Is it you who sends those pictures out?

As one of my professors used to say, the problem with lying is that facts are hard thing.  Occasionally you bump into them.  Now, the brutal repression of protesters in Burma is being documented and broadcast for the world to see.  Burmese authorities are fighting a losing battle against an army of citizen journalists.  An [...]

The Romney-Blackwater connection

On September 22, the Politico reported that Mitt Romney “has remained mum on the alleged killing of 11 Iraqis by a company where one of his top advisers serves as vice chairman, even as the case has led to an uproar in Baghdad and Washington. … The top counterterrorism and national security adviser to Romney’s [...]

Violent crackdown launched in Myanmar

This is getting ugly.  Brutally suppressing Buddhist monks is not going to win the regime in Myanmar any friends.
YANGON, Myanmar – Security forces in Myanmar opened fire on demonstrators Wednesday, and witnesses said police beat and dragged away dozens of Buddhist monks. The government said at least one person was killed, while dissident groups and [...]

New Books By Alan Greenspan and Naomi Klein: One is Prophetic, One is Pathetic

I recently read a review of Naomi Klein`s book and it sounds like a worthwhile read.   Here is Arianna`s take:
A fascinating dispute on modern economics — and the dominant role it plays in our politics – is currently taking place in America’s bookstores.
On one side is Alan Greenspan, whose The Age of Turbulence: Adventures in [...]

The Race for the Best and Brightest Ad Talent

Bennett Porter is wickedly busy these days. She has just been promoted to Yahoo’s head of marketing for Southeast Asia, so she’s frequenting the parabola between Singapore and corporate headquarters in Sunnyvale, Calif. Yet Ms. Porter still is in the process of disengaging from her key role in building the company’s buzz-marketing department from scratch [...]

Talking Points Memo

Josh Marshall argues that today, the war with Iran has jumped its first legal hurdle and is now one step closer to happening.
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Torstar vs. the Tyee

A dust up in the making over allegations that the Toronto Star is curtailing it’s coverage of the media in the wake of their new corporate ownership:
Robert Prichard, CEO of Torstar, which publishes the Toronto Star and owns stakes in other major media including CTVglobemedia, Black Press and Metro newspapers, e-mailed Tyee writer Marc Edge [...]

19 Video APIs

Online video is hot and so are online video APIs. This week we added the Vimeo API to our listings and this brings the total number of APIs at ProgrammableWeb to 19 (see them all here). The king of these is still the YouTube API but for developers looking to integrate and aggregate video content [...]

Green Zone Lock Down

The Blackwater fiasco is starting to bubble over into a perilous and embarrassing situation:
WASHINGTON – The United States on Tuesday suspended all land travel by U.S. diplomats and other civilian officials throughout Iraq, except in Baghdad’s heavily fortified Green Zone. The move follows a weekend incident involving private security guards protecting a diplomatic convoy in [...]

Veiled Voters in Outremont

OTTAWA — Elections Canada refused Monday to bow to political pressure and force veiled women to uncover their faces before voting, putting the blame on Parliament and the Harper government for the legal confusion surrounding the issue. But MPs from all parties continued to put the heat on the agency, calling on Chief Electoral Officer [...]