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Alhurra, US-Funded Middle East Propaganda Station, Watched By Only 0.5% Of Middle East Population

ProPublica | Posted 07.02.2009 | Media

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In the last two years, the budget of the U.S.-funded Alhurra satellite station has grown 20 percent. From 2008 to 2009, a poll found that Alhurra's vi...

Critics Say U.S. Radio Program for Darfur Goes Soft on Sudan

Sheri Fink | Posted 03.05.2009 | World


Sheri Fink

Funded by the U.S. State Department, Radio Afia Darfur, a half-hour shortwave radio program, is beamed three times a day into war-torn Darfur, Sudan, and refugee-packed eastern Chad.

Alhurra TV: Uncle Sam's Boondoggle

Nancy Snow | Posted 01.12.2009 | Media


Nancy Snow

I've been sifting through several studies of Alhurra Television that dropped like a "cascade of candor," to paraphrase David Frost's hoped for outcom...

Restore the Voice

Murray Fromson | Posted 12.19.2008 | Politics


Murray Fromson

The international buzz caused by President-elect Obama earlier in the month offers him an opportunity to revive what had been a valuable American resource for so many years.

White House Paid Journalists To Go On Middle East Propaganda Network

ProPublica | Posted 07.03.2008 | Politics


Alhurra, the U.S. government-funded Arabic news channel, paid former Bush and Clinton administration officials, lobbyists and high-profile Washington ...