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Accountability Knows No Boundaries
Continuing their practice of covering stories likely to be spiked by the American mainstream media, Al Jazeera has just released a report based on the following statement released by Amnesty International: Amnesty International recognises the value...
US to Discuss Nuclear Cooperation with Saudi Arabia
According to insiders in Washington speaking off the record, the United States is planning discussions with Saudi Arabia about civilian nuclear cooperation.
Coca-Cola Company Announces Creation of the Haiti Hope Project
The Coca-Cola Company has announced the creation of the Haiti Hope Project, bringing together a coalition of business, government and civil society partners to create opportunity for 25,000 Haitian mango farmers and their families by supporting the development...
Blazing the Trail Or Covering It?
It is clear that the failed terrorist attack on the Delta/Northwest airplane preparing to land in Detroit this past Friday at the end of its flight from Amsterdam demands serious analysis. What is less clear is how seriously that analysis will be...
Missing the Editor
In my piece last July about Michael Massing’s New York Review article, “The News About the Internet,” I tried to focus on two significant losses that we have had to endure in the world the Internet has made. One of these was a consequence...
What Will the Internet Become to Whom?
It has always seemed to me that Barry Diller has tried to keep a low profile. He strikes me as someone more concerned with running his business than with indulging in subjunctive speculations about how businesses of the future will be (or ought to...
Shoe-throwing Journalist Released From Iraqi Jail
The journalist, who was jailed after he threw his shoes at then-U.S. president George Bush last December, was released from prison on Tuesday, CNN reported. Muntazer al-Zaidi, 30, an Iraqi correspondent for the Cairo-based Al-Baghdadiya TV channel, hurled...
The Inconvenient Truth About Obama
While I follow all the cartoons that Mr. Fish provides to Truthdig regularly, I have to confess that I tend to find them a hit-or-miss affair; and today turned out to support both sides of that coin. On the one hand we had his “21st Century Saint”...
