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This is the third installment of a trio of blogs on social media analysis (SMA), and it provides an example of how SMA works -- after all, a picture i...
Yes, now we can get information in all sorts of ways. But I have to wonder, is information enough?
The U.S. is obstructing justice, perpetuating human rights violations and supporting a leader who, like Assad, has turned his back on his own people and lied to the world about it.
They took everyone by surprise, including themselves," reads the introduction to The Invisible Arab: The Promise and Peril of the Arab Revolution, a new book by Marwan Bishara, Senior Political Analyst for Al Jazeera English.
He's back at Aljazeera in an exalted position, albeit older, perhaps wiser, and a changed person, with memories of his six years and seven months of detention in Guantanamo on charges of being a member of al Qaida, which were later overturned.
For Egyptians, Tunisians, and anyone who has ever experienced life under a dictatorship, the sight of people lining up to vote is cause for jubilation and the most reassuring sign that the revolution is working.
The threat has now been made clear. Iran stands ready to withhold oil exports as a matter of policy if it feels it would be advantageous to its political goals and has now clearly put that option on the table.
On November 1, Al Jazeera celebrated its birthday with splendor. The channel that began broadcasting six hours a day in 1996 has become one of the world's most important media companies.
"People and Power" on Al Jazeera has been working for months on the Koch Brothers expose. It premiered last night and is the best TV story of the Kochs thus far.
Whatever drove Shahira Amin to put Gilad Shalit on TV in his first moments of freedom and whatever compelled everyone who could stomach it to look at Gaddafi's image, those two impulses had something in common.
Al Jazeera came along for our "Exorcism of the Bank of America" last week. We wanted to preach some big bank specifics.
My frustration with this President's terrible treatment of Israel and his concurrent support of Muslims and Arab dictatorships is well known. So imagine my surprise and irritation when I saw New York magazine's most recent cover.
Where will Obama stand in the emerging "Mob War" when the "Occupy" Family confronts the Goldman Sachs "Family"?
The interview conducted by Al Jazeera's Washington bureau chief Abderrahim Foukara against Donald Rumsfeld is making its rounds, having quickly gone viral amongst the political junkies amongst us.
It was predictable, somewhere in the Arab Spring: the forces of security, representatives of the ruling military council, raiding offices and closing down a broadcaster.
There is no doubt that a story is a very powerful thing. But who decides which stories get heard?
