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Getting to the Hart of the Matter with One of the World`s Most Experienced Reporters

Alan Hart will be speaking in the U.S. and Canada from Mid May to Mid June. He is starting off in Michigan; he arrives 13 May.

(SALEM / LONDON) - At the age of 7, Alan Hart knew he wanted to be a reporter for BBC. First in his working class family to have a secondary education he attended the best Grammar School in the country.

In Praise of `Salem News`

I want to praise Salem News, which I trust represents the values of a "salem" news outlet.

(TEHRAN) - It was an unanticipated incident, becoming acquainted with Salem-News.

I simply figured out one day that one of my articles has been published on a Website whose name sounds strangely unfamiliar yet significantly meaningful to me.

From War to Prison: a PTSD Documentary, Debuts Online

Documentary highlights conflicts between returning PTSD Combat Vets and a criminal justice system that often fails to consider their unique situation.

(LOS ANGELES) - Nathan Keyes served two tours in Iraq during his 8 years in the U.S. Army.

But when he came home from the war suffering from PTSD, everything went terribly wrong, and now this soldier is serving three years in prison.

Man Faces Rape Charges Involving Underage Girls

Detectives believe that Mr. Saechao may have more victims who have not come forward.

(PORTLAND, Ore.) - A man arrested by Sheriff’s detectives for rape may have more underage victims. Police say Seng Saechao met one victim five years ago when she was thirteen years old.

Sheriff’s detectives arrested 24-year-old Seng Ton Saechao on 7 April 2010, according to Sgt. David Thompson with the Washington County Sheriff.

What Does the Israel-Backed UAE Say?

Mr. Nahyan and his family members can take sovereignty of three islands they claim to be the owner of, and the United Arabic Emirates will be returned to Iran. That's a fair swap!

(TEHRAN) - Speaking or writing as an Iranian citizen makes it difficult to weigh in on the latest remarks made by the UAE Foreign Minister, Abdallah Bin Zayid Al Nahyan.

He likened Iran's legal sovereignty of it's Persian Gulf islands to the Zionist regime's occupation of Syria's Golan heights.

Some Things You Just Can`t Google

No doubt, technology can assist in making government more transparent. But, lacking context, Google Government is no substitute for public employees.

(SILVERTON, Ore.) - Efforts are afoot in Oregon to make state government more transparent.

On one hand we have Attorney General John Kroger doing a top to bottom review of our public records law and revamping how his office advises state agencies on their responses to the thousands of requests for information they get each year.

Reporters Without Borders:`Palestinian Journalists Repeatedly Targeted By Israel`

Israel is trying to silence the press.

(JERUSALEM) - It stated that these incidents “continue without impunity”, and that the soldiers involved in the attacks are rarely brought to justice, and that the superiors of the soldiers endorse this violence.

The movement added that it is time the army stops these violations against the reporters.

Radio Free Asia Responds to China Blocking Google Searches with the Letters `RFA`

"It’s time for China to stop exerting draconian control of its cyberspace" -RFA's Libby Liu

(WASHINGTON D.C.) - Radio Free Asia President Libby Liu responsed to the news that China’s Great Firewall temporarily blocked all Google searches in China, due to an unintentional association with the long-censored term “rfa.”

According to Google, the phrase “gs_rfai,” which began appearing in the URL’s of Google searches globally, triggered the problem.

A Slice of Life: A review of Faded Love

Many of the stories in the book are set in Alberta and British Columbia, both in the urban centres and in the hinterlands.

(GOLD RIVER, B.C.) - R.N. Friedland's Faded Love, is a collection of short stories mostly centered in the Canadian West, but ranging afield to both Europe and Asia. It has the air of a
Roman a clef, perhaps with a good dose of imagination.

It certainly speaks of an author with a wide range of experience and knowledge of humanity.

Web 2.0 Versus Control 2.0

Lucie Morillon, who heads the Reporters Without Borders New Media Desk, along with the group's Secretary-General Jean-François Julliard, discuss the new frontier of Internet journalism and freedom.

(PARIS, France) - The fight for free access to information is being played out to an ever greater extent on the Internet. The emerging general trend is that a growing number of countries are attemptimg to tighten their control of the Net, but at the same time, increasingly inventive netizens demonstrate mutual solidarity by mobilizing when necessary.