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Corporate Rip-Off of U.S. Cell Phone Users

May 6th, 2008 · 2 Comments · News, News Analysis

 
Walk into a cell phone shop in any country on earth, and walk out with a phone and service for $40. Any country, except the U.S., that is. In the United States of America, using the major providers, you pay triple or quadruple the price of a phone on the world market for the privilege [...]

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Oaxaca’s Radio Wars

May 5th, 2008 · 1 Comment · International, News

 

By Charles Mostoller
Despite assassinations, community radio is spreading throughout southern Mexico
“Some people think that we are too young to be informed, but what they should know is that we are too young to die.”
These were the fateful words of Felicitas Martinez Sanchez and Teresa Bautista Merino, two indigenous Triqui radio broadcasters who were assassinated in [...]

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D.C. Madame Dead - Predicted She Would Be ‘Suicided’

May 2nd, 2008 · No Comments · News

This is a huge story, which will be buried, along with her corpse.
She said she would be killed, and quick as she dies, TIME reports she swore she would commit suicide. Go in peace, dirty woman. All the Washington filth gets tiresome, the corruption and cover-ups too absurd.
Here are more odd tie-ins
And 9/11 [...]

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Tibet: Beyond Geopolitics

April 30th, 2008 · No Comments · International, News, News Analysis

The sudden interest in Tibet by the global main stream media (MSM), with the Olympic protests as a backdrop, has brought on a full-blown debate that has swept from Parliaments to the Blogosphere with this long-ignored issue. The geopolitical focus of the debate, however, leads nowhere if it doesn’t factor in what is arguably the [...]

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