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January 26, 2011 :: Riga Listin :: Comments Off
An appellate court in Chicago has ruled that Rahm Emanuel cannot run for mayor of Chicago, because he worked for two years as White House chief of staff. The ruling relies on the notion that Emanuel forfeited his Chicago residency by taking a job with the federal government in Washington, DC, but federal law specifies that in such situations residency remains intact.
November 8, 2010 :: Riga Listin :: Comments Off
MSNBC anchor and news analyst Keith Olbermann will be back on the air on Tuesday evening, after being indefinitely suspended, and thus missing his Friday and Monday programming. MSNBC president Phil Griffin had suspended Olbermann, alleging that three campaign donations violated the ethics rules for journalists employed by NBC News. The suspension had appeared to many to be politically motivated, given Comcast’s plans to take over the network, and the likely incoming president’s staunchly pro-Bush views and past fundraising activity.
July 23, 2010 :: Riga Listin :: 4 Comments
Andrew Breitbart —a fake journalist whose overt political bias is not only self-declared, but is seething with bile and contempt— is defending his use of rigged reporting and character assassination in a deliberate attempt to distort the truth and sow racist hate. Breitbart posted a clip of a video on his blog, in which USDA official Shirley Sherrod, explained how she came to see beyond race and transcend the temptation to judge people’s character or motives based on the color of their skin.
June 12, 2010 :: Riga Listin :: Comments Off
There is no clearer way to say it than that virtually no one in South Carolina Democratic party politics had ever heard of Alvin Greene until his name showed up on the primary ballot as a candidate for the United States Senate. So how did someone with no party ties, no political background, no money, no campaign operation and with there being virtually no evidence of any campaign effort whatsoever, win the Democratic party nomination to challenge Republican incumbent Jim DeMint?
May 31, 2010 :: Riga Listin :: Comments Off
Glen Beck is a menace to the integrity of the American media. His fabrications and falsehoods are a deliberate and immoral attempt to distort the American political mind, to create visceral divisions and to force hostility to undermine productive progressive action to make the country more just and more egalitarian. His lies are shameless and his relentless attempts at character assassination of anyone not in agreement with his fringe politics are an insult to all people everywhere.
February 28, 2010 :: Riga Listin :: Comments Off
The media are exploding with reports that explicitly declare that “the public opposes the current healthcare reform bills” passed by both houses of Congress. In fact, this is patently false, and any of the major polls on the subject bear this out, if one devotes the time necessary to understand the numbers. It is inaccurate to say “the public opposes”, because there is not one uniform majority of Americans opposing a specific set of initiatives in the pending reforms.
November 26, 2009 :: Riga Listin :: Comments Off
Andal Apatuan, Jr., the heir to a powerful political dynasty on the southern Philippine Island of Mindanao, and a candidate for governor in 2010, has been taken into custody after a raid by military and police forces. Ampatuan is running to replace his father as governor of Maguindanao province, his father being forced to step down after three consecutive terms due to term limits.
November 18, 2009 :: Riga Listin :: Comments Off
A lawsuit by a former Washington editor for the New York Post has revealed that the paper’s Washington bureau chief told her the newspaper’s official aim was to “destroy Barack Obama”. The revelation comes amid a spreading controversy over accusations the media properties owned by conservative media tycoon Rupert Murdoch have been used to fabricate news, organize phony Republican rallies, orchestrate sham grassroots groups —called ‘astroturf’ organizations—, systematically misrepresent the facts and personally attack political opponents of Murdoch’s preferred party and candidates.
October 10, 2009 :: Riga Listin :: Comments Off
One day after the world was shocked by the surprise award of the Nobel Peace Prize to the United States’ young first-term president, Barack Obama, statements of dismay and/or congratulation have given way to more cogent analysis of the important new direction Obama has brought to international relations of all kinds. Here are just a few meaningful examples…
September 4, 2009 :: Riga Listin :: Comments Off
The Mercedes B-class F-cell will be out in 2010 in the US and Europe, with an initial limited production fleet of 200 vehicles. The vehicles will be lease-only, as Mercedes works to perfect the technologies and market strategies it needs to bring the car to mass market.
July 24, 2009 :: Riga Listin :: 2 Comments
Natalya Estemirova was a seasoned journalist and well-known human rights activist and researcher. She was one of the leading sources of information about human rights abuses and major atrocities committed in Chechnya, and was considered a leading voice against authoritarian leader Ramzan Kadyrov.
July 18, 2009 :: Riga Listin :: Comments Off
Many in the news business have touted Cronkite’s passionate interest in new technologies and his willingness to take the work of the field reporter to the cutting edge of radio and television media, despite his early start in the business of ink and newsprint. More than oppose emerging media which had shifted the news culture away from his principles, he urged fellow reporters to be rigorous, thoughtful and given to probing investigation, so that the service they provided would be worthy of the expectations the public invests in the free press.
July 13, 2009 :: Riga Listin :: One Comment
Dr. Regina Benjamin, a winner of the MacArthur Foundation “Genius grant”, and a committed rural doctor who has served the poor in Bayou La Batre, Alabama, spending her own money to provide care for those who could not afford it, has been named by Pres. Obama to serve as surgeon general of the United States. Her nomination was announced in a live event at the White House, with Health and Human Services secretary Kathleen Sebelius in attendance.
June 29, 2009 :: Riga Listin :: One Comment
Citing foreign “propaganda”, Iran’s president Mahmoud Ahmedinejad has formally requested in a letter to Ayatollah Mahmoud Hashemi-Shahroudi, head of Iran’s judiciary, that an investigation be launched into the circumstances surrounding the shooting death of Neda Agha Soltan. Soltan was shot in the chest and died within minutes, while protesting election results that show Ahmedinejad won re-election.
June 23, 2009 :: Riga Listin :: Comments Off
The French parliament has formed an investigative panel to explore banning the wearing of a full-body veil, or burqa, in France. The move comes after Pres. Nicolas Sarkozy announced in a state of the nation address at the Palace of Versailles that “The burka is not a sign of religion, it is a sign of subservience”, adding that “It will not be welcome on the territory of the French republic”.
May 23, 2009 :: Riga Listin :: Comments Off
Roxana Saberi, a freelance journalist who has reported for the BBC and NPR, has returned home to the United States after spending 4 months in prison in Tehran. She had been convicted of spying for the US on evidence that has never been made public. Rights activists, the US government, her family, her lawyers and [...]
May 12, 2009 :: Riga Listin :: Comments Off
Sri Lanka’s government has expelled three reporters for the UK-based Channel 4 News. Nick Paton Walsh, producer Bessie Du and cameraman Matt Jasper, were detained by police in the town of Trincomalee, in eastern Sri Lanka, after reports highlighting the conditions facing refugees who fled the fighting between government and rebel forces.
May 8, 2009 :: Riga Listin :: Comments Off
If I am moved to give my mind and my energies to revealing the hidden details behind a story about a storyteller, beset by the political winds and deprived of her basic human intimacies, a reporter, a poet, a seer of deep patterns, it must be because we all have a fundamental human dignity that we wish would reach across the void to others, and if we are honest, we see when it is threatened.
May 3, 2009 :: Riga Listin :: One Comment
Lin Zhao was a Chinese poet who hoped that the end of feudal imperialism in 20th century China would lead to real democratic rights for its people. She was executed in 1968 as the regime of Mao Zedong sought to crush all dissent and sweep away potential cultural and conceptual rivals to its rule.
April 30, 2009 :: Riga Listin :: Comments Off
Nobel-prize-winning Iranian human rights lawyer Shirin Ebadi has joined the defense team representing Iranian-American journalist Roxana Saberi. She says Saberi was convicted in a trial that took place in violation of Iran’s own laws governing due process. She urged Saberi should have access to her lawyers and that evidence should be reviewed in open hearings.
April 25, 2009 :: Riga Listin :: Comments Off
Roxana Saberi, jailed for 8 years by Iran for alleged “espionage” (read: reporting without a censor’s license), is now in her 5th day of a hunger strike. She says she will continue her hunger strike until she is freed. Her father, Reza Saberi, says he has spoken to her, she is determined to refuse food until released, and that she “seems weak”. Foreign governments, the US, as well as individuals and rights groups, are calling for her immediate, unconditional release.
April 24, 2009 :: Riga Listin :: One Comment
North Korea is proceeding with a trial against two Korean-American journalists from California, despite witnesses claiming they were detained when North Korean border guards entered Chinese territory to seize them while their cameras were rolling. The trial will be held behind closed doors, and foreign governments have expressed concern the process will not allow the journalists a fair hearing or even a defense.
March 11, 2009 :: Riga Listin :: One Comment
Pres. Barack Obama today signed an executive order creating a special White House Council on Women and Girls, saying the cause of gender equality dates back to the founding of the United States, the promise that natural and democratic rights would be acknowledged for all citizens.
March 2, 2009 :: Riga Listin :: Comments Off
The United States and the Russian Federation are reportedly planning lengthy and in-depth discussions in Geneva, starting Friday, to improve relations and strengthen bilateral efforts in a number of areas. Security in Europe, the Middle East and the far East will all be on the agenda, as will nuclear non-proliferation and negotiation with Iran to halt its nuclear program.
February 11, 2009 :: Riga Listin :: Comments Off
As the world’s focus begins to shift, with the priorities of the American administration, to the conflict zone in Afghanistan, which may or may not include the tribal areas along the border, inside Pakistan, we must ask: will the administration of Barack Obama pressure officials in either country to end the brutal violence suffered by women?
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