Articles
January 27, 2007
- Fortress Britain, Variant, Issue 32, Summer 2008; Spinwatch, June 23, 2008; Scoop (New Zealand), June 25, 2008; UK Watch, June 25, 2008; Media Monitors Network, June 25, 2008; Dissident Voice, June 27, 2008
- There Will Be Blood, The Drouth, Issues 27; Information Clearing House, May 5, 2008; Dissident Voice, May 5, 2008; Atlantic Free Press, May 6, 2008
- Next Station: Hope, Bella Caledonia, October 2007
- From Scotland to Caracas: The Politics of Democracy Promotion, Atlantic Free Press, 12 August 2007; Dissident Voice, 14 August 2007; Counterpunch, 14 August 2007; Spinwatch, 15 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 (co-authored with Leigh French for NuclearSpin)
- Baker-Hamilton and the Myth of the Oil War, Spinwatch, December 16, 2006; 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
- Labour Friends of Israel in the House, Spinwatch, March 21, 2005
- 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
Satire
- Important Development in the Middle East Peace Process, NormanFinkelstein.com, February 14, 2007
May 8, 2007 at 10:43 am
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.
November 9, 2007 at 9:03 pm
Hi Idrees,
I was wondering if you could recomend me any reading on the main influences upon the media model of war reporting? Cheers.
November 10, 2007 at 12:56 pm
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’.