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Answerable to no one
Thursday, July 31, 2003 (356 reads)
By John Chuckman
July 31, 2003
Media Monitors Network
Anger over the abuse of power unavoidably drives my views. I can't explain why this should be so, and it doesn't truly matter why. It just is. So you might expect I would be glad to see a tyrant like Saddam Hussein receive even America's idea of justice. But I'm not.
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Set aside the myths, and what remains?
Thursday, July 31, 2003 (409 reads)
By Ghassan Khatib, director of the Jerusalem Media and Communications Center.
July 31, 2003
Media Monitors Network
Three years after the Camp David summit--that infamous "lost opportunity"--it is useful to examine whether the alternative approaches attempted after the summit's failure were productive for either party to the Palestinian-Israeli conflict. It was inevitable that allowing this very first and highly visible final status negotiations summit to crash and burn would bring us to the only alternative to peaceful negotiations--violent confrontations. Today, both parties are reaping their rewards.
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Israel finds BBC too truthful for comfort
Wednesday, July 30, 2003 (391 reads)
By Greg Felton, columnist for the Arabic/English newspaper Al Shorouq.
July 30, 2003
Media Monitors Network
To sustain a fundamental lie over the long term, a propagandist must do more than disseminate false or misleading information; he must also wage a perpetual war against truth.
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Who said Palestinians gave up the right of return?
Friday, July 25, 2003 (393 reads)
By Ali Abunimah, co-founder of Electronic Intifada.
July 25, 2003
Khalil Shikaki of the Palestinian Center for Policy and Survey Research was attacked by an angry mob when he recently held a press conference announcing the results of a poll conducted among 4,500 Palestinian refugees on the right of return. In his study, Shikaki reported that only 10 percent of Palestinian refugees would insist on returning to Israel and becoming citizens there. Supporters of Israel and others who want to disregard refugee rights in any solution to the Palestinian-Israeli conflict embraced the findings.
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Nura's story
Friday, July 25, 2003 (487 reads)
A moving account of life and death in Baghdad as told by a cousin of Tahrir Swift, a member of Arab Media Watch's executive committee.
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Bush and Clinton: Birds of a feather
Thursday, July 24, 2003 (364 reads)
By Matthew Riemer, director of operations at YellowTimes.org
July 24, 2003
Undoubtedly all the die hard political partisans were shocked this week when Bill Clinton came out and essentially exonerated the Bush administration for its manipulation of critical intelligence and lying to the world in support of its drive to war.
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Recognizing Israel
Thursday, July 24, 2003 (460 reads)
By Abbas Zaidi, a writer for Pakistan's The Nation.
July 24, 2003
Media Monitors Network
President General Musharraf's statement on the possibility of recognizing Israel has not only spawned a passionate debate in the media, we have also come to know that the Government of Pakistan has recently been in touch with the Government of Israel through unofficial visits of some Pakistanis. Regarding the issue of recognizing Israel, there are two clear-cut camps in the country.
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The saga of Hamas in America
Thursday, July 24, 2003 (417 reads)
By Dr. Ahmed Yousef, director of the United Association for Studies and Research (UASR) and editor-in-chief, Middle East Affairs Journal.
July 24, 2003
Media Monitors Network
Last month was a bad month for Attorney General John Ashcroft. The Justice Department's inspector general reported that the agency had abused 762 immigrants in a frantic post-9/11 push to be seen as "doing something" about terrorism. Not only did it look like he might lose the momentum in his drive for more power to snoop and detain, he might even lose what he had managed to gain courtesy of the Patriot Act.
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Relentless miscalculation of Iraq by American officials
Thursday, July 24, 2003 (421 reads)
By Stan Moore
July 24, 2003
Media Monitors Network
The Bush Administration never learns, never figures out critical matters, and never learns from its mistakes. It is almost as if miscalculation is its principal mode of calculation. The Iraqi response to American build up prior to the war was miscalculated. The belief that Iraqis would rise up after the initial bombing campaign and joyously overthrow the regime of Saddam Hussein was miscalculated. The belief that Iraqis would greet victorious Allied forces was yet another miscalculation. The goal of quickly restoring electricity to Baghdad and to the nation was a grave miscalculation, as was the belief that oil could be quickly pumped to the world market to boost U.S. revenues (ostensibly on behalf of the Iraqi people - wink, wink, nod, nod).
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U.S. media misleading public on Iraq casualties
Wednesday, July 23, 2003 (393 reads)
By Matthew Riemer, director of operations at YellowTimes.org
July 23, 2003
Media outlets have been spinning the information on U.S. casualties in a most curious way. Instead of regularly updating viewers and listeners concerning the number of killed and injured U.S. servicemen and women since the beginning of the war in Iraq, an insidious and disingenuous distinction is being emphasized more than ever: that of the "combat deaths" and the "non-combat deaths." Phrases like "hostile fire," "friendly fire," and "in-action deaths" are now commonplace in Washington's and the media's handbook of propaganda and euphemisms.
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