Helen Thomas

http://takeitpersonally.blogspot.com/2011/03/helen-thomas-on-al-jazeera.html

http://takeitpersonally.blogspot.com/2011/03/helen-thomas-on-al-jazeera.html

[originally posted on 3/21/11]

i'm watching riz khan interviewing helen thomas right now on al jazeera english... it's very good... you can watch here... i will post the youtube video as soon as it's put up...

[UPDATE]

i've been looking and looking for the al jazeera youtube clip and i can't come up with it... what i did manage to find is this clip from the real news in which she says pretty much what i saw her say on al jazeera... i'll keep looking for the al jazeera clip...



http://takeitpersonally.blogspot.com/2011/03/helen-thomas-on-al-jazeera.html
http://takeitpersonally.blogspot.com/2011/03/helen-thomas-on-al-jazeera.html

 
Labels: Al Jazeera, Helen Thomas, Real News, Riz Khan

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Listening Post: The Listening Post - US media double standard 

 

 

This week on the Listening Post's radar: the tweet that ended the 20-year career of a CNN journalist and a Russian social networking site that is not for the masses but strictly for those of class.

blip tv has better audio ---

http://blip.tv/al-jazeera-listening-post/us-media-double-standard-3915060

Octavia Nasr

Following the death of Mohammad Hussein Fadlallah on July 4, 2010, Nasr tweeted on the same day that she was "Sad to hear of the passing of Sayyed Mohammad Hussein Fadlallah.. One of Hezbollah's giants I respect a lot..."^{[1] [2]}

Nasr was criticized for this perceived show of sympathy and support for Hezbollah, an organization which the U.S. government designates as a terrorist group, amid claims that her stated position was incompatible with her role at CNN as editor of news on the Middle East.^[3][4][5]

In response to reactions to her comment, Nasr wrote on July 6 that the tweet was "an error of judgment". She noted Fadlallah "regularly praised the terror attacks that killed Israeli citizens. And as recently as 2008, he said the numbers of Jews killed in the Holocaust were wildly inflated." She also noted "In 1983, as Fadlallah found his voice as a spiritual leader, Islamic Jihad - soon to morph into Hezbollah - bombed the U.S. Marine barracks in Beirut, killing 299 American and French peacekeepers."

Nasr concluded her statement by saying that Fadlallah was "revered across borders yet designated a terrorist. Not the kind of life to be commenting about in a brief tweet. It's something I deeply regret."^[6] A CNN spokesman responded saying that "CNN regrets any offense her Twitter message caused. It did not meet CNN’s editorial standards."^[7] The following day, on July 7, CNN fired Nasr. In an internal CNN memo announcing Nasr's departure, CNN International’s senior vice president for newsgathering, Parisa Khosravi, wrote, "We believe that her credibility in her position as senior editor for Middle Eastern affairs has been compromised going forward."^[8]

(poor audio) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YmCIOXY26NA

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IRAN the 100 year war

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apocalypse: the rise of hitler


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Economist Ha-Joon Chang on "The Myth of Free Trade and the Secret History of Capitalism"

http://www.democracynow.org/2009/3/10/economist_ha_joon_chang_on_the

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world isn't flat

Addicted To Money Ep1: Who Killed The Economy?

Addicted To Money Ep1: Who Killed The Economy?

http://vimeo.com/12549411

Theocracy versus democracy

Theocracy versus democracy

 

Inside Story: US 2012

  http://www.aljazeera.com/programmes/insidestoryus2012/2011/12/2011122412455072601.html

How important a role will religion play in next year's US election? 

The Republican presidential candidates are trying harder than ever to convince voters about the strength of their faith. How important a role will religion play in next year's election? "It was evangelicals who helped our first ever divorced president, our only divorced president, Ronald Reagan ... [Christianity] is what this bloc of voters want their presidential candidates to be proponents of. Not so much that they want them to live moral lives, they want them to espouse the sort of apocalyptical politics in which America was found as a Christian nation." - Michelle Goldberg, author of Kingdom Coming: the Rise of christian Nationalism Nearly one in five Americans are white evangelical protestants. A majority of them are socially conservative and tend to vote Republican. And in Iowa, where the first Republican contest takes place in less that two weeks, 60 per cent of likely voters identify themselves as evangelicals. In 1960, many protestants were skeptical about John F Kennedy, a Catholic. And now it is Mitt Romney's Mormon faith that makes evangelicals wary. Republicans made huge gains in the 2010 midterm elections, and have since pushed for legislation that appeals to the religious right. Social conservatives want to ban abortions, and next week at least four of the Republican candidates will take part in a so-called presidential pro-life forum. Some democratic leaning states allow gay marriage and gays can now openly serve in the military. But many Republicans have been pushing back against gay equality. And nearly all the Republican candidates are opposing the law that bars prayer in the US public schools. But will those strong positions guarantee that any of the candidates get the evangelical vote? How will religion influence the 2012 presidential election? Inside Story: US 2012 discusses with guests: Frank Schaeffer, an author and political commentator, and son of Francis Schaeffer, an influential Evangelical theologian in the US; Michelle Goldberg, a senior contributing writer for Daily Beast and Newsweek, and author of Kingdom Coming: the Rise of Christian Nationalism; and Melissa Rogers, a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution, Washington.

Source: Al Jazeera