Israelated (Free subscription) | yesterday
Al Jazeera Jewish and Arab rioters have clashed for a fourth straight night in the northern Israeli city of Akko. Police fired water cannons to disperse crowds and arrested 32 people from both sides on Saturday, and three Arab homes were torched and damaged, Micky Rosenfeld, a police spokesman said. Israeli media said that three people were hurt in the clashes on Saturday night, despite a reinforced...
The Latin Americanist (Free subscription) | yesterday
The Caribbean country of Haiti has been mired in poverty , hit hard by tropical storms , and suffering from violence . Nevertheless, some Haitians have their eyes on the U.S. presidential elections with the hope that a new leader can be beneficial for the country. Al Jazeera English recently looked into the views Haitians have of the U.S. and what they anticipate the future could hold vis-á-vis John...
KTemoc Konsiders ........ (Free subscription) | yesterday
Therefore all things whatsoever ye would that men should do to you, do ye even so to them: for this is the law and the prophets - Matthew 7:12 Extracts from al Jazeera : Richard Falk, the UN special rapporteur on the human rights situation in the Palestinian territories, recently delivered his report to the General Assembly. He cited continued "abuse of international humanitarian law" associated with...
PoliGazette (Free subscription) | 11/10/2008
European stock markets continued to fall on Friday, causing it to hit rock bottom: they ‘tumbled to their lowest close in more than five years amid fears that frozen credit markets are ushering in a global recession,’ as Al Jazeera reported on Saturday. One of the reasons European stock markets continued to fall is that investors fear that [...]
Planet Intertwingly (Free subscription) | 11/10/2008
Al Jazeera video on YouTube.
Mission & Justice (Free subscription) | 11/10/2008
Barnaby Phillips; 11/10/08 A few months ago, I travelled to Naples, in Italy, to report on hostility against the Roma, or Gypsy, people. Neapolitans blamed the Roma for a crimewave, and burnt down one of their camps. The story was posted on You Tube by Al Jazeera. Here is a sample of some of the comments [...]
Daily Pundit (Free subscription) | 10/10/2008
Daily Pundit » SWAG Oil is now headed back down to the $50-60 range. If the usual behavior of commodity spikes occurs, we’ll go down about as quickly as we went up. As usual, this is another of my predictions that inspired much disbelief (if not hilarity). Today… Al Jazeera English - Business - Oil prices plummet amid turmoil Crude [...]
Israel Matzav (Free subscription) | 10/10/2008
Al-Jazeera on Obama Here's an al-Jazeera report on 'Palestinian' support for the Presidential campaign of Barack Hussein Obama. My conclusion from this report is that Obama always was and will remain pro-'Palestinian' and that everything he says that's seemingly pro-Israel is platitudes to get himself elected (God forbid). If the 'Palestinians' didn't believe that, they wouldn't bother to get the vote...
Dublin Opinion (Free subscription) | 10/10/2008
In August 2007, the Al-Jazeera program People & Power ran a special report from Max Keiser about the Icelandic currency speculation bubble. Based on the carry trade, Keiser explained how the Icelandic economy was heading for a massive fall, and it did not have to do with toxic loans or sub-prime derivatives, simply good old [...]
Dave Lucas (Free subscription) | 10/10/2008
America's counterterrorism community is warning that Al Qaeda may launch more overseas operations to influence the presidential elections in November. The New York Sun tagged the coming events "Osama bin Laden's October Surprise." Arabs on “A-rab Money”: Busta Rhymes and Green Lantern on Al Jazeera Nearly six in ten Americans believe that the United States could be on the verge of entering an economic...
Arabic Video News in English (Free subscription) | 10/10/2008
In part one of a special 3 part series, Al Jazeera’s Awad Joumaa met his father, Hussein, in Denmark where he now lives. As they work their way to what was once Palestine, they travel through Lebanon where Hussein spent most of his life in the Baalbek refugee camp, in the Bekaa Valley. As time [...]
Arabic Video News in English (Free subscription) | 10/10/2008
Many villagers who survived the deadly earthquake in China’s Sichuan province say have no idea how they can afford to rebuild their lives and are being overlooked by relief efforts. Al Jazeera’s Melissa Chan reports from near thee town of Dujianyang, near to the epicentre of the quake. Author: AlJazeeraEnglish Source: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SkyA7QoGhEY
Today's Missing News (Free subscription) | 09/10/2008
This clarity on loss from Al Jazeera as Americans in the United States, manipulated and urged on by corporate media, gorge themselves on an interminable, issueless campaign for public office and a banal vacuity in coverage centered on media presenters and politicians’ style and personalities . Corporate greed coupled with military adventures has led to terrible waste, decaying infrastructure, unprecedented...
Arabic Video News in English (Free subscription) | 09/10/2008
In a special two-part series Al Jazeera relives the tragic narrative of the Palestinian Nakba (catastrophe) through the stories of one street in the city of Jaffa. Author: AlJazeeraEnglish Source: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M6aMR1INO4Y
MediaChannel (Free subscription) | 09/10/2008
Al Jazeera takes a look at the economic fears on Main Street. Riz Khan speaks with Robert Engle, the 2003 winner of the Nobel Prize for Economics, and Avis Jones-DeWeever, the director of the Research, Public Policy, and Information Center for African-American Women.
