Gen David Petraeus: US online psychological operations are aimed at’countering extremist ideology and propaganda’. AP Revealed: US spy operation that manipulates social media Military’s ‘sock puppet’ software creates fake online identities to spread pro-American propaganda Jeff Jarvis: Washington shows the morals of a clumsy spammer Nick Fielding and Ian Cobain …

Munther Fahmi, The Bookshop owner A FIXTURE OF JERUSALEM LITERARY LIFE, THREATENED WITH DEPORTATION by Mary Hawthorne The other day, I received an unusual petition, addressed to the interior minister of Israel (Eli Yishai, who is also the head of Israel’s ultra-Orthodox Shas Party), in behalf of a man named …

The single demand that can unite the Palestinian people Only direct elections can rejuvenate the Palestinian liberation movement by taking power from the few back to the many By Karma Nabulsi After another week of breathtaking demonstrations from Jordan to Yemen heralding dramatic revolutionary change, in occupied Palestine things appear …