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After three decades on death row, Mumia Abu-Jamal won`t be executed

Reporters Without Borders continues to support Abu-Jamal, an international symbol of the campaign against the death penalty.

(PHILADELPHIA RFP) - Prosecutors will no longer seek the death penalty for African-American journalist and former Black Panther Mumia Abu-Jamal, Philadelphia district attorney Seth Williams announced yesterday, two days before the 30th anniversary of Abu-Jamal’s arrest on 9 December 1981 for policeman Daniel Faulkner’s murder.

The announcement came two months after the US Supreme Court declined to consider the district attorney’s bid to uphold Abu-Jamal’s death sentence. The effect of yesterday’s announcement is to commute the sentence to life imprisonment.

Prostitutes in Crisis

Through sex ads, the mass media can become a tool for the benefit of those individuals that profit from the human-trafficking market.

(MADRID) - “Your date with pleasure” is a public ad slogan displayed on the buses of the Metropolitan Entity of Transportation of Valencia. Even though the residents of Valencia have already complained, public buses continue to display the ads of a prostitution service center.

Within the socio-political sphere, about 80 percent of politicians and 70 percent of citizens are in favor of abolishing the prostitution ads.

Aliaa Elmahdy`s Crucifixion in Tahrir Square

“Aliaa Elmahdy, the 20-year-old college student was there, chanting with the Tahrir comrades songs of liberty while passionately beholding what she thought the dawn of her freedom.”

(ALEXANDRIA, Egypt) - Freedom… is the allure of the Tahrir square saga and perhaps the indisputable motto of the Egyptian revolution.

The Tahrir Square was packed with thousands of Egypt’s youths, boys and girls in their teens who witnessed the rare and magical moments of the system bending to their demands and the regime crumbling down before their vigorous and starry eyes.

My Occupy LA Arrest

Family Guy writer among those arrested for what used to be legal in the U.S.A., non-violent political protest.

(LOS ANGELES) - My name is Patrick Meighan, and I’m a husband, a father, a writer on the Fox animated sitcom “Family Guy”, and a member of the Unitarian Universalist Community Church of Santa Monica.

I was arrested at about 1 a.m. Wednesday morning with 291 other people at Occupy LA. I was sitting in City Hall Park with a pillow, a blanket, and a copy of Thich Nhat Hanh’s “Being Peace” when 1,400 heavily-armed LAPD officers in paramilitary SWAT gear streamed in.

Would John Adams Get Elected President Today?

Most change comes by way of revolution. History is a great predictor of the future. We must learn from it and do better if we are to survive.

(OKLAHOMA CITY) - Probably the most under-appreciated President in history is John Adams. You may remember that he was the legal counsel for the enemy after the Boston Massacre.

POSCO... a can of rotting bankster-worms [Part 1]

POSCO is a test case in that it is controlled by the same banksters who are grabbing resources worldwide paid for in toilet paper dollars.

(NEW DELHI, India) - The Korean firm known as POSCO, is now the Trojan-horse of the western banking and financial cartel and the police- are directly overseeing that the company forcibly acquires people’s lands, and water and forest resources in blatant violation of Constitutional safeguards.

POSCO’s Memorandum of Understanding [MoU] expired years ago, yet the Government of India, especially the Home Minister ‘Pope’ Chidambaram, with a history of involvement in India’s biggest financial scams...

Recently the Constitution took a severe beating in Congress as part of the `war on terror`

I can’t imagine John Chafee or Lincoln Chafee casting votes like these. Sadly, in 2006 Rhode Islanders replaced Senator Lincoln Chafee with Sheldon Whitehouse.

(RICHMOND, R.I.) - The Senate approved the indefinite military incarceration of suspected American citizens. No evidence, charges, trial or other aspects of due process would be required.

You might be suspected of being an “insurgent” depending on your ancestry or your physical appearance. (Recall the shameful incarceration of Japanese Americans in World War II.)

Academic Freedom: The Fall of the Last Bastion of Democracy

"The whole idea of equal justice under law means that you've got to play by the rules. It has nothing to do with the underlying subject matter. You just tell the truth." --Kenneth Starr

(WASHINGTON D.C.) - In our nation freedom of speech much like freedom of the press is defined, implemented, and censored by those in power in direct contradiction to the words and spirit of our First Amendment.

Such is the current outrageous, dishonorable, and unconstitutional actions taken by Judge Starr against one of the country's leading and most distinguished scholars on Jewish Studies, tenured Professor Marc Ellis...

`Oh, my beautiful phallus...`

Writers' deliriums about circumcision (Derrida, Lacan, Mandelbaum and Roth) against filmmakers' common sense (Allen, Burman)

(PARIS, France) - Livia Manera Sambuy, is a journalist at the Corriere della sera and the director of the film "Phillip Roth sans complexes" (Cintévé et Arte) affirms that Roth hates Woody Allen.

And with good reason; when the hero of "Deconstructing Harry" – played by Woody Allen himself – addresses his son whom he did not have mutilated, he tells him: "You won't look like dad." At the contrary, Zuckerman, Phillip Roth's hero and alter ego, holds his wife the abject, delirious discourse of the sect, so that in this opportunity, Roth should really rise up against Zuckerman if he wishes to get the literature Nobel Prize...

How the Bureau investigated Bell Pottinger

The Bureau felt it was in the public interest to know exactly what a PR firm representing such clients does to improve their image.

(LONDON) - Britain is gaining a name as the place despotic regimes go for reputation management. A lack of regulation and no requirements for transparency mean PR companies can represent the most repressive governments under the cloak of secrecy.

In the US there is a measure of statutory transparency: lobbyists working for foreign governments have to publicly disclose their client contracts and state when and why they’ve been in contact with politicians and the media. In the UK, there’s no such obligation.