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That Great Satan Iran 04-22-09

That Great Satan Iran 04-22-09

 

 

 

 

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Ray Hanania’s World Comic Strips 04-22-09
That Great Satan Iran and the hypocrisy of the mainstream American news media and public when it comes to what is right and what is wrong in the world. We’ll blast Iran and its President Ahmadinejad but we are silent when the same actions are taken in Israel or in the U.S. War in Iraq.

April 22, 2009 Posted by Ray Hanania | Ray Hanania | , , , , , , , , | No Comments Yet

HANANIA: Obama names new communications team, no Arabs, FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE, 02-24-09

President Obama names new communications team – no Arabs included
By Ray Hanania – It’s hard to fight anti-Arab and anti-Muslim bias in the mainstream news media, let alone in mainstream society, if no one wants to help. Being Arab is a double-edged scimitar. Everyone knows you are a problem from all the media coverage given to the Middle East, terrorism, narrow and usually racist stereotypes, but few Americans turn to you to ask for help. So the problems never get resolved. They only are exacerbated by the continuing ignorance and lack of education. Read more »

February 24, 2009 Posted by Ray Hanania | Ray Hanania | , , , , , | No Comments Yet

HANANIA: UNITY misses their own purpose, FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE, JULY 10, 2008

What Arab American journalists seek from “UNITY”
By Ray Hanania –
Arab American journalists just want to focus on being professional journalists, but the profession won’t let us. Soon, UNITY: Journalists of Color will be convening in Chicago for their quadrennial convention. UNITY is a great idea in concept, but it still has a long way to go to reach the ideal. Read more »

July 10, 2008 Posted by Ray Hanania | Ray Hanania | , , , , , , , , , , | No Comments Yet

HANANIA: In Memorial to Aziz Shihab, a great journalist and colleague, For Immediate Release, 12-19-07

A memorial to a great Arab American Journalist, Aziz Shihab
By Ray Hanania – Aziz Shihab died on October 22, 2007. His death was noted in his local paper in Dallas, Texas. But not too many people really took notice. And that is a shame. Many people of my generation were aware of his long history of writing and journalism. Given how dysfunctional the Arab American network of communications is in this country, I just learned about it, too. So little published about such a great man. He deserves so much more. Read more »

December 19, 2007 Posted by Ray Hanania | Ray Hanania | , , , , , , , , | No Comments Yet

HANANIA: Arab-Israeli government restrictions on journalism promotes hate, For Immediate Release, 12-12-07

Arab-Israeli government restrictions on journalism promote hate
By Ray Hanania –
Last June while performing with the Israeli-Palestinian Comedy Tour, which included two Israeli comedians and a Jewish American comic, we were approached by a popular Lebanese newspaper to do an interview. The reporter of the publication interviewed me, a Palestinian. I suggested she might interview one of the three other performers, Israelis Charley Warady or Yisrael Campbell, or even Aaron Freeman, an African American Jewish comedian well known in the United States. The reporter was somewhat apologetic but frank, explaining to me, “It is illegal for me to interview an Israeli. I would go to jail.” Read more »

December 12, 2007 Posted by Ray Hanania | Ray Hanania | , , , , , , , , | No Comments Yet

CARTOON: Anti-Semitism, to racism to Americanism, For Immediate Release 11-18-07

War on Errorism Cartoon, Nov. 18, 2007. Hamas, Don Imus, Michael Savage

War on Errorism, Nov. 18, 2007. The hypocrisy of the American mainstream news media. Some kinds of racism and bigotry are bad. And some forms of racism are just another form of Americanism. When Don Imus slanders African Americans, it’s a media felony. When Michael Savage blasts Muslims, it’s just free speech. Ray Hanania

November 18, 2007 Posted by Ray Hanania | Cartoons | , , , , , , , , , , | No Comments Yet

HANANIA: The Assault against the Arab/Islamic media, For Immediate Release, 11-10-07

The assault against the Arab media

By Ray Hanania – We often compare the Iraq War to the Vietnam War. Slowly, maybe too slowly, many Americans have come to accept the comparisons based on government lying, military efforts to silence the media, and persistent stories of American soldiers committing war crimes.  A key player in defining this new reality is the news media. During the Vietnam War, the mainstream American media helped show Americans the truth about the Vietnam War. Tragically, the media covering the Iraq War is far from the noble or principled media that exposed Vietnam War atrocities and crimes. Read more »

November 10, 2007 Posted by Ray Hanania | Ray Hanania | , , , , , , , , , | No Comments Yet