SHORTPOD (22): WHAT'S REALLY GOING ON IN GAZA

Affirmative Right Chief Editor Colin Liddell talks briefly about his new book Interviews & Obituaries before moving on the situation in Gaza. Here Hamas have been engaged in mass protests, which Liddell contends are aimed at undermining their Palestinian rivals Fatah as much as they are designed to attack the moral capital that Israel needs to survive.

THE ONE-EYED 'OMNISCIENCE' OF WESTERN CONSCIOUSNESS

The Western media: Panoptica of veracity or jittery claymation?

by Daniel Spaulding

With yet another bout of violence erupting between the Israelis and Palestinians in Gaza the world is once again being subjected to massive amounts of propaganda, political rhetoric, and sentimental pleading by each side in a perpetual effort to rally popular opinion to their cause. More often than not the propaganda from both sides reaches hysterical and preposterous proportions.