Sunday, January 30, 2011

Right Here, Right Now

Despite the fact that Al Jezeera has been booted out of Egypt and most U.S. access to Al Jazeera is in question:
"American viewers, meanwhile, have little choice but to wait until one of the U.S. cable-company-approved networks broadcasts footage from AJE, which the company makes publicly available. What they can't do is watch the network directly."
...there are nevertheless ways to access Al Jazeera content streaming live in English should one wish to.  Raj has been glued to it all day: http://english.aljazeera.net/watch_now/.  
What has happened in Tunisia, and what is happening in Egypt are world events akin in key ways to the taking down of the Berlin Wall. Al Jazeera offers valuable alternate perspectives on rapidly moving events in Egypt, Tunisia, and the Middle East...