And this month, fresh from Egypt and Gaza, Code Pink launched an advertising campaign on the Muslim Brotherhood's English-language Web site.
Not much is available in English on the Web about Yorifuji.
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Meanwhile, copycat hacktivist groups keen to join in the Anonymous-inspired AntiSec movement have sprung up outside the English-speaking web, from countries like Brazil and Spain.
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They soon learned to browse the Web in English, even though they lacked facility in the language.
There is no reliable count of web pages in English but among users, 27% adopt English and 24% Chinese.
But the best way for curious Americans to watch Al Jazeera in English will be on the Web those with broadband Internet service can see it for free.
That site is 5dimes.com, which operates out of Costa Rica, but whose web site is in English for the convenience of the much larger American hopeless bettor market.
Eventually, the plan is for Beijing Artists Online's Web site to also feature English and Spanish music, he added.
In recent years, it has begun to expand that reach, through a pair of Web sites, in Chinese and English, that are loosely modelled on nytimes.com.
Browsing on the web allows us to, using the English papers as an example, get our rugby coverage from the Telegraph, celebrity news from the Mail, business news here at Forbes, of course, the crossword from the Telegraph again, soothe our libidos at the Sun and still have time left over to go sneer at the hippies and socialists in The Guardian comment pages.
Virtual communication, such as information on their personal Web pages, has to be written in English.
Coming soon: a book, a web tv and a theatrical performance, with an English version for international audiences.
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"We learn to exchange e-mail, make our own Web pages and, best of all, improve our English, " says Yang Yimei, who is from the town of Simao, in China's southwestern Yunnan province.
As Asian business takes to the Internet, English may even lose its place as the unchallenged lingua franca of the web.
To start, Chinese companies should be tweeting the English content that they are already posting on their corporate and investor relations web pages.
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Fortunately, a number of Japanese government agencies and big businesses have started translating their Web sites so that they can offer parallel sets of pages in English.
McCain launched a Web-only advertisement touting the Colombia Free Trade agreement Tuesday, in English with Spanish subtitles.
Give it a Web page from a Spanish newspaper and in about a second the text is converted to English.
Fluent in English, he has been detailing in interviews some of his firsthand experience inside North Korea's worldwide web of corruption and cash.
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