Public Information

By Malini Shankar

BANGALORE, India, Mar 3, 2010 (IPS) - Community radio is moving from the margins to the mainstream in many
countries in Asia, carving out spaces from where they respond to public needs
ranging from disaster management to gender awareness, cultural identity and
belonging.

This was proven in Papua New Guinea in January, during a tsunami
triggered by an earthquake.

"No adult died because adults knew that when the sea withdraws (from the
shore), it portends the arrival of a tsunami, and all the adults fled to higher
ground," said Aloysius Laukai of New Dawn FM station. However, "the  read more »

Interpress can be a good source of international news not found elsewhere. -Rick  read more »

Barack Obama is on record as advocating a military escalation in
Afghanistan. Before sinking any deeper into that quagmire, we might do
well to learn something about recent Afghani history and the role
played by the United States.

Less than a month after the 11 September 2001 attacks on the World
Trade Center and the Pentagon, US leaders began an all-out aerial
assault upon Afghanistan, the country purportedly harboring Osama bin
Laden and his al Qaeda terrorist organization. More than twenty years
earlier, in 1980, the United States intervened to stop a Soviet
“invasion” of that country. Even some leading progressive writers, who
normally take a more critical view of US policy abroad, treated the US  read more »