Archives for April 2013

Bassem Youssef tells Christiane Amanpour about the 5-hour Kafkaesque interrogation he underwent after being summoned by the prosecutor-general. The humorless prosecutors essentially made a montage of his punch lines and asked him about each of them as though they were evidence of a crime! Youssef vows to continue with his satire and with the same […]

Comedian Jim Carrey has hit back at Fox Cable News for its campaign of defamation in the wake of his release of a video parodying gun nuts. Carrey described the notorious far right wing propaganda organ as: “a media colostomy bag that has begun to burst at the seams and should be emptied before it […]

Why this and not that? I don’t understand my own country much of the time. For instance, in his first major public speech after resigning from his position as head of the CIA, David Petraeus felt he had to apologize again for having had an affair. But some elements of the CIA engaged in extensive […]

Ira Chernus writes at Tomdispatch.com Barack Obama came to Israel and Palestine, saw what he wanted to see, and conquered the mainstream media with his eloquent words. U.S. and Israeli journalists called it a dream trip, the stuff that heroic myths are made of: a charismatic world leader taking charge of the Mideast peace process. […]