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Reporters Without Borders called today for the immediate release of Abbas Kakavand, who was imprisoned on 7 June for allegedly disseminating "false news" in articles he wrote for the website gooya.com since February after leaving the conservative newspaper Ressalat. His articles criticised corruption and the political payments received by many conservative leaders. The organisation described the jailing of Kakavand as "flagrant evidence of the systematic violation of press freedom in Iran," and pointed out that "it came just a few days before talks on human rights are scheduled to get under way between the Islamic Republic and the European Union"....

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Condit Sues Over Chandra Levy Articles Saturday December 20, 2003 2:46 AM By JILL BARTON Associated Press Writer WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. (AP) - Former Rep. Gary Condit sued The National Enquirer and other tabloids for $209 million on Friday, alleging they falsely connected him with the 2001 murder of federal intern Chandra Levy. The California Democrat alleges that the Enquirer, Globe and Star Magazine tabloids, along with parent company American Media Inc., maliciously published defamatory statements that Condit ``was involved in deviant and perverted sexual conduct, which directly or indirectly led to the kidnapping and/or murder of Ms. Levy,''...

Bruno José Lebeau   La Victoire de Bin Laden     Certains iraient à dire que la comparaison avec les années 30 ne tient pas, et pourtant: n'assistons nous pas au même recul des démocraties devant la montée d'un nouveau totalitarisme tel que l'a décrit fort justement Alexandre Del Valle, en l'occurrence la montée de l'islamisme, comme hier nous avons laissé monter et s'étendre le nazisme ?   Dès la fin des années 20, le nazisme était aussi un mouvement éclaté, diffus, confus, hétérogène et marginal. Pourtant son ascendance a été irrésistible, et les reculs abrités derrière des tentatives de...

I work in an by especially virulent anti Bush, anti US and anti capitalist environment. You guessed it: Academia! I need some up to date sources in support of GW Bush and his policies, pro capitalist pro US essays so that I can immediately post these in response to the Chomsky-type stuff I am exposed to and is disseminated. Besides National Review - anything else? I am especially in need of a short excellent piece in support of the 2000 Election of President Bush. The Left cannot leave this alone and this is the first blast out of their mouths...

Dear Friends: There is a great alternative to the leftist leaning S.F. Chronicle. This rag is so polluted, I won't even use it for my bird cage for fearing of endangering the health of my bird. However, there is a new site that critiques the Chronicle everyday, and they need writers, researchers, and editor to help them get the site running. Go check them out at www.chronwatch.com They should be a part of your daily routine. And if you're interested in helping please contact Tom at: TCSparkman@aol.com This is great opportunity for you budding writers, they need data entry people,...

By Thomas C Greene in Washington Posted: 07/18/2002 at 14:43 EST Internet spyware outfit Ranger Online has taken considerable heat for a little gimmick it's developed which, in the words of MSNBCi columnist Bob Sullivan, "cruises file-swapping networks like Gnutella to find copyrighted materials, hunts down the IP address of the poster, then discovers which Internet service provider is being used. Soon after, the MPAA sends its form letter to the ISP. Under the Digital Copyright Millennium Act, Internet providers are compelled to stop distribution of copyrighted materials when they are notified, so the ISP in turn forwards the note...

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| Bernard Goldberg, for 28 years a persistently fair, probing reporter for CBS News in the tradition set there by Edward R. Murrow, has written a current best-selling book, ""Bias A CBS Insider Exposes How the Media Distort the News," . His detailing of liberal bias in the media has been fiercely attacked by such mandarins of journalism as Tom Shales of the Washington Post, Michael Kinsley of Slate, and Tom Goldstein, dean of Columbia University's School of Journalism. One of Goldstein's former colleagues at CBS News, Eric Enberg, has charged that Goldberg has committed "an act of treason." In...