The war in Iraq isn’t over. The main events may not even have happened yet.
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What price for information?
Being a journalist, even in so-called “democracies”, can be a deadly business: The number of journalists and other media workers killed as they carried out their jobs across the globe fell to 70 last year, according to figures released today by the World Association of Newspapers. Global media fatalities in 2008 were down from the…
Just don’t mention the settlements
Think Progress blogger Matthew Yglesias challenges the militant Zionist view that peace in the Middle East will only come when Iran is crushed: Israel’s Palestinian problem is fairly simple to define—there are millions of Palestinians living in Israeli-controlled territory. To preserve its Jewish character, Israel doesn’t want to give these Palestinians the rights of Israeli…
Don’t believe the hype at all
Independent journalist Dahr Jamail returns to Iraq for the provincial elections and challenges the Western media’s myth of a stable and improving country.
Take them in, somewhere
The forgotten people: The start of 2009 offers little hope to the residents of al-Tanf, a refugee camp on the Syrian-Iraqi border housing more than 700 Palestinians who had fled persecution in Iraq. No country has given any concrete pledge to take any of the refugees for resettlement in 2009, leaving them to battle the…
Salam Pax is back
Salam Pax, the famous exiled Iraqi blogger who endorsed my book The Blogging Revolution, returns to Iraq.
Are these days really over?
With Barack Obama now President of the United States, a necessary trip down memory lane: Number of Middle Eastern, South Asian, and North African men detained in the U.S. in the eight weeks after 9/11: 1,182 Number of them ever charged with a terrorism-related crime: 0 Number charged with an immigration violation: 762 Estimated number…
More than terror in name
When is a terrorist group not a terrorist group? When the US can use them to potentially overthrow the Islamic Republic of Iran. Welcome to the MEK.
Bloggers under fire
I was interviewed by Sarah Arnold in US magazine The Nation for an article published online on December 23: According to a Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) report released December 4, of the 125 media workers in prison – a list that includes Ibrahim Jassam, a photographer held in US custody in Iraq – more…