April 8, 2015
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Leading Papers Incite ‘Supreme International Crime’ By Jim Naureckas
To advocate for war, as the Washington Post and New York Times op-ed pages have done, is to incite a crime–“the supreme international crime,” as Jackson noted. How would we react if leading papers were to run articles suggesting that genocide was the best solution to an international conflict–or that lynching is the answer to… Continue reading
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Media Lens: When Free Speech Becomes Dead Silence – The Israel Lobby And A Cowed Academia
The sudden cancellation of an academic conference on Israel, as well as the lack of outcry from ‘mainstream’ media, demonstrates once again the skewed limits to ‘free speech’ in ‘advanced’ Western democracies. ‘Je suis Charlie’ already feels like ancient history. It certainly does not apply when it comes to scrutiny of the state of Israel. Continue reading
The New Dark Age 