…online statements denouncing government policies, as well as organizing discussion groups. (AFP) Bill Weinberg Attempted coup in Beijing? From The Guardian, Aug. 4: Rumours have swirled in Beijing in recent weeks…
Sudan‘s security forces arrested a Somali insurgent leader while he was attempting to cross the border to Eritrea, the Somali news website Mareeg Online reported March 14 from Mogadishu. Muse…
…and Assiut. Egyptians on Twitter used #EgyChurch to crowd-source images and reports of attacks on churches. (Ahram Online, Ahram Online, Middle East Online, BBC News, Aug. 15; Al Jazeera, Aug. 12) Please support our fund drive….
Bill Weinberg Petition for Electoral Nullification The petition “Electoral College: Make Hillary Clinton President on December 19” is online at Change.org. It has won 2,010,778 signatures, of the 3 million it…
…designates independent news site as ‘foreign agent’ Russia designated the independent online news site VTimes a “foreign agent” on May 14, placing the media company under increased scrutiny by the…
…an economics professor at the Central University for Nationalities and founder of the website Uyghur Online, said the plainclothes agents sought to persuade him to stop speaking to foreign reporters. “I’ve…
…writing a poem urging people to support freedom. The court ruled that Zhu Yufu’s poem It’s Time, sent using the Skype online chat service, deserved stern punishment, according to his…
…oil sources online requires periodic price spikes. So both the Peaksters and the Cornucopians just don’t get it. Oil-Price.net tells us the current price is just shy of $92 per barrel—about…
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…Rahiymu El Bey,ISLAM Bill Weinberg Some clarifications The “Circle 7 Koran” of the Noble Drew Ali is online. There certainly were birth certificates and drivers’ licenses during the period that…
…relies on on-line donations or sales. To have the ever present threat of losing their monetary lifelines if they do something that a payment gateway company doesn’t like can have…
Speaking April 14 at COVIDCon, an online Oslo Freedom Forum event presented by the Human Rights Foundation, exiled Chinese dissident Yang Jianli of the DC-based Citizen Power Initiatives for China…
