about Iraq and the role of foreign forces in the country: It is interesting, the way everything is blamed on Iran. And that’s a rather striking reflection of how deep-seated the imperial mentality is in the West, so for example when Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice…
Bearing the brunt
Bloggers are on the front line against repressive regimes across the world: More bloggers than ever face arrest for exposing human rights abuses or criticising governments, says a report. Since 2003, 64 people have been arrested for publishing their views on a blog, says the University of Washington annual report. In 2007 three times as…
This is what Jews have become?
Typical Zionist depravity towards Iran, this time courtesy of former deputy defense minister Ephraim Sneh: “I am reading the world picture, and it is depressing. The Jews will stand alone against evil in the end.” There is a growing body of evidence that indicates Israel may well attack Iran in the not-too-distant future, with or…
The “national suicide” myth
George Bisharat, Los Angeles Times, June 9: Anew buzzword is arising from the network of Israeli think tanks and security-oriented academic departments bent on instigating a U.S. attack on Iran: “national suicide.” The term describes a supposed Arab Muslim tradition of politically motivated suicide at the national, not just individual, level. Arab Muslim regimes have…