Foreign Policy Journal Website Launched, Encourages Debate on U.S. International Affairs

Oct. 20, 2008 - PRLog -- Jeremy R. Hammond today announced the launch of Foreign Policy Journal (http://www.foreignpolicyjournal.com), an online publication offering a roundup of global news headlines as well as original analysis and opinion commentary on events and issues related to U.S. foreign policy.

Foreign Policy Journal is dedicated to providing alternative perspectives from outside the standard framework provided by the U.S. government and mainstream corporate media and encourages discussion and debate of key issues, with a particular emphasis on the “war on terror”.

The website also provides online multimedia to its readers, such as news videos and documentary films. It offers an RSS (Real Simple Syndication) feed of original content readers may subscribe to, as well as a free newsletter to help readers stay informed and up to date with new material.

The goal of Foreign Policy Journal is not only to provide information on international affairs but also to become an interactive community where visitors participate in discussion and debate on important issues. Readers may comment on articles and blog posts or join the FPJ Community discussion forum to interact with the others.

Visitors are encouraged to participate under the belief that discussion and healthy debate are crucial to understanding world events and bettering judgment about the courses of action that should be taken to help improve the lives of people around the world.

In the same spirit of healthy debate, the website welcomes writers’ submissions from all perspectives and political viewpoints.

Asked why he started Foreign Policy Journal, the website’s owner, editor, and principal writer Jeremy R. Hammond says, “The U.S. mainstream media has been beyond incompetent in many regards in helping educate the American people about the nature of U.S. foreign policy, and other times complicit in helping to misinform. The reporting in the months before the invasion of Iraq is just one obvious example. It’s not journalism so much as propaganda; and it continues.

“There are some good websites out there that provide alternative views and information, but I find that even many of the ‘alternative’ sources are very partisan in nature and really don’t question or challenge the standard framework. Other sites that do provide content from outside that framework often present it in a very rhetorical, hyperbolic style that often come across more as tirade than serious analysis, even when the information being provided is useful. The result is really people preaching to their own choirs.

“I really haven’t been able to find one single source for news and analysis,” Jeremy explains, “that provided me consistently with the kind of information about and analysis of U.S. foreign policy I was looking for. So I decided to start one myself. I wanted to build a website that could challenge people and reach a diverse audience consisting of readers with substantially differing views, and also that would allow visitors to participate and encourage them to share their own thoughts and contribute to healthy and necessary debate.”

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About Foreign Policy Journal: News, analysis, and opinion of U.S. foreign policy, particularly with regard to the war on terrorism and the Middle East.