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Edwards Attempts to Stifle Student Media

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.

Palestinian Christian Murdered in Gaza

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.

What Really Happened at Jena?

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.

Keeping Them Honest: Michael Ware on Bush's Definition of an "Ordinary Life" in Iraq

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 …

We can not turn a blind eye any longer

Source: IOL

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

Iran hangs 30 over 'US plots'

Source:

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.

Anti-CAIR Founder: My Turn on Civil Rights

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.

Oakland: The political patrons of Your Black Muslim Bakery

Source: The San Francisco Chronicle

The SFChronicle's Matier and Ross report on the political backers of Your Black Muslim Bakery.

The Legal Project to Defend Robert Spencer from CAIR

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) …

Saudis: Libel Suit Leads to Destruction of Books

Source:

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 …

Free The Jena Six Now

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.

Saline teens accused of racial intimidation, vandalism

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 …

Slain councilman's head left outside Mexican newspaper office

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.

U.N. focuses on blogger freedom

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.

Sexual Threats Stifle Some Female Bloggers

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.

Female tech blogger cancels keynote amid death threats

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.

ICE refuses to release records of agents' intimidation of Narco News

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 …

Zimbabwe cartoon's bullet warning

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.

Paranoia, 1; Freedom of Speech, 0.

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...

For Egypt's women, it's more harassment and fewer rights

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.

Watch the clips from "The Path to 9/11" that Clinton wants to censor

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!

BP pays out millions to Colombian farmers

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. --

Right wingers declare a war of intimidation

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 …

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