Showing posts with label al-Jazeera. Show all posts
Showing posts with label al-Jazeera. Show all posts
Friday, February 25, 2011

EGYPT: Terror myth clouds reality of Egypt revolution

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What a terrible waste. One of the few moderate Arab nations has been rocked by a revolution. Beady-eyed hairy-faced Islamo-fascists po...
Friday, February 04, 2011

CRIKEY: Al Jazeera English’s Cairo performance: it’s the new CNN

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Last night, ABC24’s coverage turned from cyclone Yasi to Egypt at about 7.45. ABC correspondent  Ben Knight  was interviewed as he stood in...
Thursday, January 06, 2011

VIDEO: "Inside Story" on Coptic clashes in Egypt

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Saturday, November 13, 2010

VIDEO: Bush continues to defend torture ...

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Sunday, October 24, 2010

VIDEO/IRAQ: Lengthy report on the Secret Iraq files ...

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VIDEO/COMMENT: John Howard's war of liberation ...

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According to his recently released memoirs, John Howard says that the Australian Labor Party was absolutely wrong to oppose the invasion and...
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Wednesday, August 12, 2009

VIDEO: Rabiye Kadeer's call to settle remaining Uighur Guantanamo detainees ...

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Exiled World Uighur Congress leader Rabiye Kadeer told the National Press Club in Canberra yesterday: All of the Uighurs in Albania, Bermuda...
Tuesday, August 04, 2009

CRIKEY: Somali politics is just as much about clan as it is religion ...

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What drives young second and third generation men living in relatively comfortable surrounds to involve themselves in an overseas conflict w...
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VIDEO: What is happening inside Somalia?

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The following al-Jazeera video shows three Somali perspectives on the ongoing conflict in Somalia that involves al-Shabab in conjunction w...
Saturday, July 11, 2009

VIDEO: Media and government responses in EU to the murder of an Egyptian woman in Germany ...

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The following discussion on the al Jazeera Inside Story program concerns media and government responses in Germany and wider Europe to the ...
Tuesday, June 16, 2009

COMMENT: The Oz gives space to nonsensical analysis ...

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Some years ago, I had an interesting exchange in Crikey with a former opinion editor of The Australian concerning what I saw as his refus...
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Thursday, June 11, 2009

CRIKEY: Iranian elections: of mullahs, women and Jews

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If you believe everything you read in the op-ed pages of The Australian or watch on Fox News, you’d be forgiven for thinking that Iran is a...
Tuesday, June 09, 2009

VIDEO/POLITICS: Miscellaneous reports on the Iranian Presidential Election ...

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Iranian reformists try new media to win votes Political reformists in Iran have long accused Irib, the state-run broadcaster, of biased repo...
Monday, May 25, 2009

VIDEO: Palestinians buying houses in Jewish settlements in Jerusalem ...

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The text accompanying this Al Jazeera video is as follows: The Israeli prime minister has said he will not accept limits on the expansion o...

GREECE: Immigration crisis ...

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Though some far-Right bloggers treat recent Greek riots as the result of certain groups behaving badly, the situation is far more complex. ...
Thursday, May 07, 2009

VIDEO: US troops handed out Bibles in both Iraq and Afghanistan ...

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What's the big deal with a bit of evangelism? Better a Bible than vicious dogs at your testicles, I say. Except that handing out Bibles ...
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CRIKEY: Feudalism is the worst form of government there is, except for all the rest ...

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We’re living in the age of bailouts, and Pakistani President Asif Ali Zardari knows it. During his recent meeting with the House Foreign...
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VIDEO: Just how serious is Obama about ending torture?

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The Obama Administration has repeated the mantra of the Bush Administration - that America does not torture. But just how serious is Obama a...

MEDIA/VIDEO: Are American print newspapers dying?

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Here is the text accompanying this video from Al-Jazeera English. US newspapers are battling to survive amid a recession and changing techno...