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Australian journalists sacked over 'fake' footage

Did you know there was a short-term uproar about John McCain not being born in the US?

Japan disaster sparks social media innovation

Chilling testimony from the Gulags' forgotten victims

NYU fellow quits after tweets about Logan assault

Secret life of the Amazon Indians: Incredible images show near-extinct Awá tribe at work and play

All best wishes to CBS correspondent Lara Logan, who revealed she was victim of sex attack while covering Egypt protests

Katrina's ruins home to thousands of homeless

As edgy NYC disappears, does its character go too?

Is the College Debt Bubble Ready to Explode?

Today, Mongolian nomads are on motorcycles, not horses

Russian reporter in coma after beating in Moscow

Review: National Park Field Guides application

TIME article: California Teachers Paying for Their Own Supplies and More (even to clean classrooms now)

America moves on from spill; Gulf coast feels abandoned: "It's amazing how quickly the American public forgot that this was one of the worst manmade disasters in U.S. history"

Atheist author Christopher Hitchens skipping prayer day in his honor

Why Do 20% of Americans Think Obama Is Muslim?

Very thought-provoking article: "Cloning, cruelty and how science sold out to greed"

TIME article: "Argentina Belatedly Celebrates a Journalist Hero"

NY Times article -- "Inside the Fog of War: Reports From the Ground in Afghanistan"

CNN editor loses job over tweet

Tycoon trio wins control of France's Le Monde

Source tells Washington Post that Rolling Stone violated interview ground rules in McChrystal profile; did the reporter "essentially take run-of-the-mill complaining and turn it into a direct challenge to presidential authority"?

Blair: Gaza blockade counterproductive but hard to ease

Heartbreaking photo: a young heron lays dying amidst oil underneath mangrove on an island in Barataria Bay, the coast of Lousiana

How Republican U.S. Senate candidate Rand Paul's civil-rights views escaped media scrutiny

Africa's Lake Tanganyika warming fast, and wildlife is dying

Afghan violence victims want voice in peace talks

UK 'Climategate' inquiry largely clears scientists

Human Trafficking Report: American children, immigrants forced into slavery, sex trade in Ohio

Tebow's Focus on the Family ad could change future Super Bowls

Shoshana Johnson, the nation's first female black POW (captured along with Jessica Lynch), speaks out

'People's History' author Howard Zinn dies at 87. RIP, it was wonderful to meet you

From Luciole friend/contributor Ellyn Maybe: her CD "Rodeo for the Sheepish" is on a Top 10 list at KALX Berkeley

New book review: "The Cracked Ceiling" examines women in politics

Networks blur policy of not paying for interviews

AP reporter caught up in Stalin family's agony; George Krimsky tried to help Stalin's grandson Josef Alliluyev contact his mother in the U.S. (and possibly defect)

Thanks to Luciole contributor Bridget Van Loon for this article link about the practices behind large scale dairy farming. "Please educate yourself on what and who you are supporting with your dollars and diet"

Stalin's grandson sues newspaper for libel; claims the Novaya Gazeta "falsely claimed he was a mass murderer"

Iran closes three newspapers

Oil photo exhibit opens in D.C. -- "Edward Burtynsky: Oil" is at the Corcoran Gallery of Art

School drinking water contains toxins

Cat found wrapped head to foot in duct tape -- reward in Philadelphia "for information leading to the conviction of those responsible"

One in seven Germans want the Berlin Wall back?

Videos: Luciole Press friend and contributor Graywolf interviewed by Roberta Weighill for AIM TV (American Indian Movement Santa Barbara)

TIME article -- Mad Man: Is Glenn Beck Bad for America? ("Is he stirring the fears of Americans who feel left out?")

(Edit to add second article) First -- The 'You lie!' aftermath, and second --Analysis: 'You lie!' further erodes discourse

Found 'guilty' but spared the lash: Sudanese journalist Lubna Hussein is fined for wearing trousers (but swears she'd rather go to jail than pay it)

Majority of Americans Believe Health Care Reform 'Myths'

Widely accepted argument against government medical plan is that it would quash competition — just what private insurers seem to be doing themselves in many parts of the U.S.

Afghan media refuse to censor election reporting

Amish newspaper succeeds the old-fashioned way

Women against pine marten moments! (read the article, and my opinion): "Why women cheered Hillary Clinton's angry response... even today, after 20 years of feminism, the female voice is like one of those whistles only dogs can hear"

FACT CHECK: No "death panel" in health care bill

MY opinion, as Palin ups the rhetoric, saying Obama's health care plan is 'evil' and will make "death panels" that deny care (DESPITE the fact that insurance companies already effectively decide who gets transplants or not)

NOT happy to hear this... Previously featured hero dog Sandbag forced to stay in Iraq despite desperate pleas from British troops

Welcome home ladies: very touching photos of freed journalists Euna Lee and Laura Ling greeting their families

2 articles: "Police beat women opposing Sudan dress code trial" and "Police fire tear gas at women supporting Lubna Hussein, who is facing 40 lashes for wearing trousers"

Powerful Iranian cleric Rafsanjani says country in crisis

Chechnyan human rights activist Natalia Estemirova's murder sparks international outrage

"Everyone is your enemy" -- Israeli soldiers describe "Moral Twilight Zone" in which Palestinian civilians in Gaza were used as human shields, and more

Super-slow-motion pictures show soap bubble bursting in stunning detail

Thousands protest in Iran, defying crackdown vow

White House reporters (Nico Pitney and Dana Milbank) trade sharp words over "planted" question

Family of Neda 'forced to flee home' by Iranian officials; uncomfirmed reports claim Zahra Rahnavard, wife of Mousavi, has been arrested

Articles on Iran: "Obama condemns violence against Iran protesters" -- "How the west built Iran's 'lawful intercept functionality'" -- TIME article about Neda

Articles and videos: "Iran tense after police, protesters clash" (video: "Poem for the Rooftops of Iran")

Articles about Iran: Ayatollah Khamenei's speech, and "US has limited inroads to understanding Iran"

TIME article: Can the U.S. Government Afford to Let California Fail?

TIME article: "Soccer Protest: Iran's Players Show Support for Mousavi"

One more article: Iran's "Twitter Revolution" -- "Web's amazing role in Iran (Social networking sites like Twitter are changing the rules of political protest)"

Articles: "Iran regime faces public anger: will it survive?" and "Iran bans foreign press as rival Ahmadinejad and Mousavi supporters hit the streets"

Two articles: "Ahmadinejad defends vote as 'real and free'" and "Wave of arrests after clashes rock Tehran in protest over ‘rigged’ election (reform candidate Mousavi even lost in his home town)"

Saudi Arabia's first female minister, Norah al-Faiz, needs permission to appear on TV

Stephen Colbert shaves head for US troops in Iraq

Another important entry in the ongoing series sent in by author/Luciole Press contributor Kurt Kamm: FIREFIGHTER'S WORDS -108- POST TRAUMATIC STRESS

N. Korea sentences US reporters Laura Ling and Euna Lee to 12 years hard labor; the two were reporting about the trafficking of North Korean women at the time of their arrest

Photo: a police car sprays water to disperse demonstrators (creating a rainbow) during a teacher's protest in Santiago

Text of Obama's speech in Cairo

Important entry from the ongoing series sent in by author and Luciole Press Contributor Kurt Kamm: FIREFIGHTER’S WORDS -106- NOT HOW MANY T-SHIRTS

Blogger jailed in Anna Nicole Smith defamation suit: Lyndal Harrington says she is shocked she is being sued for comments posted on someone else's blog to pass the time

Article: "The great carbon credit con" (how one factory is poisoning villagers around it, but able to pretend it is "green")

Economic Development Must Not Be At Expense Of Indigenous Rights – UN Forum Chief

Facebook block ahead of Iran vote hampers youth

Ruth Padel (Oxford's first female professor of poetry) defends herself over smear campaign claims

No such thing as "deleted" on the Internet

Irish student hoaxes world's media with florid but phony quote from dead French composer on Wikipedia, which "flew straight on to dozens of U.S. blogs and newspaper Web sites in Britain, Australia and India"