I turned to a report in Minda News, the web site of the Mindanao News and Information Cooperative Center, for a description of an East-West Center seminar for journalists. Terms like ‘Islamist’, ‘jihadist’, talib, Muslims, and other words, which describe the Islamic faith are, most of the times, “abused and misused†by Western media, a [...]
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The UH Manoa student newspaper, Ka Leo O Hawaii, is still missing its web site. This is the greeting for current visitors to the site: The site initially disappeared when a dispute over possible censorship stalled contract talks with the company providing the newspaper’s online system, a subsidiary of media giant Viacom. When I wrote [...]
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Hawaii Congressman Neil Abercrombie seems to be getting a lot of traction in Washington since Democrats returned to power in the House. Last week, Abercrombie’s subcommittee took an ax to former Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld’s Future Combat Systems initiative, slicing a quarter out of the program’s budget request, according to the Washington Post. Abercrombie, [...]
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Ms. Opu, one of our morning dog regulars for years, died last month as a result of kidney, liver, and pancreatic organ failure. Although she was an elderly dog at 13 years, she went into a steep decline and, in just a couple of weeks, went from apparently healthy to passing away. Just after she [...]
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