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Philip Agee, former agent who exposed CIA crimes, dies in Cuba Monday, January 14, 2008 :Philip Agee, the former CIA operative who broke with the agency and devoted his life to exposing its role in political subversion, assassination, torture and support for military dictatorships, died January 7 in Cuba. Cuban sources said that he died of peritonitis after ulcer surgery. He was 72. Agee joined the CIA in 1957, at the age of 22, soon after graduating from the University of Notre Dame....
Posted: Mon, Jan 14, 2008 7:12am PST
Calling Indy Journalists! OpEdNews.com wants you! Frustrated with the corporate media, Rob Kall started OpEdNews.com in 2003, “about two weeks before the Iraq War's shock and awe was started,” It has grown into a prominent news website, which provides a valuable news service, and a powerful medium for independent journalists to publish their work.
With OpEdNews, Kall creatively works to connect the growing media democracy movement to the latest internet resources like Google and Yahoo News, as well as social networks like MySpace. This...
Posted: Mon, Jan 14, 2008 12:36am PST
Writers' Strike Continues in Third Month of Impasse Over Internet Content Friday, January 11, 2008 :The writers' strike has entered its 68th day. Over 10,000 members of the Writers Guild of America went on strike November 5 over the refusal of the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers to pay writers for reruns of their work online and for original work written for the internet. We speak to Michael Winship, president of the Writers Guild of America, East. [includes rush transcript]...
Posted: Fri, Jan 11, 2008 10:05pm PST
Study: Of Over 2,000 Sunday Talk Show Questions to Candidates, Only Three On Global Warming Thursday, January 10, 2008 :A new study by the League of Conservation Voters found that the five major Sunday morning political shows asked the presidental candidates well over 2,000 two thousand seventy questions in 2007. Just three of the questions mentioned global warming. We speak with, the president of the League of Conservation Voters, Gene Karpinski....
Posted: Thu, Jan 10, 2008 5:53pm PST
Anarchism as Order When reports of social breakdown are reported on the news, we always hear that it is 'anarchy'. What can it mean when we say we are anarchists? Chaos and terror? NO!
Anarchy means no rulers, just like mon-archy means one ruler explains Wes...
Posted: Tue, Jan 8, 2008 4:08pm PST
Impeachment Radio Show with Phil Burk, Elizabeth de la Vega, John Nirenberg, David Swanson 
The weekly radio show, Questioning War - Organizing Resistance will focus this week on Impeachment, looking at recent developments and how to make Impeachment a reality this year....
Posted: Mon, Jan 7, 2008 3:54pm PST
Freelancers’ Settlement All But Dead – Now What? Monday, January 7, 2008 : Writers, publishers, information consumers – all of us – have a fine mess on our hands these days over at the Second Circuit Court of Appeals, and it has nothing to do with Google. Yet even many of the most seasoned students of copyright, class action and complex legal procedure can follow the goings-on only by rumor and a single cryptic report in The Newspaper Of Record....
Posted: Mon, Jan 7, 2008 7:20am PST
The Shortwave Report 01/04/08 ¡Listen Globally! A weekly 30 minute review of news and opinion, recorded from a shortwave radio. With times and freqs for listening at home. 2 files- broadcast and slow-modem streaming. Free to rebroadcast. China, Netherlands, Cuba, and Russia....
Posted: Thu, Jan 3, 2008 4:09pm PST
New Year's Vow: Not Another Step! From a Wednesday, January 2, 2008 entry on Informed Comment Global Affairs, a group blog run by Juan Cole, Manan Ahmed, Farideh Farhi, and Barnett R. Rubin...
Posted: Wed, Jan 2, 2008 6:56am PST
A Cynic’s Look at 2008 Wednesday, January 2, 2008 : Of course, the worst news of 2008 will be that the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan will continue, and President George Bush will not be impeached. The attempt to remove Vice President Dick Cheney from office will go down in defeat, as even fellow Democrats run scared from Ohio Representative Dennis Kucinich’s impeachment proposal....
Posted: Wed, Jan 2, 2008 6:50am PST
The Power of Black Music (audio/mpeg 2.6MB) For some people, music, the right music, can transform one's way of looking at the world, and even change lives.
By music (as you may have guessed) I'm not talking about bubble gum pop, or rap.
I'm talking about a music form that has been called classical (at least by Black listeners) for generations.
I speak of jazz....
Posted: Tue, Jan 1, 2008 6:54pm PST
2007 in Review: Power, Politics and Resistance Monday, December 31, 2007 :Today, part one of our special look back at 2007, including Saddam Hussein's execution, the U.S. bombing of Somalia, the Appeal for Redress, Scooter Libby's convicton, the firing of Don Imus, the Virginia Tech massacre, the rise of Blackwater, the death of Molly Ivins and Kurt Vonnegut Michael Moore's Sicko, Greg Palast on vulture funds, the Hamas-Fatah split in the Palestinian territories, the U.S. Social Forum and more....
Posted: Mon, Dec 31, 2007 7:47am PST
radiozapote collective is being threatened with removal from our space propitiated by the decision to impose a new director on the National School of Anthropolgy and History (ENAH), one who has interests in common with Alfonso de María y Campos, Director of the National Institute of Anthropology and History (INAH)...
Posted: Wed, Dec 26, 2007 7:38pm PST
FCC Commissioner Michael Copps on the FCC’s Vote to Rewrite the Nation’s Media Ownership Rules Wednesday, December 26, 2007 :The Federal Communications Commission voted three to two on party lines last week to approve a measure that would increase media consolidation. The new rule pushed through by FCC Chairman Kevin Martin lifts a 30-year old ban on companies seeking to own both a newspaper and television or radio station in the same city. Michael Copps was one of two FCC Commissioners to vote against the rule....
Posted: Wed, Dec 26, 2007 8:42am PST
TIME picks another dirty rotten scoundrel as 'Man of the Year' Once again TIME magazine has selected another warmongering despot from a dying Empire as its 'Man of the Year' for 2007. This time, it is Russia's Putin, an ex-KGB chief who routinely jails dissidents and continues a murderous terror war on the Muslim enclave in Chechnya....
Posted: Mon, Dec 24, 2007 3:11am PST
Reuters Journalist Shot by Israel IOF troops target journalists
[ 21/12/2007 - 10:07 AM ]
Reuters journalist sustained gunshot wounds to hias leg...
Posted: Fri, Dec 21, 2007 10:59am PST
The Death of Saint Clair Bourne St. Clair Bourne, pioneer filmmaker and activist, died on Saturday due to complications following an operation to remove a brain tumor. His many great documentaries will continue to be a definitive collection of African American art and history....
Posted: Fri, Dec 21, 2007 10:45am PST
Australian media uses Aurukun Aboriginal child rape case to push right-wing agenda Friday, December 21, 2007 :In the wake of the election of the Rudd Labor government, the Murdoch media has launched an extraordinary campaign to extend the Howard government’s military-police intervention into Aboriginal communities in the Northern Territory. This time, the target is the remote indigenous township of Aurukun on Cape York Peninsula in far north Queensland....
Posted: Fri, Dec 21, 2007 9:12am PST
New York Times bows to White House pressure over CIA tapes story Friday, December 21, 2007 :The decision by the New York Times to bow to White House pressure and publish a correction of the sub-head on its December 19 story linking senior Bush advisors to the destruction of CIA torture tapes has been hailed by the Republican right—echoed by large sections of the media—as a major political victory....
Posted: Fri, Dec 21, 2007 9:08am PST
Fuck MySpace 
The ABCs of Fuck MySpace (A Very Rough Draft)
awesome critique of the use of MySpace by punks...
Posted: Fri, Dec 21, 2007 6:49am PST
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