NY1 (1)

Blurred Line Between Espionage and Truth

US Has Drawn Up Secret Indictment Against WikiLeaks’ Assange

CNN Silences War-Skeptical Soldier | Consortiumnews

WikiLeaks: “Private Spies” Stratfor Helped Dow Chemical Monitor Bhopal Activists, The Yes Men

Bradley Manning, Solitary Confinement and Occupy 4 Prisoners

AlterNet (1)

Wikileaks Banned From UN Conference on Wikileaks

Mr. Assange said that UNESCO had "made itself an international human rights joke. To use ‘freedom of expression’ to censor WikiLeaks from a conference about WikiLeaks is an Orwellian absurdity beyond words. This is an intolerable abuse of UNESCO's Constitution. It's time to occupy UNESCO" .. In a statement posted on its website, WikiLeaks said the conference was packed with "who’s who" of the websites opponents and critics "no matter how insignificant or poorly informed."

Occupy Protesters Sue NYC over Pepper Spray Incident

Two protesters who were pepper sprayed by Deputy Inspector Anthony Bologna of the NYPD last fall during a peaceful march against Wall Street crimes and corporate greed, have sued the city for damages. The lawsuit states, "Anthony Bologna maced the plaintiffs as they were exercising their constitutionally protected rights, including freedom of speech and freedom of assembly."

Phil Rockstroh: Love, Work, and Dissent in a Time of Hazmat Suits and Political Hypochondria

authoritarian personality types are obsessed with the fantasy of scouring (a panopticon/predator drone mode of mind) life of all disorder. Not only making the trains run on time but demanding that the passengers on said trains psyches be cleansed of impure thoughts…sanitized for their protection, then covered in a sort of societal prophylactic plastic to safeguard the principles of societal propriety--in short, have the populace rendered Body Bag People. Better this, they are convinced, than allow the person-to-person contagion of dissent to spread. Perhaps, this provides a clue as to why the enforcers of our fear-driven, ruthless authoritarian power elite go so far as to don Hazmat suits when attacking and dismantling Occupy sites

Book Burning in Arizona

Truthdig – The Cancer in Occupy – Chris Hedges

The Right’s Stupidity Spreads, Enabled by a Too-Polite Left | Common Dreams

Army Officer Turned Whistleblower: How Many More Must Die?

Internet Protests Could Be Equalizer

Atheism in the US. The last big taboo. FT, Julian Maggiani

In the Assange Case We Are All Suspects Now

“Gasland” Director Josh Fox on Democracy Now – Part 1

“Gasland” Director Josh Fox on Democracy Now – Part 2

At Hearing on “Fracking,” Capitol Police Arrest Director of “Gasland”

On Wednesday, House Republicans ordered Capitol police to arrest Josh Fox, director of the Academy Award-nominated documentary "Gasland," along with his crew. The group was attempting to film a meeting of the House Subcommittee on Energy and Environment that was to discuss hydraulic fracturing, also known as "fracking" .. Fox faces a court hearing on February 15 on charges of "unlawful entry." As an independent filmmaker, Fox called on congress to make all meetings and hearings accessible to independent journalists. "The truth that fracking contaminates groundwater is out, and no amount of intimidation tactics - either outright challenges to science or the arrest of journalists - will put the genie back in the bottle," he stated.

Wikileaks Founder Faces Extradition, Then…’The Simpsons’ | Common Dreams

After Occupy Journalist Arrests, US Plummets in Global Press Freedom Rankings

Reporters Without Borders has released its annual World Press Freedom Index and the United States fell 27 points to No. 47 on the list. Why? "more than 25 [reporters] were subjected to arrests and beatings at the hands of police" during Occupy movement protests

The SOPA and PIPA War: An Analysis | Scott Steinberg | Rolling Stone

Public Integrity

Study Challenges Supreme Court’s Image as Defender of Free Speech