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Anti-Abortion Ads in BART?!? Surely you've noticed by now; these ads were prominent on each of ten train cars at 3 p.m. in downtown San Francisco today....
Posted: Fri, Jan 6, 2006 3:21pm PST
Media New Year's Resolutions for 2006 
Norman Solomon, author of War Made Easy and executive director of the Institute for Public Accuracy, tweaks some media bastions of contemporary hubris.
(links added as a suggestion by reposter)...
Posted: Thu, Jan 5, 2006 1:26pm PST
The Web: Women vs. men online Sexists cannot exploit women online as much as offline....
Posted: Wed, Jan 4, 2006 1:12pm PST
Media conservatives cited faulty poll to claim popular support for domestic spying program Conservative media figures have defended the Bush administration's warrantless domestic surveillance program by citing a Rasmussen poll saying 64 percent of Americans believe "the National Security Agency [should] be allowed to intercept telephone conversations between terrorism suspects in other countries and people living in the United States." But the key issue, which the poll misrepresents, is not whether surveillance of terrorism suspects should take place at all -- something a...
Posted: Wed, Jan 4, 2006 6:55am PST
Networking: Convergence comes to China Filthy money grubbers try to exploit simple Chinese people with rapacious technologies....
Posted: Mon, Jan 2, 2006 10:46am PST
"Old Half-Witted Sheep": A New York Times Editorial Contemplates Iraq Nearly a week before the Times' editorial writer squared up to the topic, informed observers had scrutinized the preliminary results of the Dember 15 poll in Iraq and noted that they confirmed pre-election presentiments. For example, writing on the CounterPunch website five days before Christmas, Patrick Cockburn concluded succinctly "The election marks the final shipwreck of American and British hopes of establishing a pro-western secular democracy in a united Iraq. Islamic fundamentali...
Posted: Mon, Jan 2, 2006 9:38am PST
The Web: Fifteen years of browsing Professor invents the Internet fifteen years ago for capitalist pigs....
Posted: Sat, Dec 31, 2005 1:20pm PST
Wireless World: Feds vacate airwaves Government sucks up to capitalists....
Posted: Sat, Dec 31, 2005 12:09pm PST
Sixth U.S. Army and Presidio of San Francisco Sixth U.S. Army and Presidio of San Francisco served well durning World War II and helped thousands of people especially in the Pacific Rim area and Europe. In 1995 Sixth U.S. Army and Presidio of San Francisco was deactivated. Many still have fond memories of the Presidio of San Francisco but more of Sixth U.S. Army and the Presidio of San Franciso. More those that served at the Presidio and worked on the Main Post. Also the Letterman Army Medical Center....
Posted: Sat, Dec 31, 2005 7:52am PST
2005 in Review: Power, Politics and Resistance Today, part one of our special look back at 2005, including George W. Bush's inaugeration and protests against election fraud, the occupation of Iraq, the conviction of attorney Lynne Stewart, the appointment of John Bolton to the UN, the revelation of Deep Throat, the conviction of Edgar Ray Killen for killing the three civil rights workers in 1964, and much more....
Posted: Fri, Dec 30, 2005 8:01pm PST
Support for Indymedia reporters We have got to start acknowledging indy reporters as professionals. To only pay middle class male organizers and attorneys in activism is not good. I am an indy media reporter. I am low income. I would like very much to cover the trials in Eugene of the environmental activists. But I simply cannot afford it, which leaves me sad......
Posted: Wed, Dec 28, 2005 11:40pm PST
Networking: Gigabyte battlefields Military comanders share tactical information from the battlefield because of sophisticated networking technologies....
Posted: Mon, Dec 26, 2005 9:53am PST
Letter From A Military "Mom": Domestic Spying & Incident of Intimidation of Military Famil author: Written by: Robin Vaughan...
Posted: Sun, Dec 25, 2005 4:00pm PST
US blocked 4000 Iranian internet websites University official: Most Iranian Internet sites under US supervision
Tehran, Dec 22, IRNA
Head of Universities Jihad Movement said here Wednesday, "Presently, most Iranian Internet sites are under supervision and power levers of the United States."...
Posted: Thu, Dec 22, 2005 7:17pm PST
Norman Solomon: Defends John Yoo as "minor" & Gov't Lie on 9/11 Inside Job Normon Solomon, a journalist, again repeated the government's lie on the 9/11 inside Job, claiming it was not an Inside Job, and now adds that the infamous law professor at UC Berkeley's law school, Boalt Hall, John Yoo, best known for authoring torture memos, is just a minor functionary. This reactionary routine was heard on KPFA, 12/22/05, and hopefully, Norman Solomon, and his fellow reactionary, a Mr. Perry, who repeated the same gov't lie on 9/11, will not appear on KPFA again....
Posted: Thu, Dec 22, 2005 6:33pm PST
The 10 Top Local News Stories of 2005 
Randy Shaw is a San Francisco activist, author, and editor of BeyondChron.org. (which has been recently redesigned).
Here is his list of top local news stories for 2005....
Posted: Thu, Dec 22, 2005 12:33pm PST
News Reporting of the Tour by Subcomandante Marcos Throughout the Mexican Republic The Other Journalism About the Other Campaign
For Authentic News Reporting of the Tour by Subcomandante Marcos Throughout the Mexican Republic
By the Amado Avendaño Figueroa Brigade
December 21, 2005...
Posted: Thu, Dec 22, 2005 7:51am PST
The Web: Europe's cyber privacy declines Big Brother stalks Europe....
Posted: Wed, Dec 21, 2005 2:50pm PST
Corporate Media Shenanigans: Katie Couric and Tim Russert playing their game Look at Katie Couric and Tim Russert playing their game. Really it’s maddening. Couric pitted constitutional scholars versus "Americans" who "don't want another September 11" and Russert allowed Rice to deflect eavesdropping questions. (Thanks to Media Matters…)...
Posted: Tue, Dec 20, 2005 6:45pm PST
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