Articles

Articles in scholarly journals

“Framing Islam: The Resurgence of Orientalism during the Bush II Era, Journal of Communication Inquiry, No. 34, vol. 3, 2010.

Jihad Jane: Constructing the New Muslim Enemy, Fifth Estate Online, International Journal of Radical Mass Media Criticism, April, 2010.

“Heroes, Victims, and Veils: Women’s Liberation and the Rhetoric of Empire Post 9/11,” Forum on Public Policy (journal of the Oxford Roundtable), 2008. 

“A New Era?: The 2008 Elections, Public Opinion, and the Mass Media,” Fifth Estate Online, International Journal of Radical Mass Media Criticism, November, 2008.

"Media, War, and Propaganda: Strategies of Information Management during the 2003 Iraq War," Communication and Critical/Cultural Studies, Vol. 3, no. 1, March, 2006.

Unveiling Imperialism: Media, Gender, and the War on Afghanistan,” Media, Culture and Society, with Carol Stabile, Vol. 27, no. 5, September, 2005.

‘What’s Good for UPS is Good For America’: Nation and Class in Network Television News Coverage of the UPS Strike,” Television and New Media, Vol. 6, No. 2, May, 2005.

War Propaganda and the (Ab)uses of Women: Media Constructions of the Jessica Lynch Story,” Feminist Media Studies, Vol. 4, No. 3, November, 2004.

“Mass Media, Class and Democracy: The Struggle Over Newspaper Representation of the UPS Strike,” Critical Studies in Media Communication, Vol. 18, No. 3, September 2001, pp. 285-302.

Essays in anthologies

 “Media, Culture, and Society: The Relevance of Marx’s Dialectical Method,” translated into Portuguese, for the online Brazilian journal Sinal De Minos, October, 2009.

 “Media, War, and Propaganda: Strategies of Information Management during the 2003 Iraq War,” translated into Chinese and reprinted in Wenfa He (ed.), From Arrogance to Politeness, Images of China Reflected on Foreign Mainstream Media, Press of Communication, University of China, 2009.

 “Unveiling Imperialism: Media, Gender, and the War on Afghanistan,” with Carol Stabile, journal article reprinted in Paul James (ed) Globalization and Culture, Sage, 2009.

“Corporate Media, Globalization, and the Working Class: The Struggle for Hegemony during the 1997 UPS Strike” in Catherine McKercher and Vincent Mosco (Eds.) Knowledge Workers in the Information Society. Lexington Books, 2007.

“Media, Culture, and Society: The Relevance of Marx’s Dialectical Method,” in Lee Artz, Steve Macek and Dana Cloud (Eds.) Marxism and Communication Studies: The Point is to Change It. Peter Lang, 2006.

“Media, Class, and Power: Debunking the Myth of a Classless Society” lead essay in Don Heider (Ed.) Class and News. Rowman and Littlefield, 2004.

Articles in alternative media 

The NYPD: Islamophobes in Blue (with Danny Lucia)
Truthout.org, Feb 13, 2012.

Political Islam: A Marxist Analysis (Part 2)
International Socialist Review, July/August, 2011.

The Islamophobic Warriors
Socialist Worker, August, 2011 and Samar Magazine, Nov 2011

Political Islam: A Marxist Analysis (Part 1)
International Socialist Review, March/April, 2011.

Wikileaks, Iran, and the US's Arab Allies
SWonline, mrzine, etc., December, 2010

The US to Gaza Initiative and the Hillel controversy at Rutgers
Mrzine, SWonline, Dissident Voice, November, 2010

Threat of the Far Right in Europe
Socialist Worker, October, 2010

An Open Letter to Obama and Imam Rauf
Empirebytes, September, 2010.

Challenging Islamophobia: An Assessment of the "Ground Zero mosque" debate
SWonline and MRzine, August, 2010.

Green Scare: The Making of the New Muslim Enemy, CommonDreams, April, 2010.

“Why the US has to go” interview with the Afghan member of parliament Malalai Joya, Nov 10, 2009, SW online.

Obama’s Cairo Speech: A Rhetorical Shift in US Imperialism
SW Online, June, 2009 (reprinted in MRZine and Dissident Voice).

Behind the Myths about Hamas
International Socialist Review, Mrzine, March-April, 2009


Ron Carey: Working Class Hero
Monthly Review Zine
, December 16, 2008

Hands off Iran : Why Iranian Women don’t need rescuing by the US
Znet, Oct. 3, 2007 and Monthly Review Zine

Ten Years Since the UPS Strike: Globalization and Inequality
Znet, July 19, 2007

Islam and Islamophobia
International Socialist Review 52, March-April 2007

US Media, Israel, and Lebanese Civilians
Monthly Review Zine, July 23, 2006

Amnesty Now! The Immigration Debate
Monthly Review Zine, May 16, 2006

Fighting Islamophobia: A Response to Critics
Monthly Review Zine, March 4, 2006

Danish Cartoons: Racism Has No Place on the Left
Monthly Review Zine, February 21, 2006

Reviews

Review essay on four books, Journalism and Mass Communication Educator, Vol. 61, 2, 2006.

Review of two documentaries, Afghanistan Unveiled, by Birgitte Barult and the Aina Women Filming Group; and Afghanistan, The Lost Truth, by Yassamin Maleknasr, National Women's Studies Association Journal, special issue on "States of Insecurity and the Gendered Politics of Fear," Vol. 17, No. 3, 2005, pp. 195-7.

“The Mass Media, New Information Technology and the Prospects for Democracy Internationally,” comparative book review essay in International Studies Review, Vol. 1, 3, Fall, 1999, pp. 138-43.