Chomsky on World Ownership

"Chomsky on World Ownership Michael Shank | January 23, 2008 Editor: John Feffer Email this page to a friend Comment on this article Foreign Policy In Focus www.fpif.org Noam Chomsky is a noted linguist, author, and foreign policy expert. On January 15, Michael Shank...

Why white people like the idea of a black spokesman

"Nothing is more distressing to busy white people than the idea of individual opinions among minorities, especially potentially violent, perpetually dissatisfied minorities like blacks and Latinos, but especially blacks. They are all dissatisfied about different things then...

Indonesia rejects UN moratorium against death penalty

""We reject the UN resolution because death penalty remains part of our positive law and therefore we cannot support it," Indonesia`s permanent representative for UN, Marty Natalegawa, said here on Thursday.Marty said Indonesia was one of more than one hundred countries in...

City Council Underpaid Workers.

"Hundreds of workers are threatening to take the city council to a tribunal after rejecting a compensation deal for being underpaid for years. Staff were offered a package worth £4,000 after it emerged there was a problem over some pay grades. In many cases, women have been...

US town set to ban saggy trousers

US town set to ban saggy trousers A man wearing low-slung trousers, exposing his underwear Low-slung trousers are fashionable among some young people A mayor in the US state of Louisiana says he will sign into law a proposal to make wearing saggy trousers an act of indecent...

G. Kofi Annan on Mainstream Advertisers Ignoring the African Markets

"G. Kofi Annan on Advertisers Ignoring Africa. Posted by beninmwangi on April 29th, 2007 A few minutes ago I came across a post on Kofi’s blog entitled, “African’s Aren’t Affluent Enough” this post challenged me personally to do more to help “update” public...

Court says search engines have First Amendment right to reject ads

At first glance, I thought "isn't this obvious?" One of the commentors reminds us of NBCs refusal to show an ad for the Dixie Chicks movie. At that point it is clear that publishers have power to refuse to publish material up to a point. Then the whole censorhsip thing kicks...