Middle East/Africa

  Herland Report: Da forfatter, filmskaper og fritenker, Walid al-Kubaisi gikk bort, var det få som visste at han tok kontakt med Herland Report teamet og ønsket at vi tok opp programmer med ham der han oppsummerte sine tanker etter et langt liv i Norge og Midtøsten. Walid al-Kubaisi ønsket å samtale om islam, innvandringsdebatten, Jesus, ateisme og Midtøsten på …

  The Herland Report TV: We are honored to have produced several TV shows with former research professor at PRIO, Dr. Ola Tunander, who is an expert on Libya and How media lies destroyed Libya. Watch it here: “There were nobody in Norway that were against the military engagement in the Parliament. This was very different from Vietnam and Iraq …

  Herland Report: We recently sat down with Dr. Gerald Steinberg, discussing foreign aid a form of drug addiction, the politization of Foreign Aid, as billions are funneled to “poor countries” but never seem to reach the poor. The same countries that receive billions of dollars, tend to remain poor regardless of however much is given. The current culture of …

  Herland Report TV: Hanne Herland speaks to Dr. Gerald Steinberg about the failures of the Arab spring. “It is a huge mistake to think that whatever your Western country went through a hundred years ago, is the same process that is taking place in Egypt, Syria or Iraq,” says Dr. Gerald Steinberg, political scientist and professor at Bar-Ilan University …

  Kari Jaquesson: Vi snakker med Norges fitness coach-dronning og TV personlighet, Kari Jaquesson om Syria og Libya og krigene i Midtøsten. Hva skjer bak medienes fasader? Hvorfor stiller flere og flere seg kritisk til den amerikanske narrativen og virkelighetsoppfatningen? Og hvorfor får vi bare presentert synsvinkelen til de ultrarike i USA? Jaquesson hevder at vi er utsatt for grov …

  Herland Report: Many, and especially today, are fearful of breaking out of the safe spot – the “politically correct” sphere – and stand up for what they believe in. If they do, the risk for public punishment is high, alienation, slander in the media and so on.  We proudly present an interview with Norwegian TV star, Kari Jaquesson, who …

  Herland Report: Chief editor Tommy Hansen was a Danish, Berlin based journalist, founder of free21.org, a news site that hosts close to 200 journalists’ work in Europe. In this interview with The Herland Report, he speaks about the US’ establishment’s seemingly endless wars as a multi billion dollar business. It never ends because it is a neo-con elite paradise …

  There is a dream for many in so-called third world countries, that the Western form of democracy will lead to “free and fair elections in Libya,” also in the traditionally more authoritarian ruler region. They hope that the Western system will bring development and civil liberties to their population. This is, of course, a very naive perseption. Africa should …

  Why would the center of illiberalism, religious fanaticism, and misogyny ever sponsor the center of liberalism, secularism, and gender equality? This is the question that crops up when one considers the largesse that human-rights-abusing Saudi Arabia bestows on the leading universities — those putative bastions of progressive, free thinking — in the United States, writes Raymond Ibrahim, Middle East …

  Herland Report: The current instability in Algeria, Sudan and Libya has led to some excited western media coverage heralding a second chapter of the Arab Spring. Those celebrating should be careful what they wish for. new civil war Libya. The Arab uprisings of 2010-11 and the subsequent years began with great hope but with the partial exception of Tunisia, …