Headlines from DemocracyNow.org, a daily TV/radio news program, hosted by Amy Goodman and Juan Gonzalez, airing on over 650 stations, pioneering the largest community media collaboration in the US. Shoe-Throwing Iraqi Journalist Sentenced to 3 Years The Iraqi journalist who threw his shoes at Presid...

You've probably been on a train entering one of our larger cities. There are usually patches where there seems to be graffiti everywhere like travelling through a hyperactive art gallery; colours, text, images all fighting for space and attention. And then there is Banksy... ...whose works of ar...

Pro-Palestinian campaigners claimed victory on Wednesday when charges were dropped against a Jewish activist arrested for protesting at a celebration of Israel's 60th anniversary last June....

Wednesday, March 11, 2009 My letter to the New York Times regarding "The Many Obstacles to Peace in the Middle East" RE: letters- The Many Obstacles to Peace in the Middle East http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/11/opinion/lweb11cohen.html?_r=1&ref=opinion Dear Editor, Middle East Reality Check &...

If you’re not interested in learning too much about Sacha Baron Cohen’s upcoming mockumentary Bruno, please do not read further. A few reviews of the new film Bruno, scheduled for release on July 10, have leaked out — and the news for Cohen fans is very postive. For those not in th...

Note the forthright avowals that the Book of Peace itself commands them to fight against unbelievers simply because they are unbelievers ("it would have been the greatest religious duty to fight you over your infidelity"). Note also the invitation to Islam, the liberal employment of the tu quoque fa...

By Dr. Elias Akleh Since their occupation of Palestine in 1948 to establish illegal Israel in the heart of the Arab World until the present, Zionist Israelis had initiated seven wars against their Arab neighbors. Six of those were waged after 1967 to maintain their occupation of the rest of Palestin...

I have not heard of or read anything written by one Patricia DeGennaro until an article of hers appeared on my screen-director (here). Turns out her cv states she's a professor, writer, analyst and consultant and currently, serves as a Senior Fellow at the World Policy Institute, Senior Research Fel...

We’re launching a very cool new project at Berkman today, Media Cloud. Basically, Media Cloud is a platform to help researchers find quantitative answers to questions like: - What type of stories are covered more heavily in blogs than in newspapers? - How does coverage of a topic like Iran dif...

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