It was an audacious plan that seemed doomed to fail: In late 2006 Al Jazeera, the upstart Arabic news network twice bombed by the US military, launched an English-language channel in a bold play at taking on the biggest names in international news and beating them at their own game. […]

[  I love the love-fest going on over RT – in the comments section on the youtube page for this clip . ABCBBCMSNBCCBSCNNFOX have let us down too badly for too long by jumping on the post 911, nationalistic, flag in corner screen, fear-pumped, ratings driven, ad-revenue-grabbing, Bush II stenography […]

So the latest magazine and newspaper readership and circulation figures are out and most publications’ numbers are down. Quelle surprise! And with a recession on, too — go figure. Let’s put the bloodbath into some sort of context. Based on ABC circulation figures, here’s how our biggest-circulating newspapers fared (Audited […]

Jeff Gates analyses Zionism as “a strategy for targeting thought and emotion as a means to influence behaviour” and “a mental state that manifests as a dispersed form of internalized nationalism—a diaspora—that binds to an extremist enclave those who may never set foot there”. He argues that Zionism “relies for […]

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