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Michael Fisher

Disappointment at Sharm al-Sheikh | Marc Lynch - 0 views

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Marc Lynch Hillary Clinton Obama Administration Israel-Palestine Foreign Policy International Relations Israel Palestine

shared by Michael Fisher on 03 Mar 09 - No Cached
  • Clinton prefers to double-down on the shopworn "West Bank first, Fatah only" policy which has been conspiciously failing for the last two years.  The concrete manifestation:  two-thirds of the U.S. contribution to the reconstruction of Gaza will go not to Gaza but to the West Bank.
  • This all seems stuck in a bit of time-warp.  It ignores the two year history of Israeli and Western failure under the identical discourse and policy to deliver meaningful benefits to the Palestinian Authority or the West Bank. It ignores the reality of Hamas power in Gaza, and the reality of Fatah's limited capabilities and legitimacy (which were not enhanced, shall we say, by Abbas's performance during the Gaza war).  And it ignores the promise of the dramatic moves towards Arab reconciliation and the accomplishment of a tentative Hamas-Fatah accord last week
  • Michael Fisher on 03 Mar 09
     
    Abu Aardvark (Marc Lynch) shows why Secretary of State Clinton's diplomacy will not change the situation in Israel/Palestine. He shows that not only is Israeli-Palestinian American policy important but also Hamas-Fatah policy.
Zach Hartnett

Freed Guantanamo detainee says U.S. behind his torture | Reuters - 0 views

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human rights torture US UK Pakistan Morocco Ethiopia

shared by Zach Hartnett on 23 Feb 09 - Cached
  • I was abducted, hauled from one country to the next, and tortured in medieval ways -- all orchestrated by the United States government."
  • he was tortured and abused by Pakistani intelligence officers in the presence of a British intelligence agent.
    • Zach Hartnett
      Zach Hartnett on 23 Feb 09
       
      At least we know we can count on Pakistan.
  • Morocco on a CIA flight
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  • Morocco has denied holding him and the U.S. government has denied that he was subjected to "extraordinary rendition."
  • I realized in Morocco that the people who were torturing me were receiving questions and materials from British intelligence," he said. "I had met with British intelligence in Pakistan. I had been open with them. Yet the very people who I had hoped would come to my rescue, I later realized, had allied themselves with my abusers."
Manon Latil

After Fleeing North Korea, an Artist Parodies Its Propaganda - NYTimes.com - 0 views

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North Korea Propaganda

shared by Manon Latil on 21 Feb 09 - Cached
  • Now, many here say that imagery, with its subverted content, addresses issues central to Korean identity
  • Later, while serving in the North Korean Army, Sun Mu was assigned to create propaganda paintings
Jared Bernhardt

Al Jazeera fights myths in North American push | U.S. | Reuters - 0 views

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shared by Jared Bernhardt on 19 Feb 09 - Cached
  • Al Jazeera's English-language service is starting a website called IWantAJE.net, offering news the Qatar-based network produces and a list of "Hits and Myths" knocking down statements about the network that it says are untrue.
Ed Webb

Paperless Tiger « buckenglish - 0 views

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paperless classroom pedagogy teaching technology collaboration connectivism

shared by Ed Webb on 10 Mar 09 - Cached
  • Does this jettisoning of time-honored titles mean that the paperless classroom is also lacking a creator, controller and grader?  Is the paperless classroom also a teacherless paradigm?  The answer is in some regards, yes.  I have removed myself from center stage.  I have relinquished the need to control every class.  I have stopped seeing work as stagnant…completed and submitted by students and then graded by me.  I have let go of my need to pre-plan months at a time, in favor of following the path that unfolds as we learn together.  My classes are not, however, teacherless, just less about the teaching and more about the learning.  The students know that I am ready and willing to be student to their insights, that they can teach, create, control and even evaluate their own learning.
  • In the absence of my control, the students have many choices to make
  • Teachers often say that modern students are lazy.  I have long felt that as the shifting winds of technology began to gain force, we teachers were the ones who were unwilling to do the work of rethinking our roles and meeting the students were they were learning already.  Rethinking paper as the primary tool of class is a step in the right direction because it forces a rethinking of the how and why of teaching and learning.
  • Ed Webb on 10 Mar 09
     
    Here is an example of where I think teaching should be going
Ed Webb

Israeli soldiers say army rabbis framed Gaza as religious war | McClatchy - 0 views

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mcclatchy religion war gaza israel palestine warcrimes media rights

shared by Ed Webb on 20 Mar 09 - Cached
  • Rabbis affiliated with the Israeli army urged troops heading into Gaza to reclaim what they said was God-given land and "get rid of the gentiles" — effectively turning the 22-day Israeli intervention into a religious war, according to the testimony of a soldier who fought in Gaza.
  • Sarit Michaeli of the Israeli human rights group B'Tselem thinks that the public release of the testimony helped spur the investigation. "There have been many cases where we have asked the advocate general to look into cases, and they drag their feet until it gets into the media."
  • Ed Webb on 20 Mar 09
     
    It is to the great credit of Israel's civil society that issues like this can be aired and investigated. Disturbing questions raised about the IDF's conduct - but they can be raised without people being 'disappeared' for voicing their concerns.
Ed Webb

Obama starts well with Muslims but must do more - 0 views

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obama Islam public_diplomacy MiddleEast

shared by Ed Webb on 16 Mar 09 - Cached
  • By visiting Prime Minister Erdogan, Obama is overtly reaching out to what Americans would call "moderate" Islamists. Going to non-Arab Turkey also appears to be an effort to separate US relations with Muslim countries from US policy toward the Arab world.
  • Half of all Indonesians and about 80 percent of Egyptians and Turks believe the goal of US policy is to expand Israel's borders. Few buy US claims that it supports a Palestinian state.
  • Earlier this month, newspapers here in Cairo carried front-page photographs of Clinton being kissed by Israeli President Shimon Peres during her visit to Jerusalem. Arabs saw in that a clear message. Ditto what she said – and did not say – about Gaza, Israeli settlements, Hamas, and human rights in Egypt. Many Arabs fear it's Condoleezza Rice redux. The Israel lobby's success in torpedoing Obama's nominee for head of the National Intelligence Council – widely reported here – underlines the perception of business as usual.
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  • Bush, it seems, gave democracy a bad name.
  • Arabs are still willing to be convinced about Obama's motives. The flurry of diplomatic activity and indications that the administration is willing to talk directly with Tehran and even with the Taliban are being praised on the region's editorial pages. Arabs welcome the fact that the myopia of the past eight years has been jettisoned in favor of a nuanced approach that recognizes the interconnectedness of the many complex policy challenges of the Middle East.
  • Obama has the symbolism of outreach to the world's Muslims down pat, but gestures are cheap in a region where lives are readily sacrificed in symbolic acts of martyrdom. Now he must follow up with real, concrete engagement.
Ed Webb

Filmmaker plans to shoot with tiny camera in eye - 0 views

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filmmaker surveillance Orwell

shared by Ed Webb on 12 Mar 09 - No Cached
  • Spence said he plans to become a "human surveillance machine" to explore privacy issues and whether people are "sleepwalking into an Orwellian society."
  • Spence, who jokingly calls himself "Eyeborg," told reporters at a media conference in Brussels that the camera hidden in a prosthetic eye — the same pale hazel color as his real one — would also let him capture more natural conversations than he would with a bulky regular camera. "As a documentary maker, you're trying to make a connection with a person," he says, "and the best way to make a connection is through eye contact." But Spence also acknowledged privacy concerns. "The closer I get to putting this camera eye in, the more freaked out people are about me," he said, adding people aren't sure they want to hang around someone who might be filming them at any time
  • Jared Bernhardt on 12 Mar 09
     
    That's kind of...creepy and yet at the same time...very interesting. Here is an individual who is using his disability to his advantage.
  • sean lyness on 15 Mar 09
     
    that is bizarre, I can't imagine he will have an easy time getting people to sign releases
Ed Webb

Journalism.co.uk :: 'Democratic legitimation via the web is not enough', says Clay Shirky - 0 views

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legitimation democracy internet shirky

shared by Ed Webb on 24 Mar 09 - Cached
  • Ed Webb on 24 Mar 09
     
    Here comes everybody again, only this time they need some rules...
Ed Webb

Ahmadinejad Faces Challenges From Left And Right : NPR - 0 views

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shared by Ed Webb on 04 Feb 09 - Cached
  • Those who know Khatami say he believes the council wouldn't dare disqualify him.
    • Ed Webb
      Ed Webb on 04 Feb 09
       
      That's fighting talk!
  • city vs. village in Iran — city voters being better educated and tending toward the liberal side; village voters more conservative.
    • Ed Webb
      Ed Webb on 04 Feb 09
       
      This is not simply an Iranian issue. Much of the region experiences serious cleavages of this kind. Mass migration from the country to the cities changes electoral outcomes considerably.
  • Many conservatives have come to be critical of the controversial Iranian president.
Ed Webb

Bad Science » Er, "help". Legal Chill from LBC 97.3 and "Global Radio" over Jeni Barnett's MMR scaremongering - 0 views

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censorship idiocy

shared by Ed Webb on 10 Feb 09 - Cached
  • The debate here is not about the dangers of MMR, but the dangers of the media.
  • Lastly, I write for a hobby, I can honestly say it never occurred to me when I took an excerpt of audio, broadcast on the airwaves into kitchens and cars, and made a brief blog post about it, that this could be considered “theft”. I welcome people lifting my output, I expect them to link back to me so people can find more of the same, and I am glad when people use my ideas and analyses, even (with a fleeting grudge) unattributed: that is what they are there for. To me, these people with their lawyers, and their millions, are from another world. The fact that this has gone from a small blog post about a stupid radio clip to a blogstorm is a bit weird too, but excellent for getting a wider discussion going about the way that the media misrepresent health risks, and create scares.
  • ricockulously
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  • like communicating with someone from another universe.
  • Ed Webb on 10 Feb 09
     
    Notice that it is not only in authoritarian regimes that debate can be squashed.
Ed Webb

The public gets a voice in the 'future of news' - Communication Leadership blog - 0 views

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shared by Ed Webb on 10 Feb 09 - Cached
  • There are a couple of reasons why many people don't realize how close newspapers are to a meltdown. First, news media executives don't want to paint a depressing picture of the future. Not surprisingly, they're inclined to present an optimistic and hopeful narrative that says they'll ride out the worst and emerge even stronger. Second, so far anyway, news consumers haven't seen anything close to the full impact of the digital revolution.
    • Ed Webb
      Ed Webb on 10 Feb 09
       
      Astutely observed
  • The truth is no one knows what the future of news will be
    • Jared Bernhardt
      Jared Bernhardt on 10 Feb 09
       
      I think we can assume that the age of the magazine will be dead in 7-8 years.
  • Let's apply the same model to the present.  In brainstorming the future of news, all hands are needed, those of the amateurs as well as the pros.
  • Jared Bernhardt on 10 Feb 09
     
    With the economy getting deeper and deeper into a hole, and avenues to produce journalism (blogs, twitter, what have you) increasing, will 2009 be the year that citizen journalism takes its place within the 3 pronged formula of news gathering? Corporations rise and fall on a daily basis--The Post begs me to keep subscribing with them--to the point where getting a weekly paper is less than buying the Sunday edition alone. This is not the year for digitizing the paper(via devices like a Kindle) because of the high price point. The Kindle was announced at 359.00--which in my opinion is not consumer friendly.
  • Jared Bernhardt on 10 Feb 09
     
    Economy being in a hole is kind of cliche, but you catch my drift.
Ed Webb

BBC News - Nigeria Islamic court 'bans Twitter feed' - 0 views

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Nigeria censorship Islam sharia socialnetworking facebook twitter blogs

shared by Ed Webb on 24 Mar 10 - Cached
  • "An order is hereby given restraining the respondents either by themselves or their agents from opening a chat forum on Facebook, Twitter, or any blog for the purpose of the debate on the amputation of Malam Buba Bello Jangebe."
  • The group told the BBC's Hausa service it would appeal against the ruling. The Sharia code runs alongside the secular state system in 12 of Nigeria's 36 states, and citizens can choose which system they deal with. It is not clear whether the Kaduna court has the authority to enforce the ruling, which analysts say is the first such judgement in Nigeria.
Ed Webb

BBC News - Israel denies US academic Chomsky West Bank entry - 1 views

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censorship Israel USA universities Chomsky Palestine

shared by Ed Webb on 17 May 10 - Cached
  • "I asked them if they could find any government in the world that likes the things I say."
Ed Webb

How a man setting fire to himself sparked an uprising in Tunisia | Brian Whitaker | Comment is free | guardian.co.uk - 0 views

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Tunisia riots demonstration revolution dictatorship media censorship analysis opinion

shared by Ed Webb on 28 Dec 10 - No Cached
  • Reporting of these events has been sparse, to say the least. The Tunisian press, of course, is strictly controlled and international news organisations have shown little interest: the "not many dead" syndrome, perhaps. But in the context of Tunisia they are momentous events. It's a police state, after all, where riots and demonstrations don't normally happen – and certainly not simultaneously in towns and cities up and down the country.So, what we are seeing, firstly, is the failure of a system constructed by the regime over many years to prevent people from organising, communicating and agitating.Secondly, we are seeing relatively large numbers of people casting off their fear of the regime. Despite the very real risk of arrest and torture, they are refusing to be intimidated.
  • Ben Ali may try to cling on, but his regime now has a fin de siècle air about it. He came to power in 1987 by declaring President Bourguiba unfit for office. It's probably just a matter of time before someone else delivers that same message to Ben Ali.
  • international news organisations have shown little interest: the "not many dead" syndrome, No, that's not the reason. The reason is that this SOB is one of our SOBs. We must be absolutely sure that we don't risk letting let any nasty Islamists or not-compliant folk near the levers of power before we start to fan the flames of democracy.
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  • Tunisia could be the most "laique" eligible country , more than many other arab and some european countries. Women emancipation and civil family laws are an example. Education rate is very high, and the gdp per capita is good.What's missing : transparency, freedom and real democraty.Please don't think that the regime of Ben Ali is the bastion againt extremists .. the unique bastion against all extremists are education , freedom , respect and well being. Fighting extremists by guns , fire and jail is a complete failure. Please note that the modern governments in maghreb countries have destroyed the islamic in-country traditional institutions known by their moderation and their knowledge of the religion whick maked the influence of "eastern islamic schools" like wahabism from saudi be predominant on the new era of staellite channels .. which is not very good news for all of us ..
Ed Webb

Al-Azhar sheikh says protesting forbidden in Islam - Bikya Masr - 0 views

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fatwas Islam Egypt #jan25 media religion protests

shared by Ed Webb on 31 Jan 11 - No Cached
  • Al-Azhar is the most influential Islamic institution in the country, however, in recent years it has become more in line with the government and most Egyptians have ignored fatwas that have been released
Ed Webb

Algeria to lift emergency powers - Africa - Al Jazeera English - 0 views

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Egypt #jan25 protests Algeria authoritarianism censorship

shared by Ed Webb on 05 Feb 11 - No Cached
  • Algeria's 19-year state of emergency will be lifted in the "very near future", state media has quoted Abdelaziz Bouteflika, the president, as saying.During a meeting with ministers on Thursday, the president also said Algerian television and radio, which are controlled by the state, should give airtime to all political parties.He added that protest marches, banned under the state of emergency, would be permitted across the country of 35 million except in the capital. His comments come as anti-government protests escalate in Egypt and follows a wave of similar uprisings in other Arab states including Tunisia and Yemen
Neil Devoe

Death Toll in Libya Is Most Likely More Than 1,000, Italy Says - NYTimes.com - 0 views

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Libya Italy Qaddafi

shared by Neil Devoe on 24 Feb 11 - No Cached
  • On Tuesday the Libyan ruler, Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi, called Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi, his first known direct outreach to a European leader.
  • Libya supplies much of Italy’s natural gas. In 2008, under Mr. Berlusconi, the two countries signed an accord in which Italy pledged $5 billion over 20 years in exchange for Libya’s help in blocking the flow of illegal immigrants toward Europe and granting favorable treatment for Italian companies seeking to do business in Libya.
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