Salem-News.com News Feed for articles tagged with media www.salem-news.com 2010 Blatantly false claims are published in Bangladesh over our human rights ambassador, a highly effective journalist / activist named William Nicholas Gomes. William has been under constant attack by pro-government media and they are dastardly in their methodical attempt to discredit our writer. It is not going to work out for them however. http://salem-news.com/articles/may242012/gomes-update-tk.php http://salem-news.com/articles/may242012/gomes-update-tk.php Thu, 24 May 2012 13:26:00 PDT Today, World Press Freedom Day 2012, Reporters Without Borders condemns the furious pace of physical attacks on news providers and reports that a total of 21 journalists, and 6 netizens and citizen journalists have been killed since the start of 2012, many of them in war zones such as Somalia and Syria. This is a rate of one news provider killed ever five days. http://salem-news.com/articles/may232012/journalist-deaths.php http://salem-news.com/articles/may232012/journalist-deaths.php Wed, 23 May 2012 13:55:00 PDT Eileen Fleming, author, reporter and now a candidate for US House of Representatives from Florida, began documenting the ongoing saga of Mordechai Vanunu, Israel's Nuclear Whistle Blower, in June 2005. In 1987, Vanunu was convicted of espionage and treason. Fleming contends he was only guilty of revealing Israel's nuclear Facility at Dimona. http://salem-news.com/articles/may222012/mordechai-vanunu.php http://salem-news.com/articles/may222012/mordechai-vanunu.php Tue, 22 May 2012 23:12:00 PDT A solid majority of voters nationwide favor legalizing and regulating marijuana similar to the way alcohol and tobacco cigarettes are currently regulated. Most also don’t believe it should be a crime for people to smoke marijuana in the privacy of their own homes. http://salem-news.com/articles/may222012/pot-survey.php http://salem-news.com/articles/may222012/pot-survey.php Tue, 22 May 2012 19:34:00 PDT According to Israeli military records, there are 2,700 deserters and 1,780 draft dodgers in Israel. In the last week alone, the IDF has arrested 474 of them as part of its largest-ever operation to apprehend them. http://salem-news.com/articles/may222012/idf-draft-hunt.php http://salem-news.com/articles/may222012/idf-draft-hunt.php Tue, 22 May 2012 17:38:00 PDT William Nicholas Gomes; a promising name, a poet, journalist and human rights activist. He is well known for his outspoken, impartial, uncompromising position on the issues of human rights violations. http://salem-news.com/articles/may222012/gomes-power-poet-bk.php http://salem-news.com/articles/may222012/gomes-power-poet-bk.php Tue, 22 May 2012 04:24:00 PDT This poem celebrates the new book, A Few Good Men, Too Many Chemicals, which focuses on the contamination of the U.S. Marine Corps Air Station El Toro and other U.S. military bases. It's co-authored by Salem-News.com writers Bob O'Dowd and Tim King. http://salem-news.com/articles/may222012/el-toro-poem-le.php http://salem-news.com/articles/may222012/el-toro-poem-le.php Tue, 22 May 2012 02:14:00 PDT Key Iranian and American officials arrived in Lebanon last week to assess the strength of their local allies in the fast approaching and crucial legislative elections. The Lebanese public and media heard plenty of policy nuances and even similar and seemingly repeated statements by the two well-listened to guests. http://salem-news.com/articles/may222012/bullying-hez-fl.php http://salem-news.com/articles/may222012/bullying-hez-fl.php Tue, 22 May 2012 02:13:00 PDT On Sunday 60 Minutes did a rather disgraceful segment to please Zionists. I was sufficiently disgusted to send the following hasty response via their web site. Tonight’s segment on Israel (May 20, 2012) gave a totally distorted picture of the Middle East conflict. http://salem-news.com/articles/may222012/sixty-minutes-rd.php http://salem-news.com/articles/may222012/sixty-minutes-rd.php Tue, 22 May 2012 00:02:00 PDT My beloved husband, Ziad Jilani, was executed by Israeli Border Policeman, Maxim Vinogradov on June 11, 2010. There is undeniable evidence that my husband was lying unarmed and wounded on the ground, posing no threat when Israeli Border Policeman Maxim Vinogradov shot him point blank in the head. http://salem-news.com/articles/may212012/gaza-death.php http://salem-news.com/articles/may212012/gaza-death.php Mon, 21 May 2012 22:58:00 PDT On the face of it, Baron Cohen’s The Dictator is a horrid film. It is vulgar, it isn’t funny and if it has five good jokes in it, they appear in the two minute official trailer. In short, save your time and money – unless of course, you are interested in Jewish identity politics and neurosis. http://salem-news.com/articles/may212012/baron-cohen-ga.php http://salem-news.com/articles/may212012/baron-cohen-ga.php Mon, 21 May 2012 05:41:00 PDT The Bangladesh government has blocked the website of journalist and human rights activist William Gomes, for having published the poem, “Anti state”. In the poem, this human rights activist made plain his grievance against the corruption and injustice that is going on in Bangladesh. http://salem-news.com/articles/may202012/bangladesh-censorship-tk.php http://salem-news.com/articles/may202012/bangladesh-censorship-tk.php Sun, 20 May 2012 13:56:00 PDT For the global community, there is nothing more consequential than the catastrophic failure after World War II to learn the correct lessons. Instead, the world continued with the business of war as usual (and war is business). One of the most destabilizing forces in the world was created and sustained for 100 years before the USA took on nurturing it after WWII. I am of course speaking of Zionism. http://salem-news.com/articles/may202012/nakba-actions-mq.php http://salem-news.com/articles/may202012/nakba-actions-mq.php Sun, 20 May 2012 00:26:00 PDT Nigel Jacquiss of Willamette Week has won the Bruce Baer Award – Oregon’s top prize for investigative reporting. Jacquiss was honored for "A Bridge Too False” and five succeeding stories published since June of 2011..." http://salem-news.com/articles/may192012/nigel-jacquiss.php http://salem-news.com/articles/may192012/nigel-jacquiss.php Sat, 19 May 2012 19:54:00 PDT Suspicions are aroused when the founder of the discredited group Quilliam Foundation, Majid Nawaz who has strong pro Israeli supporters, heads off to Pakistan: “…to counter the spread of extremist ideology within Pakistan, predominantly amongst younger generations of Pakistanis, who now constitute 63% of the total population”. http://salem-news.com/articles/may192012/pakistan-israel-ss.php http://salem-news.com/articles/may192012/pakistan-israel-ss.php Sat, 19 May 2012 18:08:00 PDT William Gomes is a young, progressive journalist and human rights activist from Bangladesh. He has written widely about the human rights violations around the world and was recently declared as the Human Rights Ambassador for the U.S.-based news website Salem-News. http://salem-news.com/articles/may182012/william-gomes-kz.php http://salem-news.com/articles/may182012/william-gomes-kz.php Fri, 18 May 2012 22:25:00 PDT Neve Gordon, a 47-year-old Israeli-born professor and author, greeted this year’s 64th anniversary of the Nakba with an essay for CounterPunch that included this revealing confession: "I first heard about the Nakba in the late 1980s, while I was an undergraduate student of philosophy at Hebrew University. This, I believe, is a revealing fact, particularly since, as a teenager, I was a member of Peace Now and was raised in a liberal home..." http://salem-news.com/articles/may182012/neve-gordon-jw.php http://salem-news.com/articles/may182012/neve-gordon-jw.php Fri, 18 May 2012 13:21:00 PDT A MapLight analysis of campaign contribution data from the California Secretary of State shows that a recent contribution of $500K from New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg raises the total for committees supporting California's Proposition 29 (Cigarette Tax) to $8.5 million. Committees opposing California's Proposition 29 have raised nearly $40 million. http://salem-news.com/articles/may182012/voter-guide.php http://salem-news.com/articles/may182012/voter-guide.php Fri, 18 May 2012 02:50:00 PDT The Dodd-Frank Bill, an Act to regulate the American financial industry and provide investor and public protection, was passed by Congress and the Senate over a year ago. Since that time, at least one senator has observed that following the greatest scam in world history, all the known perpetrators are still prominent, richer than ever. http://salem-news.com/articles/may182012/political-blame-ba.php http://salem-news.com/articles/may182012/political-blame-ba.php Fri, 18 May 2012 01:37:00 PDT After having gone silent on Facebook and Twitter on May 1st, [ Vanunu's Final Message to Facebook] Vanunu went public again today: "All the restrictions now have been renewed, no changes. The 9th year- with all the restrictions continue. The court hearing is June 6th." http://salem-news.com/articles/may172012/vanunu-hearing-ef.php http://salem-news.com/articles/may172012/vanunu-hearing-ef.php Thu, 17 May 2012 23:48:00 PDT Ha'aretz reported yesterday that, “Israel, Iran, Pakistan and North Korea were ranked most negatively by 24,000 people surveyed in an annual BBC poll.” It would appear that in spite of the extensive Hasbara campaign and the Jewish lobby buying every morally lax living politician, people of the world increasingly see Israel for what it is. http://salem-news.com/articles/may172012/israel-popularity-ga.php http://salem-news.com/articles/may172012/israel-popularity-ga.php Thu, 17 May 2012 16:34:00 PDT Scientific studies into the dangerous chemical TCE that pollutes U.S. military bases worldwide, drew the conclusion well over a decade ago, that it is a human carcinogen and it causes cancer. Researcher and veteran's advocate, Gary Bass, located a letter in the Federal Register that the feds hoped we would never find. http://salem-news.com/articles/may172012/dod-tce-confirmed-tk.php http://salem-news.com/articles/may172012/dod-tce-confirmed-tk.php Thu, 17 May 2012 05:01:00 PDT I just heard from somewhere that somebody wants to change PTSD, Post Traumatic Stress Disorder, to Post Traumatic Stress Injury or PTSI. I don’t get it! We already have (Post) Traumatic Brain Injury or TBI. http://salem-news.com/articles/may162012/ptsd-pot-pl.php http://salem-news.com/articles/may162012/ptsd-pot-pl.php Wed, 16 May 2012 20:26:00 PDT Let me begin by noting an historical event known as the Two-Row Wampum Treaty of 1613. It illustrated that our hosts at that time didn't WANT to become white Europeans, such as those who were beginning to arrive on Turtle Island with the Bible in one hand and an eviction notice in the other. http://salem-news.com/articles/may162012/blatchford-letter-ba.php http://salem-news.com/articles/may162012/blatchford-letter-ba.php Wed, 16 May 2012 19:41:00 PDT This is the final call to attend and register for the Munich Conference to launch the International Movement for One Democratic State in Palestine/Israel. It will be held in Munich Germany on June 30 - July 1, 2012. If you did not register, please take the time to do so and to read the information below. http://salem-news.com/articles/may162012/ods-conferencega.php http://salem-news.com/articles/may162012/ods-conferencega.php Wed, 16 May 2012 17:51:00 PDT An old WW II hangar over 200,000 square feet in area at former MCAS El Toro will not be on any tourist list now and maybe for years to come. Hangar 296 is one of the primary sites of the TCE plume spreading into Orange County and reason for the base’s placement on the National Priority List (NPL), commonly referred to as the EPA Superfund. http://salem-news.com/articles/may162012/el-toro-hangar-296-ro.php http://salem-news.com/articles/may162012/el-toro-hangar-296-ro.php Wed, 16 May 2012 17:21:00 PDT On this 64th anniversary of the Nakba we mourn the ethnic cleansing that began in 1948 and that continues today with silent transfer, home demolitions, land confiscation and more. But we also celebrate an amazing resilience and success of the Palestinian endogenous people against incredible odds: http://salem-news.com/articles/may152012/nakba-anniversary-mq.php http://salem-news.com/articles/may152012/nakba-anniversary-mq.php Tue, 15 May 2012 21:49:00 PDT When it comes to environmental contamination in Orange County, California, we typically cover the south county eyesore that was once a Marine fighter base, the old MCAS El Toro. Now, thanks to an article by Pat Brennan, published yesterday by the Orange County Register, we get the dirty details on another plume, this one in north Orange County. http://salem-news.com/articles/may152012/north-county-plume-tk.php http://salem-news.com/articles/may152012/north-county-plume-tk.php Tue, 15 May 2012 16:18:00 PDT To Iranians, Persian Gulf is not simply a name referring to a geographical region on the world map. To Iranians, the name of Persian Gulf is interwoven with a sense of national dignity and honor which makes them a united and powerful troupe against the relentless attacks of the enemy. http://salem-news.com/articles/may152012/persian-gulf-kz.php http://salem-news.com/articles/may152012/persian-gulf-kz.php Tue, 15 May 2012 14:36:00 PDT After nearly a full month of fasting, 2,000 Palestinian political prisoners ended their mass hunger strike, reaching an agreement with the Israeli Prison Service to attain certain core demands, according to Addameer. Supporters laud the achievements of the prisoners’ movement and can only hope that Israel will implement any policy changes in good faith. http://salem-news.com/articles/may152012/palestinian-hunger-strike.php http://salem-news.com/articles/may152012/palestinian-hunger-strike.php Tue, 15 May 2012 12:49:00 PDT