Hosted by Fat Sandwich Records Event Details: Date: February 10th, 2012 Time: 8:00PM Location: Hi-tone Cafe, 1913 Poplar Avenue  Memphis, TN 38104 (...) Read the original article... More»

The UN has declared that internet access is a human right. So we’re giving you that access for free.  via Brian Swartz Read the original article... More»

Huffington Post: "The Supreme Court announced Friday that it will hear oral arguments over Arizona's controversial immigration law on April 25, the Court's final day of hearings for the term." read more Read the original article... More»

Please click here;to view this week's edition of the Global Food for Thought news brief. If you have not signed up to receive Global Food for Thought by email, please do so by clicking here. Read the original article... More»

Reuters: "An Arizona city council candidate struck from the ballot over her limited English skills concedes she isn't fluent in the language but called the legal challenge an abuse of power that could keep her from serving a poor border community where most residents speak only Spanish.A Yuma County Superior Court judge touched off... More»

You can learn more about Katy and Eric’s travels at http://borderbybicycle.blogspot.com/ValleyCentral.com: "For five long and educational months a couple from New York and Minnesota have been on a quest to learn about border realities. ... (...) Read the original article... More»

I've got a couple of public speaking events coming up:New York City - Thursday, February 23 at 6:15pm at Bard College's Globalization and International Affairs Center in Midtown. The topic is "Building Capacity? NGO's and State Reconstruction in the DRC." Details and free (required) registration here. (...) Read the original article... More»

San Jose Mercury News: "Border Patrol agents have racked up daily overtime at a cost of about $1.4 billion in the past six years while the number of arrests of illegal border crossers has fallen to the lowest level in nearly 40 years, an Associated Press analysis of agency records finds." read more Read... More»

From Forbes: “…Super Bowl weekend is considered to be the largest sex trafficking event in the United States each year, a number estimated by the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children who says the 2010 Miami Super Bowl brought 10,000 prostitutes to the city. By the same group’s measure 2011’s Dallas Super Bowl... More»

Mexican embassy spokesman, Ricardo Alday, responds to a New York Times article .NYTimes.com: "“Mexico Drug War Bloodies Areas Thought Safe” (front page, Jan. 19) provides a sensationalist vision of what is actually happening in Mexico. I disagree with the essential premise of the article: that criminal violence has expanded geographically. (...) Read the original... More»

Iranian sources say that Saudi Arabia has blocked Iran Leader's site Khamenei.ir. This sources says this website is blocked because of Ayatollah Khamanei's remarks on “Islamic Arab Spring”. Iranian user on Friendfeed believes : This could be a start for a cyber-war between Iran and Arabia. (...) Read the original article... More»

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This Sunday, an estimated 58 percent of Americans will order pizza for Super Bowl parties around the country. To celebrate Game Day classics like pizza, cheese dips and nachos, we went to Wisconsin — the American dairyland that produces 35 percent of the country’s cheese — to find out the chemistry behind cheesemaking. (...)... More»

Muhammad Bekjanov in prison hospital in Tashkent, 2003. Photo: Galima Bukharbaeva, IWPROn January 24, just days before the scheduled release of Uzbek editor Muhammad Bekjanov, a district court in Kasan added an extra five years to his prison sentence for allegedly breaking unspecified prison rules. Bekjanov was the editor-in-chief of Erk, a now-defunct newspaper... More»

Turkey’s jailing of writers has received increasing attention in both the Turkish and the international press, enough to force Turkish Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan to defend the fact that Turkey has more journalists in prison,  describing them as “so-called journalists” who “ are actually “police murderers, sexual molesters and supporters of a coup”. In... More»