The Electronic Intifada received today the following statement from international academics who recently particpated in a conference on linguistics at the Islamic University of Gaza which decries major media outlets’ failure to report on recent killings of Palestinian civilians by Israeli forces in Gaza. . Read the rest here
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[ Mainstream U.S. talk television has an ‘awareness gap’ moment. ] S.E. Cupp the one woman wrecking ball fends off Andrew Sullivan, Bill Maher, Samuel L Jackson’s & James Carville simultaneously over Obama’s neocon foreign policy. Many people still cannot accept that both Bush & Obama are following the same […]
The American Army’s intrusion in Hollywood war films may surprise some. In fact, the U.S. Army secret services have had close ties with American filmmakers for several decades. The movie Top Gun, for instance, was filmed with the support and approval of the U.S. Army. There is even a special […]
This new and interesting-looking internet series from the director of the first X-Men movie can be viewed from the beginning here [ h / t ~ Lommy ]
Aotearoa Indymedia (www.indymedia.org.nz) is an activist news website where you publish information to a wide audience about the issues you are concerned with. Indymedia is a non-commercial, not-for-profit website that encourages the participation of our users to create and use content. You can directly publish stories, photographs, press releases, details […]
A gated community on the Internet is about to take shape. It begins with identity and deals with mis/trust; sorting the wheat from the chaff. It facilitates auditing of all e-transactions, to fight cybercrime and ensure compliance. This is the new smart world, where control of identity is key. Eleven […]
Mosireen is a non-profit media collective in Downtown Cairo born out of the explosion of citizen media and cultural activism in Egypt during the revolution. Armed with mobile phones and cameras, thousands upon thousands of citizens kept the balance of truth in their country by recording events as they happened […]
[ If you like formulaic British crime dramas AND the ‘Airplane’ films ~ then you’re in luck ] [youtube]3xU3EQULt7A[/youtube] [youtube]sOID08uRzZs[/youtube] [youtube]P0FDAqS0Wy4[/youtube] [youtube]B67xhWEOVlA[/youtube]
[ h / t : Lommy. If Bill Hicks and Ewen Gilmore were ever to be able to somehow together have a child then it would probably look a lot like this ] [youtube]zGuU4xe225A[/youtube]