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“Dust down under” makes front page in Gulf News

Australia, Blog, Middle East

September 25, 2009

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Tikrit: Al Qaida’s “great escape”

Blog, Middle East

September 25, 2009

Over one dozen suspected Al Qaida militants have escaped through ventilation ducts in a Tikrit jail, just North of Baghdad.   Iraqi authorities have imposed a vehicle ban and curfew on the city as some of the prisoners are carrying the death penaltiy for working woith Al Qaida....

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Gaddafi calls UN “terror council”

Blog, Middle East, Politics, USA

September 25, 2009

In his debut appearance at the United Nations, Libyan leader, Muammar Gaddafi came out swinging as he chastised the UN  for failing to prevent the 65 wars that have occured since it was founded in 1945.   “It should not be called the Security Council, it should be called the “terror...

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Afghani elecetions

Blog, Middle East, Politics, USA

August 24, 2009

Is it any wonder that Karzai is in the lead? As an ex-employee of Unocal, one of the major companies involved in the Trans-Afghan Pipeline, it would seem that his popularity amongst Western backers comes with a price. Karzai gives the US a safe route for their oil/natural gas pipeline – the US give...

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“Gaza Reflections”

Blog, Middle East

August 20, 2009

Good friend and colleague, Antony Loewenstein, who recently spent the last few weeks reporting from inside Gaza has put together the following mini-documentary:...

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“Reuben Brand a rare Truthful Journalist…”

Australia, Blog, Middle East

August 13, 2009

Dr Gideon Polya, a Melbourne based scientist and writer,  has recently written a very interesting article regarding one of my previous pieces  “The Truth must not be sanitised.” In his article Dr Polya makes a strong point about the lack of truthful reportage by Western journalist in relation...

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2003

How to fund a war… Or two

Blog, Middle East, USA

July 26, 2009

Strange that a dramatic increase in opium production has taken place in Afghanistan since the US invaded in 2001. Strange? Maybe convenient is the right word....

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Colonizing Iraq

Blog, Middle East, Politics, USA

July 16, 2009

Michael Swartz’s latest article “Colonizing Iraq – The Obama Doctrine?” is a must read: — “Unfortunately, not just for the Iraqis, but for the American public, it’s what’s happening in “the dark” — beyond the glare of lights and TV cameras...

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Iran’s election…

Blog, Middle East, Politics

June 22, 2009

Babak Rahimi, assistant professor of Iranian and Islamic Studies at the University of California, reports on the Iranian election from its capital Tehran: — NOW on PBS: “The official view, espoused by pro-government supporters, is that Ahmadinejad has been and continues to be popular in the rural...

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Academic boycott of Israel

Australia, Blog, Middle East

June 15, 2009

Associate Professor Jake Lynch, Director of the Centre for Peace and Conflict Studies at the University of Sydney, and inspirational pioneer for Peace Journalism, has led the charge for the academic boycott of Israel.   In a series of articles, Lynch outlines the importance of such a boycott, and then...

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