A political analyst tells Press TV that the United States and its Zionist masters are leading an ongoing smear campaign against the Iranian media.

The comments came after French company GlobeCast halted the broadcast of Iran's Spanish-language Hispan TV on an SES satellite in Latin America, in line with the Western campaign against free speech. Europe's SES-Astra had ordered the French company to halt Hispan TV's broadcast. In recent months, European satellite providers have launched a concerted campaign to silence Iran's international broadcasters. The campaign has revealed the true face of the West, which does not practice what it preaches regarding respect for human rights and free speech. Eutelsat's Israeli-French CEO Michel De Rosen has stepped up his restrictive campaign by appealing to major satellite providers in Europe and Asia to take Iranian media off air. Press TV has conducted an interview with Danny Schechter, editor of mediachannel.org, to further discuss the issue.

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Part of the reason why the Guantanamo Bay hunger strike is being neglected is because the International Committee of the Red Cross is favoring one side, which is not the side of the prisoners, Barry Wingard, military attorney for Gitmo inmates told RT.

RT: Why do you think the US guards have begun to notify all the prisoners’ lawyers about this now, is it trying to show it is doing a humane thing for the hunger strikers at this point?

Barry Wingard: Well greetings from Guantanamo Bay, America’s offshore prison. What I would say to you, is that everybody is getting more desperate both the prisoners and the officials here. I think they have realized that this is more than just a sound bite in a denial. I can tell you that the situation here is extremely bad and it is brutality. I’m a military officer. I’ve been an attorney for 15 years. I’ve been in the military for 29 years, I’ve been a prosecutor in Baghdad and a war crime investigator in Bosnia. And I’ve got to tell you, I’ve never seen anything like it. It is well within our third month of the hunger strike, these men are essentially saying, we’ve been here 11.5 years and the purpose of force feeding us to keep us healthy, so you can indefinitely detain us without trials for the rest of our lives, that it is just counter intuitive - either respect us or let us die.

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"We learned the lesson in Yugoslavia, Iraq, Afghanistan: be strong." - I recently returned from a late March trip to North Korea [Democratic Peoples Republic of Korea, DPRK], along with 45 others, through Koryo Tours. On that tour I had the opportunity to discuss with the Korean tour guides their views on the current situation. I only recall the DPRK view mentioned here once in the corporate media, when Dennis Rodman returned with a message from new President Kim Jong. The message was “I don’t want war, call me.” Nobel Peace Prize winning President Obama refused to accept it, evidently preferring an escalating threat of a regional nuclear war to talking. I asked my Korean tours guides to be interviewed so I could present their views to US people.

Contrary to assurances it has deployed U.S. drones only against known senior leaders of al Qaida and allied groups, the Obama administration has targeted and killed hundreds of suspected lower-level Afghan, Pakistani and unidentified “other” militants in scores of strikes in Pakistan’s rugged tribal area, classified U.S. intelligence reports show. “It has to be a threat that is serious and not speculative,” President Barack Obama said in a Sept. 6, 2012, interview with CNN. “It has to be a situation in which we can’t capture the individual before they move forward on some sort of operational plot against the United States.” Copies of the top-secret U.S. intelligence reports reviewed by McClatchy, however, show that drone strikes in Pakistan over a four-year period didn’t adhere to those standards.

In Washington, is justice for sale? President Obama took over $49 million in campaign donations from Wall Street, his Justice Department is full of former white collar defense lawyers, and 4 years after our financial collapse, not a single senior Wall Street executive has been charged with a crime. Learn the truth.

This clip from a 2010 Jon Corzine for Governor campagin ad is exhibit A in the cesspool of DOJ corruption that has resulted in Jon Corzine not currently residing in prison for stealing $1.6 billion from segregated client accounts during the collapse of MF Global, a collapse that was brought on by at least $6 billion of massively-leveraged bets on European debt.

[2nd Video:] James Koutoulas: "If anyone still thinks Obma has kept his promise to clean up Wall Street please review the following video."

Justice For Sale: President Obama took over $49 million in campaign donations from Wall Street, his Justice Department is full of former white collar defense lawyers, and 4 years after our financial collapse, not a single senior Wall Street executive has been charged with a crime.

When something of value is stolen, and everyone who was in charge of safeguarding the valuable claims ignorance of just about anything. People in charge who confronted with questions about the valuable items usually answer, "I just dont know where it is" or claim that the valuables were "vaporized" when it was their job to know.

Here's an outrage that must be changed: Big Pharma has been systematically price-gouging the Medicare program for seniors and people with disabilities. - There is nothing wrong with a company making profits -- that's what they're supposed to do. But the drug industry's profits are excessive as a result of overcharging American consumers and taxpayers. We pay significantly more than any other country for the exact same drugs. Per capita drug spending in the U.S. is about 40 percent higher than in Canada, 75 percent greater than in Japan and nearly triple the amount spent in Denmark.

Japan can count on German solidarity in the face of escalating tensions on the Korean peninsula, German Foreign Minister Guido Westerwelle said on Tuesday, as North Korea stepped up its saber-rattling. - “There is a clear message from the government of our country… that Japan can count on solidarity and other peaceful countries can count on that solidarity,” Westerwelle told journalists in The Hague. “It is very important that we send a clear message,” Westerwelle said at the end of a meeting of officials from the 10-country Non-Proliferation and Disarmament Initiative (NPDI) bloc. Japanese Foreign Minister Fumio Kishida told reporters the world needed to send a “very strong message” to Pyongyang that it should urge restraint “rather than repeat violent rhetoric.”

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An Iranian relief worker attends to an injured woman in
the quake-stricken Bushehr Province, April 9, 2013.

The governor of Iran’s Bushehr Province says reconstruction operations have begun in the areas of the province that were hardest hit by the recent earthquake, as immediate relief efforts are completed.

■ Fereydoun Hassanvand said on Wednesday that with the completion of relief and rescue operations in the quake-stricken areas, efforts to repair and rebuild water, power and communications networks in the affected districts of Shanbeh and Tasouj have already gotten underway. The governor added that according to a plan, each governor and chief executive had assumed responsibility for dealing with problems in villages within their jurisdictions. Hassanvand also stated that the latest figures following the 6.1-magnitude earthquake showed that 37 have been killed and 850 injured. ■ According to the Iranian Seismological Center, the powerful quake hit the town of Kaki, some 90 kilometers southeast of the provincial capital, Bushehr, at 4:22 p.m. local time (1152 GMT) on Tuesday at a depth of 12 kilometers. The strong quake was followed by at least four aftershocks, which jolted Kaki and the nearby city of Khour-Mowj. The Persian Gulf Arab states of Kuwait, Qatar and the United Arab Emirates have also felt the shocks from the quake.

Reuters/AlertNet: Quake hits near Iran's nuclear city Bushehr, 37 dead

Slovenia will solve its problems on its own just like Ireland did, just like Greece did, just like Portugal did, just like Spain did, just like Cyprus did: Under duress, with threats of eurozone expulsion if the nannycrats in Brussels are not pleased.

[In an effort to pin the blame on Muslims for the 9/11 inside job], the extremist US pastor Terry Jones announced plans to burn more copies of Islam’s holy book of Quran, a move which is likely to spark worldwide outrage. - Jones’ organization announced that members of the group will hold an event, which they call “International Burning of 2,998 Qur’ans,” to mark the 12th anniversary of September 11, 2001 attacks against the US. The “2,998” reportedly represents the number of people who were killed in the attacks that destroyed the twin World Trade Center towers in New York.

An archaeological dig in the heart of the City "will transform our understanding" of Roman London, experts claim.

About 10,000 finds have been discovered, including writing tablets and good luck charms. The area has been dubbed the "Pompeii of the north" due to the perfect preservation of organic artefacts such as leather and wood. One expert said: "This is the site that we have been dreaming of for 20 years." Archaeologists expect the finds, at the three-acre site, to provide the earliest foundation date for Roman London, currently AD 47.

The site will house media corporation Bloomberg's European headquarters. It contains the bed of the Walbrook, one of the "lost" rivers of London, and features built-up soil waterfronts and timber structures, including a complex Roman drainage system used to discharge waste from industrial buildings. Organic materials such as leather and wood were preserved in an anaerobic environment, due to the bed being waterlogged.

The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) urged the Washington State Supreme Court Monday to recognize that text messages are "the 21st Century phone call" and require that law enforcement officers obtain a warrant before reading texts on someone's phone. "Text messages are a ubiquitous form of communication, and their context can be as private as any telephone conversation," said EFF Staff Attorney Hanni Fakhoury. "We use texts to talk to our wives and husbands, our kids, our co-workers, and more. Police should not be able to sift through these personal exchanges on a whim – they must show probable cause and get a warrant before accessing this information."