Release Of Shoe Thrower Muntadhar al-Zaidi Delayed

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...

JUSTICE FOR SALE vs. DEEP US GOVERNMENT & TURKISH CONNECTIONS

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...

THE LARGEST ESPIONAGE, BRIBERY & POLITICAL SCANDAL IN US HISTORY

          A long tale of  massive  corruption that has been hidden throughout the  eight years of the  Bush administration is finally surfacing.    After...

A year on, Reuters cameraman still held by U.S. army

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...

Sri Lanka: attacks on free media put displaced civilians at risk

" Vigil marking the first anniversary of the detention of Sri Lankan journalist Jayaprakash Sittampalam Tissainayagam, London, March 2008 © Amnesty International" "If you read Sri Lankan newspapers,...

20 year Jail term for Sri Lankan editor

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...

CBS Correspondent Cami McCormick Injured In Afghanistan

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...

Gnomedex report from PBS' Mark Glaser

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...

Canadian Senator says Lecturing Americans Hurts Canada

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...

Who Was Robert Novak?

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...

Reporters Leave Chechnya, Danger High - But Stay in Ingushetia

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...

Chechnya: Human Rights Activist Murdered Today

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...

Niger Crisis escalating after EU suspends all aid to the Country.

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.)...

When the News Becomes the News

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...

Sri Lanka's Democratic Dictatorship

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...

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