USA TODAY Hot Sites: Electronic Iraq
Website Review, USA TODAY (Nov 16, 2004)
Follow the news, no matter where it takes you: This journal, begun before the most recent war, includes on-the-scene reportage and commentary from that tortured nation. Brought to the Net by the folks at Electronic Intifada and Voices in the Wilderness, the stories here document a side of the conflict that’s hard to take, but necessary if you hope to understand events half a world away.
U. Hawaii professor advocates diverse media sources
Toya Webb, Ka Leo O Hawaii via U-Wire (Oct 27, 2004)
Ibrahim G. Aoude, a professor of ethnic studies at the University of Hawai'i at Manoa, said Americans should not limit themselves to using U.S. media alone to get informed on issues. Aoude recommends electronicIraq.net, which features articles that are usually not found on many U.S. mainstream Web sites. Currently, electroniciraq.net has an article that tells about an Iraqi's brutal experience with American forces. According to the article, the 24- year-old was mistreated by U.S. soldiers when they broke into his family's home and cracked his nose with a gun barrel.
Electronic Iraq co-founder Laurie King-Irani is one of nearly forty authors featured in a new book, Patriotism, Democracy and Common Sense: Restoring America's Promise at Home and Abroad, published by the Milton S. Eisenhower Foundation of Washington, DC. The book aims to educate Americans about alternatives to current US foreign, economic, Middle East, domestic, media, campaign finance, and voting rights policies. King-Irani's chapter, "Awakening the American Political Debate on Palestine and Israel," examines the role of the internet in building networks of citizen-activists to confront two of the most pressing issues of US foreign policy: the ongoing Israeli occupation of Palestinian land and US violations of international law in Iraq.
Mainstream Media Scooped On Prison Story
Liz Halloran, Hartford Courant (May 14, 2004)
The nation and much of the mainstream U.S. media were stunned by the recent revelations of abuse of Iraqi detainees by U.S. military personnel at the Abu Ghraib prison. But for Dahr Jamail, the disclosures were no surprise. Jamail, a free-lance writer from Alaska, for months has been interviewing Iraqis who say they have been abused by U.S. forces and telling their stories in dispatches on alternative news Internet sites, in reports for Pacifica Radio "Flashpoints" and even on noncommercial radio station WHUS in Storrs. [...] During his first trip in 2003, he wrote reports for electroniciraq.net and other anti-war alternative sites, including a story of a former prisoner who had electrocution burns on his feet and head and was in a coma when U.S. forces released him.
Iraq prison scandal at its most graphic
Leslie Walker, Washington Post (May 9, 2004)
Photos of Iraqi prisoners being humiliated by U.S. soldiers popped up all over the Web last week as the Internet once again proved to be the place millions of people turned to get the scoop on a big story. Among the many activist sites covering the escalating prisoner scandal were ElectronicIraq (electroniciraq.net) and AlterNet.org (www.alternet.org).
Pressed by the United States, the United Nations will send an electoral team to assess the feasibility of holding nation-wide elections in Iraq before the end of June. But some observers doubt the world body will be able to present an unbiased perspective of the view on the ground, because of U.S. opposition to the proposed vote. Ali Abunimah, a co-founder of the online website 'Electronic Iraq', told IPS it is reasonable to assume the Bush administration is afraid of the ''wrong people'' being elected. Inter Press Service reports.
Doubts grow as U.N. readies Iraq elections team
Thalif Deen, Inter Press Service (Feb 3, 2004)
Pressed by the United States, the United Nations will soon send a team of experts to assess the feasibility of holding nation-wide elections in Iraq before the end of June. Ali Abunimah, a co-founder of the online website 'Electronic Iraq', told IPS it is reasonable to assume the Bush administration is afraid of the "wrong people" being elected. "We can only guess at U.S. motives, but it is very ironic that Bush went to war supposedly to bring democracy to the Iraqi people, and now hundreds and thousands of Iraqis are marching for elections that the United States does not want to have," he added.
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