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Posted by Michael Butler, Saturday, May 10, 2014TomDispatch: Tomgram: Peter Van Buren, The Next Battleground in the War on Whistleblowers
Posted by Michael Butler, Friday, March 7, 2014Greenwald Will Return to US to ‘Force Issue’ of Press Freedom | Common Dreams
Posted by Michael Butler, Saturday, February 8, 2014FOCUS | The Snowden Effect, Continued
Posted by Michael Butler, Sunday, February 2, 2014Obama staffer wants ‘cognitive infiltration’ of 9/11 conspiracy groups
from Raw Story via Glenn Greenwald's twitter feed ..In a 2008 academic paper, President Barack Obama’s appointee to head the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs advocated “cognitive infiltration” of groups that advocate “conspiracy theories” like the ones surrounding 9/11. Cass Sunstein, a Harvard law professor, co-wrote an academic article entitled “Conspiracy Theories: Causes and Cures,” in which he argued that the government should stealthily infiltrate groups that pose alternative theories on historical events via “chat rooms, online social networks, or even real-space groups and attempt to undermine” those groups.. read more
Posted by Mike Blaxill, Sunday, February 2, 2014
Whistleblowing Is About the Message, Not the Messenger | The Dissenter
Posted by Michael Butler, Wednesday, January 22, 2014The Matrix described – 2000 years ago – Video
The problem of knowledge - and knowing what's really going on - is not a new one. One of the western world's greatest philosophers described how people are routinely fooled. Bet they didn't teach you this one in school. BrasscheckPosted by Michael Butler, Monday, January 20, 2014
Why is this man in jail?!?!
"For over six years, Roger Shuler has hounded figures of the state legal and political establishment on his blog, Legal Schnauzer, a hothouse of furious but often fuzzily sourced allegations of deep corruption and wide-ranging conspiracy. Some of these allegations he has tested in court, having sued his neighbor, his neighbor’s lawyer, his former employer, the Police Department, the Sheriff’s Department, the Alabama State Bar and two county circuit judges, among others. Mostly, he has lost. But even those who longed for his muzzling, and there are many, did not see it coming like this: with Mr. Shuler sitting in jail indefinitely, and now on the list of imprisoned journalists worldwide kept by the Committee to Protect Journalists. There, in the company of jailed reporters in China, Iran and Egypt, is Mr. Shuler, the only person on the list in the Western Hemisphere."Posted by Ian Alterman, Saturday, January 11, 2014
GOP’s “Duck Dynasty” problem: Why Phil Robertson was a hugely important political story – Salon.com
Posted by Michael Butler, Friday, January 3, 2014The “free press” in America – Brasscheck
Even the most wild-eyed conspiracy theory underestimates to the extent to which the "news" media controls the flow of information in the land of the free. The reality would make even a gangster blush. Here's how it works in real life: brasscheckPosted by Michael Butler, Friday, December 27, 2013
Truthdig – Shooting the Messenger – Chris Hedges
Posted by Michael Butler, Thursday, December 12, 2013Media Censorship That Dare Not Speak Its Name: What is Radical Intellectual Activity? | Global Research
Posted by Michael Butler, Friday, November 8, 2013Edward Snowden Pens ‘A Manifesto for the Truth’ | Common Dreams
Posted by Michael Butler, Friday, November 8, 2013The Real Reason U.S. Targets Whistleblowers | Global Research
Posted by Michael Butler, Wednesday, October 30, 20139/11: Does the Truth Have a Chance? | Global Research
There are so many questions. Why does there not be a real public investigation. Look at all the crap Congress gets into!Posted by Michael Butler, Tuesday, October 29, 2013
World Bank Whistleblower makes Startling Confession – Karen Hudes #N3
Posted by Michael Butler, Tuesday, October 22, 2013World Bank Whistleblower makes Startling Confession – Karen Hudes #N3
You have to watch this. b.a.Posted by Michael Butler, Monday, October 21, 2013