al jazeera’s weekly programme ‘listening post’ has got to be one of the best media watchdog shows around. its range of issues and regions covered

Natasha Leggero and Duncan Trussell have kind of a racist dog. What do you do when your adorable canine friend becomes a Teabagger? they try

once in a while the capitalist system requires a fire, a crisis, to shake it and get rid of the bad fruits, the reckless, and

in less than 6 minutes! nurture your first few followers as equals leadership is overglorified the first follower transforms the lone nut into a leader

it is clear that there is a major ideological barrier to real dialogue between iran and the west. mistranslations are common, misunderstanding is encouraged, and

Dr. Norman Finkelstein at the University of Waterloo takes the Holocaust card bull by the horn.

Al Jazeera’s Marwan Bishara has a real interesting take on the latest fiasco in Tel Aviv. Poor Joe Biden. He’s come to deliver the good

People make strange decisions. Imagine the first people way back in history, not sure when, migrating across continents to find an ideal place to settle

I was reading the latest garbage on the Economist on Iran’s nuclear programme. I say ‘garbage’ because it is the same Economist that fully and

Naom Chomsky’s recent comment on the US approach to Iran in an interview with Jon Snow, 14 October 2009: If someone was watching this from

The recent presidential elections turmoil in Iran, regardless of the ‘truth’ behind the events, will undoubtedly have serious ramifications for the Islamic Republic on several

I am just going to say this because i just HAVE to. it worries me no end to see how these past few weeks have

Obama is increasingly looking like a major advertising scam. The ruling elite proving that they really ‘can’. get away with murder. Torture is exposed but

I was (rather bravely) going to attempt to write a blog on the structural causes for the lack of democracy in Iran, but then I

Friends: there are literally billions of people in the world wishing they could help stop this ruthless masscre of Palestinian children. Few issues in the

many people do not know this, but african organisations involved in resisting South African racism and apartheid were labelled as ‘terrorists’ by the American administrations

We have descended a long way from stated ideals of the original proponents of democracy. The great march of freedom has been replaced by national

I would suggest that one of our problems as a race (humanity) and also as a nation is our tendency to look for leaders, saviours,