Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao (R) meets with Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni Sharm El-Sheikh, Egypt, Nov. 8, 2009. (Xinhua/Li Tao) Over 120 years ago, Africa became the subject of an extended land-grab orchestrated by European powers. The first ‘scramble’ for the continent subjected the majority of A ...
Media Bias on Fort Hood Tragedy This isn’t particularly surprising. American civil liberties get massacred during such crises. Instead of calling Major Hasan an ‘alleged’ shooter till he is confirmed guilty by a court of law (Fifth Amendment), speculators have already gone judge, jury and executione ...
Media Bias on Fort Hood Tragedy This isn’t particularly surprising. American civil liberties get massacred during such crises. Instead of calling Major Hasan an ‘alleged’ shooter till he is confirmed guilty by a court of law (Fifth Amendment), speculators have already gone judge, jury and executione ...
Juan Cole in Salon argues the inevitable: Saeb Erekat, chief of the Palestine Liberation Organization Steering Committee, said Wednesday that Palestine Authority president Mahmoud Abbas should be frank with the Palestinian people and admit to them that there is no possibility of a two-state solution ...
This week in Sydney the Media140 conference took place. One of the sessions was a presentation by Riyaad Minty, head of social media at al-Jazeera. Here’s a blog report about the event by Paul Farrell: Riyaad Minty, Head of Social Media at Al Jazeera was the next keynote speaker, and delivered a cas ...
We discuss the first anniversary since president Obama came to power, what are his achievements if any? What are the challenges he will be facing especially in regards to Afghanistan, Iraq and Palestine/Israel issues. Technorati: al-jazeera, barack Obama, Inside Story Leia também:20/10/2009 -- Nota ...
Today, there was another link between the two biggest emerging powers in the world: India and China. This brought to mind the recent unrest in Tibet and Urumqi in Xinjiang province over China’s right to sovereignty in the regions in and around their borders. In the UK, we were not given a comprehens ...
The trial of former President of Argentina Reynaldo Bignone has begun in Argentina, according to the BBC. Also on trial are five of his former army officers, including intelligence chief General Santiago Omar Riveros, and a Buenos Aires police commissione. The seven are accused of the kidnapping,tor ...
Nelly Lahoud, Qaradawi on Jihad this is the first of a three parter available on jihadica.com "Youssef al-Qaradawi’s recent book Fiqh al-Jihad (Jurisprudential Reasoning and Jihad), excerpts of which are available here, has received considerable attention in the Arabic press and for good reason. Al- ...
