Journalism and Essays
- ‘Romney’s indiscreet advisor’, Al Jazeera, 28 October 2011.
- ‘Fighting back against the CIA drone war’, Al Jazeera, 30 July 2011.
- ‘Gunboats and Gurkhas in the American Imperium’, Al Jazeera, 14 July 2011.
- ‘The virtue-less war of the Nintendo bomber’, Al Jazeera, 28 June 2011.
- ‘Between a rock and a hard country’, IPS News, 20 June 2011.
- ‘The magical realism of body counts,’ Al Jazeera, 13 June 2011.
- ‘Insurgent Pakistan’, Political Insight, April 2010
- ‘Pakistan Creates its Own Enemy’, Le Monde Diplomatique, November 2009 (translations appeared in all foreign language editions in the December 2009 issue).
- ‘Why Paksitanis see US as a bigger threat’, Asia Times, 3 November 2009; Inter Press Service, 30 October 2009
- ‘Peshawar: A Journey Home’, Le Monde Diplomatique, 14 October 2009
- ‘The Darfur Deception’, The Electronic Intifada, 8 June 2009; Spinwatch.org, 8 June 2009; Arab Media Watch, 8 June 2009; Dissident Voice, 10 June 2009
- ‘The End of Israel’s Impunity?‘, Variant 34, Spring 2009; Palestine Chronicle, 16 March 2009
- ‘The way of Izvestia: The BBC’s nadir’, Counterpunch, 3 February 2009; Electronic Intifada, 4 February 2009; Countercurrents, 5 February 2009;
- ‘Another Chorister for Israel (The BBC: Eyeless in Gaza)’, Adbusters, January 2009; Electronic Intifada, 6 January 2009; Counterpunch, 7 January 2009
- ‘Fortress Britain’, Variant, Number 32, Summer 2008
- ‘There Will Be Blood’, The Drouth, Issues 27, Spring 2008
- ‘From Scotland to Caracas: The Politics of Democracy Promotion’, Atlantic Free Press, 12 August 2007; Dissident Voice, 14 August 2007; Counterpunch, 14 August 2007
- “Anyone Can Go to Baghdad, Real Men Go to Tehran”, Variant, Number 28, Spring 2007; Media Monitors Network, February , 2007; Dissident Voice, March 04, 2007
- ‘The Friendly Atom’, Variant, Number 28, Spring 2007
- ‘Baker-Hamilton and the Myth of the Oil War’, Antiwar.com, December 17, 2006
- ‘Motive and Precedent in the Gemayel Assassination’, Spinwatch, November 28, 2006; Dissident Voice, November 30, 2006
- ‘Manufacturing Discontent: The Case of the Danish Cartoons’, The Drouth, Summer 2006
- ‘Behind the Façade of Israel-Pakistan Rapprochement’, Spinwatch, April 20, 2006; Scoop (New Zealand), April 26, 2006
- ‘Live 8 – A movement robbed of its colours‘, Free Press, August 15, 2005
- ‘Glasgow University students propose Vanunu for Rector‘, The Electronic Intifada, 2 December 2004; Press Action, November 29, 2004
Reviews
- Pakistan: A Hard Country by Anatol Lieven, IPS News, 20 June 2011.
- Shadow Elite by Janine Wedel, IPS News, 26 May 2010
- Saviors and Survivors: Darfur, Politics and the War on Terror by Mahmood Mamdani, The Electronic Intifada, 8 June 2009; Spinwatch.org, 8 June 2009; Arab Media Watch, 8 June 2009; Dissident Voice, 10 June 2009
- Resurrecting America’s Defense Line by Grant F. Smith, The Electronic Intifada, 1 May 2009; Arab Media Watch, 1 May 2009
- A World of Trouble: America in the Middle East by Patrick Tyler, The Electronic Intifada, 13 April 2009; Arab Media Watch, 13 April 2009
- Humanitarian Imperialism: Using Human Rights to Sell War by Jean Bricmont, Canadian Dimension, November/December 2008
- Voice of Hezbollah: The Statements of Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah edited by Nicholas Noe, The Drouth, Issues 27
- Beyond the Green Zone: Dispatches from an Unembedded Journalist in Occupied Iraq by Dahr Jamail, Dissident Voice, 10 September 2007; Atlantic Free Press, 10 September 2007; Indymedia UK, 10 September 2007; Spinwatch, 11 September 2007
- Israel-Palestine on Record: How the “New York Times” Misreports Conflict in the Middle East (Richard Falk and Howard Friel), Spinwatch, 24 June 2007
- Challenging the New Orientalism: Dissenting Essays on the “War Against Islam” (M. Shahid Alam), The Blanket, March 12, 2007; Spinwatch, March 13, 2007; Dissident Voice, March 13, 2007; Media Monitors Network, March 13, 2007; Scoop (New Zealand), March 13, 2007
- Palestine: Peace Not Apartheid (Jimmy Carter), Spinwatch, January 25, 2007
- US Foreign Policy in the Middle East (Janice J. Terry), Spinwatch, January 18, 2007
- The Politics of Denial (Nur Masalha), Spinwatch, January 16, 2007
- The Power of Israel in the United States (James Petras), Spinwatch, Janauary 15, 2007
- The Record of the Paper: How the New York Times Misreports US Foreign Policy (Howard Friel & Richard Falk), Spinwatch, November 14, 2006
Films
- Iraq in Fragments (James Longley), Media Monitors Network, January 28, 2007; Dissident Voice, January 29, 2007; Atlantic Free Press, January 29, 2007, Electronic Iraq, January 30, 2007; Counterpunch, February 3-4, 2007
This debate has been interesting all along. Debates of this kind are badly needed. It is good for our institutions; it is good for democracy; it is good for everybody that aims at approaching the truth, however elusive it may be. But, in the last analysis, it is good for America and Israel proper, as it increases their awareness about the greatest of the issues of the 21st century.
Hi Idrees,
I was wondering if you could recomend me any reading on the main influences upon the media model of war reporting? Cheers.
Hi Pete. I’m afraid I don’t follow academic debates on the issue, however, I can recommend two of the best critical views on war reporting. 1) John MacArthur’s ‘Second Front: Censorship and Propaganda in the Gulf War’, and Philip Knightley’s ‘The First Casualty: The War Correspondent as Hero and Myth-maker from the Crimea to Iraq’.
Also check out Norman Solomon and Sean Penn’s excellent film: ‘War Made Easy’.
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