Articles by Gregg Carlstrom
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Bahraini Villagers Fear Effects of Tear Gas
Gregg Carlstrom – Al Jazeera,
9 Apr 2012
Many towns are blanketed nightly with the gas, raising fears of cancer and other long-term health problems.
→ read full articleUS Condemns UNESCO over Palestine Vote
Gregg Carlstrom – Al Jazeera,
7 Nov 2011
The US government has cut off tens of millions of dollars in annual funding to the UN Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO) after it voted to admit Palestine as a full member. Victoria Nuland, the US state department spokeswoman, said payments to the Paris-based organisation would be stopped immediately. She said Washington would refrain from making a $60m payment it planned to deliver in November.
→ read full articleIntroducing the Palestine Papers
Gregg Carlstrom – Al Jazeera,
24 Jan 2011
Al Jazeera has obtained more than 1,600 internal documents from a decade of Israeli-Palestinian negotiations. There are nearly 1,700 files, thousands of pages of diplomatic correspondence detailing the inner workings of the Israeli-Palestinian peace process. These documents – memos, e-mails, maps, minutes from private meetings, accounts of high level exchanges, strategy papers and even power point presentations – date from 1999 to 2010…. Because of the sensitive nature of these documents, Al Jazeera will not reveal the source(s) or detail how they came into our possession. We have taken great care over an extended period of time to assure ourselves of their authenticity. We believe this material will prove to be of inestimable value to journalists, scholars, historians, policymakers and the general public.
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