Alternate Focus

About this original series

Alternate Focus broadcasts a weekly television program about Palestine, Iraq, and the rest of the Middle East. We air documentaries, interviews, and speeches about subjects that the mainstream media ignores. You can watch Alternate Focus on Free Speech TV, cable stations around the country, and online.

Episodes of Alternate Focus

    • Play Exit Strategy - Alternate Focus on Blip Alternate Focus episodes on Blip

      Exit Strategy

      With the departure of the last American soldier from Iraq, a bloody and expensive adventure ends—not with a bang, but with a whimper. As the Iraq War passes into history, Raed Jarrar, Tom Hayden, Nadia Keilani, and Johan Galtung comment on the lessons learned from this nine-year event, and debate whether the war and occupation are really over.

      • Release date
        Feb 9, 2012
      • Runtime
        33:28
    • Play James Gelvin: Understanding the Egyptian Elections - Alternate Focus on Blip Alternate Focus episodes on Blip

      James Gelvin: Understanding the Egyptian Elections

      James Gelvin is a scholar of Middle Eastern history. He has been a faculty member in the department of history at the University of California, Los Angeles since 1995 and has written extensively on the history of the modern Middle East, with particular emphasis on nationalism and social and cultural history. He is the author five books on current Middle Eastern issues, his most recent is "The Arab Uprisings: What Everyone Needs to Know." Now, a year after the Egyptian revolution, James Gelvin,...

      • Release date
        Feb 3, 2012
      • Runtime
        33:26
    • Play Beyond Recognition, Part Two: Roadblocks and Endgame - Alternate Focus on Blip Alternate Focus episodes on Blip

      Beyond Recognition, Part Two: Roadblocks and End...

      In this two part documentary we examine the implications of Palestine's bid for recognition in the UN, Alternate Focus interviews supporters and critics of this proposal with an inside look into the Palestine Authority's strategy, and background information about its historical context. Although the issue never came to a vote, it could change the dynamics of the Israel Palestine conflict. With Hanan Ashrawi, Jacob Dyan, Doug Suisman, Farid Abdel Nour, Jonathan Graubart, Ali Abunimah, and Nurit...

      • Release date
        Jan 2, 2012
      • Runtime
        33:28
    • Play Beyond Recognition, Part One: Visions of Statehood - Alternate Focus on Blip Alternate Focus episodes on Blip

      Beyond Recognition, Part One: Visions of Statehood

      In this two part documentary we examine the implications of Palestine's bid for recognition in the UN, Alternate Focus interviews supporters and critics of this proposal with an inside look into the Palestine Authority's strategy, and background information about its historical context. Although the issue never came to a vote, it could change the dynamics of the Israel Palestine conflict. With Hanan Ashrawi, Jacob Dyan, Doug Suisman, Farid Abdel Nour, Jonathan Graubart, Ali Abunimah, and Nurit...

      • Release date
        Jan 2, 2012
      • Runtime
        33:28
    • Play Syria: The Story So Far, Part Two: Chronology and Conclusion - Alternate Focus on Blip Alternate Focus episodes on Blip

      Syria: The Story So Far, Part Two: Chronology an...

      Fred Lawson of Mills College gives an overview of recent events in Syria in a lecture at San Diego State University.

      • Release date
        Dec 12, 2011
      • Runtime
        28:25
    • Play Syria: The Story So Far, Part One: Introduction and Chronology - Alternate Focus on Blip Alternate Focus episodes on Blip

      Syria: The Story So Far, Part One: Introduction ...

      Fred Lawson of Mills College gives an overview of recent events in Syria in a lecture at San Diego State University.

      • Release date
        Dec 12, 2011
      • Runtime
        28:25
    • Play Palestine in Israeli School Books: Nurit Peled-Elhanan - Alternate Focus on Blip Alternate Focus episodes on Blip

      Palestine in Israeli School Books: Nurit Peled-E...

      Alternate Focus interviews Nurit Peled-Elhanan, author of the forthcoming book Palestine in Israeli School Books: Ideology and Propaganda in Education. Nurit Peled-Elhanan argues that the textbooks used in the school system are laced with a pro-Israel ideology, and that they play a part in priming Israeli children for military service. She analyzes the presentation of images, maps, layouts and use of language in History, Geography and Civic Studies textbooks, and reveals how the books might be...

      • Release date
        Nov 23, 2011
      • Runtime
        28:09
    • Play Deconstructing Islamophobia Trailer - Alternate Focus on Blip Alternate Focus episodes on Blip

      Deconstructing Islamophobia Trailer

      Muslims are frequently subjected to hatred based on ignorance and fear. Analyst and author Stephen Sheehi takes us on a tour of the well-funded campaign to represent Islam as an ideology bent on destroying Western Civilization.

      • Release date
        Nov 17, 2011
      • Runtime
        00:46
    • Play Culture of Impunity Trailer - Alternate Focus on Blip Alternate Focus episodes on Blip

      Culture of Impunity Trailer

      Even by their own admission, members of the Bush administration are guilty of war crimes in Iraq, Afghanistan and other countries, and yet the Justice Department declines to prosecute. We investigate the reasons for a policy that ignores those that commit crimes and punishes those that reveal them.

      • Release date
        Nov 17, 2011
      • Runtime
        05:38
    • Play Drone Wars Trailer - Alternate Focus on Blip Alternate Focus episodes on Blip

      Drone Wars Trailer

      The drones that are used in Pakistan and elsewhere are manufactured in Poway, California, employing 10,000 people. We will examine the implications of this kind of warfare, and the loop of corruption that rewards contractors and the politicians they support.

      • Release date
        Nov 17, 2011
      • Runtime
        00:41
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