Officials fined for 1st amendment violations
US District Court finds officials guilty of civil rights violations for evicting citizen
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US Govt wants to 'select' who is or isn't a journalist abolish 1st Amendment
The US State Department, in a release today, seeks to be the sole arbiter of what does or does not qualify as ‘press’ or ‘media’.
Read MoreOperation Payback changing tactics Operation Leakspin
As in any war, changes occur on the ground minute by minute. The ongoing cyber war is adapting to these changes and developing a strategy to focus on the cables and disseminating information to the digital world.
Read MorePalin calls Assange 'un-American' whines she is persecuted for free speech
Somebody please tell Sarah Palin that Julian Assange is Australian. Please tell her that freedom of speech does not mean freedom from ridicule
Read MoreUS attempts at censure prove why Wikileaks is needed
Glenn Greenwald debates Steven Aftergood as the US tries to stifle free speech, even amongst prospective employees.
Read MoreUS called out on its hypocrisy – critics around the world
The US, the country I love, is behaving, like a small child caught in a lie, red faced and angry because it has been found out.
Read MoreUS will have to go after all media if they go after Assange/Wikileaks
Al Jazeera examines the precarious legal position of Julian Assange. Should the US try to prosecute him, they may as well censure and prosecute all media.
Read MoreLakeside City Hall and MP Herald editor double team Coast Lake News
The Sheriff’s Department confirms an incident report, #S210-09-809 filed on August 25, 2010 at 10:20 AM by a Regina Charlene Hill, was filed charging the Coast Lake News with harassment and publishing ‘untrue’...
Read MoreExcellent summary of the importance of a free press to a healthy democracy
Michael Scherer does an excellent job of dissecting toture advocate Mark Thiessenattack on Wikileaks. Scherer looks back at history, namely the release of the Pentagon Papers that helped turn the war. The Pentagon Papers showed...
Read MoreOlbermann – WTF?!? Miss California
Keith pokes fun at the concept of exercising corporate freedom of speech, not to be confused with the first amendment.
War is a racket
“War is a racket.†So spoke Marine Brigadier General Smedley D Butler, America’s most decorated general. “It always has been. It is possibly the oldest, easily the most profitable, surely the most vicious. It is the only...
Read MorePolice raids in Minneapolis and St Paul
Amy Goodman of Democracy Now, along with Jeremy Scahill were present to video this encounter by one of their producers with the police and shared the experience with us at the VFP National Convention.
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