Headlines from DemocracyNow.org, a daily TV/radio news program, hosted by Amy Goodman and Juan Gonzalez, airing on over 650 stations, pioneering the largest community media collaboration in the US. Shoe-Throwing Iraqi Journalist Sentenced to 3 Years The Iraqi journalist who threw his shoes at Presid...

I tip my hat to the students of the University of Chicago, who nicely illustrate the appropriate response to the Westboro Baptist Church: mockery. They were accompanied down the street by a group of students mocking the WBC’s message. The students held a sign reading “Figs Doom Nations� and pl...

Hecklers Ruin Free Speech Talk Hey people, I just ten minutes ago came from the speech scheduled this evening at UMass by former Boston Herald columnist Don Feder on the issue of hate crimes and free speech. Ironically, the speech was unable to be delivered due to constant interuptions and insults f...

Elina Galperin says that the economy of Kazakhstan has been hit hard hard by the worldwide drop in demand for energy supplies, and the government is increasingly worried about protests here....

Depression Humor I didn't post anything yesterday because I spent the whole day in bed sick. Nevermind my health, should I start dyeing my hair? Anyway I couldn't stand not feeling well enough to do anything, yet forced by illness to just lie around. Good thing I recovered quickly or I may have slip...

namaste! hundreds of tibetan-americans from around northern california converged this morning on san francisco to mark the 50th anniversary of the 1959 uprising that sent the dalai lama into exile and has symbolized tibetan resistance to chinese occupation ever since. "even though 50 years have gone...

Female bloggers from across the Middle East joined hands in marking the International Women's Day with posts reflecting on the occasion and celebrating the lives and achievements of women who have touched them. In Saudi Arabia, American Bedu admits that while many women in the kingdom may not ev...

People in Fiji are slowly coming to grips with the fact the nation’s Rugby sevens team could not defend its World Cup title because it was beaten by upstart Kenya in the quarter-finals. In a very unconventional Rugby sevens World Cup played this year in Dubai, Wales emerged as the winner after the...

This weekend the Syrian blogosphere warmed up for a new confrontation. A group of bloggers launched a campaign against the spread of blogs advancing LGBT rights, and the response came quick. LGBT is controversial everywhere, but within a society that is conservative in its majority, the topic gets m...

Neo-Republicans are the angry CAT. The Obama Administration must clean the CAT BOX. The SHIT is the result of eight years of mismanagement and corruption and plain old greed. Now the CAT demonizes the scooper and bullies the cleaning methods … this makes no sense. It stinks! Neo-Republicans ar...