Higgins is one of the best investigative foreign correspondents around. This is a penetrating look at the underbelly of modern Afghanistan, propped up by the US and NATO
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Leonard Doyle
Member (since January 2010)
Long time foreign correspondent and foreign editor of The Independent. Founder of UNFree Media (unfreemedia.com), which provides a venue for censored journalists, bloggers, documentary makers and others to publish freely. At a time when big media companies have sharply reduced their foreign reporting budgets, these top flight communicators are becoming a new breed of foreign correspondent.
About Leonard
Occupation:
founder/editor, UNFree Media
Interests:
freedom of expression, independent media, foreign news
Expertise:
foreign news
Affiliations:
Amnesty International, Committee to Protect Journalists, International PEN,
Background
Journalism:
More than 20 years
Education:
Post-graduate school
News:
90 minutes a day or more
Internet:
90 minutes a day or more
Languages:
French
Politics:
Neutral viewpoint
Income:
Decline to state
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www.unfreemedia.com
Last Visit:
May 6, 2010 - 1:31 PM PDT
Last Edit:
Feb 22, 2010 - 3:45 PM PST
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Leonard posted and reviewed and starred this story - Feb 22, 2010
Leonard posted and reviewed and starred this story - Feb 22, 2010
Leonard posted and reviewed and starred this story - Feb 21, 2010
Leonard reviewed and starred this story - Feb 15, 2010
Borzou Daragahi's reporting is always spot on. This is a vivid tale of the hell that the Iranian opposition prisoners are going through.
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Leonard reviewed and starred this story - Feb 14, 2010
Leonard posted and reviewed and starred this story - Feb 14, 2010
This excellent New York Times investigation nails many of the assertions first raised by Matt Taibbi in his excellent Rolling Stone cover last year http://tinyurl.com/nh57wt And contrary to the tendentious waffle in Saturday's Wall Street Journal http://tinyurl.com/ybj7r9r : "Financial markets are telling us the euro zone is under threat, but the real message is much broader: Unsustainable debt dynamics can undermine us all." reveals that it was the top banana of the financial markets, Goldman Sachs, that foisted the debt trap on the Greeks in thefirts place as a way to get the country past the 3% deficit rules to join the Euro.
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Leonard posted and reviewed and starred this story - Feb 14, 2010
Leonard posted and reviewed and starred this story - Feb 13, 2010
Leonard reviewed this story - Feb 12, 2010
Dispassionate account of the growing tragedy in Iran. A must read for anyone concerned with freedom of information
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Leonard posted and reviewed and starred this story - Feb 7, 2010
Clear, comprehensive and insightful account of the rise and rise of Facebook disguised as a review of two books: The Accidental Billionaires: The Founding of Facebook, and Stealing MySpace: The Battle to Control the Most Popular Website in America. Petersen devotes much of his lengthy review to the class basis of Facebook's early success: ' To join Facebook, you needed a college e-mail address; for everyone else—once Friendster, for various reasons, became less popular—there was MySpace. The result, as David Brooks observed in 2006, was a "huge class distinction between the people on Facebook and the much larger and less educated population that uses MySpace." The importance of class was also evident in the sites' ... More »
MySpace’s more permissive atmosphere and working-class aesthetic help explain why Rupert Murdoch paid $580 million for the site in 2005. The surprise came when ... More »
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Leonard posted and reviewed and starred this story - Feb 7, 2010
Leonard posted and reviewed and starred this story - Feb 7, 2010
Clear, comprehensive and insightful account of the rise and rise of Facebook disguised as a review of two books: The Accidental Billionaires: The Founding of Facebook, and Stealing MySpace: The Battle to Control the Most Popular Website in America. Petersen devotes much of his lengthy review to the class basis of Facebook's early success: ' To join Facebook, you needed a college e-mail address; for everyone else—once Friendster, for various reasons, became less popular—there was MySpace. The result, as David Brooks observed in 2006, was a "huge class distinction between the people on Facebook and the much larger and less educated population that uses MySpace." The importance of class was also evident in the sites' ... More »
MySpace’s more permissive atmosphere and working-class aesthetic help explain why Rupert Murdoch paid $580 million for the site in 2005. The surprise came when ... More »
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Leonard posted and reviewed and starred this story - Feb 4, 2010
Leonard reviewed this story - Jan 11, 2010
Its a boilerplate BBC file and weasel-worded on the question of potential war crimes due the collective punishment of Gaza civilians. The BBC reports the charities call for more pressure to be exerted on Israel 'to end what they describe as its illegal collective punishment of Gazans.' But for all the BBC's vast reporting assets, it seems not to have insights on this important issue.
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Leonard reviewed this story - Jan 10, 2010
Beaumont is a first rate war correspondent. Although this piece is written from London, he knows the terrain and has excellent sources, some of whom he quotes in this piece
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