Links via Diigo (weekly)

• Covering Pakistan: How Journalists and Experts Reproduce Empire | Left Turn - Notes from the Global Intifada

  "Knowledge production, in other words, is never disinterested. It opens particular options while foreclosing others. In Pakistan’s case, journalists and analysts regularly elide the links among US foreign policy, the policies of successive Pakistani governments to use religion for political ends, and the hold of the Pakistani Army over the country. This offers only the most unsophisticated of explanations for the country’s ills—and pitiless, vulgar solutions."

  tags: pakistan media imperialism

• Tension grows between Calif. Muslims, FBI after informant infiltrates mosque

  The latest in this bizarre saga of the FBI spying on Muslims in Southern California and elsewhere in the US.

  tags: islamophobia

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