Utne Reader: Alternative coverage of politics, culture, and new ideas News, Sports, Business, Politics - Raleigh, Durham, Chapel Hill | The News & Observer Adbusters Culturejammer Headquarters | Journal of the mental environment VOGUE | женская мода 2012 - 2013, женский журнал о моде, репортажи с подиума, новости высокой моды, стиль и красота, тенденции моды весна-лето, коллекции осень-зима, модный интернет портал для женщин Журнал VOGUE European Countries Refuse to Release Information on CIA Rendition Flights Romania's National Registry Office for Classified Information (ORNISS) headquarters building is seen in the background of this image taken in Bucharest, December 9, 2011. International media has reported that between 2003 and 2006, the CIA operated a secret prison from the building's basement, bringing in high-value terror suspects for interrogation and detention. ORNISS has denied hosting a CIA prison and the CIA has refused to comment. Rights groups accuse Europe of CIA flights coverup (AP): Rendition on Record - Using the right of access to information to unveil the paths of illegal prisoner transfer flights (Access Info Europe):
Phone hacking a “bog-standard journalistic tool”, ex-Mirror reporter tells Inquiry A former financial reporter at the Daily Mirror has told the Leveson Inquiry that phone hacking seemed to happen daily at the paper, and was “openly discussed”. James Hipwell, who wrote the City Slickers column for the paper from 1998 before being jailed in 2006 for writing about firms he owned shares in, stood by his witness statement in which he said phone hacking was a “bog-standard journalistic tool”. He told the Inquiry the practice was openly discussed by the showbiz desk, recounting that the team had deleted a message from a celebrity’s voicemail to stop the rival paper, the Sun, intercepting and getting the story. “It didn’t seem to me to be an ethical way to behave, but it seemed a generally accepted method to get a story,” Hipwell said. He said he did not report the practice to former editor Piers Morgan because it seemed that it was “entirely accepted” by senior editors on the paper.” He said Morgan was the tabloid’s “beating heart” and “dear leader”.
Canadian Alternative News Media Alternativemedia.org is devoted to providing news, perspective, and information that mainstream corporate media does not report. Underground press The underground press were the independently published and distributed underground papers associated with the counterculture of the late 1960s and early 1970s in the United States, Canada, United Kingdom, and other western nations. The term "underground press" is also used to refer to illegal publications under oppressive regimes, for example, the samizdat and bibuła in the Soviet Union and Poland respectively. Origins[edit] The underground press in the 1960s and 1970s existed in most countries with high GDP per capita and freedom of the press; similar publications existed in some developing countries and as part of the samizdat movement in the communist states, notably Czechoslovakia. Published as weeklies, monthlies, or "occasionals", and usually associated with left-wing politics, they evolved on the one hand into today's alternative weeklies and on the other into zines. In the United Kingdom[edit] The flaunting of sexuality within the underground press provoked prosecution.
Alternative media Because the term "alternative" has connotations of self-marginalization, some media outlets now prefer the term "independent" over "alternative". Several different categories of media may fall under the heading of alternative media. These include, but are not limited to, radical media, dissident and social movement media, ethnic/racial media, indigenous media, community media, subcultural media, student media, and avant-garde media. Each of these categories highlights the perceived shortcomings of dominant media to serve particular audiences, aims and interests, and attempts to overcome these shortcomings through their own media. Definition[edit] The traditional, binary definition of alternative media as stated above has been expanded in the last decade. Michael Albert has written that primarily, organizations self-identify as alternative. Digital technologies have also led to an alternative form of video more commonly known as citizen generated journalism. History[edit] Theory[edit]
INFORMATION CLEARING HOUSE. NEWS, COMMENTARY & INSIGHT Norway abolishes state-sponsored Church of Norway In an unprecedented move, the Norwegian Parliament has voted to abolish the state-sponsored Church of Norway with a constitutional amendment. The bipartisan measure to create a separation of church and state will officially be presented on Tuesday, reports Norway's TV2. The nation will not have an official religion, and the government will not participate in the appointment of church deans and bishops. Svein Harberg, the spokesman for the Church, Education, and Research Committee stated that the decision "is historic both for the Norwegian Church and for the politicians in Parliament." The Church of Norway began after the Lutheran Reformation in 1536, and was officially called the Lutheran State Church. The state meddled very little in church matters, only quelling unrest when it had to, chose high church officials, and financially supported the church. Read more...
Police Agent Provocaters and Agent Agitators This film (and the graphic on the left) was made by an independent group of people called Agent Provocateur Watch. It came into my hands recently, and having viewed the video, I would have to say it raises several interesting questions. It seems to suggest that the police are now using unusual techniques to arrest and agitate demonstrators. I would urge you to watch the video very carefully. You will also notice a large man screaming abuse at the police (a force,it appears, he himself belongs to) in an attempt to "stir up" the crowd. Please study the tape yourself, and decide if this sort of agitation is an acceptable form of policing. The police are paid by taxes to serve the public; yet the he person arrested on this film appears done nothing wrong.
6 Ways That Food Is Being Used as a Weapon Against Us By Activist Post Hungry people will do anything for food, which means that those who have control over food can use it as leverage. In 1974, Henry Kissinger suggested using food as a weapon to induce targeted population reduction in a previously classified 200-page report, National Security Study Memorandum 200: Implications of Worldwide Population Growth for U.S. Security and Overseas Interests. The primary tactic to be applied is that food aid would be withheld from developing nations until they submitted to birth control policies: There is also some established precedent for taking account of family planning performance in appraisal of assistance requirements by AID [U.S. So, food was to be used as just another method of imperial colonization to force countries to conform their policies to those desired by the controllers. Here are six ways food is being used to wage war against the population: 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. Weather undeniably affects food access and food costs.