Most Underreported News of 2008 (Till Now)
Dan Clore
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/smygo
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_
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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"