Amid media blackout, citizens are taking their cameras out and filming what the state run media doesn't want you to see. Here's a video timeline of Bahrain protests as posted by blogger Chan'ad Bahraini 2.0 who comments

The depression will continue, dimming prospects for economic growth throughout the EU and the eurozone.

For this reason, Global Voices is joining the Internet blackout on January 18, 2012.

The conflict and opacity surrounding the case are telling signs of the country s political fragility since Colonel Muammar el Qaddafi s demise.

A secondary mission was to conduct reconnaissance of Japanese ports, industrial sites, and airfields, which was easily conducted due to the lack of a blackout in the areas they flew over.

Mr. Idoko (Nigeria) said that Mr. Hicks's reference to other border conflicts, among them the dispute between Nigeria and Cameroon, tended to obscure the important question before the Committee and the relevance of his presentation, which had otherwise been a valid one.

Pro change or pro reform or anti government protesters assembled in different points across Iraq this morning, to be faced with police brutality, media blackout and a government crackdown we have all become so familiar with by now.

Premier Wen himself indicated as much in a speech in August that was widely noted abroad, but largely blacked out in Chinese media.