Made in Pittsburgh within five days of the G20 summit, by a team from Pittsburgh Indymedia, Twin Cities Indymedia, Glassbead Collective, and Mobile Broadcast News, a new documentary: "Democracy 101 (Rough Cut)".

(WIRED) -- The U.S. Marine Corps has banned Twitter, Facebook, MySpace and other social media sites from its networks, effective immediately.

"There has been a deliberate pattern of obstruction, including a breathtaking destruction of evidence, by the D.C. government in an effort to cover up this crime against those who engaged in, or came near, protected free speech activity in the Nation's

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The Israeli government has repeatedly rejected the administration's calls to halt settlement expansion, calling the demand "unfair" and insisting that they would continue the expansion as they did under President Bush, with whom they had "understandings."

President Obama's plan for an independent, albeit severely restricted, Palestinian state was to have a capital in East Jerusalem. Presumably the expansion of settlements in what he envisioned as the Palestinian capital city explains the president's object

The Israeli government has repeatedly rejected the Obama Administration's position, insisting it is unfair and that construction in the settlements will continue. They also allege that they had a secret agreement with the Bush Administration on the settle

13 Republicans on the House Education and Labor Committee offered their support for an amendment, offered by Rep. Dennis Kucinich (D-Ohio), that allowed states to set up single-payer health care systems.

Well, we can relax, because the bad old days of the Bush administration, when government agencies routinely spied on the antiwar movement and other dissidents, are over -- right? Wrong - very wrong The indispensable Amy Goodman has the scoo

Federal prison officials during the Bush administration began a secretive program to segregate inmates, most of whom are Muslims, and limit their ability to communicate with the outside world.