Speaking to children
On his visit to Beirut this past week, Emory Douglas, former Minister of Culture and artist for the Black Panther Party, repeated a quote to me that he was once told in the early days of the Panthers: “speak in a language that a child can understand.” He told me that he tried to model [...]
Israeli army fires tear-gas at reporter live on air
This is from Al-Jazeera English. If you don’t get the channel at home, you can download a program called livestation (for mac or pc) and stream it over the web.
Baseless organ theft accusations will not bring Israel to justice
Baseless organ theft accusations will not bring Israel to justice http://electronicintifada.net/v2/article10730.shtml by Matthew Cassel On Friday I was invited to appear on Press TV (Iran’s international English-language satellite channel) alongside Donald Bostrom, a Swedish journalist who authored the recent article about the Israeli army stealing the organs of young Palestinian men it had killed in [...]
Robert Fisk
Many, myself included, have been critical of Robert Fisk’s reporting in recent years from Lebanon. I spoke about him with a friend the other night who made the point that “when he’s reporting during war he’s brilliant, but in times of calm he’s awful.” It seems to be somewhat of a truth in his reporting, [...]
Ignorance
I really encourage everyone who reads news about the Middle East in the mainstream English press to fact check and look up events, groups, indiviuduals, etc… as they’re described. It is incredible how ignorant more and more mainstream Western journalists are working in the Middle East. They get off a plane and all of a [...]