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Iran to put more anti-Ahmadinejad protesters on trial » Iran will put on trial on Tuesday seven more protesters arrested in the aftermath of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's disputed election victory, the ISNA news agency reported.The Fars news agency said those facing prosecution were political activists and rioters arrested during the violence which erupted after the hardline president's re-election in June.Iran has already staged mass trials of around 140 people on offences linked to the massive demonstrations that followed Ahmadinejad's victory. ...
Tibetians Never Were and Never will be Chinese. Free Tibet. » The people in question, Tibetians dont think of themselves as Chinese. China has no moral or legal claim on Tibet except what is based on illegal military occupation, the largest imperialist land grab carried out in Twentieth Century. And these are the people - chinese communists, that talk about peace, civilisation, sensitivity and culture all of which they lack. Culture of Chinese rulers and their fascist behavior with Tibetians seems to be as monochromatic like most Hongkong produced viole...
Obama in surprise Berlin Wall video address » US President Barack Obama on Monday made a surprise video address to celebrations in Germany marking the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall."There could be no clearer rebuke of tyranny. There could be no stronger affirmation of freedom," Obama said of the fall of the concrete barrier that divided East and West Berlin for 28 years until November 9, 1989.In the message beamed into celebrations at Berlin's Brandenburg Gate, once on the border between East and West Berlin, Obama told ch...
Iran's Internet: Whirlpool and fear » While the world is trying to free the web, Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) is going to make it much more barred. Recently, a site which is called Gerdab (Whirlpool) has been launched in order to monitor the Iranian Internet according to the IRGC’s dogmatic ideologies and strategies.Gerdab gathered a professional team to observe the internet. It is aimed to catch opposition web sites and blogs by reporting and/or undermining them. This will constitute an unprecedented threat for the safe...
Nonviolent Protest Anniversary - Howard Students Told Atwater No! » Something smelled funny as soon as it was proposed -- the union of a proud black university and a top Republican strategist and troublemaker credited with one of the most racist presidential campaign schemes of recent memory.But there it was in news accounts carried across the nation: Howard University names Republican Chairman Lee Atwater to its board of trustees. Atwater had just engineered the 1988 presidential victory of George H.W. Bush and had crafted the racist Willie Horton ad that hel...
Venezuelans protest censorship of popular TV channel » Security forces fire tear gas and plastic bullets at thousands of protesters in Caracas and elsewhere after RCTV is banned for violating a law that requires stations to air the president's speeches.Reporting from Caracas, Venezuela, and Quito, Ecuador -- Protests broke out in Venezuela on Monday after cable companies dropped transmission of a popular channel that the government declared had broken telecommunications laws by not broadcasting President Hugo Chavez's speeches.Government critics and...
The Movement Awakened » Security offices and disciplinary committees have become a hub of activity at Iranian universities these days. The lines of accused students waiting to be processed for taking part in protesting the election outcome are creating a veritable traffic jam outside the doors of these offices. This traffic jam is indicative of one clear truth: those who ordered the crackdown on the students' movement, unaware that the sword they have been wielding has never been able to make a single cut, are still tr...
U.S. expresses outrage over `assault' on Cuban blogger Yoani Sánchez » The U.S. State Department has told Cuba it deplores last week's ``assault'' on blogger Yoani Sánchez, one of the toughest of several expressions of support for the Havana writer.Sánchez and fellow blogger Orlando Luis Pardo said they were beaten Friday by presumed state security agents to keep them away from a ``march against violence.'' Blogger Claudia Cadelo and another woman were detained in the incident, but without violence.``The U.S. government strongly deplores the assault,'' said a State...
Iran police clash with protesters over daily's closure » Iranian police used batons to disperse dozens of opposition supporters chanting "death to the dictator" in central Tehran Monday to protest against the closure of a reformist newspaper, a witness said.The latest street unrest after Iran's disputed June 12 presidential vote took place near the offices of the Etemad-e Melli, the daily of leading pro-reform cleric Mehdi Karoubi.Karoubi angered many hardliners last week by saying some post-election protesters had been raped in jail. His party said M...
Anti-Thaksin rally takes to the streets » "Thaksin get out!" the protesters shouted in unison as they marched down the streets of Bangkok to Government House. Holding yellow and orange banners aloft, the disparate mix of students, business workers, activists and union members had one aim in common - to get rid of Thai Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra. "Thaksin only does his job so he can get benefits for himself," said one protester, Boonma. "He never thinks about his country - only himself." Tuesday's anti-Thaksin rally was the late...