Monday, May 19th, 2008
This is from the Israeli licensed march of Palestinian families at the old destroyed arab village of Safurye. About half way through the clip CNN’s own Ben Welderman gets harassed too and barks back. If this is how Israel treats Palestinians who are citizens of Israel you can only imagine how it treats [...]
Posted in Human Rights, Israel, Media, Racism, Video, Zionism | 4 Comments »
Wednesday, October 17th, 2007
It’s time of the year for Worldwide Press Freedom Index 2007. With all my reservations regarding Reporters Without Borders neutrality (having doubt after knowing that France is their financial supporter, although they are an NGO!), yet, their report was always a good indicator, if not the closest to reality - at least from my experiences [...]
Posted in Algeria, Arab, Bahrain, Blogging, Breaking News, Censorship, Egypt, Freedom of Speech, Iraq, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Libya, Morocco, Palestine, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Somalia, Syria, Tunisia, UAE, Yemen | 3 Comments »
Monday, September 24th, 2007
Pressure Builds on University of Michigan
Pluto Press Under Attack by Israel Lobby
By ROGER van ZWANENBERG
About three weeks ago Pluto books and the University of Michigan Press - our US distributor - came under attack by Stand With Us (a Zionist lobby group) who were objecting to the publication of Overcoming Zionism by Joel Kovel which [...]
Posted in Censorship, Education, Freedom of Speech, USA, Zionism | 1 Comment »
Thursday, November 2nd, 2006
In the fifth annual Reporters Without Borders Worldwide Press Freedom Index, in between 168 indexed countries, our beloved Arab countries makes sure to be among the worst.
Here is the list in order from “best” to “worst”:
Kuwait - 73
United Arab Emirates - 77
Mauritania - 77
Qatar - 80
Morocco - 97
Lebanon - 107
Jordan - 109
Bahrain - 111
Algeria - [...]
Posted in Algeria, Arab, Bahrain, Egypt, Iraq, Israel, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Libya, Media, Middle East, Morocco, Palestine, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Syria, Tunisia, UAE, Yemen | 3 Comments »
Wednesday, October 11th, 2006
Did you know that there are few journalists in Washington who can throw the White House off its stride? Bob Woodward is one of them. Woodward’s new book, “State of Denial,” paints a damning picture of White House policy in the aftermath of the Iraq invasion. The White House is now in full damage-control mode [...]
Posted in 911, Did you know?, Freedom of Speech, Gaza, Human Rights, Iraq, Israel, Judaism, Lebanon, Palestine, Racism, Religion, Syria, Terrorism, UK, USA, War Crimes, Zionism | 3 Comments »
Sunday, October 1st, 2006
Some of my favorite cartoons about ‘freedom of press’ from Bendib!
(Click on thumbnail to view)
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