By Deppen Webber Dated May 19, 2011, President Obama released this statement on the White House's official website. (http://www.whitehouse.gov/advancing-israels-security) “For the Palestinians, efforts to delegitimize Israel will end in failure. Symbolic actions to isolate Israel at the United Nations in September won’t create an independent state. Palestinian leaders will not achieve peace or prosperity if ...

By Carol Spooner For the past 6 months the people behind "KPFAWorker/SaveKPFA" have run a relentless, dishonest and destructive PR campaign - both on and off the air - against KPFA and Pacifica over the layoff last November of two KPFA staff members - Brian Edwards-Tiekert and Aimee Allison, the former co-hosts of KPFA's Morning Show. Once proud KPFA has become the subject of ridicule in community radio cir ...

By Carol Spooner Two years ago there were major staff cuts all across the Pacifica Network -- all except KPFA. For the rest of the network salaries and related expenses were cut 18.5% from 2008 to 2010 -- from $6.3 million to $5.1 million. But at KPFA the reduction was just 6.1% -- from $2.4 million to $2.3 million. Meanwhile, KPFA's total income dropped by 21.1% over the same time period -- from $4.5 milli ...

On Sunday May 8, 2011, the Sacramento Natural Foods Co-op allowed a group to table about the Israeli/Palestinian issue despite a tabling prohibition issued by the General Manager Paul Cultrera. The group is also scheduled to table today despite the filing of a complaint about their physically and verbally aggressive behavior. Yesterday the group had two men were sitting at a table in front of the Co-op whil ...

Dear Project Censored I am a student at Jacobs University Bremen , Germany. I was a student of Peter Ludes in 'Mass Media and Network Communication' last semester and since I came up with a case of yellow journalism, I am writing to you. I have just submitted a story to projectcensored.org . The link to this news below. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l6e-CVv4wpc The given story is only half true. CNN - IBN ...

By Matar Mohammad It has been two months since the formation of democratic peaceful movement of Bahraini people. A movement whose leaders and supporters are seeking democratic and legal demands such as establishing a representative and elected government, press freedom, government accountability toward citizens, increasing parliament members’ authorities, releasing political prisoners, and participation of ...

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Press Release from Prison Legal News Nationwide Research Finds Excessive Prison Phone Rates Exploit Prisoners’ Families Brattleboro, VT – Prison Legal News (PLN), a monthly publication that covers criminal justice-related issues, released a report this past weekend at the National Conference for Media Reform in Boston that examines prison phone rates nationwide. The report, based on several years of researc ...

Milwaukee Police Officer Joseph Anderer did not want any recording of his colleagues ticketing a victim who was broadsided April 52011 by a speeding police car that exited an alley without stopping. So he twisted the camera from reporter Geoff Davidian's hand, breaking the lens. Anderer cited Davidian for interfering with issuance of a citation, although no citation was issued (except to Davidian) by any of ...

  By Kathleen Barry With its call for regime change even before the Libyans began to rebel, American hypocrisy has been looming large over the U.S. war with Libya.  UN resolution 1973 was its pretext, humanitarian intervention its justification.  No doubt, humanitarian intervention is urgently needed in Libya.  But, when the U.S. acts as the world’s policeman, it decides which massacres to overlook, wh ...