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Open Left (Free subscription) | 29/11/2009
A decade ago tomorrow, the "Battle in Seattle" touched off a series of protests against corporate globalization and neoliberal ideology which meet with intense levels of political repression, police violence and massive media dysinformation. The wave of protests would not subside until the terrorist attacks of 9/11 provided a pretext for the much more hardline repression of neoconservatism...
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Sweeping The Nation (Free subscription) | 28/11/2009
It often feels that the last decade has scene a growing chasm between the “mainstream” and “underground” music scenes in Britain and it also often feels that Tim Ten Yen – who writes pop songs but moves in underground indie circles - is a man caught between these two camps, lacking the major label clout to dominate the airwaves whilst being misperceived by sections of...
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Viewpoint - Life, the Universe... and other... (Free subscription) | 28/11/2009
Maybe I’m strange but this story doesn’t make sense to me at all. Either someone at the border has a huge case of paranoia, or a prominent independent media journalist made up a story in order to get more notoriety for herself. The report comes from CBC News Vancouver. There’s a longer version of this report at the CBC News website, but it seems that at the moment, they don’t...
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Soc 202 - Current Events (Free subscription) | 27/11/2009
Jarrod Rudd Nov. 27, 2009 8:50am In 2007 Rwanda applied to be a part of the Commonwealth. They were previously a Belgium colony and only recently switched from being French to English-speaking. Now a lot of people don’t know how to feel about the prospect of them joining. They say that the move will damage the union’s reputation for upholding human rights and the rule of law. Rwanda says...
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Post-Darwinist (Free subscription) | 27/11/2009
"Darwin and the Mathematicians", here , is David Berlinsk's final interview with Evolution News and Views. Berlinski, a Darwin skeptic of long standing, discusses the reasons famous mathematicians have doubted Darwin, along with entertaining anecdotes: In the first part of the 20th century, Darwin v. Dissent had not yet acquired its riveting incarnation as a melodrama of intolerance. No heresy,...
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Hard Drive Reviews (Free subscription) | 27/11/2009
The Fusion-io ioXtreme, and ioXtreme Pro PCI Express Solid State Storage devices are the best storage solution for PCs and workstation applications that are I/O intensive or bandwidth starved. With 80GB of high performance, non-volatile storage you can edit, copy, or save massive files five times faster. Built using ioMemory and MLC NAND flash technology, the ioXtreme performs better than its SATA...
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The Guardian (Free subscription) | 26/11/2009
Leo Hickman: Brilliantly rapped spoof news report for YouTube channel TheJuiceMedia pits Al Gore against Lord Monkton in a war of words over climate change It's what the world has been waiting for. We've had the Rumble in the Jungle . And the Thriller in Manilla . But now – following years of trying to get it on – we're proud to bring you news of The Storming of the Warming. Finally, Al...
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The Guardian (Free subscription) | 26/11/2009
The election in Honduras has the blessing of the US, but not the people, their president or the rest of the world On Sunday, Honduras's coup regime, with the support of the US, is staging a presidential election of a special kind. Voters will have a choice of two candidates : the coup supporter Porfirio Lobo or the coup supporter Elvin Santos. The anti-coup candidate, Carlos Reyes, has withdrawn his...
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The Guardian (Free subscription) | 26/11/2009
Tony Blair called for the Baghdad government to uphold press freedoms "we fought for" in Iraq today following a wave of complaints that independent media were being harassed. The former prime minister, whose role in the Iraq war is the subject of an official public inquiry, spoke out over press freedom after a Baghdad court fined a Guardian journalist, Ghaith Abdul-Ahad, for defamation after...
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HorsesAss.Org (Free subscription) | 25/11/2009
The recent execution-style murder of Officer Timothy Brenton has justifiably shaken the residents of Seattle. The suspect, Christopher Monfort, is most certainly the culprit. His car was seen at the crime scene, and when discovered at his apartment a few days later, police claim to have found DNA and ballistics evidence that links him to the crime. Monfort openly talked of waging war against the police,...
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Hard Drive Reviews (Free subscription) | 25/11/2009
The Fusion-io eXtreme Bundle is the ideal starting point for your high performance storage solution needs. Consisting of one 80GB ioXtreme, and one 80 GB ioXtreme Pro, the eXteme Bundle gives you the most performance at the best price. The ioXtreme and ioXtreme Pro were created as a scalable storage solution to help you to get the most performance from your workstation. We took advanced supercomputer...
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democrats.com (Free subscription) | 25/11/2009
By David Swanson One of the best features of a visit to Los Angeles is the opportunity to hang out with the guy who put Charles Manson in prison, the most successful criminal prosecutor we're ever likely to see, Vince Bugliosi (105 convictions in 106 felony jury trials, 21 convictions in 21 murder trials). I spoke with him on Tuesday about his forthcoming documentary film (pre-order DVD here http://www.indiegogo.com/bush...
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Human Security Gateway: All Updates (Free subscription) | 24/11/2009
Rwanda’s application for membership of the Commonwealth is likely to be on the agenda at this year’s Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting at Port Spain in Trinidad and Tobago. Traditionally, because of its origins, the membership rules for the Commonwealth were informal. In recent years, interest in membership has been shown by states with no previous constitutional link to the Commonwealth...
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The Industry Standard (Free subscription) | 23/11/2009
It's official: AOL is now Aol. As the fading Internet giant nears its 20th anniversary , the newly independent media company is prepping for another revamp. The latest step is a new logo, as seen below. The corporate name is now spelled with an upper case "A," a lower case "o" and "l," and a period: Today's AOL, er, Aol. --my spell checker sure hates that period -- is...
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Ismailimail (Free subscription) | 23/11/2009
The Salzburg global Seminar is a high level gathering of development agencies, foundations and other international donor organizations. The goal of the meeting was to discuss the role of independent media as a driver of positive change, underwriting development goals, and increasing the effectiveness of development programs. The meeting was held from October [...]
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