Features

July 9, 2011

  • 5:07 PM Arab Spring inspires Azerbaijani activists
    in unfreemedia.org: Europe & Central Asia


    A protester is detained by Azerbaijani police in the capital, Baku, 11 March 2011                                                          Photograph: Atilay Abbas@font-face { font-family: "Times......

  • 4:42 PM What's in a name? Egypt's Facebook Revolution
    in unfreemedia.org: Middle East & N. Africa


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  • July 7, 2011

  • 6:04 PM Mexican town stands alone against drug cartel
    in unfreemedia.org: Americas


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  • May 21, 2010

  • 11:40 PM Mauritius becomes a Hot Money Magnet for India
    in unfreemedia.org: Africa


    By Patrick Smith, Editor Africa ConfidentialIndian companies are routing tens of billions of dollars through Mauritius each year in a......

  • May 18, 2010

  • 4:37 PM 'Went over like a cup of cold spit...'
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    Why do British troops who fought just as hard in Iraq or Afghanistan have far lower rates of post-traumatic stress......

  • 3:21 PM Text me Money Now? The Flip Sides of Using Mobiles for Cash
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    By Jenny Aker  Share at the Center for Global DevelopmentIn the wake of the Haitian earthquake, major wireless carriers used text messages to speed......

  • 2:37 AM Its open season on journalists in Russia
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    Mikhail Beketov had been warned, but would not stop writing. About dubious land deals. Crooked loans. Under-the-table hush money. All......

  • May 17, 2010

  • 12:10 PM A Troubled bridge in China
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    The radio program This American Life has ventured outside the US to look at stories that happen around bridges and......

  • May 16, 2010

  • 7:10 AM 'Island Beneath the Sea' by Isabel Allende. Haiti's slave rebellion the backdrop for a vivid historical novel.
    in unfreemedia.org: Americas


    By  lisaparavisini (Reposted from Repeating islands)The Los Angeles Times reviews Isabel Allende's latest book, which is set in HaitiIn the days following the......

  • May 15, 2010

  • 9:02 AM An iPhone crashes through Cuba's Internet Wall of Shame
    in unfreemedia.org: Americas


    by Yoani SanchezA few days ago, the Internet once again gave me a couple of pleasant surprises. I was in the......

  • May 14, 2010

  • 2:10 PM Arsenic removal from water project wins top Environmental award.
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    Bhaskar Sen Gupta of Queen's University Belfast collects prize of $75,000.An innovative method of removing arsenic from groundwater without......

  • May 13, 2010

  • 8:57 AM Pulitzer Center Week In Review - May 10, 2010
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  • May 12, 2010

  • 11:23 PM Haiti's Uncertain Ground
    in unfreemedia.org: Americas


    By Coco McCabe / Oxfam AmericaThe talk this morning, when we arrived at the Oxfam office in Haiti's capital, was......

  • 6:57 PM Boys played soccer on the newly flattened fields. American soldiers lounged in their humvees...
    in unfreemedia.org: Americas


    Julie Schindall of Oxfam in Haiti, About 10 days ago, we found out that the government of Haiti identified a site for......

  • 12:01 AM As the Officer said to the Poet: "We Lebanese are good at two things. Fighting. And shopping"
    in unfreemedia.org: Middle East & N. Africa


    The mass burial site for the victims of an Israeli air strike on Qana on July 30, 2006.(FEYROUZ / CC)By Tom......

  • May 11, 2010

  • 9:35 AM Follow the Money: Who Benefits from Booming Trade in Smuggled Tobacco?
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  • May 10, 2010

  • 1:15 PM As Hunger Stalks African Continent, Agribusiness Pushes GMO Silver Bullet
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    Obama Administration pushes Kenya as GMO "biotechnology and biosafety" hubAfrican farmers offered "royalty free" hybrid seeds in trialsMost small......

  • 12:16 AM The Gulf is Bleeding: Institute for Southern Studies
    in unfreemedia.org: Americas


    A press release from the oil spill Joint Command could have been in the satirical "newspaper" The Onion.The half-dozen tar balls found at......

  • May 7, 2010

  • 10:21 PM Foreign Policy: The World's Top Dissidents
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    A small sample of the thousands of brave men and women leading the global fight for freedom and democracy.BY ANDREW......

  • May 6, 2010

  • 10:13 PM Kurdish writer tortured and shot in the head for mocking leaders
    in unfreemedia.org: Middle East & N. Africa


    A Kurdish journalist kidnapped in Erbil, the capital of the semiautonomous Kurdistan region of Iraq, was tortured and then......




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