A selection of underreported news taken from my Smygo list.

I encourage readers to add their own suggestions. (Not necessarily from
Smygo.)

On January 1st, a hacker broke into the old website of ZNet, one of the
most useful progressive news sites (the new website is at
http://www.zcommunications.org/znet ), and reset all of the links to
re-direct to a pornographic website. From the little that I
inadvertently saw, I believe that it is a virtual certainty that this
material would legally be considered child pornography.
(No link for this story. ZNet chose not to publicize or pursue the
matter legally.)

The Iraq Freedom Congress is a libertarian, secular, non-violent,
democratic, and progressive group that opposes Ba'athism, Islamism, and
nationalism -- as well as the US invasion/occupation. The IFC has
organized Safety Forces that patrol neighborhoods in Baghdad and other
cities (population c. 5,000). They have reduced sectarian violence in
these neighborhoods to zero. Far from supporting the IFC, the American
occupiers have repeatedly raided their offices and have assassinated the
head of their Safety Forces. Mainstream mass media have entirely failed
to report on the existence of the IFC, and alternative media have been
almost as bad.

Iraq's Civil Resistance and Secular Left Opposition

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/smygo/message/10696

Moving Against Maliki

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/smygo/message/11648

US Forces Again Raid the Iraq Freedom Congress

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/smygo/message/11046

The IFC Arrests the Assassins of Sana TV Director

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/smygo/message/11394

"Military Analyst" Now Officially Means "Pentagon Propagandist"

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/smygo/message/11268

Mainstream Media Used Pentagon Propagandists as "Military Analysts"
4,500+ Times

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/smygo/message/11308

Somalia Quagmire Continues to Worsen

When Ethiopia invaded Somalia as a US-proxy in December 2006, they
intended to stay for three months. They're still stuck there with no end
in sight. Mainstream mass media keep misreporting the story.

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/smygo/message/11175
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/smygo/message/11214
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/smygo/message/11267
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/smygo/message/11393
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/smygo/message/11698

Apaches Defend Their Homeland from "Homeland Security"

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/smygo/message/10752

Homeland "Security" Won't Explain--

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/smygo/message/11052

Chinese Farmers Rise in Opposition to Land Policy

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/smygo/message/10784

Corporations Given "Human Rights", Humans Denied Them

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/smygo/message/11010

Better Dead than High

Drug Warriors deliberately pursue policies that maximize, rather than
minimize, the harm done by illicit drugs.

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/smygo/message/11100

Poppies for Medicine

While poppy-growing soars, it goes to make black-market heroin or be
destroyed by law-enforcement, and patients with chronic pain face a
shortage of painkillers.

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/smygo/message/11552

FBI Wants Moles for RNC Protests

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/smygo/message/11329

Brazil's movement of occupied factories

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/smygo/message/11341

Rush Limbaugh Explains Anarchism
(Included for the humor value, of course.)

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/smygo/message/11068

Starhawk Deported from Israel

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/smygo/message/11144

Create Your Own Workplace

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/smygo/message/11622

"We Agree" -- Statement of Third Party Unity

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/smygo/message/11665

Noam Chomsky

Chomsky's views are always illuminating.

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/smygo/message/10939
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/smygo/message/10961
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/smygo/message/11088
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/smygo/message/11191
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/smygo/message/11350
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/smygo/message/11366
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/smygo/message/11459
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/smygo/message/11470
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/smygo/message/11471
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/smygo/message/11525

And for reminders:

Most underreported news of 2007

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/smygo/message/10655

Most underreported news of 2006

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/smygo/message/8654

--
Dan Clore

My collected fiction: _The Unspeakable and Others_
http://tinyurl.com/2gcoqt
Lord Weÿrdgliffe & Necronomicon Page:
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Skipper: Professor, will you tell these people who is
in charge on this island?
Professor: Why, no one.
Skipper: No one?
Thurston Howell III: No one? Good heavens, this is anarchy!
-- _Gilligan's Island_, episode #6, "President Gilligan"