Day March 7, 2005

More on Sgrena Giuliana

From Danny Schechter, “the News Dissector”.  I don’t generally post such long quotes, however this is absolutely worth reading. I kept thinking of Giuliana last night. I didn’t sleep well. The Italian journalist had finally been freed with the help…

Leftists toppling Bolivia government

President Carlos Mesa announced that he would resign as road blocks and demonstrations targeting multinational firms wracked Bolivia. This match may have been lit in 2000 when Bechtel privatized the water company in Cochabamba and water prices quadrupled. This set off huge…

Google AutoLink.

Google pollutes links stream with evil precedent for market censorship Proposed search tool redirects links on blogs abridging author intent and meaning In this 12 minute Video Blogmash the Better Bad News panel re-mixes commentary and analysis of a pending…

ANSWER LA to have antiwar billboard for March 19!

The billboard will be at Sunset and Virgil, near the assembly point for the March 19 LA antiwar march and rally at Hollywood and Vine. It will be there Mar. 10-19th.  Thousands of people will pass this very busy intersection and see…