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Posts Tagged ‘bias’

M. Shahid Alam – How Eurocentric Is Your Day?

By Guest Post • Nov 10th, 2009 • Category: Culture and Heritage, Education, Features, Maps, Somoud: Arab Voices of Resistance

At the outset of the classes I teach, I always address the question of bias in the social sciences. In one course – on the history of the global economy – this is the central theme. It critiques Eurocentric biases in several leading Western accounts of the rise of the global economy.
This fall, I began [...]



Israel Violated Cease-fire 7 Times, No Media Reports

By Haitham Sabbah • Jan 28th, 2009 • Category: Action Alert, Haitham's Choice, Israel, Newswire, Palestine, War, Zionism

US Media Misreport Latest Gaza Violence
Please phone and ask for correction!
[A FLYER about this can be downloaded at: www.IfAmericansKnew.org/download/gazacfv.pdf ]
American media are reporting violence that took place along the Gaza-Israel border on January 27th as, in the words of CNN, "the first incidents of violence since last week's Mideast cease-fire," telling the public that Palestinians [...]