CBC News http://www.cbc.ca/news/credit.html
July 8, 2008

Christopher Hitchens, a Washington-based journalist known for his support of the Iraq war and the U.S. war on terror, has subjected himself to waterboarding. (Keep reading…)

http://www.palsolidarity.org/main/2008/07/01/targeting-journalists/

July 1st, 2008

The killing of Gaza-based Palestinian Reuters cameraman received considerable attention 2.5 months ago. Filming at the site of shelling in Gaza earlier in the day, Fadel Shana was himself targeted by shelling from the very tanks he was filming. After the incident, with international outcry from rights groups, journalists associations, and individuals, Israel promised to look into his death. (Keep reading…)

http://www.countercurrents.org/leopold180608.htm

18 June, 2008 Countercurrents.org

Top Pentagon officials developed the harsh interrogation methods used against detainees at Guantanamo less than a month before the Justice Department issued two now repudiated memorandums that gave interrogators legal cover to employ the tactics, according to documents released Tuesday by the Senate Armed Services Committee. (Keep reading…)

28/05/08 “TruthDig http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/20080527_where_is_the_outrage/ “

Are we Americans truly savages or merely tone-deaf in matters of morality, and therefore more guilty of terminal indifference than venality? It’s a question demanding an answer in response to the publication of the detailed 370-page report http://www.usdoj.gov/oig/special/s0805/final.pdf on U.S. complicity in torture, issued last week by the Justice Department’s inspector general. (Keep reading…)

The Guardian http://www.guardian.co.uk/theguardian May 26, 2008 (Keep reading…)

http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/C79EA32A-392D-4475-AD2D-C60458F256DA.htm

Aljazeera, May 23, 2008 (Keep reading…)

Georgia Straight
May 8, 2008

The defendants in a lawsuit brought by CanWest MediaWorks Publications Inc. over a Vancouver Sun parody got support this week from a magazine editor who knows much about satire and getting sued. (Keep reading…)

rabble.ca
May 5, 2008

Last year, peace activist Mordecai Briemberg was served with a lawsuit by CanWest. The charge? Producing a fake edition of CanWest’s Vancouver Sun, and infringing upon the company’s trademark related rights in the process. The four-page parody, produced by a group calling itself the “Palestine Media Collective,” focused on what they perceived to be biased media coverage of the Israel/Palestine conflict in the Vancouver newspaper. (Keep reading…)

Globe & Mail April 25, 2008

Case 1: The Ontario Human Rights Commission has declined to rule on a complaint brought by Arab and Muslim groups against Maclean’s and writer Mark Steyn. The OHRC said its mandate doesn’t cover such things but added, like a consolation prize: “Freedom of expression should be exercised through responsible reporting.” This is clearly wrong. Freedom of expression is exercised through irresponsible reporting — or what some people see that way. That’s when the need to protect it arises. (Keep reading…)

Winnipeg Free Press March 30

When Winnipeggger Aaron James learned that Robert Dziekanski died after being tasered by RCMP at the Vancouver Airport in October, his first reaction was deep compassion. His second was the feeling of renewed dread common to people suffering post-traummatic stress. (Keep reading…)