Top 25 Censored News Stories in the US Media

Project Censored is a Sonoma University-based initiative currently in its thirty-first year. Each year, it selects twenty-five stories from hundreds of possible candidates which did not make it into the mainstream media. The selection criteria is based on their relevance to American public and their implications at home and abroad. By publishing these stories, the [...]

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Soccer Hijabs

Yet another incidence of hijab discrimination, this time the story comes from the US. See the news coverage here, here, here.
See my thoughts on this issue here and here.

Those interested in doing academic study of this issue may like to note that the countries I mention in these previous posts have their own local and [...]

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The Poor and Hungry

The photograph showing a starving Sudanese child being stalked by a vulture won Kevin Carter the 1994 Pulitzer Prize for feature photography.
The photo depicts a famine stricken girl collapsing on the way to a United Nations food camp, located a kilometer away. The vulture is waiting for the child to die so it can eat [...]

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"Iraq in Fragments": A Critical Review

Speaking of self-fulfilling prophecies and media images (see the previous post), have you seen this recent documentary called “Iraq in Fragments” directed by James Longley? (here)
Apparently, it has won tons of awards in the Sundance Film Festival and was also nominated for the Oscars. It was screened all across North America between November 2006 and [...]

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Iraq in Fragments: A Self-fulfilling Prophecy?

The US Senate recently voted for a soft partition of Iraq. This was an unbinding resolution to divide Iraq on ethnic and religious lines into three federal governments. One wonders, who gave them to right to talk about dividing Iraq in the first place?! Who are they to decide the future of the Iraqi people? [...]

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