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Media Power and Control
A Careful Critique of Media Power by a Progressive University Professor...
Posted: Sat, Dec 21, 2002 1:04am PST
Blockbuster Video censoring NAACP tv spots in its stores
another reason why blockbuster sucks....
Posted: Fri, Dec 20, 2002 11:17pm PST
Bush to propose requiring ISPs to monitor Net
Stewart Baker, a Washington lawyer who represents some of the nation's largest ISPs, said, ``Internet service providers are concerned about the privacy implications of this as well as liability,'' since providing access to live feeds of network activity could be interpreted as a wiretap or as the ``pen register'' and ``trap and trace'' systems used on phones without a judicial order....
Posted: Fri, Dec 20, 2002 12:10pm PST
THE PHILIPPINES AND THE U.S. HEGEMONIC THRUST
"With the full backing and support by the US, President Arroyo as the commander-in-chief of the Armed Forces of the Philippines has unleashed a most brutal war against progressive and militant forces. Even the unarmed, legal democratic movement is not spared. More than 20 members from my party, Bayan Muna, have been murdered in the past 18 months since Arroyo became President. One-hundred forty-eight (148) activists have been killed in this short period."...
Posted: Fri, Dec 20, 2002 10:59am PST
Peruvian military exercises
An example of the breeding of a bloodthirsty militaristic mindset --...
Posted: Fri, Dec 20, 2002 9:40am PST
As racism pervades the body politic, A new civil rights movement grows
Trent Lott’s racist remarks earlier this month may have served to strengthen a growing civil rights movement to defend affirmative action. The Supreme Court agreed on Dec. 2 to hear Grutter v. Bollinger and Gratz v. Bollinger, which have been described as the most significant civil rights cases since Brown v. Board of Education in 1954. The cases’ outcome will decide whether or not the nation’s colleges and universities can continue to use affirmative action in their admissions policies....
Posted: Fri, Dec 20, 2002 9:37am PST
What Palestinians Want -- Three Palestinian Voices: Equal Rights for All
We've been told by Israel's supporters incessantly that all Palestinians want is to destroy Israel. Here are three genuine Palestinian voices speaking about what they really want: Equality for all under the law, i.e. an end to Apartheid....
Posted: Fri, Dec 20, 2002 5:57am PST
BTL:U.S. Media's Timid Role in 1991 Gulf War Likely to Repeat in...
...Any New Conflict with Iraq. Interview with John MacArthur, publisher of Harper's Magazine, conducted by Between the Lines'Scott Harris....
Posted: Fri, Dec 20, 2002 2:32am PST
Flashpoints Dec19: INS arrests; Korea elects; Chris Hedges; Argentina celebrates
KPFA Flashpoints Dec 19, 2002:
-hundreds of Middle Eastern men and boys rounded up by the INS
-South Korea elects a progressive new president
-interview with Chris Hedges, radical journalist, the author of Gaza Diary and War Is The Force That Gives Us Meaning
-Argentinians celebrate a year of self-actualization, rejection of the IMF...
Posted: Fri, Dec 20, 2002 2:11am PST
The SHORTWAVE REPORT 12/20/02 ¡Listen Globally!
A weekly 30 minute review of news and opinion recorded from a shortwave radio. 2 files- broadcast quality (13.3MB) and quick download (3.3MB). With times and freqs for listening at home. Free to rebroadcast. Netherlands, Russia, Germany, Spain, and Cuba....
Posted: Fri, Dec 20, 2002 12:15am PST
Argentina's New Forms of politics
Argentina's Popular Rebellion and New Forms of Struggle and Resistance. By a popular assembly activist in Buenos Aires....
Posted: Thu, Dec 19, 2002 11:35pm PST
U.S. taxpayers funding war against Iraq (by Latuff)
Copyright-free artwork by Brazilian cartoonist Latuff....
Posted: Thu, Dec 19, 2002 9:36pm PST
resumen del 19 de diciembre en rosario, argentina
Resumen y fotos de la jornada del 19 de diciembre en Rosario, Argentina - Summary and photos of 19D in Rosario, Argentina - (please, somebody translate this article: thanks!)...
Posted: Thu, Dec 19, 2002 8:58pm PST
MOBILIZE TOGETHER TO PLAZA THE MAYO
Author: Press secretary PTS (Partido de Trabajadores por el Socialismo)
Date: 12/14/2002
Source: Press Release...
Posted: Thu, Dec 19, 2002 8:15pm PST
U.S. Corporations implicated in Iraq ... from Znet
a head's up on what will be a huge story
(interfering with U.S. war plans) around the world, that MAY even break
into serious visibility in the U.S....
Posted: Thu, Dec 19, 2002 5:00pm PST
((i)) Argentina: FIRST CACEROLAZOS!
Live, thru internet radio, the "cacerolazos" of december 19th...
Posted: Thu, Dec 19, 2002 3:30pm PST
"A slow process of ethnic cleansing" - Jaggi Singh
In Leibowitz's words, "This is about diluting the Palestinian population without attacting media attention". Abu Id's continued imprisonment is the only way the Israeli government might succeed in expelling him to Jordan....
Posted: Thu, Dec 19, 2002 10:50am PST
Media/Gov 'Psyops'ing U.S. Population for Massive Civilian Casualties in Iraq
I just saw a "report" on CNN claiming that the U.S. Intelligence services have "reliable information" pointing towards Saddam "manufacturing a humanitarian crisis" in Iraq to gain sympathy from the world's population....
Posted: Thu, Dec 19, 2002 10:23am PST
BTL:Venezuelan Elite Attack President Chavez to Block Reforms that...
...Benefit the Poor. Interview with Gregory Wilpert, sociologist and journalist, conducted by Between the Lines' Scott Harris...
Posted: Thu, Dec 19, 2002 2:36am PST