In what is becoming a blurry picture of actual events happening in Gaza, the Foreign Press Association is taking action today over reporting access in that area. Democracy Now the Israeli Supreme Court will hear a petition today challenging Israel’s ban on journalists from entering Gaza. The Foreign Press Association filed the challenge on behalf of 400 reporters. In an open letter, the Foreign Press Associ ...

As reported on the Weekly News Update, Brazil is now justifying building nuclear subs to protect the rain forest. What kind of lame ploy is this?  In a place where extreme poverty and out of control crime is allowed to persist, the government has decided to give up on the population once again and put money into an unjustified defence system. The full story here as reported on Weekly News Update of the Amer ...

We have tried many times to put the Israeli-Palestinian conflict into perspective, and sometimes with success, but to see how this conflict effects people instead of government, I have found that the following article by Robert Fisk is one of the best; We've got so used to the carnage of the Middle East that we don't care any more -- providing we don't offend the Israelis...  This piece can be seen  here ...

Another Year of Fear has come and gone. See my latest bit at the new Project Censored blog The Daily Censored for more info you don't hear on the nightly corporate news. Also, feel free to give the gift of a tax deductible donation to Project Censored if you are so inclined. I'll have many updates of the past semester of activities as I was so busy I didn't have a lot of tome to post...but there's always ne ...

As the casualty numbers climb and the media distorts the picture, we can see that this is becoming the largest Israeli assault on the Palestinian people in almost 50 years.  Check out the story from Electronic Intafada: Most Gaza casualties were non-combatants, civilians  Press release, Al Mezan, 28 December 2008    A Palestinian family rushes from the scene of an Israeli missile strike on a building in the ...

 It may be true that rockets have fallen on Israeli soil from Gaza, and that Palestinians may have broken the cease fire first, but what is a full scale invasion going to prove?  It is one thing to go after terrorists, but at what cost? As innocent people are dying only because they were born on the wrong side of the fence we sit back and watch the propaganda come out from every direction. There is too much ...

We can’t have the official vote "count" being questioned in America, can we? Why that would be un-American, wouldn’t it? After all, you can’t have a democracy if you’re going to have people wanting to make sure that their votes get counted, can you? The count is the count, no need to count anything again. This is America, you sore loser! ...

And the award goes to....Fox News pundit and wing-nut Sean Hannity. What a year for Hannity; I thought he really showed his true colors during his "special report" when he used Anti-semit radical Andy Martin as a credible source. But that was just a snack compared to his main course of nightly lies and distortion of anything Obama. Congratulations to you Mr. Hannity. Some of his greatest hits below via Medi ...

We can understand budget cuts, but come on.  In another case where the poor must fight for the right to live, we can see that the "Governator" has yet again tried to go against legislation for budget cuts.  In a place where health care coverage is for the "Rich Club" already, it is good to see that there are some watchdogs looking out for the less fortunate.  As the San Francisco Bay View Reports;   Court o ...

In another case of "Media Gone Wild", we can see that Indian news reporting looks a little similar to something we have in the states.  Nothing like a little Fox News over-reporting, over exaggerating, and plain making stuff up Indian style.   Christain Science Monitor,  By Daniel PepperMUMBAI, INDIA - Emerging from decades of government control and regulations, India's media are quickly evolving into a boi ...