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Media Circus: Gaza edition

Media Circus: Gaza edition

By tigtog on November 19, 2012

What has piqued your sociopolitical media interests lately? Please share your bouquets and brickbats.

Posted in culture wars, media, parties and factions, violence | Tagged media circus, Middle East, terrorism, war | 29 Responses

Media Circus: Fauxpology Edition

Media Circus: Fauxpology Edition

By tigtog on October 1, 2012

A certain oxygen thief is a national disgrace, . As usual for media circus threads, please share your bouquets and brickbats for particular items in the mass media, or highlight cogent analysis elsewhere, on any current sociopolitical issue.

Posted in media, parties and factions, Politics, social justice | Tagged asylum-seekers, fauxpologies, media circus, Middle East | 58 Responses

Liberate - Libya, Bahrain, Yemen, Iran, Algeria, Tunisia, Egypt

LIBERATE

By tigtog on February 24, 2011

Things are moving so fast around Northern Africa and the Middle East right now. History in the making.

Update: I’m designating this as an open thread on the uprisings and the attempts to suppress them.

Posted in crisis, history | Tagged authoritarianism, civil disobedience, civil war, disasters, Middle East, social change | 14 Responses

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