Geo Fish

Tag: Why It Matters

  • Stop pretending the US is an uninvolved, helpless party in the Israeli assault on Gaza

    The Obama administration’s unstinting financial, military and diplomatic support for Israel is a key enabling force in the conflict A Palestinian man carries a wounded child at a hospital following an Israeli air raid in Beit Lahia in the northern Gaza Strip, on November 17, 2012. Photograph: Moiz Salhi/AFP/Getty Images A central premise of US…

  • Turkey Censorship and Why It Matters

    November 10, 2012 Nearly two years ago, Soner Yalcin and more than a dozen of his employees at the online news outlet OdaTV joined the growing list of incarcerated Turkish journalists. Yalcin, the owner of OdaTV, is one of the sharpest critics of Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s government. As their trial proceedings dragged on,…