Midweek link dump

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• Bolivia nationalized four power companies, including one owned by a workers' collective.
• Pulitzer prizes were for the first time awarded to Internet-based news sources, with Sheri Fink of ProPublica awarded the prize for investigative reporting and Flash artist Mark Fiore awarded the prize for cartooning.
• George Allen Rakers, a prominent anti-homosexual activist, was caught hiring a male prostitute.
• The Unification Church of Sun Myung Moon is planning to sell the Washington Times.
• A college student who hacked into Sarah Palin's email account was convicted of felony obstruction of justice for deleting evidence of the act from his hard drive.
• The Guardian reports that "a growing number of Britons are answering the call to jihad in Somalia" and joining al-Shabaab.
• , president of the student body of the California State University campus in Chico, survived a knife attack that was brought on by his skin colour.
• Meryl Yourish compares the words of John Mearshimer to those of Charles Lindbergh and Charles Coughlin in the 1930s.
• Swedish Press Subsidies Council member Martin Ahlquist has resigned in protest of the government board's funding of racist newspaper Nationell Idag. It seems the government board is not permitted to consider the contents of the newspapers that apply for funding.
• Sean Foley discusses the state pf womens' rights in Saudi Arabia and other Persian Gulf countries.
• Livejournal user jblaque has a list of ways people in the U.S.A.'s Gulf of Mexico region can respond to the Deepwater Horizon oil spill.