strip away all the b.s. and this is pretty much what you get... juan cole... Shorter AFP: Secretary of State Hillary Clinton will try to tell Binyamin Netanyahu, the far rightwing prospective prime minister of Israel, that he should allow the rebuilding of Gaza and start up a peace process that lead...

bollywood soap operas are hugely popular on afghan tv, despite the taliban's expressed displeasure over their perceived pollution of the morals of the populace... watching the latest gyrations over the afghan presidential elections, i can't help but think of a bollywood serial - many actors, byzanti...

In the new era of hope and change, Al Jazeera, the hateful antisemitic voice of the Muslim Brotherhood, is making another push to get US and Canadian cable providers to carry their slick, sanitized, but still hateful English version: Al Jazeera Lobbies Online for U.S. Cable Access. The Middle East T...

HAT TIP:  Al Jazeera English An investigation into a missile strike carried out by US-led forces in Afghanistan earlier this week has found that 13 civilians were among 16 people killed, the US military has said. The military made the admission on Saturday, after originally saying that 15 oppositio...

Last month, PRWeek reported that Washington bureau cutbacks by many mainstream media outlets are resulting in fewer story opportunities, less experienced correspondents, and more work for communications pros. However, the Pew Research Center’s Project for Excellence in Journalism explained in data...

this is part of the situation i'll be facing when i go back to work in afghanistan this coming week... i land in kabul on saturday... The Taliban has bombed the main supply route for Nato and US forces in Afghanistan, forcing the US to seek alternative routes. Inside Story looks at the options avail...

As Al Jazeera continues trying to push their way onto US cable networks, with a cleaned-up, sanitized English version that keeps its disgusting Jew-hatred masked, here’s what they’re showing to the people in Arabic-speaking countries. Sheikh Yousuf al-Qaradawi, one of the most influentia...

Al Jazeera Signs Deal to Air Throughout U.S. Hundreds of thousands have marched in the streets of Paris, New York, London, Florida, Copenhagen, San Fran etc., calling for the death of the Jews, and the media won't cover.There were tens of thousands of rockets fired into southern Israel for years, an...

Douglas Farah has a nice counterpoint to the pro-Al Jazeera panegyrics being published by the NYT and the LAT and the Guardian and the Huffington Post: The Global Muslim Brotherhood Daily Report ... has an interesting look at the growing Islamist agenda of the al Jazeera TV station, and the roots of...

Bloggers have always been timely in their response to local, regional and international crises and Kenyan bloggers were no different when violence broke out following the December 2007 elections. Within nine days Ushahidi, "a platform that crowdsources crisis information," was born. But that open so...