June 9, 2008
Posted by yaman
“Journalism Is Not a Crime” — this has become the rallying cry of James Karl Buck, a UC Berkeley journalism student who was arrested by Egyptian police while covering demonstrations in Mahalla, Egypt earlier this year. When he was arrested, James posted an update to his Twitter feed informing activists and bloggers around the world [...]
February 23, 2008
Posted by yaman
A few days ago, Hossam posted about the arrest and imprisonment of Khaled Hamzah Salim, an Egyptian engineer and the Editor-in-Chief of IkhwanWeb.com, the English-language website of the Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood. Egyptian dictator Hosni Mubarak, for whom George Bush and Condaleeza Rice have never failed to show their great appreciation, is currently in the process [...]
February 8, 2008
Posted by yaman
Razan has been doing a great job posting updates about the Free Tariq campaign. I did not know about Tariq’s blog before, but this is the first high profile campaign regarding the arrest of a Syrian blogger. Share
A Yale-sponsored conference about anti-Semitism hosted many blatantly anti-Arab and anti-Muslim speakers. It is unconscionable for a center meant to study one form of racism to indulge speakers who practice another.
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Both the Irish and Middle Eastern conflicts figure prominently in American domestic politics — yet both have played out in very different ways.
A must read piece by Ali Abunimah in NYT.
(Discussion)abc Primetime – How Muslims Are Treated In USA
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To get an idea of the real reason why Apple has succeeded, it was only necessary to look below the May article hailing the company’s success on the front page of the Times business section. A second article reported on a spate of suicides in some Chinese sweatshops that was drawing attention to work…
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Immediately following the incident, McCord was threatened and mocked by his commanding officer for pulling the children from the van. He says his platoon leader “yelled at me that I need to quit worrying about these ‘motherfucking kids’ and pull security.” McCord later approached a staff sergeant an…
Remember the “Collateral Murder” video leaked of the helicopter attack that killed a journalist? Here’s some insights from one of the soldiers at the scene and into the way it was handled by military personnel.
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Portraying “enemy” infants as proto-terrorists has obvious propaganda value: if what you thought was an innocent baby is in fact a weapon with a human face, you will be less likely to protest when it is killed. Murder becomes self-defence. Not only are we supposed to view ‘their’ children as latent …
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HarvardManagementCompany, which manages the university’sendowment, has divested the fund from allinvestmentsit had inIsraelcompanies.
I’m a small pariah state, hear me pout. Though I’m a scandal, don’t shut me out!
(Discussion)A mere thirty-three years ago, on January 20, 1977, Jimmy Carter inaugurated his presidency by proclaiming from the Capitol steps, “Because we are free we can never be indifferent to the fate of freedom elsewhere…. Our commitment to human rights must be absolute.” Most people had never heard of “h…
Thought provoking article for people chained to the language of human rights.
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