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From the river to the sea, Al Jazeera will be free
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From the river to the sea, Al Jazeera will be free
May 10, 2024

Israel continues to push all moral boundaries whilst retaining its ultimately untenable position as NATO’s unsinkable Middle Eastern aircraft carrier.

The Rise and Fall of Aljazeera
November 25, 2021

There was an inevitable conflict in the roles of the Arab television network that inexorably led to its decline, writes As’ad AbuKhalil.

The Rise and Fall of Aljazeera
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Traitors In Britain’s Leadership
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Traitors In Britain’s Leadership
January 18, 2017

When a UK Prime Minister, such as the Conservative David Cameron, does the work of a foreign power, working for that foreign power and against UK’s democratic ideals, and also against the interests and values (such as equal-rights, and UK’s sovereign independence) which are held by the UK public, then that UK Prime Minister is perpetrating treason, whatever else it might also be called…

The Matter Is Closed — But Would It Be Closed If The Country Involved Wasn’t Israel?
January 13, 2017

The Al Jazeera television channel has revealed an Israeli plan to destroy the careers of senior British government figures because they have been critical of Israel. Shai Masot, a senior official in the Israeli embassy in London, was recorded by an Al Jazeera undercover reporter in conversation in a London restaurant with Ms Maria Strizzolo, formerly chief of staff to the British government’s ‘minister of state for skills’, Robert Halfon, the past political director of the Conservative Friends of Israel, who has a colourful history…

The Matter Is Closed — But Would It Be Closed If The Country Involved Wasn’t Israel?
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Déjà vu and Syrian Chemical Weapons
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Déjà vu and Syrian Chemical Weapons
August 26, 2013

President George W. Bush’s chief political adviser Karl Rove once infamously said of the United States under Bush, «We’re an empire now, and when we act, we create our own reality». And the reality created by Rove, Bush, Vice President Dick Cheney, and other war hawks convinced the world, wrongly, that Iraq’s Saddam Hussein possessed weapons of mass destruction, that Saddam’s agents were seeking yellow cake uranium in Africa, and that Saddam’s army possessed mobile biological weapon laboratories capable of releasing anthrax… Now, over a decade later, the Obama administration is dusting off the Bush administration’s playbook and using it on the government of Bashar al Assad of Syria…

Poetic justice in Qatari tyrant’s fairytale of supporting regional democracy and free speech
December 5, 2012

Once upon a time there was a very rich emirate whose royal ruler wanted to dazzle the world with his magnanimity and appreciation of free speech. It was a bold move because, in this particular geographical desert enclave, the oil-rich kingdoms were typically ruled with an iron rod by absolute unelected monarchs… The fairytale appeared to become reality in the year 2006 when the Persian Gulf emirate of Qatar set up the English-language news broadcaster, Al Jazeera. Qatar’s ruler Emir Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani, one of the richest men in the world owing to his tiny country’s immense natural gas wealth, put up the money to found the corporation…

Poetic justice in Qatari tyrant’s fairytale of supporting regional democracy and free speech
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Qatar Rises to Become a New Center of Power in the Middle East
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Qatar Rises to Become a New Center of Power in the Middle East
March 14, 2012

…Qatar's foreign policy reflects a plan to convert the country into a regional center of power with the backing from its Western partners… Doha seems to have sensed a novel model of expansion blending a generally pro-Western orientation with rigid traditionalism in the form of reliance on fundamentalist groups or even openly terrorist organizations. A seizable benefit of this line of conduct for Qatar is that it guarantees to the country's investors the admission to the Arab and African markets where they successfully rival the EU and China.

The West’s Attempt to Dominate the International Satellite News Spectrum
January 17, 2012

There is a clear attempt by Western governments and their surrogates, especially Qatar, to dominate the spectrum of international network news outlets… The United States was never really happy with Al Jazeera’s Arabic service, having militarily attacked the network’s office in Kabul in November 2001 and its Baghdad bureau in April 2003… By the time the Barack Obama administration took over the reins of power in Washington, a new policy was adopted, one that would seek to co-opt news networks like Al Jazeera rather than attack them on the battlefield and censor them in the corporate news rooms of the United States… On March 2, 2011, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton… declared the United States was losing the global information war and cited Al Jazeera, CCTV, and RT as examples of networks besting the United States at televised news…

The West’s Attempt to Dominate the International Satellite News Spectrum
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