Meanwhile Libya's deputy foreign minister told E.U. ambassadors in Tripoli al-Qaeda has set up an Islamic emirate in Derna, in eastern Libya, headed by a former U.S. prisoner at Guantanamo Bay.

How can anyone justify threatening rape victims with a Bad-Conduct Discharge if they dare to speak out about their assaults? I'm just dying to hear the argument, if you've got one!

The show at the Capitol yesterday sounds hysterical alright: everyone from the most ardent advocate of children's rights to the most extreme right-wing nativist! The only thing to which I can imagine comparing it is the endless array of comments at the end of the article....

Fascinating debate about the MSM's power or lack thereof over the outcome of the revolution on the streets of Cairo....

We're barely a week into the new year and already we can report that misogyny is alive and well in 2011. Here is a quick and undoubtedly incomplete roundup of the first week's action

A rather unbiased piece (though tipped off in the end) by a "real socialist" (not your animus Obamacreation that you keep dreaming up around every left-leaning corner in DC today) about the facts on the ground & what you should know about the Egyptian revolution: that it's "a mas …

China has limited coverage of the Egypt protest to its Xinhua news service and warned last week that websites that did not censor comments about Egypt would be 'shut down by force.'

A genius piece of journalism on "the other Arizona" explores the state that time forgot, the liberal intelligentsia oft overlooked by the MSM: it starts with a story of how a (most likely Muslim) African scout led the first (Spanish) settlers to the gates of the Salt River & ends …

A group of 400 rabbis from the Reform, Orthodox, Conservative and Reconstructionist Jewish traditions published a full page ad in the Wall Street Journal today telling Rupert Murdoch to put a leash on Glenn Beck, to have him quit his use of inappropriate remarks about the Holoca …

"Palestinian Authority security officials have detained a meat dealer on suspicion of selling land to Jews, Palestinian media outlets reported Friday.

"'Freedom in the World 2011' was accompanied by a press release, overview essay and regional maps, all of which highlighted the lack of democracy and human rights in the Middle East and North Africa, currently a hot topic in the British media in light of events in Tunisia.

A second time around, this expose on the culture of corruption & secrecy that allows Border Patrol officials literally get away with murder was even more rewarding & meaningful: it is an absolute must-read, regardless of your political persuasion.

I had great hopes for Turkey and Erdogan. Past tense.

"Britain's Islam Channel broke broadcasting regulations by condoning marital rape, encouraging violence against women, and promoting an anti-Israel, pro-Hamas line, the country's broadcast regulator Ofcom ruled Monday.

Deputy President Kgalema Motlanthe said on Saturday the ANC is giving the media time and space to review its self-regulatory system.

During a joint indaba between the South African National Editors' Forum (Sanef) and government in Magaliesburg on Saturday, Motlanthe emphasised that if concerns about the system were addressed there may be no need for a media appeals tribunal.

David Be'eri is either much admired or much hated, depending on how you feel about Israel and Jewish heritage.

It is understandably hard for people to believe the amount of violence that is staged and stories that are manipulated coming from the Middle East. Here is a bit of video from the eastern part of Jerusalem.

Academics, intellectuals—even journalists—are, presumably, concerned with objective truth and trained to recognize and avoid bias or extreme distortion.

Roland Schoeman said on Saturday that he was "flabbergasted" and "utterly disappointed" that a section of the Australian media had attempted to paint him as a racist by "twisting" a statement he had made about the crowd in the Dr SP Mukherjee Aquatic Complex at the Commonwealth Games.

Schoeman was exonerated by Sascoc management yesterday of any "malice or racist reference" after calling a spectator who had shouted out during the start of the 50m freestyle semi-final on Friday night a "monkey". The spectator's shout had distracted him and Englishman Simon Burnett, with both falling into the pool, risking a false start and possible disqualification.

"Massive"?

Veteran journalist Khaled Abu Toameh laments Big Media's lack of interest in a story about the PA arresting several university lecturers.

"The Las Vegas Weekly conducts a survey of "the personalities who define Vegas," and judges Penn Jillette to be #1. Selections from the brief, reliably interesting interview: "Are there any groups you won't go after?

As ambitious as the title might seem, my intention is rather simple in design: I'm going to list solutions to the problems this Country is facing.

There can be no doubt, reasonable or otherwise, that Patrick Buchanan, the erstwhile ultra-right wing presidential candidate and senior official in the Nixon and Reagan White Houses who is now an extremely well-paid political commentator on MSNBC, is a hard-core anti-Semite.

"Looks to me like the Oil Company has taken over." - James Fox According to an interview by Mel Fabregas of the Veritas Show, James Fox is not liking what he sees in Grande Isle, Louisiana.

Imagine the reaction of the national news media if a public school teacher had a long history of having sex with students, claiming victims in several states.

So, following a traffic stop, a bible thumping, anti-government, AK-47 wielding wingnut named Jerry Kane and his son manage to kill two police officers and wound two other officers without any major blowback to the Republican party, Tea Party, and/or other (media) people who indi …

"I cannot use my real name. If the freedom of expressive condemnation practiced in this article were associated with my name I would never be permitted to return home. Dozens of family members would be in danger of interrogation and persecution for my words.

As violence against women in Pakistan continues to grow, every new incident is eerily reminiscent of an earlier event that was equally if not more shocking. Two reports from Punjab on Monday are a blot on society's collective conscience.

Mary Katharine Ham takes you on a tour of Durham, highlighting Mike Nifong's prosecutorial misconduct in the Duke lacrosse case-- as well as other parties' collusion.