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Most reporters and other journalists in the mass media failed to do due diligence and misled their audiences regarding last month’s US House Foreign Affairs Committee vote in favor of Resolution 252, which would reaffirm the Armenian genocide of 1915 - 1923....

A very specific historical-political phenomenon has happened here : the bus companies have become so important and powerful, in such a close symbiosis with politicians of the city, that simply was not possible to walk the steps that everyone has walked, in the direction of urban trains, the subways and other solutions universally enshrined....

A book review which takes a harsh look at the corporate media and includes creative ways to circumvent media censorship via the arts....

The twitter feed from the Wikileaks website has been worrisome over the past couple days. Wikileaks is a secure anonymous international journalism website where high level classified documents have regularly been leaked by those with access to government files. Details aren't clear, but it seems like the U.S. State department, Pentagon or CIA is unhappy about an upcoming video and may have uncovered information about website staff and is trailing them around Iceland....

Cryptome.org is a venerable New York based anti-secrecy site that has been publishing since 1999. On Feb 24, 2010, the site was forcibly taken down following its publication of Microsoft's "Global Criminal Compliance Handbook", a confidential 22 page booklet designed for police and intelligence services. The guide provides a "menu" of information Microsoft collects on the users of its online services. Microsoft lawyers threatened Cryptome and its "printer", internet hosting provider giant Net...

Dharamshala: At the opening of this week's Strasbourg plenary session, European Parliament President Jerzy Buzek appealed to the Chinese leadership to change its approach and to resume the dialogue with the representatives of the Dalai Lama....

Amnesty International has slated the forced displacement of thousands of Roma families from their homes in the capital by Italian authorities....

As a way to articulate and unite the struggles, we call the free radio movement and free national and international media to broadcast and rebroadcast the festival and to spread this iniciative, to paste the link in the transmission in your pages and to produce capsules and reports on the 9 struggles of resistance and autonomy which are supported with the festival....

Radios libres, comunitarias, independientes y alternativas transmitiendo y retransmitiendo el Festival de las Resistencias, por 9 luchas de Resistencia y Autonomía. 13 de marzo del 2010, desde las 11 de la mañana, hasta las 10 de la noche, hora del centro de México. Deportivo del SME, Ciudad de México....

Obama and the Whitehouse dog discuss the government's unpopularity...