New attacks against Turkish Journalists and Trade Unionists The socialist weekly periodical „Alinteri“ (Sweat of Labour) has been subject to new attacks. The official correspondent of „Alinteri“ in the Turkish capital Ankara has been detained by a police raid early this morning. The correspondent Sami gök was not the only one to be taken by the police, the President of Egitim Emekcileri Dernegi (Education Workers Union), Sefa Gokdemir, and 10 readers of „Alinteri“ newspaper are still under (…)
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New attacks against Turkish Journalists and Trade Unionists
24 May 2007 par (Open-Publishing)
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God, it Just Gets Easier
22 May 2007 par (Open-Publishing)
5 commentsTo find subjects to write about I sometimes peruse the foreign press. Amazingly, I find great numbers of news stories that cease to be news once they cross the borders of the good old U.S.A. Perhaps it is our obsession with ourselves a sort of a whole nation contemplating their navel. After all between American Idol, drunken starlets and missing and murdered white women not every thing can make the front page. I find in the Japanese and Chinese newspapers have a greater interest in the (…)
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The Zell[ing] Out of the Baltimore Sun
15 April 2007 par (Open-Publishing)
“The Press is Free, but for Whom? - Oswald Spengler
When I was in high school back in the early 50s, I delivered the Baltimore Evening Sun newspaper to homes in my South Baltimore neighborhood. This was the afternoon edition of the Baltimore Morning Sun, a paper that traced its history back to 1837. Over the years, the Sun has gone through a few sea changes. In 1986, it was sold by the Gary Black Sr. Family to the Times Mirror Co., which was later acquired by the Tribune Co. Now, in an (…) -
Who is Wolf Blitzer?
18 January 2007 par (Open-Publishing)
1 commentWolf Blitzer was a writer for the Jerusalem Post and penned an article defending New Hampshire’s own political activist Max Hugel, whose forced departure from the CIA caused controversy in 1981. Blitzer’s 1984 article ends by suggesting the CIA should be investigated for anti Semitism.The irony is that in 1984, Jonathan Pollard was a Jewish spy for Israel and passing secrets from his post as an analyst for Naval Intelligence before he was arrested by the CIA in 1985. In 1984, Hugel was (…)
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Banned in Minnesota: Op-ed, " Send Ms. Smith to Washington"
7 November 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
In the classic movie, Mr. Smith Goes to Washington, mainstream newspapers refuse to publish reports of idealistic Senator Jefferson Smith’s battle against Congressional corruption. Thus, it falls to an informal network of concerned citizens and newspaper boys to get out the truth. Today, fiction became reality as word came that a Minnesota newspaper, the Pioneer Press, has refused to publish an op-ed supportive of Coleen Rowley, Democratic candidate for the 2nd District.
Clearly, the (…) -
Anna Politkovskaya was given the OSCE Prize for Journalism and Democracy by the OSCE Parliamentary A
10 October 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
Expressing his shock about the recent murder of Russian journalist Anna Politkovskaya, OSCE PA President Göran Lennmarker stated that "The OSCE PA honoured Ms. Politkovskaya for her bravery in reporting events in face of all odds. It is a tragedy that this bravery and strength have now been silenced".
In February 2003, Anna Politkovskaya was given the OSCE Prize for Journalism and Democracy by the OSCE Parliamentary Assembly. A distinguished journalist with the independent newspaper Novaya (…) -
ALVARO VARGAS LLOSA SENDS HUGO CHAVEZ TO DANTE’S INFERNO
5 October 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
2 commentsAlvaro Vargas Llosa Sends Hugo Chavez to Dante’s Inferno - by Stephen Lendman
Alvaro Vargas Llosa is no stranger to those who know his writings and affilation with the conservative Center on Global Prosperity at the Independent Institute in Oakland, CA. Vargas Llosa is Director of the Center and in that role is a vocal champion of essentially the same predatory market-based policies, known not to work, that growing numbers of people around the world are resisting more than ever - (…) -
JOURNALISM, WALL STREET JOURNAL-STYLE
25 September 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
Journalism, Wall Street Journal-Style - by Stephen Lendman
It takes great courage to venture onto the editorial pages of the Wall Street Journal - especially on Fridays when Mary Anastasia O’Grady’s Americas column appears. This is a woman who surely will have a serious back problem one day resulting from her permanent position of genuflection to the most extreme far-right she pledges allegiance to. In her assigned role at the Journal, which includes character assassination, she can best (…) -
SAUDI ARABIA: British Embassy requests less horrific images while Bahrain daily resists censorship
6 August 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
UK envoy’s plea over Lebanon urges press not to highlight suffering
Riyadh --- Regional press has taken strong note of the British Charge d’Affaires to Bahrain, Stephen Harrison’s request to Bahraini newspapers to stop publishing pictures of destruction and suffering in Lebanon.
Quoting the incident the Saudi daily Arab News on Thursday said the Bahraini press has interpreted the request to self-censorship.
The English version of the letter provided by the embassy in Bahrain quoted (…) -
Il Manifesto (Italian daily newspaper) is facing a financial crisis that threatens its future
26 July 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
2 commentsAppeal from Italy’s Il Manifesto July 28, 2006 | Page 11
THE LEFT-wing Italian daily newspaper Il Manifesto is facing a financial crisis that threatens its future. Here, we print their appeal for support.
FOR 35 years, Il Manifesto has represented a unique phenomenon in Italian, and not just Italian, newspaper history.
Without a boss, other than the workers’ cooperative that gets the paper out each day, equal (low) wages for all, and an independent, autonomous political journalism that (…)