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The issue is not if Newsweek got it wrong. The question is whether we have got it right. Is Newsweek the cause of the comprehensively evidenced and ever so present in the public domain images and accounts of condemnable conducts of the gentlemen of the US military? In an attempt to divert the issue, one [...]

Addressing more than 200,000 Cubans gathered at the Jose Marti Anti-Imperialist Tribune, next to the US Interest Section in Havana President Fidel Castro regretted the thousands of lives lost in the attacks on the Twin Towers in New York.
Castro denounced that the US kept silent about information supplied by Cuba in September 1998 on terrorist [...]

Who said the following?
“I don’t think a photo inspires murders. I think they (insurgents) are inspired by an ideology that is so barbaric and backwards that it’s hard for many in the western world to comprehend how they think.”

You got it right! The American President seriously believes that the “Western world” is generous and progressive.
Well, [...]

Finally, a well-composed, incisively critiqued and timely presentation (albeit very short) of the people history of the Iraq.
Iraqi nationalists and leftist radicals each reviled the monarchy established by Britain in the 1920s: the first group because of its political and military dependence on Britain, the second because of the abject poverty of Iraq’s workers that [...]

An Afghan who spent three years at the Guantanamo Bay detention centre said that interrogators frequently desecrated the Koran, which prompted a hunger strike and a US apology.
Abdul Rahim, 40, said during an interview on AVT Khyber television, a Pashtu-language private channel, that abuse of the Muslim holy book was routine.
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Joan Airoldi, director of the library district in Whatcom County, Washington State (between Seattle and Bellingham), has stood up to the FBI after the agency demanded patrons’ information.
In an op-ed story in the current USA Today , she says:
It was a moment that librarians had been dreading.
On June 8, 2004, an FBI agent stopped at [...]

Click here to read Molly Ivins talk about why Newsweek need not be blamed for whats going on in the world of hatred… Compelling reading….
Uh, people, I hate to tell you this, but the story about Americans abusing the Koran in order to enrage prisoners has been out there for quite some time. The first [...]

How do we conduct researches? And what researches become news?
The answer is simple: depends on who funds them.
It would be nothing as revealing, if not for the fact that some researches do fiddle with human lives grotesquely. One such is a news today about how mobile phone users in rural areas have more risks!
A report [...]

Here are two articles about Michael Jackson–they were distributed to Black newspapers nationwide during January 1994. Being reprinted with permission.
MICHAEL JACKSON: VICTIM OF MEDIA MONEY MACHINE I
By Vicky Gholson, Ph.D.
(Originally published in 1994)
When we find ourselves having produced one of the most
powerful and influential entertainment history leaders, it
is ironic we render ourselves silent in the [...]

WhoseMedia.com is co-sponsoring a Film screening today
Kaya Taran (Chrysalis): A FILM BY SASHI KUMAR
DATE & TIMING: May 10, 2005: 6-9pm. Screening followed by Q & A with Sashi Kumar.
LOCATION: Cambridge Community Center, Room 1205, University of Maryland, College Park.
Directions: http://www.parking.umd.edu/themap/
Visitor parking is available in the Regent’s Garage and there is a parking lot nearby.
METRO: Green [...]

The recent fascist attacks against leftist and anarchist activists in Greece has prompted a DENUNCIATION, which is as follows:
“Today, the 10th of May, minutes before 9.30pm, anarchist comrades who were in the National Metsoveio Polytechnic, we saw 2 armed coppers in the yard of the University. They were guards of two members of the Parliament [...]

Last week, major daily newspapers around the country reported a nearly 2 percent drop in circulation for the six months ending in March, one of the biggest declines in a decade, according to the Audit Bureau of Circulations.
During last six months, USA Today and The New York Times, showed slight increase actually. The Tribune Co., [...]

Rolling Stone still rocks!
The National Affairs section of its May 5th issue lays out Bush’s “most radical plan yet”. Osha Davidson says
“The White House is trying to achieve what Ronald Reagan only dreamed of: revoking basic rules protecting workers, consumers and the environment”
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IBM is launching 13000 job cuts worldwide, BBC reported now in a small slug.
This means 4% of its entire workforce! Now, isn’t that actually huge? Is anyone thinkin’ of unionizing against such a move? Or is it so commonplace that’s it’s normalize into our collective psyche. Or is it too scary to confront such realities?
What [...]

There is no need for surprises here. Manmohan Singh was one of the architects of the liberal-ized economic structure (read: sell-out to global imperialists, than freedom from state capitalists). And that Chidambaram will ensure a raise of the foreign direct investment (FDI) limit in the telecom sector to 74 per cent from the current ceiling [...]

In the bloodiest attack in the region since the war, 50 more people have been killed in Iraqi Kurd attack. Attacks have been so frequent and reported gleefully by the media that it appears quite normalized a phenomenon. The sources mostly being suicide bombers, how much attention is paid to the cause for someone to [...]

Well, TeleAccess Zimbabwe is about to launch fixed wireless phone project in next two week’s time. Harare based Financial Gazette says, without citing, that case studies by the International Telecommunications Union in Nigeria, Kenya, India and Tanzania show that there is a direct link between access to telecommunications, economic wealth and social development.
Well, I [...]

Nairobi will host International Press Institute world congress in May. It will be attended by delegates from 100 countries. Touted to be the biggest single gathering of media professionals in East Africa, we have to watch out for the discussions that ensue.
Is it aimed at regulating the media or deregulating?
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Alright, we know that at least four newspapers - The Daily News, The Daily News on Sunday, The Tribune and The Weekly Times - have decided to shut down late 2003 for several reasons, the most notably under the Information and Protection of Privacy Act.
The argument is that the law is draconic, and what not. [...]

What will the UN do if the allegations are found to be true, as seems to be the case. Will it pull out? Will it send moral preachers to spread the words of love, instead of lust?
The allegations at Liberia against UN peacekeepers range from the personnel exchanging goods, money or services for sex to [...]