
Source: NewsObserver.com
A UNC-Chapel Hill journalism professor said John Edwards' presidential campaign tried to kill a student's video story about his campaign headquarters.

Source: FOXNews.com
A prominent Palestinian Christian activist was found dead on a Gaza City street Sunday, sending a shudder of fear through a tiny Christian community feeling increasingly insecure since the Islamic Hamas seized control last summer.

Source: Associated Press
By TODD LEWAN
Associated Press
JENA, La. - It's got all the elements of a Delta blues from the days of Jim Crow: hangman's nooses dangling from a shade tree; a mysterious fire in the night; swift deliberations by a condemning, all-white jury.

Source: Crooks and Liars
…if the President means by ordinary lives families essentially living locked up in their homes in almost perpetual darkness, without refrigeration or perhaps constantly struggling for ever more expensive gas to run generators, if he means waiting in their homes wondering if gov …

Source: IOL
The Inkatha Freedom Party has called for an independent commission of inquiry into alleged corruption within the police services.

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Iran has hanged up to 30 people in the past month amid a clampdown prompted by alleged United States-backed plots to topple the regime.

Source: Telegraph
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Source: netWMD
On January 6, 2004, I was threatened with a lawsuit for defamation by the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), an Islamic terrorist supporting front group which has received funding from Islamic terrorists.

Source: The San Francisco Chronicle
The SFChronicle's Matier and Ross report on the political backers of Your Black Muslim Bakery.

Source: Middle East Forum
PHILADELPHIA - The Legal Project of the Middle East Forum announces its support of Robert Spencer and the Young America's Foundation (YAF), the latest victims of what appears to be a targeted intimidation and defamation campaign by the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) …

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Cambridge University Press has agreed to destroy all unsold copies of a 2006 book by two American authors, "Alms for Jihad," following a libel action brought against it in England, the latest development in what critics say is an effort by Saudis to quash discussion of their alle …

Source: Racialicious
The racism in the behavior of the local government is as flagrant as anything that occurred during segregation. The institutions of government in Jena, Louisiana are operating on de-facto Jim Crow; they carry out through cultural practice what was once law.

Source: blog.mlive.com
Two 15-year-old boys and a 16-year-old boy were charged Monday with malicious destruction of property, larceny and ethnic intimidation for spray-painting the driveways and vehicles at two homes in the Wildwood subdivision in Saline early Friday morning, said Deputy Police Chief …

Source: The Boston Globe
The severed head of a town councilman was dumped outside the offices of a newspaper in Mexico's Gulf state of Tabasco in what the paper's publishers said was an attempt to intimidate reporters.

Source: tech.monstersandcritics.com
As bloggers face beatings, torture and jail for criticizing governments, a UN panel criticized companies that are 'passing ethical responsibility' by making agreements with countries that suppress free speech.

Source: The Washington Post
From the article: A 2006 University of Maryland study on chat rooms found that female participants received 25 times as many sexually explicit and malicious messages as males.

Source: majikthise.typepad.com
Sad news: Tech blogger Kathy Sierra canceled her scheduled keynote adress at ETech because she was facing a barrage of online death- and rape threats. Over the past four weeks Kathy has been targeted for a barrage of increasingly credible threats of physical violence.

Source: narcosphere.narconews.com
A letter sent by US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) in response to a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request seems to indicate that this reporter has been under investigation for nearly two years by ICE in retaliation for Narco New's exposure of that agency's comp …

Source: The Times
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Source: BBC News
Zimbabwean newspaper editor Bill Saidi has been sent a bullet in the post with a note warning: "Watch Your Step".
Enclosed with the bullet was a copy of a cartoon from last Sunday's edition of The Standard showing three baboons laughing over an army salary slip.

Source: The Washington Post
BETHLEHEM, Pa. -- An elderly man who wrote in a letter to the editor about Saddam Hussein's execution that "they hanged the wrong man" got a visit from Secret Service agents concerned he was threatening President Bush...

Source: dailystar.com.lb
Rebecca Chiao, a spokesperson for the Egyptian Center for Women's Rights, outlined a campaign to stop sexual harassment, involving media and public outreach, lobbying for new laws and penalties, and an educational film for primary school children.

Source: Redstate
Here they are: the clips that former president Clinton and the Democrats want to stop you from seeing, in six convenient Quicktime files!

Source: Independent.co.uk
From the page:
-- A group of Colombian farmers has won a multimillion pound settlement from BP after the British oil and gas company was accused of benefiting from a regime of terror carried out by Colombian government paramilitaries to protect a 450-mile pipeline. --

Source: Unclaimed Territory
This thuggish tactic of intimidation -- publicly railing against someone's grave crimes and then publishing their home address -- has been creeping out of the most extremist precincts on the Right and is becoming increasingly common among mainstream right-wing individuals and or …