Thai web forum host facing 50 years in prison as authorities prosecute censorship law violations By Michael I. Niman Special to Daily Censored Februrary 28th 2011 Chiranuch Premchaiporn manages Thailand’s independent alternative news website Prachatai.com. In 2008, one or more unidentified readers posted comments to Prachatai’s online forum which, according to prosecutors who presented the [...]
I Am The Enemy By Michael I. Niman ArtVoice (etc.) 2/24/11 If you listen to any Wall Street banker, right-wing talk radio host, or Republican politician, I am the enemy. I am a public employee. Along with snow plow operators in Wisconsin, meat inspectors in Iowa, welfare fraud investigators in California, transit workers in Chicago, [...]
by Michael I. Niman, ArtVoice (etc.) 11/4/09 http://artvoice.com/issues/v8n45/naked_pumpkins Most cities have some signature annual event, celebrating a unique aspect of their local culture. While New Orleans’s Mardi Gras is a massive, multi-day festivals, most are more on the scale of Binghamton, New York’s Spiedie Fest, which celebrates a regional marinated meat. Like Castroville, California’s Artichoke [...]
Feds bust Twitter Tweeter, Seize Curious George and Buffy in Terror Probe By Michael I. Niman ArtVoice (etc.) 10/15/09 http://mediastudy.com/articles/av9-15-09.html I love headlines like this—I couldn’t make this stuff up if I tried. This story begins last month at the G-20 economic summit in Pittsburgh, where finance ministers and leaders from the 20 richest nations [...]
The Ghost of Bush: How Dubya’s court can undo democracy By Michael I. Niman, ArtVoice (9/17/09) http://artvoice.com/issues/v8n38/the_ghost_of_bush The key to American politics is that you’ve always got to watch for the action behind the distraction. The distractions right now is the healthcare debate, and the economy, and the war, and the other war, and the [...]
Felony Charge for Cutting in Line While Black in Missouri By Michael I. Niman, Progressive Populist 9/1/09 http://mediastudy.com/articles/pp9-1-09.html In a perfect world, Heather Ellis would seem like a source of pride for her hometown of Kennett, Mo. As a high school honor student she earned a position on the National Honor Roll and was recognized [...]
OTTO REICH’S FINGERPRINTS ON HONDURAS COUP? OTTO REICH’S FINGERPRINTS ON HONDURAS COUP? U.S. Right Mobilizes to Support Putsch by Bill Weinberg, World War 4 Report http://www.ww4report.com/node/7671 It’s a sign of hope that no nation on earth has yet recognized the de facto regime that took power in Honduras June 28, when the military summarily deported [...]
Don’t Drink the Electric Car Kool Aid By Michael I. Niman ArtVoice 4/2/09 http://artvoice.com/issues/v8n14/electric_car_kool_aid Two incongruous stories dominated the environmental news beat this week. Story number one was about the long-awaited debut of the “affordable” 2011 Tesla Model S plug-in electric car. The California-made sedan promises to do zero to 60 with Porsche-like acceleration while [...]
Whose Recovery? by Michael I. Niman ArtVoice (etc.) 8/13/09 http://artvoice.com/issues/v8n33/getting_a_grip Economists say the recession is ending, but that’s for banks and investors. The rest of us are still screwed. Great news for those of you who’ve been fretting about the economy, are losing or have lost your jobs or homes, can’t quite decide between medicine [...]
