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Why the Pentagon has not shut down the Internet Yet

By Mary Rizzo • Jun 20th, 2008 • Category: Internet and Communication, Newswire, Opinions and Letters, Resistance, Zionism

WRITTEN BY Ibrahim Turner
I received a message asking me to send a message to Google to protest that URUKNET has been deleted from the News service of Google News, which means that no articles will show up when you search for them using the url: URUKNET
Not having heard of this site [...]



Google Gags Uruknet - More internet censorship

By Mary Rizzo • Jun 19th, 2008 • Category: Action Alert, Ideas and Projects, Internet and Communication, Newswire, Zionism

UPDATE!!! INFO FROM URUKNET Google must really have a thing against Uruknet. After Google News’ censorship now Uruknet disappears even on Google’s search engine.
Google stopped indexing Uruknet the middle of May. After Uruknet wrote (again!) many e-mails to Google (and again! we didn’t receive any reply) Google restarted indexing some (not [...]



Censorship and Press Freedom, Google & Blogger play dirty

By Mary Rizzo • May 5th, 2008 • Category: Analysis, Internet and Communication, Palestine, Zionism

Today marks the celebration of International Day of Press Freedom. Like many celebrations that we are called to recognise, rather than feel joy at how wonderful things are, we are reminded of just how much goes haywire. Reporters Without Borders lists those killed in 2007. They write that there has been: 129 journalists, 7 media [...]



Google and Facebook Celebrate Israel’s 60th

By Haitham Sabbah • Apr 12th, 2008 • Category: Internet and Communication, Newswire, Zionism

President Shimon Peres is bringing in top personalities from around the world to celebrate Israel’s 60th birthday.
United States President George W. Bush, Barbra Streisand, Tony Blair, Mikhail Gorbachev and Rupert Murdoch…
The list of confirmed guests also includes Henry Kissinger, Nobel laureate Elie Wiesel, former Czech President Vaclev Havel, Harvard Professor Alan Dershowitz, Google founder Sergey [...]



Lost Palestinian Refugee Camps on UN-Google Earth Map

By Haitham Sabbah • Apr 11th, 2008 • Category: Features, Palestine, Petitions

However, my happiness did not last for long when I discovered that NONE of the Palestinian refugee camps within the Occupied Palestinian Territories are published there (see map below). So, even if you “Sit in front of your computer“, with a few clicks you can “see, hear and develop an emotional understanding of what it is like to be a refugee“, but not the Palestinian refugees’ experience. They don’t exist!