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For anyone interested, here is Part 1 of a series of articles entitled 'Libertarian Spain in the 1930's'
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Posted: Mon, Oct 26, 2009 11:23pm PDT
Monday, October 26, 2009 :In Honduras, the conflict between the coup regime and supporters of the ousted president Manuel Zelaya remains at a standstill. Talks broke down last week after the coup regime refused to drop its objection to Zelaya's return to office. Zelaya has accused the regime of trying to drag out negotiations until the presidential elections it plans to hold next month. Zelaya's supporters are boycotting the elections, and the international community has refused to recognize ...
Posted: Mon, Oct 26, 2009 3:04pm PDT
By Cahal Milmo and Kevin Rawlinson...
Posted: Mon, Oct 26, 2009 12:43pm PDT
TEGUCIGALPA, HONDURAS, OCTOBER 26, 2009: On the morning of October 21, Jhonny Lagos – founder and director of El Libertador, the sole anti-coup newspaper in Honduras – received a phone call from a military acquaintance sympathetic to the Resistance. The official reported a meeting between coup president Roberto Micheletti and assistant foreign minister Martha Lorena Alvarado in which the two had begun preparations for Lagos’ demise and Alvarado – evidently irked by her appearance on the list ...
Posted: Mon, Oct 26, 2009 6:20am PDT
In July, the PNB having required programmers to provide information
about the LSB elections, Doug Henwood made a statement against the
KPFA elections, and then interviewed Matthew Lasar, who is sometimes
invited on KPFA in this capacity, to badmouth the KPFA electing of
Local Station Board members. It was repeated 10/24/09, as the votes
are being counted....
Posted: Sat, Oct 24, 2009 10:07pm PDT
Recent Nation article points out the laugh-ability of the recent Pacifica motion aimed at Democracy Now...
Posted: Fri, Oct 23, 2009 6:23pm PDT
Thursday, October 22, 2009 :Wired magazine has revealed the investment arm of the Central Intelligence Agency has invested in a software firm called Visible Technologies that specializes in monitoring social media sites, including blogs, Flickr, YouTube, Twitter and Amazon. Wired reporter Noah Shachtman writes, “America’s spy agencies want to read your blog posts, keep track of your Twitter updates -- even check out your book reviews on Amazon.”...
Posted: Fri, Oct 23, 2009 6:24am PDT
Pacifica exists to provide us with alternatives to the narrow spectrum of news, culture and public affairs that is available from our corporate media. Internally Pacifica and its five stations are learning how to operate and cooperate under democratic Bylaws. In the struggles over how to proceed we must practice what we preach and not allow one perspective to dominate our airtime and push one point of view like Fox News.
On Tuesday October 20, 2009 at noon “Against the Grain” ran a prereco...
Posted: Thu, Oct 22, 2009 2:18pm PDT
It is a herald of the hour we live in that the New York Times has to lay off eight percent of its news reporters but the Narco News School of Authentic Journalism is out scouting and recruiting for a different kind of journalism that is growing and on the ascent....
Posted: Thu, Oct 22, 2009 10:25am PDT
Wikileaks serves as an uncensorable and untraceable depository for the truth, able to publish documents that the courts may prevent newspapers and broadcasters from being able to touch....
Posted: Thu, Oct 22, 2009 9:53am PDT
Teacher who says Holocaust 'a legend' doesn't fear for job...
Posted: Thu, Oct 22, 2009 8:00am PDT
Wednesday, October 21, 2009 :Amira Hass is a regular columnist with Israel's Ha'aretz newspaper and the only Israeli journalist to have spent several years living in and reporting from Gaza and the West Bank. On Tuesday, Hass was awarded the 2009 Lifetime Achievement award from the International Women's Media Foundation. CNN's Christiane Amanpour described Hass as "one of the greatest truth-seekers of them all." Hass joins us to talk about covering the Israel-Palestine conflict; the Goldstone...
Posted: Wed, Oct 21, 2009 7:12am PDT
The failure to have a proper list of members of WBAI Pacifica by the Election committee and their mail-out of an improper list has cost thousands of dollars and put the election certification off...
Posted: Tue, Oct 20, 2009 9:03pm PDT
one of America's greatest...
Posted: Mon, Oct 19, 2009 1:13pm PDT
Henry Norr hasn't paid the minimum $25 subscription but is allowed to remain a candidate for LSB, and Chaundra says "we all have the same goal" to start dismantling KPFA management. Transparency inaction....
Posted: Sun, Oct 18, 2009 8:27pm PDT
Look, five trillion reais equals 35 times the total sales of Brazilian automobile industry in 2008, with exports, including to this also results for the agricultural machinery....
Posted: Sun, Oct 18, 2009 2:51pm PDT
BETWEEN THE LINES Syndicated Radio Newsmagazine...
Posted: Sun, Oct 18, 2009 6:35am PDT
The US Government acknowledged for the first time yesterday that payment of protection money to the Taleban by Italian forces in Afghanistan was discussed by American officials and their Italian counterparts last year....
Posted: Sat, Oct 17, 2009 6:00pm PDT
Henry Norr, a candidate endorsed by Independents for Community Radio for re-election to KPFA's Local Station Board, responds to a commentary by Matthew Hallinan, a fellow board member and a member of the Concerned Listeners group, entitled "What's at Stake in the KPFA Election. Hallinan's piece was published Oct. 8 in the Berkeley Daily Planet (http://www.berkeleydailyplanet.com/issue/2009-10-08/article/33882)....
Posted: Thu, Oct 15, 2009 4:08pm PDT
Simply making structural changes will not solve the lack of listeners. Also VFJR is calling for transparency on the money being spent on election slates and mailings....
Posted: Thu, Oct 15, 2009 1:37am PDT