This last month has shown America that society will gladly tolerate vigilante violence, provided a vigilante chooses the right target.
Wikileaks
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The New State Agitprop Film About Wikileaks
The film does a grave disservice to whistleblowers Julian Assange and Bradley Manning.
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Homeowners Jailed, Protesters Brutally Tased at DOJ Demonstrations
A two-day long housing protest outside the Department of Justice this week has resulted in nearly 30 arrests and several instances of law enforcement unnecessarily using tasers on activists.
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Hedges: Rise Up Or Die
We must either defy the corporate state or accept our extinction as a species.
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In AP Scandal, Mainstream Media Gets a Taste of Government Medicine
Corporate media just got nailed with a crackdown on whistleblowing, the kind activists have experienced in heavy doses. Lo and behold, mainstream journalists don't like what they're being told to swallow.
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Hedges: The Death of Truth
The global assault on Wikileaks is part of the terrifying metamorphosis of the “war on terror” into a wider war on civil liberties — a hunt not for actual terrorists, but for all those with the ability to expose the mounting crimes of the power elite.
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From Italy to Iceland, the Promise of Digital Direct Democracy
Movement power — and parliamentary political power — is building across Europe as people harness online organizing tools.
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We Are Players in the Game of Revolution
A people's democracy on a global scale is within reach -- if we have the courage to seize it.
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"The Kissinger Cables": Wikileaks Releases New Trove of Secret U.S. Documents
The world's lead whistleblowing website has just published the "Public Library of U.S. Diplomacy," 1.7 million U.S. documents from 1973 to 1976 including many written by former State Secretary Henry Kissinger.
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Obama Transparency Check: Wikileaks, the Espionage Act and the Trans-Pacific Partnership
From his unprecedented six-time use of the Espionage Act, to his administration's failure to uphold First Amendment rights for Wikileaks, to the suppression of information about TPP negotiations, Obama has been anything but transparent.
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Hacktivism: Civil Disobedience or Cyber Crime?
As Aaron Swartz’s and other “hacktivist” cases demonstrate, you don’t have to be a hacker to be viewed as one under federal law.
