My following article appears in the Amnesty International Australia’s Uncensor campaign about human rights in China: The international outcry over China’s human rights abuses was temporarily disrupted this week with news from Beijing that the regime was determined to manage the city’s pollution problems by halting building construction after July for two months. Unfortunately, many…
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Cheering for battle
How the New York Times avoids reporting the realities of American war crimes in Iraq.
A back rub will win this war
Since 2006, when the insurgency in Afghanistan sharply intensified, the Afghan government has been dependent on American logistics and military support in the war against Al Qaeda and the Taliban. But to arm the Afghan forces that it hopes will lead this fight, the American military has relied since early last year on a fledgling…
Phoning the terrorists
Tony Karon, Rootless Cosmopolitan, March 4: Once upon a time, Israelis and Palestinians looked to the U.S. to intervene at moments of heightened confrontation to mediate between the two sides and contain the damage. The Bush Administration, however, has proved entirely incapable of playing this role, because its own diplomatic efforts are hidebound by the…
Mainstream beware
Zogby International polling reveals that the American public aren’t too fond of the mainstream media: Two thirds of Americans – 67% – believe traditional journalism is out of touch with what Americans want from their news, a new We Media/Zogby Interactive poll shows. The survey also found that while most Americans (70%) think journalism is…
Victory in Iraq is so yesterday
Inside the mind of a neo-conservative (and yes, Iraq is as fun as Israeli soldiers killing Palestinian children before breakfast):
Beware the grey lady
The New York Times likes to think of itself as the finest newspaper in the world. Sometimes it produces essential stories, such as this recent piece about a death at Guantanamo Bay. Then, at other times, it becomes craven in the face of criticism.
A different kind of UN
Calling for war to bring peace to Darfur. (That’s something only the mainstream media could achieve.)
Random Zionist bombing
Leading investigative journalist Seymour Hersh reveals that last year’s Israeli bombing of Syria’s “nuclear” facilities was a classic case of false intelligence and hyped threats (and yet the mainstream media played along again): Joseph Cirincione, the director for nuclear policy at the Center for American Progress, a Washington, D.C., think tank, told me, “Syria does…