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Archived news and commentary by week 2006 - Q4
Archived news and commentary by week 2006 - Q3
Archived news and commentary by week 2006 - Q2
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Archived news and commentary by week 2005 - Q3
Archived news and commentary by week 2005 - Q2
Archived news and commentary by week 2005 - Q1Archived news and commentary by week 2004 - Q4
Archived news and commentary by week 2004 - Q3
Archived news and commentary by week 2004 - Q2
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Archived news and commentary by week 2003 - Q2
Archived news and commentary by week 2003 - Q1Archived news and commentary by week 2002 - Q4
Archived news and commentary by week 2002 - Q3
Archived news and commentary by week 2002 - Q2
Archived news and commentary by week 2002 - Q1Archived news and commentary by week 2001
Index of all archived news and commentary by month
Articles of the week
Author index
Transcripts
Galleries
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Translated French articles
ArticlesSelected articles by month
Year in Review - 2002
Selected articles - 2001
Columnist of the year - 2001
Site of the year - 2001
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Video of the week
Archived
news and commentary by week 2006 - Q4
2006/12/04 - 2006/12/10
2006/11/27 - 2006/12/03
2006/11/20 - 2006/11/26
2006/11/13 - 2006/11/19
2006/11/06 - 2006/11/12
2006/10/30 - 2006/11/05
2006/10/23 - 2006/10/29
2006/10/16 - 2006/10/22
2006/10/09 - 2006/10/15
2006/10/02 - 2006/10/08
Archived
news and commentary by week 2006 - Q3
2006/09/25 - 2006/10/01
2006/09/18 - 2006/09/24
2006/09/11 - 2006/09/17
2006/09/04 - 2006/09/10
2006/08/28 - 2006/09/03
2006/08/21 - 2006/08/27
2006/08/14 - 2006/08/20
2006/08/07 - 2006/08/13
2006/07/31 - 2006/08/06
2006/07/24 - 2006/07/30
2006/07/17 - 2006/07/23
2006/07/10 - 2006/07/16
2006/07/03 - 2006/07/09
Archived
news and commentary by week 2006 - Q2
2006/06/26 - 2006/07/02
2006/06/19 - 2006/06/25
2006/06/12 - 2006/06/18
2006/06/05 - 2006/06/11
2006/05/29 - 2006/06/04
2006/05/22 - 2006/05/28
2006/05/15 - 2006/05/21
2006/05/08 - 2006/05/14
2006/05/01 - 2006/05/07
2006/04/24 - 2006/04/30
2006/04/17 - 2006/04/23
2006/04/10 - 2006/04/16
2006/04/03 - 2006/04/09
Archived
news and commentary by week 2006 - Q1
2006/03/27 - 2006/04/02
2006/03/20 - 2006/03/26
2006/03/13 - 2006/03/19
2006/03/06 - 2006/03/12
2006/02/27 - 2006/03/05
2006/02/20 - 2006/02/26
2006/02/13 - 2006/02/19
2006/02/06 - 2006/02/12
2006/01/30 - 2006/02/05
2006/01/23 - 2006/01/29
2006/01/16 - 2006/01/22
2006/01/09 - 2006/01/15
2006/01/02 - 2006/01/08
Archived
news and commentary by week 2005 - Q4
2005/12/26 - 2006/01/01
2005/12/19 - 2005/12/25
2005/12/12 - 2005/12/18
2005/12/05 - 2005/12/11
2005/11/28 - 2005/12/04
2005/11/21 - 2005/11/27
2005/11/14 - 2005/11/20
2005/11/07 - 2005/11/13
2005/10/31 - 2005/11/06
2005/10/24 - 2005/10/30
2005/10/17 - 2005/10/23
2005/10/10 - 2005/10/16
2005/10/03 - 2005/10/09
Archived
news and commentary by week 2005 - Q3
2005/09/26 - 2005/10/02
2005/09/19 - 2005/09/25
2005/09/12 - 2005/09/18
2005/09/05 - 2005/09/11
2005/08/29 - 2005/09/04
2005/08/22 - 2005/08/28
2005/08/15 - 2005/08/21
2005/08/08 - 2005/08/14
2005/08/01 - 2005/08/07
2005/07/25 - 2005/07/31
2005/07/18 - 2005/07/24
2005/07/11 - 2005/07/17
2005/07/04 - 2005/07/10
Archived
news and commentary by week 2005 - Q2
2005/06/27 - 2005/07/03
2005/06/20 - 2005/06/26
2005/06/13 - 2005/06/19
2005/06/06 - 2005/06/12
2005/05/30 - 2005/06/05
2005/05/23 - 2005/05/29
2005/05/16 - 2005/05/22
2005/05/09 - 2005/05/15
2005/05/02 - 2005/05/08
2005/04/25 - 2005/05/01
2005/04/18 - 2005/04/24
2005/04/11 - 2005/04/17
2005/04/04 - 2005/04/10
2005/03/28 - 2005/04/03
Archived
news and commentary by week 2005 - Q1
2005/03/28 - 2005/04/03
2005/03/21 - 2005/03/27
2005/03/14 - 2005/03/20
2005/03/07 - 2005/03/13
2005/02/28 - 2005/03/06
2005/02/21 - 2005/02/27
2005/02/14 - 2005/02/20
2005/02/07 - 2005/02/13
2005/01/31 - 2005/02/06
2005/01/24 - 2005/01/30
2005/01/17 - 2005/01/23
2005/01/10 - 2005/01/16
2005/01/03 - 2005/01/09
Archived
news and commentary by week 2004 - Q4
2004/12/27 - 2005/01/02
2004/12/20 - 2004/12/26
2004/12/13 - 2004/12/19
2004/12/06 - 2004/12/12
2004/11/29 - 2004/12/05
2004/11/22 - 2004/11/28
2004/11/15 - 2004/11/21
2004/11/08 - 2004/11/14
2004/11/01 - 2004/11/07
2004/10/25 - 2004/10/31
2004/10/18 - 2004/10/24
2004/10/11 - 2004/10/17
2004/10/04 - 2004/10/10
Archived news and commentary by week 2004 - Q3
2004/09/27 - 2004/10/03
2004/09/20 - 2004/09/26
2004/09/13 - 2004/09/19
2004/09/06 - 2004/09/12
2004/08/30 - 2004/09/05
2004/08/23 - 2004/08/29
2004/08/16 - 2004/08/22
2004/08/09 - 2004/08/15
2004/08/02 - 2004/08/08
2004/07/26 - 2004/08/01
2004/07/19 - 2004/07/25
2004/07/12 - 2004/07/18
2004/07/05 - 2004/07/11
2004/06/28 - 2004/07/04
Archived
news and commentary by week 2004 - Q2
2004/06/28 - 2004/07/04
2004/06/21 - 2004/06/27
2004/06/14 - 2004/06/20
2004/06/07 - 2004/06/13
2004/05/31 - 2004/06/06
2004/05/24 - 2004/05/30
2004/05/17 - 2004/05/23
2004/05/10 - 2004/05/16
2004/05/03 - 2004/05/09
2004/04/26 - 2004/05/02
2004/04/19 - 2004/04/25
2004/04/12 - 2004/04/18
2004/04/05 - 2004/04/11
Archived
news and commentary by week 2004 - Q1
2004/03/29 - 2004/04/04
2004/03/22 - 2004/03/28
2004/03/15 - 2004/03/21
2004/03/08 - 2004/03/14
2004/03/01 - 2004/03/07
2004/02/23 - 2004/02/29
2004/02/16 - 2004/02/22
2004/02/09 - 2004/02/15
2004/02/02 - 2004/02/08
2004/01/26 - 2004/02/01
2004/01/19 - 2004/01/25
2004/01/12 - 2004/01/18
2004/01/05 - 2004/01/11
2003/12/29 - 2004/01/04
Archived
news and commentary by week 2003 - Q4
2003/12/29 - 2004/01/04
2003/12/22 - 2003/12/28
2003/12/15 - 2003/12/21
2003/12/08 - 2003/12/14
2003/12/01 - 2003/12/07
2003/11/24 - 2003/11/30
2003/11/17 - 2003/11/23
2003/11/10 - 2003/11/16
2003/11/03 - 2003/11/09
2003/10/27 - 2003/11/02
2003/10/20 - 2003/10/26
2003/10/13 - 2003/10/19
2003/10/06 - 2003/10/12
2003/09/29 - 2003/10/05
Archived
news and commentary by week 2003 - Q3
2003/09/29 - 2003/10/05
2003/09/22 - 2003/09/28
2003/09/15 - 2003/09/21
2003/09/08 - 2003/09/14
2003/09/01 - 2003/09/07
2003/08/25 - 2003/08/31
2003/08/18 - 2003/08/24
2003/08/11 - 2003/08/17
2003/08/04 - 2003/08/10
2003/07/28 - 2003/08/03
2003/07/21 - 2003/07/27
2003/07/14 - 2003/07/20
2003/07/07 - 2003/07/13
2003/06/30 - 2003/07/06
Archived
news and commentary by week 2003 - Q2
2003/06/23 - 2003/06/29
2003/06/16 - 2003/06/22
2003/06/09 - 2003/06/15
2003/06/02 - 2003/06/08
2003/05/26 - 2003/06/01
2003/05/19 - 2003/05/25
2003/05/12 - 2003/05/18
2003/05/05 - 2003/05/11
2003/04/28 - 2003/05/04
2003/04/21 - 2003/04/27
2003/04/14 - 2003/04/20
2003/04/07 - 2003/04/13
2003/03/31 - 2003/04/06
Archived
news and commentary by week 2003 - Q1
2003/03/24 - 2003/03/30
2003/03/17 - 2003/03/23
2003/03/10 - 2003/03/16
2003/03/03 - 2003/03/09
2003/02/24 - 2003/03/02
2003/02/17 - 2003/02/23
2003/02/10 - 2003/02/16
2003/02/03 - 2003/02/09
2003/01/27 - 2003/02/02
2003/01/20 - 2003/01/26
2003/01/13 - 2003/01/19
2003/01/06 - 2003/01/12
2002/12/30 - 2003/01/05
Archived
news and commentary by week 2002 - Q4
2002/12/30 - 2003/01/05
2002/12/23 - 2002/12/29
2002/12/16 - 2002/12/22
2002/12/09 - 2002/12/15
2002/12/02 - 2002/12/08
2002/11/25 - 2002/12/01
2002/11/18 - 2002/11/24
2002/11/11 - 2002/11/17
2002/11/04 - 2002/11/10
2002/10/28 - 2002/11/03
2002/10/21 - 2002/10/27
2002/10/14 - 2002/10/20
2002/10/07 - 2002/10/13
2002/09/30 - 2002/10/06
Archived
news and commentary by week 2002 - Q3
2002/09/23 - 2002/09/29
2002/09/16 - 2002/09/22
2002/09/09 - 2002/09/15
2002/09/02 - 2002/09/08
2002/08/26 - 2002/09/01
2002/08/19 - 2002/08/25
2002/08/12 - 2002/08/18
2002/08/05 - 2002/08/11
2002/07/29 - 2002/08/04
2002/07/22 - 2002/07/28
2002/07/15 - 2002/07/21
2002/07/08 - 2002/07/14
2002/07/01 - 2002/07/07
Archived news and commentary by week 2002 - Q2
2002/06/24 - 2002/06/30
2002/06/17 - 2002/06/23
2002/06/10 - 2002/06/16
2002/06/03 - 2002/06/09
2002/05/27 - 2002/06/02
2002/05/20 - 2002/05/26
2002/05/13 - 2002/05/19
2002/05/06 - 2002/05/12
2002/04/29 - 2002/05/05
2002/04/22 - 2002/04/28
2002/04/15 - 2002/04/21
2002/04/08 - 2002/04/14
2002/04/01 - 2002/04/07
Archived
news and commentary by week 2002 - Q1
2002/03/25 - 2002/03/31
2002/03/18 - 2002/03/24
2002/03/11 - 2002/03/17
2002/03/04 - 2002/03/10
2002/02/25 - 2002/03/03
2002/02/18 - 2002/02/24
2002/02/11 - 2002/02/17
2002/02/04 - 2002/02/10
2002/01/28 - 2002/02/03
2002/01/21 - 2002/01/27
2002/01/14 - 2002/01/20
2002/01/07 - 2002/01/13
2002/01/01 - 2002/01/06
Archived
news and commentary by week 2001
2001/12/24 - 2001/12/31
2001/12/17 - 2001/12/23
2002/12/10 - 2001/12/16
2002/12/03 - 2001/12/09
2001/11/26 - 2001/12/02
2001/11/19 - 2001/11/25
2001/11/12 - 2001/11/18
2001/11/05 - 2001/11/11
2001/10/29 - 2001/11/04
2001/10/22 - 2001/10/28
2001/10/15 - 2001/10/21
2001/10/08 - 2001/10/14
2001/10/01 - 2001/10/07
2001/09/24 - 2001/09/30
2001/09/17 - 2001/09/23
2001/09/11 - 2001/09/16
Index
of all archived news and commentary by month
2006
December 2006
November 2006
October 2006
September 2006
August 2006
July 2006
June 2006
May 2006
April 2006
March 2006
February 2006
January 20062005
December 2005
November 2005
October 2005
September 2005
August 2005
July 2005
June 2005
May 2005
April 2005
March 2005
February 2005
January 20052004
December 2004
November 2004
October 2004
September 2004
August 2004
July 2004
June 2004
May 2004
April 2004
March 2004
February 2004
January 20042003
December 2003
November 2003
October 2003
September 2003
August 2003
July 2003
June 2003
May 2003
April 2003
March 2003
February 2003
January 20032002
December 2002
November 2002
October 2002
September 2002
August 2002
July 2002
June 2002
May 2002
April 2002
March 2002
February 2002
January 20022001
December 2001
November 2001
October 2001
September 2001
Index of archived articles by author:
Ajami, Fouad - Johnson, Paul
Kagan, Robert - Ye'or, Bat
"View of the Clichy-sous-Bois market..." - Photos of the youth riots in Paris suburbs, Friday, October 28 - Monday, November 14, 2005.
The Cedar Revolution - Beirut, Monday, February 14, 2005 - Saturday, March 26, 2004.
Election Day - The Iraqi National Election, Sunday, January 30, 2005.
'Finally the day has arrived' - Afghan Presidential Election, Saturday, October 9, 2004.
Note: Some of the bulkier themes, such as anti-Americanism and Iraq, have not been updated in ages. The reason is that I simply don't have time.
"Image of Muhammad" - News and commentary on the Danish cartoon affair.
"Who's Really Abusing the Koran?" - News and commentary on "Newsweeksgate" and the "American Gulag".
Blasphemy - News and commentary on free speech cases and blasphemy law apologetics, including articles on the Fallaci affair, the Houellebecq affair, the Kilroy-Silk affair, Blunkett's proposed law to "ban incitement to religious hatred", the Will Collins affair and the murder of Theo van Gogh.
"The Morning After" - News and commentary on the post-election debate after President Bush's victory.
"Gunman kills Dutch film director" - News and commentary on the murder of Dutch film director Theo van Gogh in Amsterdam, Tuesday, November 2, 2004.
"Huge Cache of Explosives Vanished From Site in Iraq" - News and commentary on the missing explosives in Iraq.
"U.S. Report Finds No Evidence of Iraq WMD" - News and commentary on the Duelfer report."Abuse Of Iraqi POWs By GIs Probed" - News and commentary on the prisoner abuse scandal in Iraq and the beheading of Nick Berg.
"A Palestinian boy wearing an explosive belt..." - News and commentary about Hussam Abdo, the Palestinian 16 year old boy who was caught wearing an explosive belt.
"Snow White and the Madness of Truth" - News and commentary on the"Snow White" scandal.
"The London Streets" - News and commentary on Bush's state visit to Britain.
"Peace in our time" - News and commentary on the February 2003 "peace" marches.
"Down with beauty" - News and commentary on the Miss World massacre in Nigeria.
The Moscow Siege - News and commentary on the siege of the Moscow theater by Chechen terrorists.
"Paradise lost" - News and commentary on the Bali bombing."Year One" - News and commentary summing up "Year One" and on the first anniversary of the September 11 attacks.
"Investing in terror" - News and commentary on Saudi Arabia and Wahhabism.
"The Great Terror" - News and commentary on Saddam Hussein and Iraq.
"Who Blew It?" - News and commentary on supposed intelligence failures leading up to the September 11 terrorist attacks.
"The Kashmir Time Bomb" - News and commentary on the ominous conflict between India and Pakistan.
"Global Village Idiocy" - News and commentary on the use of modern mass media for spreading hoaxes and incitement of hatred.
"The U.N. on the Loose" - News and commentary on the U.N. in general and its anti-Israeli bias in particular.
"The media and 'the massacre'" - News and commentary on the conflicting reports on what happened during the battle of Jenin."Terror Documented" - News and commentary on evidence gained during Operation Defensive Shield, linking Arafat and the Palestinian Authority to terrorism.
"The September 11 X-Files" - News and commentary on conspiracy theories regarding the September 11 attacks and the war on terror.
"Rewarding Palestinian terrorism" - News and commentary on the recent concessions made by Prime Minister Ariel Sharon and president George W. Bush.
The Saudi Plan - News and commentary on the Saudi peace plan.
Axis of Evil? - News and commentary on the foreign policy of the U.S. following president Bush's State of the Union speech.
"X-Ray Photographs" - News and commentary on the treatment of the prisoners at Camp X-Ray.
"Ship Of Truth" - News and commentary on the Israeli capture of the Karine A shipment of arms.
Celebrity Watch - A look at what some celebrities have said and written about the terrorist attacks in America and the war on terror.
"Rejoicing in the streets of Jenin" - Articles on the celebrations by Palestinians after the September 11 attacks and the allegation that the coverage was faked."Judgment Day in Mystery Babylon?" - News and commentary on anti-Americanism and anti-West sentiments:
Part 1: 2001/09/12 - 2001/09/29
Part 2: 2001/10/01 - 2001/12/28
Part 3: 2002/01/08 - 2002/06/28
Part 4: 2002/07/01 - 2002/08/30
Part 5: 2002/09/03 - 2002/09/30
Part 6: 2002/10/03 - 2002/11/30
Part 7: 2002/12/01 - 2003/01/15
Part 8: 2003/01/17 -"On the road from Durban..." - News and commentary on anti-Semitism and anti-Israeli bias:
Part 1: 2001/09/12 - 2001/12/28
Part 2: 2002/01/04 - 2002/04/29
Part 3: 2002/05/02 - 2002/06/29
Part 4: 2002/07/04 - 2002/08/29
Part 5: 2002/09/05 - 2002/11/25
Part 6: 2002/12/02 -
"Immoral equivalency" - News and commentary on moral equivalence and moral relativism:
Part 1: 2001/09/12 - 2001/12/24
Part 2: 2002/01/18 - 2002/06/28
Part 3: 2002/07/08 - 2002/08/28
Part 4: 2002/09/04 - 2002/10/31
Part 5: 2002/11/06 -French articles translated by Douglas:
"France's policy is still sharply criticized by Iraqis" (Rémy Ourdan, Le Monde/Watch, 2004/03/18 [2004/03/20])
"The Intoxication of being alone against the world" (Pascal Bruckner, Le Monde/Watch, 2004/01/28 [2004/01/30])
"Anti-Semitic Vulgate" (Le Monde/Watch, 2004/01/19 [2004/01/22])
"France's Americans have the blues" (Frédéric Gerschel and Charlotte Deliry, Le Parisien/Watch, 2004/01/16 [2004/01/18])
"An extremist takes over the opposition" (Blandine Grosjean and Olivier Voge, Libération/Watch, 2004/01/03 [2004/01/10])
"Jews and France, a trust to reestablish" (Gilles Bernheim et al., Le Monde/Watch, 2003/12/29 [2004/01/02])
"France's excesses in opposition to war" (Daniel Schneidermann, Liberation/Watch, 2003/12/26 [2003/12/29])
"Tariq Ramadan, target for European intelligence services" (Christophe Dubois, Le Parisien/Watch, 2003/11/14 [2003/11/17])
"Sheikh Fadel Al-Sahlani : 'It will take two to three years to stabilize the country'" (Le Monde/Watch, 2003/10/27 [2003/11/06])
"Tariq Ramadan accused of anti-Semitism" (Caroline Monnot and Xavier Ternisien, Le Monde/Watch, 2003/10/10 [2003/10/14])
"Two years later" (Le Monde/Watch, 2003/09/10)
"Europe: plea for a common foreign policy" (Jürgen Habermas and Jacques Derrida, Libération/Watch, 2003/05/31 - 2003/06/01 [2003/08/02])
"The Europe and the America we want" (Ralf Dahrendorf and Timothy Garton Ash, Le Monde/Watch, 2003/07/09 [2003/07/18])
"The Occupied Territories of Arab Imagination" (Jacques Tarnero, L'Observatoire du monde juif/Watch, November 2001 [2003/06/24])
"Russia: Coronation of the Godfather" (André Glucksmann, Le Monde/Watch 2003/05/30 [2003/06/01])
"The choices French diplomacy made" (Françoise Thom, Institut Hayek Institute/Watch, 2003/05/06 [2003/05/16])
"Stupor, shame and repentance" (Marc De Scitivaux, Revue-politique.com/Watch, 2003/04/16 [2003/04/29])
"The Iranians’ pro-Americanism worries Tehran" (Afsané Bassir Pour, Le Monde/Watch, 2003/04/25 [2003/04/29])
"Error" (Pascal Bruckner, André Glucksmann and Romain Goupil, Le Monde/Watch, 2003/04/14 [2003/04/15])
"A Curious reversal of alliances" (André Glucksmann, Le Monde/Watch, 2003/04/04 [2003/04/05])
"Anti-Semitic Accusations by Pro-Palestinian Organization" (Michel Henry, Libération/Watch, 2003/04/03)
"The Neo-pacifists make war... on peace" (Robert Redeker, Le Monde/Watch, 2003/03/25 [2003/03/27])
"An Afternoon with Saddam" (Alcibiades Hidalgo, Le Monde/Watch, 2003/03/10 [2003/03/12])
"A Just War" (Yves Roucaute, Le Monde/Watch, 2003/03/08 [2003/03/10])
"Ghetto sectarianism 20 years after the integration movement" (Frédéric Chambon, Le Monde/Watch, 2003/02/11 [2003/03/08])
"Saddam must go, by choice or by force!" (Pascal Bruckner, André Glucksmann and Romain Goupil, Le Monde/Watch, 2003/03/03 [2003/03/08])
"Bernard Kouchner: 'France is at an impasse'" (Le Monde/Watch, 2003/03/03 [2003/03/04])
"All together now" (Robert Solé, Le Monde/Watch, 2003/02/22 [2003/02/23])
"The Silence Surrounding the New Judeophobia: blindness, complacency or connivance?" (Pierre-André Taguieff, Fayard - Mille et Une Nuits/Watch, 2002/01/16 [2003/02/22])
"Understanding the Europeans Better" (Patrice de Beer, Le Monde/Watch, 2003/02/12 [2003/02/13])
"Francophobia" (Le Monde/Watch, 2003/02/11 [2003/02/12])
"Surrealism and the Demoralization of the West" (Jean Clair, Le Monde/Watch, 2001/12/07 [2003/02/10])
"Paradoxical Pacifism" (Pascal Bruckner, Le Monde/Watch, 2003/02/03 [2003/02/09])
"The Deliria of Anti-Israeli Hatred" (Claude Lanzmann, Le Monde/Watch, 2002/05/09 [2003/01/16])
"The Deliria of Anti-Palestinian Contempt" (José Bové et al., Le Monde/Watch, 2002/05/09 [2003/01/16])
"From the pen to the pillory" (Robert Solé, Le Monde/Watch, 2003/01/11 [2003/01/12]))
"No to boycotts" (Le Monde/Watch, 2003/01/06 [2003/01/12])
"Terrorism of the Mind" (Alain Minc, Le Monde/Watch, 2001/11/06 [2003/01/09])
"The Mind of Terrorism" (Jean Baudrilliard, Le Monde/Watch, 2001/11/02 [2003/01/09])
"The Shoah They Can't Swallow" (Françoise Giroud, Le Monde/Watch, 2002/06/13 [2003/01/07])
"Israel-Palestine: The Cancer" (Edgar Morin, Sami Naïr and Danièle Sallenave, Le Monde/Watch, 2002/06/03 [2003/01/07])
"Agence France-Presse: the account versus the facts" (Clément Weill Raynal, Observatoire du monde juif/Watch, from the March 2002 issue [2003/01/06])Articles:
Apocalypse then and now (Mårten Barck, Watch, 2001/10/28)
"You know very well that the Zionists control everything" (Mårten Barck, Watch, 2001/10/21)Misc.
"The sorcerer's apprentices" (Angelo M. Codevilla, The American Spectator/Watch, November 2003 [2004/11/28])
"I angrily lunged toward my father" (William Sampson with Francine Dubé, National Post/Watch, 2003/09/11)
"And then I began to fight back" (William Sampson with Francine Dubé, National Post/Watch, 2003/09/10)
"'I was having a heart attack'" (William Sampson with Francine Dubé, National Post/Watch, 2003/09/09)
"My eleven days of Saudi torture" (William Sampson with Francine Dubé, National Post/Watch, 2003/09/08)
"'I am not quite the man I was'" (William Sampson with Francine Dubé, National Post/Watch, 2003/09/06)
"Anatomy of an execution" (Khaled Abu Toameh, The Jerusalem Post/Watch, 2002/08/08 [2004/04/30]))
"Honour Killing Debate Without Honour" (Hanne Kjöller, Dagens Nyheter/Watch, 2004/03/04)
"Muslim Jew-hatred is justified" (Jan Samuelsson, Dagens Nyheter/Watch, 2003/10/25 [2003/11/04])
"Silence surrounds Muslim Jew-hatred" (Sverker Oredsson and Mikael Tossavainen, Dagens Nyheter/Watch, 2003/10/20)
"Classicist who captured the White House" (Giles Whittell, The Times/Watch, 2003/09/20 [2003/10/03])
Selected
news and commentary by month
February 2003
January 2003
December 2002
November 2002
October 2002
September 2002
August 2002
July 2002
June 2002
May 2002
April 2002
March 2002
February 2002
January 2002
December 2001
November 2001
October 2001
September 2001
Selected news and commentary
Columnists of the Year
Sites of the Year
Selected
news and commentary - 2001
Selected news and commentary - 2001 - A highly subjective list of some of the most important and interesting articles on the war against terror published last year. From Flore de Préneuf's "Rejoicing in the streets of Jenin" (Salon.com, 2001/09/11) to Fareed Zakaria's "How to Save the Arab World" (Newsweek, from the 2001/12/24 issue).
Columnist of the year - Victor Davis Hanson and Charles Krauthammer have written consistently intelligent articles, among others, but Daniel Pipes sober analysis of the ideology and agenda of militant Islam was in my opinion the most important commentary on the war against terror.
Site of the year - MEMRI's translations of Arab media, original analysis and research on developments in the Middle East proved to be an indispensible resource.
Benny Morris - Radical and politically incorrect Israeli historian who shocked the left with his controversial Haaretz interview in January.
Paul Johnson - A British historian with a clear-cut agenda - denouncing tyranny and defending freedom. His trenchant history of the 20:th century, "Modern Times", is a crusade against moral relativism and social engineering as the twin scourges of our time. (See also: "Historian Paul Johnson on American Liberty" (Liberty Haven/The Freeman, June 1996))
David Pryce-Jones - Historian, author of "The Closed Circle" and columnist for The Daily Telegraph, National Review and The New Criterion, among other publications.
Christopher Hitchens - Author and columnist for The Nation among other publications. While I don't agree with him on many things, he certainly is, with Rhys Southan's words, "a singularly insightful, provocative, and impossible-to-ignore critic of American politics and culture."
Michael Kelly - Editor of The Atlantic and columnist for The Washington Post. Always smart and often witty. His columns on pacifists are definitive.
Anne Bayefsky - Professor of Law at York University who specializes in international and human rights law. See also: "When Editing Is Censoring at the New York Times" (Andrea Levin, The Jerusalem Post, 2002/07/29), on how NYT revised an editorial by Bayefsky, in which she criticizes UN:s Human Rights system.
Ian Buruma - Author and Asia-expert who writes for The New York Review of Books, The New York Times Magazine and The Guardian, among other publications. Trenchant commentary with a global and historical perspective on current Western and Eastern worldviews.
Yossi Klein Halevi - Israel correspondent for The New Republic and a senior writer for The Jerusalem Report. Combining dispassionate clear-sightedness and passionate humanism in his dispatches on the situation in Israel.
David Brooks - Author and senior editor at The Weekly Standard. He is also a contributing editor at Newsweek and The Atlantic.
Bernard Lewis - Professor at Princeton and one of the world's preeminent experts on the Middle East. Not a columnist per se, but he writes articles for The Atlantic among other publications.
Stephen Schwartz - Author and columnist for The Weekly Standard among other publications. His main issues are the spread of Wahhabism and the "Saudi connection".
andrewsullivan.com - Andrew Sullivan is a former editor of The New Republic and columnist for The Sunday Times. His weblog is perhaps the most influential on the net.
Robert Kaplan - Not really a columnist, but rather a mix of a travel writer and a "Machiavellian" geopolitical analyst. Correspondent for The Atlantic. See also: "Robert Kaplan" (Laura Rozen, Salon.com, 2001/04/17)
Fouad Ajami - Professor of Middle East Studies at Johns Hopkins University as well as columnist for USNews and The Wall Street Journal among other publications. See also: "The media's favorite Arab expert" (Eric Boehlert, Buzzle.com, 2001/12/21).
Oriana Fallaci - The legendary journalist broke her decadelong silence after September 11 with the article "Anger and Pride". Vitriolic, personal and very politically incorrect.
Charles Krauthammer - Columnist for The Washington Post and weekly panelist on the TV talk show "Inside Washington". Meg Greenfield, former editorial page editor of The Washington Post, called Krauthammer's column "independent and hard to peg politically. It's a very tough column. There's no 'trendy' in it."
Victor Davis Hanson - Professor of Greek at California State University in Fresno, author and columnist for National Review and City Journal. Combining moral clarity with comprehensive historical knowledge.
Daniel Pipes - Middle East commentator, director of Middle East Forum and columnist for New York Post among other publications. Check out danielpipes.org, with articles, interviews etc.
Mark Steyn - Columnist for National Post, The Spectator and The Daily Telegraph. Very smart and very funny - and he writes not only on politics, but on arts and culture as well.
Friends of Democracy: Ground level election news from the people of Iraq "We have more than a dozen local Iraqi correspondents, at least one in each province, filing daily reports. ... The idea is to let Iraqis themselves tell their own story of their own first free election." - Michael J. Totten
Melanie Phillips's Diary - One of the new blogs of 2003 which instantly became a daily necessity. But then I have a soft spot for Iron Ladies and Melanie Phillips is as hard hitting as it gets.
Last of the Famous International Playboys - My fellow collaborator Douglas has at last started his own modestly named blog. Prepare for lots (hopefully) of interesting, well researched and thoughtful posts from a liberal perspective.
Jihad Watch - "Because the West is facing a concerted effort by radical Muslims, most of whom are ignored by the Western media, to destroy the West and bring it forcibly into the Islamic world. That effort goes under the general rubric of jihad."
Also: Dhimmi Watch.Iraqi Prospect Organisation - A network of young Iraqi men and women working to promote the establishment of democracy in Iraq. (See also: Jubilee Irag - "The Iraqi people should not have to pay Saddam's bills.")
IMRA - Middle East News & Analysis - Founded in 1992, by Aaron and Joseph Lerner, as an "ongoing analysis of developments in Arab-Israeli relations". A daily must with lots of interesting digests of media reports on the Middle East conflict.
Media Research Center - "Americas Medias Watchdog", which has tracked liberal bias and idiocies since 1987.
LUKEION - Inspired by Fredrik K. Norman's Norwegian Friends of America, Martin Lindeskog has started a new site, countering anti-Americanism from a Swedish perspective:
"It will be a moral defense of America. I have invited some of my friends to join this project, but I need more individuals to contribute with posts, links, news, etc. ...
Most of the text on the blog will be written in the Scandinavian languages, but we also welcome posts, links, etc., in English."
A daunting task, considering that Michael Moore is seen as a towering genius by most Swedish "intellectuals".Winds of Change.NET - With a team of excellent bloggers consisting of Joe Katzman, Muslimpundit, Armed Liberal, Celeste Bilby, Iraniangirl and Trent Telenko, it's just impossible to go wrong.
stephenpollard.net - Pollard is a columnist for The Sunday Telegraph, Wall Street Journal Europe and New Statesman, among other publications. On his site you'll find his articles and comments on current events.
DavidWarrenOnline - David Warren is a columnist for Ottawa Citizen and the site functions as an archive of his "Essays on our times".
Reason - A magazine of "free minds and free markets." Don't miss their newly launched weblog Hit & Run, with "continuous news, views, and abuse by the Reason staff."
Shark Blog - Trenchant commenting on current affairs, often with a surprising and provocative twist. Stefan Sharkansky's sharp, pinpoint reporting and modest proposals combine a killer instinct for revealing details with a Swiftian sense of satire.
where is raed - Here's how the weblog is described at Eatonweb Portal: "by salam :: i am in baghdad. he is in jordan. i talk. he ignores me. besides the world NEEDS more weblogs by arabs". Indeed.
The New Yorker - The online version is actually pure frustration, with no archive to speak of and no search function at all, which is a shame considering its huge potential. With seminal reporting from Jeffrey Goldberg and Seymour M. Hersh, among others.
See also "The Attacks", an archive of the magazine's coverage of the terrorist attacks and their aftermath.Campus Watch - A project of the Middle East Forum "focusing on the academy's handling of Middle Eastern and Islamic issues". See also: "Balancing the Academy" (Stanley Kurtz, National Review, 2002/09/23).
Little Green Footballs - Charles Johnson's weblog is simply unmissable for anyone interested in anti-Idiotarianism. Sort of like the Mark Steyn of blogging, plus an impressive amount of interesting reader comments.
Propositions - The quarterly letter of the Institute for American Values. With "What We're Fighting For: A Letter from America" and responses. See also: "The U.S.-German Conversation" (Claudia Winkler, The Weekly Standard, 2002/08/15).
Tal G. in Jerusalem - Blogging at it's best. Daily updated with intelligent commentary from a personal perspective. Highly recommended for anyone interested in the Middle East conflict.
Dhimmis and Dhimmitude - Bat Ye'or studies the history and treatment of non-Muslims under Islam and this site provides information about her books and articles. See also: "The Myth of Islamic Tolerance" (Michael Cromartie, ChristianityToday, Sep/Oct 1998).
Ivory Towers on Sand - Covering Martin Kramer's book on "the failure of Middle Eastern Studies in America." Lots of links to press and reviews. The full third chapter, "Islam Obscured", is also available online. [UPDATE: Martin Kramer has recently started a personal website, www.martinkramer.org, which also has a weblog called Sandstorm.]
TerrorPetition.com - HonestReporting's petition to call on the media "to label Palestinian suicide bombers as 'terrorists'". BBC's and Reuters policies are to name Palestinian terrorists "militants" or "activists".
Rantburg - Found it via Lake Effect. Fred Pruitt's daily warblog has lots of info, often from unconventional sources, as well as distinctive sarcastic comments.
The Weekly Standard - The most important conservative magazine in the U.S., with an editorial staff including William Kristol, Fred Barnes, David Brooks and more. Also with a daily webversion - The Daily Standard.
Jewish World Review - With columns by Barbara Amiel, Jonah Goldberg, Michael Kelly, Charles Krauthammer, Daniel Pipes and Mark Steyn, among others, it's pretty hard to beat.
FrontPageMagazine - The Center for the Study of the Popular Culture’s online magazine, created by David Horowitz. Daily bulletins, columns and more.
The Spectator - "The oldest continously published magazine in the English language". Great articles and commentary, for example by one of my favourite columnists, Mark Steyn.
InstaPundit - Glenn Reynold's excellent site with links to interesting articles and intelligent commentary. "The New York Times of Bloggers", according to PRAVDA.
The Washington Post - With distinguished commentators such as Charles Krauthammer and Michael Kelly as well as Pulitzer-quality coverage on the war on terror.The Atlantic With Michael Kelly as editor The Atlantic once again lives up to it's name. Interesting presentation of archived articles on Islam and terrorism as well as new articles. It's also pretty cool to have had Charles Dickens as a contributor.
Palestinian Media Watch Covering Palestinian media and culture, with studies, special reports and more. Also a section on "Terror in the Heart of America", with reactions from Palestinian media. (Note: Some studies and reports are only available by subscription. To subscribe to PMW's reports send an empty e-mail to
reports-subscribe@pmw.org.il)
Foreign Affairs "The magazine of the Council of Foreign Relations." Articles by Samuel P. Huntington, Fouad Ajami and more.
ADL Anti-Defamation League "Fighting Anti-Semitism, Bigotry and Extremism Since 1913" An excellent resource, with sections on anti-Semitism, extremism, hate crimes etc.
National Review "America's Premiere Conservative Website". Perhaps the best commentary on the war against terror. Victor Davis Hanson, Stephen Schwartz and more. And don't miss The Corner.
The Wall Street Journal The online version of the Wall Street Journal Editorial Page with the unmissable Best of the Web Today.
danielpipes.org Daniel Pipes is a Middle East commentator and also the director of Middle East Forum. Articles, interviews, book reviews etc.
Newgrounds Presents Osama Bin Laden Newgrounds Osama-section, with loads of Flash-movies and games. Mike Overbeck's Diplomacy is a must see.
MEMRI - The Middle East Media & Research Institute Translations of Arab media, original analysis and research on developments in the Middle East. An indispensible resource.
MEMRI Video - Subtitled streaming videos compiled by the indispensible MEMRI. With chilling glimpses of the virulent anti-Semitism aired on the Arabic satellite station IQRAA TV - for example an interview with Basmallah, a 3 year old girl:
Host: Basmallah, are you familiar with the Jews?
Basmallah: Yes.
Host: Do you like them?
Basmallah: No.
Host: Why don't you like them?
Basmallah: Because...
Host: Because they are what?
Basmallah: They're apes and pigs."Koran and Country" (BBC Panorama, 2001/10/14)
An excellent documentary about sentiments in the Muslim community in Birmingham on the war against terror. Read the transcript or watch it online.Television Archive Watch Television news coverage from around the world September 11-17: Good Morning America, BBC, CNN, Iraq Satellite Channel etc.
"Jihad in America" Steve Emerson's award-winning and controversial documentary from 1995 about Islamist terrorists in America. Watch it online via Jewish World Review.
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"Narcissism on Stilts" (Harold Evans, New York Sun, 2006/11/16)
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Oriana Fallaci, R.I.P.
"The Rage, the Pride and the Doubt" (Oriana Fallaci, The Wall Street Journal, 2003/03/13)
"How the West Was Won and How It Will Be Lost" (Oriana Fallaci, The American Enterprise, from the January/February 2003 issue)
"On Jew-hatred in Europe" (Oriana Fallaci, dennisprager.com, 2002/04/13)
"Anger and Pride" (Oriana Fallaci, dennisprager.com, 2001/12/19)
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