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The politics of provocation: Clinton, Obama and the American media Wednesday, May 28, 2008 :A remark by Hillary Clinton in South Dakota Friday touched off a media furor over the weekend, with allegations that she was basing her beleaguered campaign for the Democratic presidential nomination on the possibility that the frontrunner Barack Obama could be assassinated....
Posted: Wed, May 28, 2008 7:49am PDT
Democratic National Convention and Black Bloggers International blogger Francis L. Holland is on the case regarding what he terms the Jim Crowing of black bloggers by the DNC....
Posted: Tue, May 27, 2008 7:57am PDT
Australia: Labor government backs witch-hunting of photographer Bill Henson Monday, May 26, 2008 :In a major assault on basic democratic rights, Labor Prime Minister Kevin Rudd and his New South Wales state counterpart have backed the police seizure of photographs by internationally-acclaimed Australian artist/photographer Bill Henson from a Sydney art gallery....
Posted: Mon, May 26, 2008 9:02am PDT
Lebanon: Writings on the Walls of Nahr al-Bared Camp The anarchist film collective 'a-films' has just published another short film from North Lebanon. It documents many racist, sexist, humiliating and insulting graffiti that Lebanese soldiers had written on the walls of the houses in the destroyed Palestinian refugee camp of Nahr al-Bared....
Posted: Sun, May 25, 2008 1:40pm PDT
EFF Blasts New 'Compromise' Offer on Telco Immunity Friday, May 23, 2008 : Washington, D.C. - The latest Republican proposal to amend foreign intelligence surveillance law was announced yesterday by Senator Kit Bond , and included a purported "compromise" on the issue of whether telephone companies that illegally assisted in the government's warrantless wiretapping program should be granted immunity from lawsuits such as the Electronic Frontier Foundation's (EFF's) lawsuit against AT&T....
Posted: Fri, May 23, 2008 9:09pm PDT
Egypt: Satellite Company Punished for Protest Footage (New York, May 24, 2008) Egyptian authorities have enforced media licensing laws to punish a company associated with broadcasting information critical of the government, Human Rights Watch said today. ...
Posted: Fri, May 23, 2008 9:09pm PDT
If It Looks Like a Duck . . . Seattle Judge Finds Software Was Sold, Not Licensed Friday, May 23, 2008 : In a major victory for consumers' rights, a federal district judge has firmly rejected software vendor AutoDesk's claim that its license agreement restricts its customers from re-selling the software they lawfully owned....
Posted: Fri, May 23, 2008 7:41am PDT
Cambodia: Lift Ban on "Burma Daily" (New York, May 23, 2008) The Cambodian government should stop protecting Burmas junta from foreign press scrutiny by lifting the ban on copies of the Burma Daily, a new English-language insert in the Cambodia Daily newspaper, Human Rights Watch said today. Cambodias press censorship on behalf of Burmas abusive military government is shameless....
Posted: Fri, May 23, 2008 7:36am PDT
AT&T Spent $5.2 million on lobbying in the First Quarter of 2008 Wednesday, May 21, 2008 :The Associated Press is reporting that AT&T, the defendant in EFF's NSA surveillance litigation, "spent $5.2 million in the first quarter to lobby on domestic spying legislation and other issues." To put this into perspective, AT&T's spending for three months on lobbying alone is significantly more than the entire EFF budget for a whole year, from attorneys to sysadmins, pencils to bandwidth....
Posted: Wed, May 21, 2008 7:25am PDT
YouTube refuses Lieberman request The chairman of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee today asked Google, the parent company of the popular online video-sharing site, YouTube, to "immediately remove content produced by Islamist terrorist organizations" from YouTube and prevent similar content from reappearing. However, the company immediately refused to comply with his request....
Posted: Tue, May 20, 2008 6:46am PDT
Microsoft's Masters: Whose Rules Does Your Media Center Play By? Monday, May 19, 2008 :While its customers are still puzzling over why Vista Media Center is suddenly refusing to record over-the-air NBC digital TV, Microsoft has come out with an astounding admission, courtesy of Greg Sandoval at CNet News: "Microsoft included technologies in Windows based on rules set forth by the (Federal Communications Commission)," a Microsoft spokeswoman wrote in an e-mail to CNET News.com....
Posted: Tue, May 20, 2008 6:41am PDT
Deal for Newsday reflects concentration of ownership in US newspaper industry Monday, May 19, 2008 :After several weeks of uncertainty, the Cablevision media, sports and entertainment company has apparently won the bidding for Newsday, the daily newspaper based in suburban New York City that is the 11th-largest circulation paper in the US. The outcome reflects the accelerating trend of concentration of ownership in the crisis-ridden newspaper industry....
Posted: Mon, May 19, 2008 8:11am PDT
New Pacifica Controversy in Los Angeles -- KPFK Shuts Down Listener Web Forums Controversy Arises in Los Angeles as KPFK shut down web forums following posts with links to the World Socialist Web Site...
Posted: Fri, May 16, 2008 3:41am PDT
Does NBC Control Your TV? Thursday, May 15, 2008 :Reports are coming in of digital video recording systems refusing to record NBC programs - both on digital cable and over-the-air transmissions. We're still investigating whether these involved over-the-air digital TV, which would mean that NBC was the first broadcaster to attempt to revive the abandoned ATSC "broadcast flag" (as opposed to cable and analog copy control signals like CGMS-A which have been used before)....
Posted: Thu, May 15, 2008 10:33pm PDT
WNU #946: US Blamed in Reporter's Death in Haiti The family now believes that Ortega and his translator had been in a courtyard contacting the US ambassador to get medical attention for a wounded US reporter. Ortega was shot as he and his translator left the courtyard and headed for the street. Witnesses reported that a soldier in a passing "Hummer"--a US military vehicle--fired the shot, even though there was no sign that the soldiers were in danger....
Posted: Tue, May 13, 2008 8:01pm PDT
Fmr. Military Intelligence Officer Reveals U.S. Listed Palestine Hotel in Baghdad As Target Prior to Killing of Two Journalists Tuesday, May 13, 2008 :Last month marked the fifth anniversary of the U.S. military shelling of the Palestine Hotel in Baghdad. The attack killed two journalists: Reuters cameraman Taras Protsyuk and Jose Couso, a cameraman for the Spanish television network Telecinquo. The Pentagon has called the killings accidental, but in this broadcast exclusive Army Sgt. Adrienne Kinne (Ret.) reveals she saw secret U.S. military documents that listed the hotel as a possible target. Kinne also discloses ...
Posted: Tue, May 13, 2008 7:50am PDT
Many candidates, corporate media obscures U.S. presidential politics Third political parties do not compete on a level playing field in U.S. politics; the corporate media will spend more money in one day, promoting the campaigns of Senators John McCain, Barack Obama and Hilary Clinton, than the amount of money third political parties will spend in one year to promote their candidates, combined. While third party candidates are spending hundreds and thousands of dollars on flyers and brochures, big corporations are spending millions to keep the names of their ...
Posted: Tue, May 13, 2008 7:42am PDT
Rubin: Death of Michael Vinay Bhatia in Khost Province (RC/E), Afghanistan From a Sunday, May 11, 2008 entry on Informed Comment Global Affairs, a group blog run by Juan Cole, Manan Ahmed, Farideh Farhi, and Barnett R. Rubin...
Posted: Mon, May 12, 2008 6:36am PDT
Free Software Revolution in the Americas The free software revolution in the Americas....
Posted: Fri, May 9, 2008 8:25pm PDT
The World According to Monsanto - Discussion and Film, Fri May 9, 6:30pm 
Biojustice Discussion and Film, Fri May 9, 6:30pm
@ the City Heights Free Skool
4246 Wightman St
San Diego, CA 92105...
Posted: Fri, May 9, 2008 1:11pm PDT
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