My latest New Matilda column is about a necessary reality check on President-elect Barack Obama: Talking about morality in international affairs is easy. What about action? Antony Loewenstein examines the tough foreign policy challenges facing the President-elect An unprecedented amount of hyperbole from the international media heralded last week’s election of Barack Obama to the…
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Washington Prism on blogging
Washington Prism is a “weekly on-line journal of culture, politics and public affairs in Persian [and English], dedicated to bringing the news and views of concern from the United States and beyond to the Persian speaking countries and communities in an accurate, comprehensive and analytical manner.” I was interviewed recently by Hamid Tehrani about my…
History always repeats
Jean-Paul Sartre, The Sleepwalkers, Les Temps Modernes, April 1962: “… For seven years, France has been a mad dog dragging a saucepan tied to its tail, every day unaware that we have ruined, starved and massacred a nation of poor people to bring them to their knees. They remained standing. But at what a price!…
Are the end times approaching?
Is the war in Iraq coming to a close but hardly “on the terms of those who initiated it?”
Time Out Sydney on blogging
My following article is published in this week’s Time Out Sydney magazine: In the years after September 11, 2001, I was constantly frustrated by the failure of the Western media to examine the real reasons behind the attacks. It was as if only a Western journalist’s filter was allowed to see the post 9/11 world.…
How to make progress in the MSM
Journalist Judith Miller, who disgraced her profession and the New York Times by publishing countless bogus stories about Iraq’s non-existent WMDs, has been hired by Fox News. It fits. A liar now works for the master of fiction.
This is done in our name
Evan Knappenberger, who served one year in Iraq with the Army 4th Infantry Division, spoke last weekend in Portland, Oregon with other returned soldiers from Iraq and Afghanistan: We are responsible as soldiers, we are murderers of over one million Iraqis. I participated in burglary, trespassing, knowledgeable negligence, criminal assault and battery, rape by association,…
Getting through a tough day
A young female, Iraqi blogger, Sunshine, writes about celebrating the end of Ramadan and daily life in the country away from the “success of the surge” Western media. Death still haunts this land.
