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More Trouble in Murdoch World

So, Murdoch is taking a more proactive approach to stop the bleeding. But will it work? postulates Mike Whitney.

(MELBOURNE) - The Mainstream Press and TV misinformation services in general are doing their best to create the image or the public concept that this is a simple scandal of “hacking” into private and personal affairs, prying, so to speak. It was NOT!

It was a criminal act of warrantless wiretapping telephones in order to get information, an illegal activity punishable by a prison sentence and, in this instance, involving a Newspaper, possible loss of the newspapers license to publish...

Roger Waters` (Pink Floyd) Song for Gaza

New version of "We shall overcome" is a tribute to the suffering in Gaza.

(NEW YORK) - Over the new year 2009-2010, an international group of 1500 men and women from 42 nations went to Egypt to join a Freedom March to Gaza.

They did this to protest the current blockade of Gaza. To protest the fact that the people of Gaza live in a virtual prison. To protest the fact that a year after the terror attack by Israeli armed forces destroyed most of their homes, hospitals, schools, and other public buildings, they have no possibility to rebuild because their borders are closed.

Uribe Penetrated by Terrorists

A government that is simultaneously tied to paramilitaries and spying on persons endeavoring to expose such ties cannot purport to be acting on the behalf of the safety and liberty of its citizens.

(TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras) - In honor of Colombia’s Independence Day yesterday, the hacker group Anonymous hacked the Twitter account of former Colombian president-cum-Georgetown University “scholar” Alvaro Uribe as well as the Facebook page of current President Juan Manuel Santos and the website of the Ministry of Defense.

Huseyin Oruç talks to Silvia Cattori- Whenever the Palestinians need it, the Mavi Marmara will go

"The Turkish ship Mavi Marmara will continue to challenge the Gaza blockade ... Whenever the Palestinians need it, the Mavi Marmara will go..."

(LONDON) - In mid June, Bülent Yıldırım, chairman of the Humanitarian Relief Foundation, declared that the “Mavi Marmara” ship, which was hard hit in the Israeli raid, could not take part in the “Freedom flotilla II” but will “definitely set sail for Gaza when it completes repair and maintenance works.”

Was it a realistic decision for the flotilla organizers to set sail without the “Mavi Marmara”? Huseyin Oruç, deputy of the Turkish Humanitarian Relief Foundation explains his position in this interview.

Yellowstone/Ripping Off Taxpayers - NPS Retirees, Other Groups Oppose Boondoggle at Yellowstone

Yellowstone Would Spend $700 Per Visitor Facilitating Risky Travel Through Avalanche Zone for Fewer than 500 Individuals a Year.

(WASHINGTON, D.C.) - Lacking adequate funding to protect precious resources, the National Park Service is nonetheless proposing to spend a third of million dollars each winter in Yellowstone National Park managing a dangerous mountain pass as a travel corridor for fewer than six visitors a day by triggering avalanches with a howitzer.

Sri Lanka`s White Vans Deliver Fear and Oppression

Following the Salem-News.com report, European Tourists Waylaid in Sri Lanka, Resurgence of 'White Van' Crime.

(COLOMBO) - Sri Lanka’s reputation as an Indian Ocean paradise may hold true for determined holiday-makers, but for the sober-minded this image has been shattered in recent months.

First a damning UN report accused both sides in the country’s 30-year civil war of atrocities – a claim the current government refutes categorically.

The Death of Democracy

"The flood of anti-democratic laws that were proposed, and partially implemented, by the current Knesset, elected in February 2009, constitute one of the darkest chapters in Israeli history."

(LAVENRE, Calif.) - “The right to freedom of expression is a fundamental one, necessary to protect the exercise of all other human rights in democratic societies because it is essential for holding governments accountable to the public” (Human Rights Watch, “When Speech Offends,” February-March 2006).

Contrary to Fox News and Benjamin Netanyahu, Democracy is neither alive nor well in the United States or Israel; indeed it is dying a slow, agonizing death...

Jewish Voices: The Current Judaic Movement to End Circumcision. Part 1.

“In Israel, opposition to circumcision has happened in just two decades, and now these “rebels” number in the tens of thousands, according to Ronit Tamir, founder of Kahal, a support group for parents who choose not to circumcise their children.” - JEWISH WORLD

(WASHINGTON D.C.) - The current San Francisco circumcision referendum has made the public aware of the severe physical consequences of the controversial surgery.

The idea that an individual has the right to their own body is recent by historical standards.

Human Rights Workers Continues to Face Israeli Aggression in Gazan Waters

The fishing community is often similarly targeted as the farmers in the 'buffer zone' and the fishing limit is enforced with comparable aggression, with boats shot at or rammed as near as 2nm to the Gazan coast by Israeli gunboats.

(GAZA STRIP) - The Israeli navy attacked Civil Peace Service Gaza volunteers along with international press and Palestinian fishermen today. One of the Israeli ships targeted the boats with high pressure water cannons.

Meanwhile, a small naval boat approached the Oliva and hit it from behind, stopping the boat and causing serious damage to the engine.

Happy Birthday Nelson Mandela

Happy Birthday Madiba. You are one of the twentieth century's great men.

(SAN FRANCISCO) - A belated happy birthday to Nelson Mandela on his 93rd birthday. He was born on July 18, 1918.

Mandela served as President of South Africa from 1994 to 1999, and was the first South African president to be elected in a fully representative democratic election. Before his presidency, Mandela was an anti-apartheid activist, and the leader of Umkhonto we Sizwe, the armed wing of the African National Congress (ANC).