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Aug 4 2010, Marco Villa

The Saudi-Israeli honeymoon continues with state media praise for Netanyahu.

Contrary to popular Western perception that Arab regimes exploit the Palestinian conflict for their own repressive ends to distract from their incompetence, the state of...

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Marco Villa, Connecticut
The Saudi-Israeli honeymoon continues with state media praise for Netanyahu. Contrary to popular Western perception that Arab regimes exploit the Palestinian conflict...
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An aging tyrant grows more tyrannical. Documenting abuses in Tunisia is something I do quite frequently. Why? Because it is one of the worst offenders and, yet, due...
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I recently wrote that one of the reasons the British national football (or soccer) team often under-performs is that they are under too much pressure to succeed. That...
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If Aussie political storms possessed some space in a foreign press, it is something extravagant usually, capable to divert a world readers’ interest at least for a...
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In a new book by former Wall Street Journal Mideast bureau chief Hugh Pope, he laments the parameters of the U.S. press establishment. In “Dining with...
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Newsweek - an American weekly published over seven decades - is being sold by its parent company The Washington Post. The news magazine has lost tens of millions over...
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Look at him. Isn’t he not inspiring? One of the most remarkable, in a horrific sense, things about the Ben Ali dictatorship in Tunisia is its zero tolerance...
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Being a member of the Instablogs community, and one of the most prolific writers, I consider it a duty to shine a light on violations of freedom of the press. I do...
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Graffiti in Israel: Where are you Anat Kam? Source: Max Blumenthal. The Israeli government is prosecuting or attempting to prosecute a former Israel Defense Forces...
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Yemen on Saturday, January 16th saw the worst crime against the press and the first court ruling issued jailed writer in the Arab press for insulting the...
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Uma Bharti raises voice against Yellow Journalism prevailing in India. She advises BJP, Advani and Narendra Modi on Day-14 of this Protest at New Delhi....
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French already subsidizes its newspaper, and now the U.S. government may follow: The federal government is wading into deliberations over the future of journalism as...
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When a Danish publication printed offense and racist political cartoons of the Islamic Prophet Muhammad (saw), several Arab ambassadors to Denmark publicly called on...
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Two reporters from the comedy show CQC (Custe o que Custar - Whatever the Price) were assaulted in two separate incidents on July 1st. Felipe Andreoli was reporting on...
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The exception that as Tunisian President Ben Ali sought a third term the autocratic regime would be more inclined toward human rights because Tunisia has greatly...
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Some serious reporting going on over here in Italy: Vatican City, February 18 - The pope’s hat flew off in an icy blast during Wednesday’s general...
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Before everyone starts their knee-jerk incrimination of the “Western corporate Media” concerning the terrible events in Gaza (as I have already read here and there)...
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Fears regarding troops in Afghanistan arose a few months ago after a Dutch film criticizing Islam would be aired. Dutch MP Geert Wilders, the maker of the film, says...
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Journalists. What comes to a person’s mind when you ask them about journalists? “Politicians’ toys that they use to sway people’s minds” “Journalist give...
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Faced with tough questions about Sarah Palin, John McCain’s campaign and other Republicans are responding with a defensive crouch — lashing out at the media to...
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Since the Olympic Village press center opened Friday, reporters have been unable to access scores of Web pages...
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Sega has issued a press release revealing that Yakuza 2 will be released on September 9 this year. “Yakuza 2 plunges you once more into the violent Japanese...
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There was an instablog newslink that loudly announced “Indian American jailed for stealing 9/11 funds” and the link lead to the original news item from...
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Is there any basis for this low rank ? India is shown way below Iceland (1), Lithuania (23), Bosnia and Herzegovina (34), UAE (48) and Lebanon (98). The article is as...
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Konami’s E3 press conference will be held at 2.30pm PST on July 16 in room 403 of the LA Convention Center, the publisher confirmed last night.
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The Associated Press has revived the Old Media-New Media fight by trying to draw a line between reference and reproduction. The 162-year-old news service created...
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EVEN in his soft-spoken manner, Zambia’s sports minister Gabriel Namulambe drops some bombshells. But this time around, I think he has dropped a blunder-shell, if at...
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The latest hypocritical law passed by French Constitutional Council criminalizes the filming or broadcasting of acts of violence by people other than professional...
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