Attention all journalists, bloggers and technophiles! Internet advocacy
group Global Voices Online is hosting a two-day media summit in Hungary on
27-28 June to share information on what's happening in citizen media.

If you want to know WHAT controls the European media…

These are all statements of Silvio Berlusconi himself in the weeks before the 2008 elections.
Silvio Berlusconi assures a few weeks before the elections that there is no place in his coalition for persons with a criminal past or with mafia connections…

Did you know that Berlusconi's media imperium has been expanded with
one of the major media concerns ( Endemol ) in the world?
Why didn't we read anything about that in our media?
This happened mid 2007.
Did you notice that latest years investigative journalists are a dying race?
Maybe it's not a bad idea to draw a clear map of the current media concentrations in the
world.

MARCO GURRIERI, IMPIEGATO DELL'ENEL, VITTIMA DI UNA ASSURDA VICENDA GIUDIZIARIA, MUORE PER LO STRESS

Ecuadorian police detained five journalists associated with Ecuador Indymedia -  http://www.ecuador.indymedia.org/ - late Tuesday night, May 6th. Four of the five were released from custody on Wednesday afternoon. The government says that the four activists were detained because of their relationship with the fifth detainee, Ecuadorian resident and Colombian national Antonio Alcívar.

UN IMPIEGATO DELL’ENEL ACCUSATO DI VIOLENZA SESSUALE

The NATO summit in Bucharest took place between April 2-4. Activists from Romania and abroad organized “Anti-NATO Days” between March 28 and April 5, as a form of protest. What follows is a daily chronology of events, starting with the repression and abuse by border guards, police and the mass-media, to the actions of solidarity by human rights organizations and foreign activists.

Un notorio avasallamiento de las mayorías a través del control de la mente pública, ejercida por intermedio de la prensa que responde a los grupos dominantes, es lo que puede advertirse en la actual campaña presidencial de Paraguay.

Click at the link below to see the article Indymedia UK has publishd about the repression in Romania:

 http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2008/04/395456.html

Please keep updating with any news or developments.

Solidarity is our weapon!

Dear comrades

This evening, during the punk concert, we will speak from the stage to audience about the situation in Bucharest!!

translations of some info posted earlier on the romanian newswire

About 1000 people from 17 European countries went to the NATO headquarters in Brussels this morning to take part in the international non violent action NATO GAME OVER. 5 years after the start of the Iraq war and 10 days before the Bucharest NATO summit, peace activists from all over Europe show that preventing war starts here in Europe - 1000 participants and 500 arrests

Tribuna Popular es el Diario Digital del Partido Comunista y la Clase Obrera Venezolana, de lucha anifascista, antiimperialista, por el socialismo en vía al comunismo, con informaión y opinión para todo el mundo de habla hispana. Su dirección web es:
 http://www.tribuna-popular.org

Captain Eric H. May, the Internet intelligence writer, offers fresh insight on the assassination of Benazir Bhutto in Pakistan. He poses an all-important question for Americans: if presidential candidate Dr. Ron Paul also in the crosshairs?

"Fabrika Zvezd" (Star factory) is a format Reality-TV show in Russia, where young people are "trained" to be pop stars.

Each week one of the participators is discarded after sms voting.

Who IS running this bushite nazi liar show, where they, our
elite corporate media masters, kill our stupid kids with their
flagrant naked monster lies, while refusing all calls for
clarity, Johnny America really wants to know. Like
immediately

Four participants in an 86-day walk from Dublin to London for a nuclear-free future have been arrested today at AWE (Atomic Weapons Establishment) Aldermaston in Berkshire. They were protesting against the ongoing expansion at the facility.

Venezuela: The case of RCTV and the fictional democratization of communication

* The Collective of “El Libertario”, Venezuelan anarchist newspaper, makes public its reasoned out position in the debate generated by the case of RCTV, in where the current government imposes a solution where we pass from the meanness that the capitalistic private oligopoly of TV to the dreadful that could be the monopoly of a bureaucratic and authoritarian state.

The latest updates from the G8 protests can now be found here:
 http://de.indymedia.org/ticker/en/

On 19 May, 2007, the day the Romanian President Traian Basescu was voted back to his position by an overwhelming majority, he was recorded talking to his wife about a Romanian journalist from a TV station owned by a political opponent, saying: “...how aggressive this stinky gypsy woman was…” [1]

Red Hot Smoking 911 Gun

PEACE WALK update DUBLIN to FASLANE

Not really an Internet firm...

We include in this release the video-chronicles we have produced during the last year, trying to give voice in an audiovisual format to different moments of the anti-capitalist struggle.

The Spanish “Transition to democracy” was simply a way to fortify the capitalist economic model. With such Transition, the Spanish dominant class eliminated all sort of social resistance and opened the way for business; they made a Francoism without Franco and presented the Transition as a triumph of the people. It was a history written by the owners of money and their fascist sentries.
But Memory, Dignity and Struggle continue

#1 Future of Internet Debate Ignored by Media
#2 Halliburton Charged with Selling Nuclear Technologies to Iran
#3 Oceans of the World in Extreme Danger
#4 Hunger and Homelessness Increasing in the US
#5 High-Tech Genocide in Congo
#6 Federal Whistleblower Protection in Jeopardy
# 7 US Operatives Torture Detainees to Death in Afghanistan and Iraq
#8 Pentagon Exempt from Freedom of Information Act
#9 The World Bank Funds Israel-Palestine Wall
#10 Expanded Air War in Iraq Kills More Civilians
#11 Dangers of Genetically Modified Food Confirmed
#12 Pentagon Plans to Build New Landmines
#13 New Evidence Establishes Dangers of Roundup
#14 Homeland Security Contracts KBR to Build Detention Centers in the US
#15 Chemical Industry is EPA’s Primary Research Partner
#16 Ecuador and Mexico Defy US on International Criminal Court
#17 Iraq Invasion Promotes OPEC Agenda
#18 Physicist Challenges Official 9-11 Story
#19 Destruction of Rainforests Worst Ever
#20 Bottled Water: A Global Environmental Problem
#21 Gold Mining Threatens Ancient Andean Glaciers
#22 $Billions in Homeland Security Spending Undisclosed
#23 US Oil Targets Kyoto in Europe
#24 Cheney’s Halliburton Stock Rose Over 3000 Percent Last Year
#25 US Military in Paraguay Threatens Region

International Intelligence Expert Tom Heneghan outs the names of assassination teams and the treasonous conspiracy of FBI Directors Louis Freeh and Robert Mueller in the training of Mohamed Atta at Venice, Florida flight school.

A former Army intelligence and public affairs officer, Captain May, delves into the dark issue of whether the Bush admininstration has already planned its October surprise in the form of a war with Iran -- and whether the American Establishment is going along with the idea.

I’ve been invited to give a lecture at Arizona State University (USA) this fall on evolutionary science and its uses in progressive activism. The version of the lecture I wanted to give turned out to be 4 hours long, so I recorded that version in 13 tracks and posted it on my website for free download at www.newbookforanewworld.com/lecture.htm .