The unusual thing here is the two police killed. The Yemeni government has been killing its citizens during Southern protests since 2007. Hundreds are in jail including several journalists and opposition politicians. Scores have been killed during the demonstrations. The LNG that is coming on line is in the south [...]
No, sorry. Its not just extremely tacky; its a security risk. The Yemeni gov’t was crowing when she came to the YO as a pro-government female American journalist. I recall it quite well and the older stories of another high level western official caught up in a complicated and highly [...]
The Twenty-Fourth Sit-In to Demand the Release of Alayyam Newspaper and Journalist Mohamed Almaqaleh and journalists Alsaglade and Rashid
On Tuesday 17/11/2009 hundreds of lawyers, politicians , journalists and relatives of kidnapped and forced hidden people, sit in the twenty-fourth protest in Freedom Square [...]
Yemeni journalist Abdulelah Shaea interviewed proponent of violent jihad and blogger, Yemeni-American Anwar Awlaki about his relationship with Nidal Hasan who carried out the random murder spree at Fort Hood in Texas. On behalf of the Washington Post, Shaea traveled to Anwar’s home in Shabwa governorate. (The Yemeni [...]
Via KJ, this look at the Army during WWII is well worth reading in its own right. But I found an excerpt at the end especially moving. Some of you may have seen it before, but it's journalist Ernie Pyle's account of the retrieval of Captain Waskow:
“I was [...]Keith Olbermann. But then you already knew that, didn't you?
And shame on MSNBC for continuing to give this pitiful excuse for a journalist air space.
On the other hand, full marks for Tommy Christopher for having the guts to call him out. A class act, all the way. I've been [...]
News Yemen: The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) today condemned the conviction of Sameer Jubran, chief editor of weekly Al-Masdar, and Muneer Al-Maweeri, Washington based journalist, for insulting the President of Yemen in an article published by Al-Masdar in 2008.
Sameer Jubran was handed a one year suspended [...]
An Afghan security man, unseen, shows a photo of 'the believed suicide attackers' reportedly killed at the site of an attack on his cell phone to a journalist in Kabul, Afghanistan on Wednesday, Oct. 28, 2009. Gunmen attacked a guest house used by U.N. staff in the Afghan [...]
In 2005 a young journalist wrote a moving essay for the Wall Street Journal:
It's a cliché that you appreciate your own country more when you live abroad, but it happens to be true....living in China ... shows you what a nondemocratic country can do to its citizens. I've' [...]
