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Hiatus

Thu, 14 Aug 2008 14:29:23 GMT

Over the past few months I have been trying to juggle the responsibilities of maintaining a current affairs blog and of writing a book length doctoral thesis. As a result I have not done justice to either (I haven’t even managed to cover the developments in Kashmir, for example). I persisted out of a sense [...]

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America?s Israeli-Occupied Media

Tue, 12 Aug 2008 21:53:56 GMT

Former CIA officer Philip Giraldi on US media’s platform for Israeli warmongering. There should be little doubt that the Israeli government is making every effort to jump-start a war against Iran sooner rather than later. Many Israelis not surprisingly believe it is in their interest to convince [...]

Tel Aviv to Tbilisi

Tue, 12 Aug 2008 12:01:11 GMT

Israelis wave both Georgian and Israeli flags as they chant anti-Russian slogans during a demonstration outside the Russian embassy in Tel Aviv, 11 August. (Gali Tibbon/AFP/Getty Images) Ali Abunimah ofThe Electronic Intifada on Israel’s role in the Russia-Georgia war From the moment Georgia launched a surprise attack on the tiny breakaway region of South Ossetia last week, [...]

?Pro-Palestinian? George Advises Obama

Tue, 12 Aug 2008 23:15:21 GMT

Don’t write off Hollywood just yet. ‘How Clooney offers good friend Obama advice on issues from body language to Iraq,’ report Caroline Graham and Sharon Churcher. George Clooney once famously declared he could never run for public office because he?d ?slept with too many women, done too many drugs and been to too many parties?. But now [...]

Avoid clich? like the plague? Never

Tue, 12 Aug 2008 01:53:08 GMT

‘We are all guilty’, writes Robert Fisk. ‘To my distress, I find that I thrice used the word ‘iconic’ in my book. Ye Gods!’ Opposite my apartment in Beirut there used to live an American-born English teacher called Marion Lanson. When she departed Lebanon, I inherited her 1949 Random House American College Dictionary, edited by one [...]

George vs the Smearmongers

Tue, 12 Aug 2008 01:48:47 GMT

This report by some tool named Michael Savage is interesting in so far as it turns the victim of a vicious smear into the victimiser. Poor character assassins — what would they do if they weren’t accorded the privilege of smearing? London’s only Jewish community radio station has been forced to cease broadcasting after losing a [...]

The laureate of all Arabs

Tue, 12 Aug 2008 01:30:11 GMT

‘Mahmoud Darwish is dead, but the voice of the Palestinian resistance will live on in all of us ‘, writes Ahdaf Soueif. None of us really thought he’d die. Our loss is great, we tell each other. In our minds [...]

Another Chorister for Israel

Fri, 09 Jan 2009 21:08:46 GMT

On February 29 last year the BBC’s website reported deputy defense minister Matan Vilnai threatening a ‘holocaust’ on Gaza. Headlined “Israel warns of Gaza ‘holocaust’”, the story would undergo nine revisions in the next twelve hours. Before the day was over, the headline would read “Gaza militants ‘risking disaster’“. (The story has since been revised [...]

P U L S E

Fri, 09 Jan 2009 22:06:11 GMT

Dear Friends: I am deeply humbled by all the words of encouragement and appreciation you have directed my way. Things were not turning out the way I had expected and as a result the hiatus turned out to be far longer than I had anticipated. I am still tied down by my responsibilities, but the outrages [...]