The release of Iraqi journalist Muntadhar al-Zaidi, who shoveled both of his shoes at former US President George W. Bush during a Baghdad press conference in December of last year, is delayed. Al-Zaidi was...
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THE STORY... BEHIND THE STORY... I am not Journalist, I am a victim of theft. I am here by necessity, fighting forces much larger than us. Before we were aware of what Sibel Edmonds was doing... We have been...
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Baghdad - Ibrahim Jassam, a journalist for Reuters, got taken from his home in his underwear on September 2, 2008 by U.S. and Iraqi troops. A year later, nobody, his friends, family, nor global news agency Reuters...
That's the way autocracy works, you raise the voice and you are behind bars.That is what happening in Sri Lanka. After the killing of Prabhakaran, several so called pro Tamil journalist are facing direct or...
The CBS foreign correspondent Cami McCormick was injured in a roadside bomb incident today in Logar province of Afghanistan where she was traveling with the U.S. army, working on her assignment for CBS Radio News. It is not clear how seriously McCormick was injured, but she...
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I've been down to a few Gnomedexes in the last couple of years and they're worth attending if you want to dig deep into emerging media and technology. Mark Glaser is there and reports: "SEATTLE -- I am here...
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According to Canadian Senator Pamela Wallin, Canadians need to do a better job managing their relationship with Americans.Speaking to Municipal Leaders, she said there is too much finger wagging toward our Southern...
Robert David Sanders "Bob" Novak was born in Joliet, Illinois on February 26, 1931. He attended the University of Illinois, and started his journalistic carreer as a student writer for the Joliet Herald-News, and left the university one course short of graduation to work for...
Lack of security and lack of information are forcing Novaya Gazeta journalists to leave Chechnya. It is difficult to understand what is going on there. Some blame the president, others say rebels are trying to...
Natalya Estemirova, a young mother, widowed when her policeman husband was killed, has now been found dead today with two bullets to her head, in Ingushetia . She was known to investigate human rights issues...
By, Uwe Paschen. E.U. Suspends all aid to Niger and freezes all accounts. After Failure of the Niger Government to comply with EU demands as reported in an earlier post. (See links at the end of this post.)...
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There is a gathering storm in Britain with it's myriad of popular tabloids coming under fire in a fast developing scandal being revealed in The Guardian newspaper..It began in 2003 when the countries all powerful...
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The democratically elected 'dictatorial' government of Sri Lanka fears media the most - The Island Online. I provide the full text of the article below: "What do democratically elected ‘dictatorial’ governments of Sri Lanka fear most- THE MEDIA! If that is not so, why...