Howard Monath [Responding to WSJ report below] MAN THE BARRICADES! WHAT THE HELL IS GOING TO HAPPEN TOMORROW? YOUR INTREPID REPORTER WILL BE THERE, WISH ME LUCK.
Thai Premier Rescinds Offer for Early Election: Spokesman – WSJ.com, online.wsj.com, Thailand’s prime minister said he would no longer offer antigovernment protesters a compromise, including an early election, reducing chances that a negotiated settlement to the two-month political standoff would be found.
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Archive for May, 2010
Is the WORD’s Howard Monath Ready to Dance with the Grim Reaper?
Wednesday, May 12th, 2010Bangkok Crisis — Howard Monath’s Latest Report
Monday, May 10th, 2010
Monath, bivouacked with the Red Shirts
By Howard Monath
Via Facebook
Picture by Howard Monath
The Red Shirts just announced that they will only disband if the deputy prime minister agrees to face criminal charges relating to the April 10th death of 20 civilians…like that’s ever going to happen. this does not bode well for a peaceful resolution.
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Howard Monath Updates About Bangkok Crisis
Sunday, May 9th, 2010Via facebook
A number of postings dating back to Friday, May 7.
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O’Reilly’s Non-Existent Arizona Immigrant Crime Wave
Saturday, May 8th, 2010PBS NewsHour Finds Drilling Critic
Saturday, May 8th, 2010
Peter Hart writes, “We noted last week that the PBS NewsHour’s coverage of the Gulf oil disaster one night included a one-on-one interview with a spokesperson from BP. Going through the show’s coverage since then, a remarkable fact emerged: The show had not interviewed an environmental advocate opposed to the White House plan to increase offshore oil drilling. The reticence to talk about this obvious policy angle was bizarre – though not at all limited to PBS.”
“Defending Arizona: It’s U.S.’s Fault for Not Wrecking Lives, Damaging Economy”
Saturday, May 8th, 2010
Jim Naureckas critiques a New York Times columnist criticizing critics “impugning the motives” of the new Arizona immigration law, which has been denounced as a “Nazi” or “near-fascist” law, a “police state” intervention, an imitation of “apartheid,” a “Juan Crow” regime that only a bigot could possibly support.
Uh Oh!
From New American Media: Inside Black-Asian Violence – It’s Not About Race
Friday, May 7th, 2010By Amanze Emenike
Via New America Media
YO! Youth Outlook Multimedia, Commentary Posted: Apr 21, 2010
[NAM Editor’s Note: Recent attacks on Asian Americans by Black teenagers in San Francisco have led some to speculate that ethnic tensions in the city are on the rise. But one young black man who was taught by his peers to rob Asians and Latinos in the Bayview-Hunters Point neighborhood says it’s not really about race. Amanze Emenike, 22, is a content producer for YO! Youth Outlook Multimedia]
The WORD’s Ashley Carpenter, Tonight, May 7, 9 P.M. – ABC’s What Would You Do?
Friday, May 7th, 2010
Ashley Carpenter. Seen here reporting at the campaign headquarters of William C. Thompson, who went down swinging in the 2009 New York City Mayoral Race.
Carpenter – AKA the WORD’s AC 360 for stories, pictures and minidocs – will be appearing in ABC’s What Would You Do? tonight, Friday, May 7 at 9 p.m. EST.
NYPD Brutality Costs New York City Taxpayers Millions …
Thursday, May 6th, 2010… but New Yorkers Not People of Color love the head-bangers soooo that the City’s paramilitary force can get away with – literally and figuratively – mayhem and murder. New York Civil Liberties Racial Justice Project: Hundreds of thousands of innocent New Yorkers of Color stopped and frisked.
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Howard Monath Responding to Reports by BBC America Yesterday Evening
Wednesday, May 5th, 2010Via facebook [to HM yesterday evening]
BBC America, 15 minutes ago [about 6 p.m., EST], said that the Red Shirts were mulling over an offer but were not enthusiastic about the November elections that the Prime Minister pitched to them.
Monath Replies today:
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