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The Shortwave Report 5/9/08 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, May 8, 2008 5:04pm PDT
Two New Publications From Infoshop Infoshop.org and the Alternative Media Project are pleased to announce the availability of two new digital publications. The first issue of our
bi-monthly newsletter titled "Revolution" is available as a PDF file that can be read online or printed out....
Posted: Thu, May 8, 2008 11:09am PDT
Police raid activst home in DC 
Earlier this week, on Monday, May 5th, Montgomery County Police, seemingly under the command of a detective from the DC police (MPD), raided my home in Maryland while I was not present, seeking to steal any and all electronic devices capable of storing audio or video....
Posted: Wed, May 7, 2008 5:17pm PDT
Journalist released from Guantánamo details abuse Monday, May 5, 2008 :After six years of imprisonment without charge, a well-known cameraman for Al Jazeera news was released May 1 by the US military. The reporter, Sami al-Hajj, was captured in 2001 while covering the US invasion of Afghanistan and subjected to the torture and abuse that is routine at US military-run prison camps....
Posted: Mon, May 5, 2008 8:02am PDT
The Guardian Covers (Up) Colombia's Reality Monday, May 5, 2008 Colombia received more detailed attention than usual from the daily Guardian of the UK during the months of March and April of this year for many reasons:...
Posted: Mon, May 5, 2008 8:01am PDT
The Death of War Reporting: New Life for Martin Bell Early this year, Martin Bell prepared his "obituary speech" for the Royal Television Society, "...the readers of The Times in 1854 were better informed about the war in the Crimea than the readers of any newspaper, or the viewers of any TV network, about the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan today.", and he has more to say....
Posted: Sat, May 3, 2008 7:01pm PDT
After six years, Al-Jazeera cameraman freed from Guantanamo The Committee to Protect Journalists welcomes the release today of an Al-Jazeera cameraman who was held for six years without charge or trial at the U.S. Naval Base in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba....
Posted: Sat, May 3, 2008 6:39pm PDT
World Press Freedom Day 2008: Risks in Europe Report 
Reporters sans frontières announces the 18th World Press Freedom Day, and releases a new report on the risk to journalists in europe today. "... murder attempts by private groups, assaults, intimidation of families are all among the very serious risks run today within Europe."...
Posted: Sat, May 3, 2008 5:20pm PDT
New video from Nahr al-Bared Camp The anarchist video collective "a-films" announces its latest short film (10 min.) from the destroyed Nahr al-Bared Refugee Camp in Lebanon called "Traces of Collective Dispossession"....
Posted: Sat, May 3, 2008 1:30pm PDT
After More Than 6 Years, Al Jazeera Cameraman Sami al-Haj Released From Guantanamo Bay Friday, May 2, 2008 :Arrested in Pakistan in December 2001, Sami al-Haj spent nearly six and a half years at Guantanamo without charge or trial. He had been on a more than a year-long hunger strike to protest his imprisonment. We hear al-Haj's first public remarks from his hospital bed in Sudan, and speak to his brother, Asim Al-Haj....
Posted: Fri, May 2, 2008 7:47am PDT
EFF and Sheppard Mullin Defend Wikipedia in Defamation Case Friday, May 2, 2008 : San Francisco - The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) and the law firm of Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton Thursday filed a motion to dismiss a lawsuit brought against the operator of the popular online encyclopedia Wikipedia, arguing that federal law immunizes it against suits over statements made by its users....
Posted: Fri, May 2, 2008 7:40am PDT
Congress Must Investigate Electronic Searches at U.S. Borders Thursday, May 1, 2008 : San Francisco - The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) and a broad coalition, including civil rights groups, professional associations and technologists, called on Congress today to hold oversight hearings on the Department of Homeland Security's search and seizure of electronic devices at American borders....
Posted: Thu, May 1, 2008 8:13am PDT
www.SocialistWorker.org goes daily with new format Check out www.SocialistWorker.org and its new daily news format. It just went live and will have extensive national and international coverage of May Day protests tomorrow....
Posted: Wed, Apr 30, 2008 4:42pm PDT
Amy Goodman Booksigning Tempe Arizona 4-29-08 Photos Audio 
Democracy Now's Amy Goodman booksigning of her new book "Standing Up to the Madness: Ordinary Heroes in Extraordinary Times" at Changing Hands Book Store in Tempe Arizona. Audio at Link....
Posted: Wed, Apr 30, 2008 12:24pm PDT
Aspartame Press Conference, Hawaii State Capitol, May 1, 11:00 to Noon, Bill Deagle, M.D. Aspartame press conference will tell how a deadly addictive excitoneurotoxic carcinogenic drug that virtually interacts with all drugs and vaccines is masquerading as an additive. Once listed with the pentagon in an inventory of prospective biochemical warfare weapons submitted to Congress it has caused epidemics of diabetes, obesity, sudden death, birth defects and MS. FDA revoked the petition for approval and Don Rumsfeld got it marketed with help from President Reagan....
Posted: Wed, Apr 30, 2008 11:53am PDT
Video: Lebanon and Palestine: two peoples fighting imperialism IT IS AVAILABLE in DVD
TO ORDER IT WRITE TO laltralombardia@laltralombardia.it...
Posted: Wed, Apr 30, 2008 8:30am PDT
Audio:Amy Goodman Booksigning Tempe Arizona 4-29-08 (audio/mpeg 9.5MB) 55:15 minute Audio of Democracy Now Amy Goodman booksigning at Changing Hands Book Store in Tempe Arizona...
Posted: Tue, Apr 29, 2008 8:29pm PDT
How the Pentagon manipulated the media to promote the Iraq war Friday, April 25, 2008 :On April 20, the New York Times published a lengthy article by investigative reporter David Barstow detailing the US Defense Departments extensive and ongoing program of manipulating news coverage of the Iraq war. The article provides a glimpse into the intimate connections between the government, military and mass media and the means by which they have attempted to package and sell a neo-colonial war to the US population....
Posted: Fri, Apr 25, 2008 7:58am PDT
Azerbaijan: Imprisoned Journalists Recognized for Courage (New York, April 24, 2008) Three Azerbaijani writers have been recognized for persevering in their work despite political persecution and imprisonment, Human Rights Watch said today. All three writers are behind bars, largely for doing work they believed in and for trying to inform the public. We hope that this award will help raise awareness of their imprisonment and the need for their unconditional and immediate release....
Posted: Thu, Apr 24, 2008 7:02am PDT
Pentagon's Pundits: A Look at the Defense Department's Propaganda Program Tuesday, April 22, 2008 :The New York Times has revealed new details on how the Pentagon recruited more than 75 retired military officers to appear on TV outlets as so-called military analysts ahead of the Iraq war to portray Iraq as an urgent threat. The Times reported the Pentagon continues to use the analysts in a propaganda campaign to generate favorable news coverage of the administration?s wartime performance. We speak with Col. Sam Gardiner (Ret.) and Peter Hart, of Fairness and Accura...
Posted: Tue, Apr 22, 2008 7:07am PDT
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