Being a war reporter was also dangerous but the risks are increasing. Here’s a powerful piece by the always interesting David Carr in The New York Times: The setting at the Waldorf-Astoria hotel on Tuesday represented the height of refinement, but Alan Rusbridger, editor in chief of The Guardian, reminded the black-tie crowd at the…
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New frontiers of “free speech”: pressuring Twitter to ban Hamas
Disturbing post by the ACLU about the growing pressure in the US to try and silence ideas or groups that certain interest groups don’t like (but who live and operate in the real world): With one major exception, the Roberts Court has been quite protective of unpopular (and even revolting) speech under the First Amendment.…
Stopping killer robots before they wage war on their own
A fascinating and necessary new report from Human Rights Watch:
Memo to journalists over Gaza; it ain’t hard to avoid “balanced” reporting
Robert Fisk on the latest round of Israeli aggression against Gaza: Terror, terror, terror, terror, terror. Here we go again. Israel is going to “root out Palestinian terror” – which it has been claiming to do, unsuccessfully, for 64 years – while Hamas, the latest in “Palestine’s” morbid militias, announces that Israel has “opened the…
MSNBC features, shock horror, Palestinians talking about massacre in Gaza
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The democratic challenge faced by vulture capitalism: Naomi Klein shows why
The brilliant Naomi Klein (another recent talk of hers here) talking about capitalism, climate change, the challenge for democracy and vulture capitalism (all the subjects of my forthcoming book and film): See here for a fascinating new campaign, with Klein involved, called Do the Maths about holding energy polluters to account through boycotts, divestment and…
Jeremy Scahill speaks about America’s global assassination program and Left silence
One of America’s finest journalists: