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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 [...]

Pilger on Honduras and Palestine

Sat, 04 Jul 2009 00:04:28 GMT

“Legendary author and filmmaker John Pilger talks about the expansion of US empire in Asia and Latin America” on Flashpoints Radio.? This is a promotion for Socialism Conference, which will presumably upload Pilger’s saturday lecture, and has many great speakers, including friend of Pulse Dahr Jamail. Pilger on Flashpoints: MP3 [...]

Cynthia McKinney and Mairead Maguire on the zionist pirates (updated)

Fri, 03 Jul 2009 08:34:59 GMT

Former US Congresswoman Cynthia McKinney speaking to WBAIX from prison in the apartheid entity (thanks 99). McKinney and the rest of the Free Gaza 21, including Nobel Peace Laureate Mairead Corrigan Maguire, were kidnapped and detained after being illegally seized by the israeli occupation navy while in international waters. They were valiantly endeavouring to deliver humanitarian [...]

Candidates Punt on Iraq-Israel

Fri, 03 Jul 2009 05:04:30 GMT

Former CIA analyst Ray McGovern discusses his recent article on the probable Israeli/U.S. attack on Iran, Israel?s need for new war in Iran to keep the U.S. military in the Mideast due to the failure in Iraq, the outspokenness of the military brass against an attack on Iran, AIPAC?s drafting of [...]

Another Chorister for Israel

Fri, 03 Jul 2009 05:04:29 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 [...]

Nasrallah ?most admired? Arab leader

Sun, 28 Jun 2009 11:36:28 GMT

From Jerusalem Post, via Norman Finkelstein. Hizbullah leader Hassan Nasrallah is the most admired leader among the Arab public, a survey released Wednesday showed. Twenty-six percent of respondents in six countries selected Nasrallah as their most admired leader, compared to 16% who chose Syrian President Bashar Assad and 10% who picked [...]

Israeli PR on Kuntar

Sun, 28 Jun 2009 11:36:28 GMT

Western media, including the Guardian and the Independent have bought the story hook, line and sinker, yet there is nothing beyond the account of the Israeli military to corroborate it. The official story is all PR. ‘PR campaign will make clear: Samir Kuntar is a murderer’, reports Ha’aretz. Israel yesterday launched an international media campaign against Hezbollah. [...]

Lebanon Prisoner Exchange

Sun, 28 Jun 2009 11:36:28 GMT

As with anything involving Hizbullah, Robert Fisk has a pretty pathetic article on the prisoner exchange. Besides finding the discomfort of those waiting for the arrival of the bodies ‘exquisite’ he also repeats the claim put out by anti-Hizbullah elements that Dalal al-Mughrabi’s mother does not want her daughter’s body returned to Lebanon. She does, [...]

Rory McCarthy Does Lebanon

Sun, 28 Jun 2009 11:36:28 GMT

The headlines in the media about the Hizbullah-Israeli prisoner exchange have been quite sensational. In the following letter Ali Abunimah of the Electronic Intifada addresses some of the more outrageous language. (via Angry Arab) Dear Mr. McCarthy, On what basis do you write that: “Five Lebanese prisoners, including the notorious murderer Samir Qantar, crossed free out of Israel [...]

War in Lebanon, Two Years On

Sun, 28 Jun 2009 11:36:28 GMT

Comment from Aussie3 David Chater calls that a news report? It might as well be an minute and a half advertisement pimping for the criminal Israeli regime. The focus is on HA?s enlarged arsenal, no mention of Israel?s belligerence and illegal fly-overs and cluster munitions and numerous flagrant violations of UN resolutions on the ?point of [...]

The Heart of Jenin: ?Do you think the Israelis liked what I did? Some would have preferred it if I?d blown myself up?

Sat, 27 Jun 2009 13:24:56 GMT

The remarkable story of Ismail Khatib, a Palestinian father from the West Bank city of Jenin, continues. After his son Ahmed was shot by israeli soldiers in November 2005, the Khatib’s courageously donated their beloved 12 year-old’s organs to a number of recipients in israel, to both Arabs and Jews. The story is the subject of [...]

Are British Jews ending their affair with Labour?

Wed, 24 Jun 2009 20:46:30 GMT

David “I am a Zionist” Cameron, leader of the opposition, said recently, at the Conservative Friends of Israel (CfI) annual business lunch, that his belief in Israel?s right to exist and to defend itself was ?indestructible?. No surprises there.? He did however refer to old supporters giving a special thank you to some of the [...]

The Shock Doctrine and the Economic Crisis

Wed, 24 Jun 2009 00:49:20 GMT

Naomi Klein, interviewed by Bob McChesney, on her book the Shock Doctrine with respect to the financial crisis.? Klein goes on to explain her current project, writing a piece on America’s boycott of the UN Durban II review conference on racism, and is critical of the US anti-war movement for ignoring the Israel-Palestine conflict. Naomi Klein [...]

Fortress Britain

Sat, 20 Jun 2009 08:37:19 GMT

Variant, Issue 32, Summer 2008; Spinwatch, June 23, 2008; Scoop (New Zealand), June 25, 2008; UK Watch, June 25, 2008; Media Monitors Network, June 25, 2008; Dissident Voice, June 27, 2008 __________________________________ ?The public has to be more alert?, warned one ?international terrorism expert? in the Daily Mail late last year, because Scotland ?is set to become [...]

Philip Weiss on US Middle East Policy

Sat, 20 Jun 2009 18:30:20 GMT

Scott Horton? of Antiwar Radio interviews our good friend Philip Weiss. Investigative journalist Philip Weiss discusses Netanyahu?s right-wing biblical rhetoric in response to Obama?s groundbreaking Cairo speech, the U.S. media?s long-awaited questioning of Israeli settlements, Israel?s accelerating departure from Western values and the sub-human living conditions forced on Gaza residents. MP3 here. (31:26) Philip Weiss is an investigative [...]

Patrick Doherty on the Iranian Elections

Fri, 19 Jun 2009 23:27:02 GMT

Scott Horton of Antiwar Radio interviews Patrick Doherty of the New America Foundation on the Iranian election. MP3 here. (17:52) Patrick Doherty, Deputy Director of the American Strategy Program at the New America Foundation, discusses the Iranian government crackdown that reinforces the perception of electoral fraud, the popular Iranian discontent with autocracy, the dearth of legitimate polling [...]

Phyllis Bennis on Obama?s Cairo speech

Sat, 13 Jun 2009 00:03:25 GMT

This week from CounterSpin – “Barack Obama has either been currying favor with Muslims or extending an olive branch in the Middle East depending on which media you consume. We’ll talk with Phyllis Bennis of the Institute for Policy Studies about Obama’s major speech in Cairo, and the size of the gap between words and [...]

Another Chorister for Israel

Fri, 09 Jan 2009 21:08:46 GMT

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 [...]