Brian Whitaker

April 25, 2013

Guardian removes claim about Iran’s nuclear “weapons” program from ‘the pages of time’

If you go to the Guardian’s business page you’ll see a report by Rupert Neate about a Br...

September 13, 2012

Guardian Live Blog on Middle East riots legitimizes Arab op-ed advancing conspiracy theory

The Guardian’s September 13th Live Blog on the current violence in Middle East – edited ...

July 31, 2012

“Bad taste” & “Wrong on so many levels” – Guardian’s ‘Comment is Free’

Cross posted by Mark Gardner at the CST Few things are guaranteed to upset the Guardian like a US Re...

July 18, 2012

The Canary In The Guardian’s Coalmine

The following is cross posted by Alan A at Harry’s Place When a country is in trouble, it look...

July 17, 2012

CiF Watch Schadenfreude Alert: Brian Whitaker taunts the Guardian on Twitter

The fallout from Charlie Skelton’s ‘Comment is Free’ essay The Syrian opposition:...

July 15, 2012

A Guardian-Baathist Alliance? Syrian gov’t uses CiF essay for pro-regime propaganda

H/T Harry’s Place On July 12th, ‘Comment is Free’ published an essay by Charlie Sk...

April 14, 2012

Jenin. Ten Years Since Something That Never Happened: A Learning Moment for the Guardian

[While I read the Guardian everyday now, I wasn’t so “privileged” back during the...

February 26, 2012

Tweeting for Khader: Octavia Nasr’s latest terrorist crush

Following the death of the Lebanese Grand Ayatollah Mohammed Hussein Fadlallah, one of the origina...

January 16, 2012

Guardian’s Simon Tisdall fears Romney’s belligerence (& Israel’s obsessive fears) may push U.S. to war

His moral instincts are so refined, so sophisticated, and so unburdened by conventional thinking tha...

January 11, 2012

What do Mitt Romney and Yusuf al-Qaradawi have in common? Ask the Guardian’s Brian Whitaker

Brian Whitaker has had many assignments during his nearly twenty-five year career at the Guardian, i...