Global press freedom declines in 2007: study

http://rawstory.com/news/afp/Global_press_freedom_declines_in_20_04292008.html
Global press freedom declined in 2007 for the sixth year running, with worrisome restrictions imposed in Pakistan, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka and Vietnam, the rights group Freedom House has stated in a report.
The Washington-based organization expressed concern about violence against journalists in a number of countries, including Russia, Mexico and the Philippines on Tuesday.
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Behind Military Analysts, the Pentagon’s Hidden Hand

 

April 20, 2008
Message Machine

 
By DAVID BARSTOW
 

In the summer of 2005, the Bush administration confronted a fresh wave of criticism over Guantánamo Bay. The detention center had just been branded “the gulag of our times” by Amnesty International, there were new allegations of abuse from United Nations human rights experts and calls were mounting for its [...]

The U.S. establishment media in a nutshell

Glenn Greenwald
Salon
Monday, April 7, 2008
In the past two weeks, the following events transpired. A Department of Justice memo, authored by John Yoo, was released which authorized torture and presidential lawbreaking. It was revealed that the Bush administration declared the Fourth Amendment of the Bill of Rights to be inapplicable to “domestic military operations” within the [...]