This Week in Palestine a service of the International Middle East Media Center, www.imemc.org, for December 2 through December 8, 2006.

The Israeli army killed three Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza Strip during the first week of the fragile declared cease fire in the Gaza Strip. The gulf state of Qatar pledged to pay over-due salaries for the Palestinian education sector. No further progress in the formation of a Palestinian unity government or the proposed prisoner swap. These stories and more coming up, stay tuned.

Audio transmitido durante el noticiero de Adela Micha el día 6 de dic. de 2006, que delata a Ericel Gomez y Gabino Cué como autores intelectuales del vandalismo y las agresiones que la APPO ha perpetrado contra a la sociedad oaxaqueña. (More info in English...)

Ultre debut release > Elegant, delicate, complex, organic, bold, charming, melancholy, nervous, or violent…. All The Darkness Has Gone To Details.

Some of you will already know Ultre having made an impact on the live circuit playing his energised and beautiful sets with the likes of (Chris) Clark, Tim Exile, Freeform, Carsten Nicolai and Max Tundra. He has performed live visuals alongside Squarepusher, Aphex Twin and Plaid and his animation work is used as a part of the on going Warp works & 20th Century composers tour.

Hercule Poirot descubre que el “médium” , en este caso la señora Maigret, no ofrece solamente el soporte del descubrimiento del crimen, que es, en suma, el descubrimiento del autor del mismo, sino que conduce al planteamiento del acto criminal, en este caso, la conspiración mediática; la ya tan mencionada y anunciada “batalla mediática” de la operación Libertad Duradera. En esta carta, el detective sugiere que es necesario, ahora, avanzar en la terapia.

A weekly review of news at the intersection of media and democracy.

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In this week's program: Citizens mobilize in Seattle and Nashville to demand the FCC stop further media concentration. FCC-selected researchers writing important studies on media ownership may have some questionable biases. And the Save the Internet Coalition invites you to a party in Memphis, Tennessee to celebrate the campaign to protect Network Neutrality.

Arab Talk Co-Hosts Jess Ghannam and Jamal Dajani discuss the Arab point of view on the Baker-Hamilton Report, Lebanon, Iraq, Palestine and the Middle East.

Co-Host Jess Ghannam interviews Professors Sunaina Maira and Magid Shihade about South Asia-Palestine Solidarity and the forgotten Palestinian communities living in 1948 Palestine.

Sunaina Maira is Associate Professor of Asian American Studies at UC Davis and the author of Desis in the House: Indian American Youth
Co-Host Jess Ghannam interviews Professors Sunaina Maira and Magid Shihade about South Asia-Palestine Solidarity and the forgotten Palestinian communities living in 1948 Palestine.

A weekly 30 minute review of news and opinion, recorded from a shortwave radio. With times and freqs for listening at home. 2 files- broadcast and slow-modem streaming. Free to rebroadcast. Netherlands, China, Cuba, and Russia.

This is sad news and quite disgraceful. The Ecoliving Centre has been an icon of sustainability education for at least the last 5 years in the eastern suburbs of Sydney and further afield, including presentations at Homebush Olympic Park Gardening Australia events which are hugely popular.

Inner west permaculture trainers have taken classes there, including this writer in past times.

Palestine Today, a service of the International Middle East Media Centre, imemc.org, for Thursday December 7th 2006.

Despite ceasefire agreement, Israeli forces fire at Palestinians near Gaza border, injuring two, Five Palestinians abducted and one injured, by Israeli forces during West Bank invasions, these stories and more coming up stay tuned.

The Gaza Update