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Jeffrey Goldberg responded yesterday to my post detailing his long list of journalistic malfeasance by telling me that he and the Prime Minister of Iraqi Kuridstan would like me to travel there to hear how much the Kurds appreciate the U.S. invasion of Iraq. Leaving aside the complete non sequitur that is his response -- how does that remotely pertain to Goldberg's granting of anonymity to his friends to smear people they don't like or the serial fear-mongering fabrications he spread about the Saddam threat prior to the invasion? -- I don't need to travel to Kurdistan to know that many Kurds, probably most, are happy that the U.S. attacked Iraq. For that minority in Northern Iraq, what's not to like? They had foreign countries (the U.S. and its "partners") expend their citizens' lives and treasure to rid the Kurds of their hated enemy; they received semi-autonomy, substantial oil revenues, a thriving relationship with Israel, and real political power; the overwhelming majority of the hundreds of thousands of Iraqis whose lives were snuffed out and the millions of people displaced by the war were not Kurds, and most of the destruction took place in Central and Southern Iraq away from their towns and homes, while they remain largely free of the emergent police state tactics of the current Iraqi government. As Ali Gharib put it to Goldberg: "there are at least 600,000 Iraqis who, I imagine, are not too thrilled about the way it all turned out and with whom Greenwald will never get a meeting."

Justice (R) Malik Qayyum Former Attorny General, Ali Ahmed Kurd President SCBA, in Fresh episode of Capital Talk and discusses with Hamid Mir.

Dr. Abdul Qudeer Khan Atomic Scientist, Ali Moeen Nawazish Pakistani Student Nominated for GBWR, Senator Babar Awan Fed. Minister for Parliamentary Affairs, in special episode of Kal Tak Disqualified with Javed Chaudhry.

Tariq Azeem Sec. Information PML-Q, Dr. Firdous Ashiq Awan PPP, Senator Pervez Rasheed PML-N, Senator Zafar Ali Shah Leader PML-N, in fresh episode of Off The Record Discussing Current Issue With Kashif Abbasi.

LAHORE: Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani has said that People's Party Co-chairman, President Asif Ali Zardari will decide whether the party will sit on government or opposition benches in Punjab. He said the eyes of the international media are focussed over the situation of Punjab.

Ali Ahmed Kurd President SCBA, Athar Minallah Spokesman CJI, in fresh episode of Meray Mutabiq with Dr Shahid Masood.

Kamran Khan presents another fresh episode of Aaj Kamran Khan Kay Saath in Geo TV and talk with Shah Mehmood Qurashi PPP, Ch. Nasar Ali Khan PML-N, Ch. Aitzaz Ahsan Former President SCBA.

Lt Gen (R) Asad Durrani (Former DG ISI), Afzal Ali Shakri (Fomer IG Sindh), Gen (R) Abdul Qayyum (Analyst) in fresh episode of Off The Record and Discussing Current Issues With Kashif Abbasi.

Sumsam Ali Bukhari, Munir Orakzai and Sajid Hussain Turi in fresh episode of Capital Talk and discusses with Hamid Mir.

Rana Sanaullah PML-N and Muhammad Ali Durrani PML-Q in fresh episode of Point Blank & discusses current issues with Mubashir Luqman.

Rauf Klasra, Haroon Rashid, Ayaz Amir and Muhammad Ali Durrani, in fresh episode of Meray Mutabiq and talked with Dr Shahid Masood.

Khalid Butt with Abid Sher Ali in latest episode of Live With Khalid Butt.

Sardar M. Mushtaq Khan PML-N and Kamil Ali Agha PML-Q in fresh episode of Point Blank & discusses current issues with Mubashir Luqman.

The 30-minute speech I gave last month at the Symphony Space in New York is now available on video, and is posted below in three YouTube segments (the first segment also contains the 4-minute introduction of my speech). The speech pertains to the evolution of my views on media criticism, the nature of media propaganda and what drives it, and what can be done to combat it. A DVD of the entire event -- featuring the three other speeches: from Amy Goodman, Noam Chomsky and Michael Moore -- is available at FAIR's website. I want to note one example, from today, that vividly illustrates many of the themes I discussed in that speech.  It is found in the following passage from this Reuters article on Obama's escalation of the covert war in Yemen and his targeting of U.S. citizen Anwar Awlaki for assassination: A U.S. official confirmed to Reuters that a U.S. strike last Friday killed Abu Ali al-Harithi, a midlevel al Qaeda operative, which followed last month's attempted strike against Anwar al-Awlaki, the leader of al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula. Whether Awlaki has any operational role in Al Qaeda at all is a matter of intense controversy.  The U.S. Government has repeatedly asserted that he does, but has presented no verifiable evidence to support that accusation.  But what is not in dispute is the notion that Awlaki is "the leader of al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula."  He unquestionably is not, and never has been, as multiple Yemen experts have repeatedly noted.  The Reuters claim is factually and entirely false. Whatever one's views are on Obama's assassination program, targeting U.S. citizens without due process obviously raises extraordinary and vitally important questions.  As The New York Times' Scott Shane put it when confirming Awlaki's inclusion on Obama's hit list: "The Obama administration has taken the extraordinary step of authorizing the targeted killing of an American citizen. . . . It is extremely rare, if not unprecedented, for an America