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The History Channel, an American network, recently produced a mini-series on the Kennedy White House. Unlike obsequious portrays of the Kennedys, the several episodes...
made popular Feb 4 2011
The Twitter community is angry that a judge at Doncaster Crown Court has refused to quash Paul Chambers conviction. Earlier this year, accountant Paul Chambers was...
made popular Nov 15 2010
Man those damn Muslims are so sensitive!
Here’s something that the Islamophoboes will not notice: an ad is banned in the UK because it is seen as offending...
made popular Sep 28 2010
Violence against journalists in Mexico continues with impunity and has resulted in self-censorship that threatens Mexicans’ right of freedom of expression, the...
made popular Sep 9 2010
At least 22 Mexican journalists have been killed over the past four years, according to a U.S.-based media watchdog group that is calling on the government to respond...
made popular Sep 9 2010
A young computer student has become the voice of one of the most violent drug wars in the world.
The anonymous twenty-something blogger is risking his own life every...
made popular Aug 14 2010
Hundreds of journalists marched in downtown Mexico City and thousands joined in other marches across the country Saturday in protest of the escalating intimidation,...
made popular Aug 11 2010
I always thought that Lebanon was one of the more secular, democratic nations in the Middle East but it appears I am wrong. Apparently, criticizing the president can...
made popular Jul 29 2010
Elton John’s ‘on again off again’ appearance at the Mawazine festival concert in Morocco, May 21 through 29, is apparently back on, after the...
made popular May 11 2010
Who hasn’t heard of the “Arabian Nights” (aka One Thousand And One Nights)- Sheherazade’s colorful stories about Ali Baba , Aladdin and Sinbad?...
made popular May 6 2010
We all grow! In the movie industry not only actors, film makers and technicians evolve in their art over a period of time, but there are few more elements as well that...
made popular May 6 2010
China may have just taken the first retaliatory step against Google, after the search enginge decided to relocated its service out of Hong Kong. As the website created...
made popular Apr 1 2010
Our “freedoms” are rapidly becoming a thing of the past. Religious fanatics and their oversensitivity to anything that runs counter to their tiny, pious...
made popular Mar 27 2010
Google has announced that it will move its Chinese language search operations to Hong Kong.
The company said that all Chinese-simplified language searches will be...
made popular Mar 25 2010
China has said Google’s decision to stop censoring Chinese search results is “totally wrong” and violates its promise to abide by local laws.
The US...
made popular Mar 23 2010
Shocker! Only few weeks ago Obama and his administration issued a note for Chinese counterpart saying that China should stop censorships as its against the democracy...
made popular Feb 6 2010
Google has stopped censoring images of the Tiananmen Square massacre on its Chinese website.
Users on Google.cn’s image search can now see the iconic picture of...
made popular Jan 16 2010
Instead of looking within and trying to figure out why the Iranian population is fed up and tired of the current regime, the government is stupidly blaming everyone but...
made popular Jan 6 2010
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Never underestimate the thuggery of the Ben Ali regime. Although never the scourge of Western criticism for human rights abuses, because hypocritical Western...
made popular Jan 5 2010
Britain has a historic and international reputation as the home of free speech.
Yet in recent times it has been developing an altogether contrary reputation as the...
made popular Dec 22 2009
Two thousand and nine will not be remembered as the year Chinese censors decided to lighten up. This week, the Chinese agency that oversees the country’s Internet...
made popular Dec 18 2009
Communists are not only paranoid they are downright petty. Apparently the Chinese government was peeved by the fact that they weren’t chosen to interview U.S....
made popular Dec 14 2009
nearly 200 nervous-looking Public Security officials seized two Chinese human rights lawyers outside the U.S. Embassy in Beijing, who were trying to establish a meeting...
made popular Nov 23 2009
The U.S. media will not notice and the U.S. government does not care - nor, in the case of the latter, should it. But Saudi Arabia - which is often outrageously...
made popular Nov 7 2009
As though the world isn’t messed up enough with struggling world economies, violence everywhere, we also have Muslim extremism infecting the world with fear. ...
made popular Nov 5 2009
Around two dozen comics from the country are on display at the Frankfurt Book Fair, with writers, publishers and agents hopeful of a gradual easing of censorship in one...
made popular Oct 19 2009
George Bernard Shaw once said, “Assassination is the extreme form of censorship.” (Remember Lasantha?). One is also reminded of words of the 19th century poet...
made popular Sep 2 2009
The 20-year-old student spoke softly but firmly as she described how a dispute over grades led to her rape at an unofficial jail.
She had been expelled from college...
made popular Aug 11 2009
As Venezuelans increasingly confront the consequences of Chavez’s “21st Century” through rampant inflation, decreased investment and a declining...
made popular Aug 7 2009
Any hope that an ever more prosperous China would slowly lead to an opening in the realm of free expression and all the consequences thereof were given a setback this...
made popular Jun 25 2009
Two days before the 20th anniversary of the Tiananmen Square massacre, China’s censors moved today to limit the access of the country’s increasingly...
made popular Jun 2 2009
Hundreds of opponents of President Hugo Chavez marched in support of press freedom in Venezuela on Wednesday, two years after his government refused to renew the...
made popular May 28 2009
Hugo Chávez, the Venezuelan President, has tightened the noose on Globovisión, the last opposition news channel broadcasting freely in the country, amid threats to...
made popular May 25 2009
Here is the dishonorable list of the Ten Worst countries for bloggers. The list is not surprising, not the inclusion of Tunisia or China.
It is in these countries...
made popular May 1 2009
Last night while marinating some chicken, I was watching the season finale of “Heroes.” During a tense climactic scene, the main villain uses his...
made popular Apr 29 2009
Mexico is infamous for being one of the most dangerous countries for journalists and since 2000 already 20 have been killed and 8 kidnapped. These are the statistics of...
made popular Apr 8 2009
The Freedom on the Net Index has ranked Tunisia second only to Cuba and on par with China in censoring the Internet. The Tunisian government is notorious for blocking...
made popular Apr 4 2009
Yesterday I titled a post “Is Dubai Becoming The Next Saudi Arabia?” The post concerned the soon-to-be legally enforced code of conduct in Duabi whose...
made popular Mar 24 2009
Imagine being jailed for simply blogging about your conversion to Christianity or for criticizing your government or your religion, but this is exactly what is...
made popular Feb 2 2009
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