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Fisk has been writing now -indefatigble, careful, undaunted–a careful, critical, and powerful voice of sanity and clarity –writing for over 30 years from the Middle East. His latest piece Elegy on Beirut is in the tradition
of the great epic poets–the inexorable march of violence in the name of ‘civilisation.’
His massive book, [...]

“See the irony is that what they need to do is get Syria to get Hezbollah to stop doing this sh*t and it’s over,” Mr. Bush told Blair as he chewed on a buttered roll.

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Israel widens bombing campaign as Lebanese militia groups retaliate. Israeli forces blockaded Lebanese ports and bombed runways at Beirut airport yesterday in a series of fierce reprisal attacks that Lebanese officials say have killed 55 civilians.
The biggest military operation since Israel’s withdrawal from Lebanon six years ago came in response to a raid by Hizbollah [...]

Gay Pride March, New York City. Photograph by Saswat Pattanayak
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“The Great American Boycott 2006!”
“A Day Without an Immigrant!”
“Do not work. Ask for permission or let your boss know of your absence. Do not risk your job since the law permits the employer the absolute [...]

Despite a dip in his opinion polls, George W. Bush’s transformation of the United States into an authoritarian society continues apace, with new “compromises” with Congress actually consolidating his claims to virtually unlimited executive power.
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On Friday, after securing a five-count criminal indictment against Vice President Dick Cheney’s Chief of Staff, I. Lewis “Scooter” Libby, for lying to a grand jury about what he knew and when he knew it in regard to the outing of a covert CIA agent, Special Prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald plans to pursue broader conspiracy charges [...]

Ironies of life used to be portrayed in Life magazine once upon a time, via vivid photographs of superior quality. Few of the most renowned photographers of their times like Alfred Eisenstaedt , Andreas Feininger , Margaret Bourke-White and John Dominis worked for Life.
The ironies included how images almost always were better than the real. [...]

Taken from a local paper, Asian Capital Examiner.

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Lets do a small news analysis. News item is published by BBC. Click here to read the story.
The headline says: “Woman ‘ordered to marry rapist’”. That’s news. Sure.
Next, lets read on.
“An Indian woman who was allegedly raped by her father-in-law is now being ordered by a Muslim council of community elders to marry him.”

That’s [...]

Will Time apologize?

The Time Magazine’s “Asian Hero” Gautam Goswami’s bail plea has been finally rejected. Goswami, whom Time said had the reputation for upholding the law, has been evading arrests in a multi-million dollar flood-relief scam!
Does the media have a duty to apologize even for the strongest opinions gone haywire? Or should it imply that [...]

Circles Robinson comments on why the US govt wont allow its citizens to travel to a country this Summer. The country which does not have McDonald’s or Wal Mart or WMD!
The United States forbids its citizens from freely traveling to one country on Earth. Guess which one?
Summer’s just around the corner and many Americans will [...]

For all that we know of the multiparty democracy called Ethiopia, the situation is very characteristic, not of the social democratic way of living, but a reductionist approach to political democracy. Such imposition of democracy which claims either you are with us or with the enemy leads many economically oppressed countries to choose the path [...]

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 [...]

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, [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]