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U.S. Army Subpoenas Independent Journalist to Testify

03-01-2007 13:15

Dahr Jamail and Sarah Olson
Sarah Olson and Dahr Jamail speak out against the Army's efforts to force journalists to testify on behalf of the military.

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Project Censored: Top 25 Censored News Stories of 2007

01-01-2007 22:50

Censored 2007
Project Censored is a media research group out of Sonoma State University which tracks the news published in independent journals and newsletters. From these, Project Censored compiles an annual list of 25 news stories of social significance that have been overlooked, under-reported or self-censored by the country's major national news media.

#1 Future of Internet Debate Ignored by Media

#2 Halliburton Charged with Selling Nuclear Technologies to Iran

#3 Oceans of the World in Extreme Danger

#4 Hunger and Homelessness Increasing in the US

#5 High-Tech Genocide in Congo

#6 Federal Whistleblower Protection in Jeopardy

# 7 US Operatives Torture Detainees to Death in Afghanistan and Iraq

#8 Pentagon Exempt from Freedom of Information Act

#9 The World Bank Funds Israel-Palestine Wall

#10 Expanded Air War in Iraq Kills More Civilians

#11 Dangers of Genetically Modified Food Confirmed

#12 Pentagon Plans to Build New Landmines

#13 New Evidence Establishes Dangers of Roundup

#14 Homeland Security Contracts KBR to Build Detention Centers in the US

#15 Chemical Industry is EPA’s Primary Research Partner

#16 Ecuador and Mexico Defy US on International Criminal Court

#17 Iraq Invasion Promotes OPEC Agenda

#18 Physicist Challenges Official 9-11 Story

#19 Destruction of Rainforests Worst Ever

#20 Bottled Water: A Global Environmental Problem

#21 Gold Mining Threatens Ancient Andean Glaciers

#22 $Billions in Homeland Security Spending Undisclosed

#23 US Oil Targets Kyoto in Europe

#24 Cheney’s Halliburton Stock Rose Over 3000 Percent Last Year

#25 US Military in Paraguay Threatens Region

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Unqualified Slogans: “Win” and “Way Forward”

22-12-2006 06:47

As America faces the most calamitous military misadventure in its history, the administration offers unqualified slogans rather than detailed plans to remedy the horror it created in Iraq. The American mass media is now buzzing with the sound of nothing meaningful. The Bush administration has resorted to contextually meaningless slogans in its efforts to dupe an increasingly sceptical public. The latest inane slogans saturating the airwaves are “win” and “way forward”. Only adolescents and the daft invest meaning in unqualified slogans – shall we test the latest two slogans and attempt to determine the ruse behind the deception?

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Billion Eyes of the Beast

21-12-2006 13:18

On the Web, anyone with a digital camera has the power to change history.
In 1991, when a bystander videotaped the police beating of Rodney King
in Los Angeles, the incident was almost unbelievable‹ not the violence
but the recording of it. Imagine! That four policemen would pummel a
subdued man, and someone would just happen to have a camera! What were
the odds?

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the open publishing aspect of Indymedia is dead

20-12-2006 13:42

Well. No mention of access inequality. But perhaps, when 'user generated
content' reaches the cover of Time magazine it means that the open
publishing aspect of Indymedia 'is dead.'

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Anti-Putin rally in Moscow.

19-12-2006 13:50

Participants hold a poster depicting Anna Politkovskaya
December 17, 2006

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UK troops rampage through Kandahar

19-12-2006 10:59

An official investigation was launched December 9 into allegations that British troops had opened fire indiscriminately at civilians in Kandahar city, southern Afghanistan, following a suicide car bomb attack on a NATO-led convoy.

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Abbas attempts a political coup on behalf of Washington

18-12-2006 15:21

Mahmoud Abbas, the Fatah president of the Palestinian Authority, has announced that he will dissolve the recently elected parliament and call new presidential and parliamentary elections. Abbas aide Yasser Abed Rabbo told Associated Press that the president would set the date within a week, and that new elections would be held within three months.

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Bush administration elaborates plans for bloodbath in Iraq

18-12-2006 15:18

Reports on the Bush administration’s discussions on a change of course in Iraq indicate that Washington is preparing a major new bloodbath as part of a desperate attempt to salvage its nearly four-year-old bid to conquer the oil-rich country.

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No Matter What Ahmadinejad Does He'll be Portrayed as the New Hitler

17-12-2006 19:17

Did Ahmadinejad really threaten to wipe out Israel? No more than scientists predicting the melting of the polar ice caps are threatening to melt them themselves. What Ahmadinejad did say was that, "The Zionist regime will be wiped out soon the same way the Soviet Union was" (5) ­ a prediction, not a threat.

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The Whistelblower's Freedom of Speech Trial in a Mid East "Democracy"

17-12-2006 10:15

Two Civilian Journalists and not the MSM are following the Freedom of Speech trial of Mordechai Vanunu, which began on January 25, 2006. In 1986, Vanunu told the world the truth that Israel had gone nuclear, and after a closed door trial he was sentenced to 18 years, 11 ½ in solitary confinement. He was released on April 21, 2004, but is still not free.

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The Liquid Terror Bomb Mastermind - Aquitted

17-12-2006 00:06

Rashid Rauf, the proclaimed mastermind behind the "liquid terror bomb" plot from the summer of 2006 is not to be proscuted for terror offensives due to a lack of evidence:

Pakistan drops terrorism charges against key suspect in Heathrow bomb plot

On December 13, in an extraordinary turn of events, a court in Pakistan dropped terrorism charges against British-born Rashid Rauf.

Rauf is the alleged “ringleader” of the most infamous terror plot ever apparently uncovered in Britain—the plan to explode a number of transatlantic airlines en route from London’s Heathrow airport.

Details of the court hearing are extremely limited. But according to reports, a judge at an anti-terrorism court in Rawalpinidi said that the case against Rauf did not “fall into the category of terrorism.”

Rauf’s lawyer, Hashmat Habib, said no evidence had been provided to back up claims that his client was part of a conspiracy to hijack airplanes, and the judge agreed to strike out the two charges against Rauf relating to terrorism. “That practically means that Rashid Rauf has been acquitted of charges relating to terrorism,” Habib said.

 http://wsws.org/articles/2006/dec2006/plot-d16.shtml

Craig Murray, who spoke in Sheffield recently on:

Legality, Morality and the War on Terror
 http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/regions/sheffield/2006/10/354417.html

Has written the following article about Rashid Rauf.

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Poland needs more media, especially new daily newspapers!

16-12-2006 21:56

We do not have Western-European type of media and that is why the Polish politics is so strange in European context

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Caught on Tape: Olmert Filmed 'Coaching' Prodi

16-12-2006 18:13

Israeli television broadcast footage that appeared to show Ehud Olmert coaching his Italian counterpart

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Capitalism. The Guardian myth?

16-12-2006 12:12

A comment I posted on the Guardian website underneath an article on the recent allegations of corruption towards the BAE arms manufacturer. I understood the debate to be centred on a choice, "Morality/Legality or Jobs". Some people saying... "We need to insist our government sticks to law" others saying "fuck that it will disrupt the economy and many, many people will be unemployed." Both reasonable arguments, no one seemed to be asking why that choice was necessary.

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Processing Information

16-12-2006 08:12

U.S. Vice-President, Dick Cheney, today praised the outgoing U.S. Secretary of Defence, Donald Rumsfeld, for his contribution in spreading ‘democracy and liberty’ to the Middle East; Cheney also claimed that Rumsfeld was the “best” Secretary of Defence in U.S. history – additional evidence that the U.S. administration is INSANE is no longer required!

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U.S. FOREIGN POLICY — ARE CHANGES AHEAD?

15-12-2006 14:28

Many progressive Americans are hoping for a more peaceful U.S. foreign policy because President Bush lost control of Congress or after he leaves office — but the chances of this happening are not favorable.

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bilaterals.org now in Spanish and French

15-12-2006 11:33

15 December 2006: Starting today, the bilaterals.org website is available in Spanish and French, apart from the original English version. This new multilingual interface is meant to broaden access to information in a way that strengthen people's resistance movements against free trade agreements (FTAs).

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ROUGH MUSIC 13 IS OUT AND ABOUT

15-12-2006 09:46

Brighton's **** stirrin' trouble makin' monthly is out and about on the streets. For an e-version go to www.roughmusic.org.uk

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The Shortwave Report 12/15/06 ¡Listen Globally!

15-12-2006 00:46

A weekly 30 minute review of news and opinion, recorded from a shortwave radio. With times and freqs for listening at home. 2 files- broadcast and slow-modem streaming. Free to rebroadcast. Netherlands, China, Cuba, and Russia
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