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Vicissitudes of Syria War Reporting

by Barbara Nimri Aziz. December 7, 2021 It’s long past time for a reckoning by Washington on its disastrous  policy in Syria. Instead of addressing the scope and…

Morality Plays: Entertainers Draw the Line

By B Nimri Aziz Have you noticed: moral issues are no longer the domain of clerics and philosophers? Not politicians either. Our ethics, however capricious they’ve become, evolve…

Yesterday, September 12, 2001, Revisited

September 11, 2021, By B Nimri Aziz Again, I’m turning off all media and staying home. I have my own memories, and my own intelligence– not just of…

Syria Shows Its Mettle– Olympians Ghada Shouaa to Hend Zaza

by B. Nimri Aziz July 29/2021 Congratulations to Syrian table tennis Olympian Hend Zaza. Most press attention to Zaza’s Tokyo presence is her age. Not only has she…

Activist Oprah Winfrey vs Professor Noam Chomsky

July 16, 2021 by BNimri Aziz Oprah vs Noam Chomsky. Isn’t there room for both in progressive American culture? The idea of celebrities being involved in social issues…

Satellite Broadcasting

MAY 31, 2005, Toward Freedom “One thing about our part of the world,” said an Iraqi professor enthusiastically; “it’s always changing. We don’t usually know what is going…

“It’s Only a Car!”

OCTOBER 27, 2016, Counterpunch.org CarTalk, in my view, is the most engaging program on US radio, on radio anywhere. A weekly one hour show, it’s been airing every…

The Power of Our Human Voice: From Marconi to Woods Hole

JULY 15, 2019, Counterpunch.org Heard “Trader Joe’s” podcast yet? I don’t know who would listen to a 22-minute corporate ad. But, given how cool podcasts have become: hey,…