Archive for the ‘media’ Category
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An audio message said to have been recorded by the al-Qaeda leader says the abduction was retaliation for “France’s injustice to Muslims”. It says forthcoming French curbs on the full veil are “colonial oppression”. via BBC ??
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Correspondence on the stance of Australia’s ‘progressive’ Overland magazine, reproduced on the blog of Antony Loewenstein. 20/4/10 Dear members of Overland Editorial Board, We are writing to express our grave concern about your journal’s unbalanced coverage of Israeli-Palestinian issues in recent years. We all strongly respect Overland’s tradition of providing a forum for free and open […]
Filed under: Australia, Israel/Palestine, media, Scholarship and insights | Closed
In the history of Aboriginal Australia, there is nothing all that new about a convoy of uninvited guests trekking across country to seek a new start. Aboriginal groups have been known to flout jurisdictional boundaries – whether those erected by other Aboriginal groups across tens of thousands of years, or those more arbitrarily decided by […]
Filed under: Australia, media, Political developments | Closed
reblog: the good guys
The film shows the farmers’ fight to keep their farms all the while Mugabe’s government tries to evict them, harass them and ultimately beats them up and successfully seizes their land. It is meant to be a sad story, and it is–highlighting the plight of the White farmers in Zimbabwe. It is also a blatant […]
Filed under: media, Southern Africa | Closed
Suren Pillay, Cape Town Guest Blogger The World Cup had just ended, and there were stories in the newspapers, telling us that foreign nationals were going to be killed as soon as the event was over. These stories immediately mobilized many of us in civil society, and it even mobilized the state into action. The […]
Filed under: Africa, media, Political developments, Southern Africa | Closed
The Canberra Times, Thursday 9 July 1953, p. 6. via Trove Newspapers
Filed under: Australia, Empire, media, Southern Africa | Closed
Nearly 2 million high school students worldwide are taking Advanced Placement tests this May, hoping to impress college admissions counselors with high scores and, perhaps, earn a few college credits. But one test question citing the late Palestinian-American scholar and activist Edward Said on the theme of exile is prompting protests from some Jewish students. […]
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Today in Canadian History CJSW. Of course, I meant to say ‘Prince Charles II’, but the moment got the better of me.
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teeming perilous hordes of carp
The discourse of foreign species management, and all its bells and sparkles: wading through it is as fun as it is disturbingly eery. SERENA DAI and JOHN FLESHER, ‘Single Asian carp found near Lake Mich’. ass. press. CHICAGO — An Asian carp was found for the first time beyond electric barriers meant to keep the […]
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