January 19, 2012
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SOPA: Anti-Piracy or Censorship? Wikipedia’s Jimmy Wales vs. Copyright Alliance’s Sandra Aistars
Congressional support for a pair of anti-piracy bills is weakening after Wednesday’s historic online protest in which thousands of websites went dark for 24 hours. Continue reading
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BREAKING: Copyright Lawyers Oppose SOPA … And Say It Won’t Even Work By Washington’s Blog
Many experts have said that the Stop Online Privacy Act (SOPA) and Protect IP Act (PIPA) are not only draconian, but that they fail to address the root problem. Continue reading
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SAY NO TO SOPA AND PIPA. What’s Happening With the Web Censorship Bills? By Washington’s Blog
In the face of massive Internet protest today, key senate and house backers of the SOPA and PIPA web censorship bills – including Senators Marco Rubio, Roy Blunt, John Cornyn, Orrin Hatch, John Boozman and Jim DeMint, and Representatives Ben Quayle and Lee Terry – have dropped their support. So have a number of other… Continue reading
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NYT, SOPA and Internet Factchecking
Remember last week’s uproar about the New York Times and factchecking? In today’s paper, we see a great example of how this works. Continue reading
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Video: SOPA Sledgehammer Could Smash Any Site on Web By grtv
John Davies, the Chief Executive of Wikimedia UK – the umbrella foundation in charge of Wikipedia – said the site’s unprecedented blackout was a tough decision to make, but a necessary one in the bid to raise global awareness. Continue reading
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Music: Riko and Target – 'The Chosen One'
19 January 2011 From the UK, 2005. Not sure what the category is but who cares? Check the lyrics. Continue reading
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Post-War Constitutions: Privatization and Empire-Building By Mahdi Darius Nazemroaya
The following is a 2011 article by Mahdi Darius Nazemroaya for the Italian journal Eurasia about the manipulation of national constitutions as a neo-colonial means of modern empire-building. The article presents an important overview of the U.S. empire-building process. Continue reading
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A captive nation By William Bowles
‘Boom and bust’ no matter what the pundits say, is built into the very nature of capitalism. At best ‘tinkering’ with it brings a temporary reprieve from the inevitable and even the ‘tinkering’ is the result of working class intervention into the affairs of capitalism eg, the ‘welfare state’. Ultimately, the outcome every time is… Continue reading
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Blackout – Save the Internet today
The US Congress was poised to pass a law allowing officials to censor access to any website around the world. But after we delivered our 1.25 million strong petition to the White House, it came out against the bill and with public pressure at a boiling point even some bill backers are switching sides. Now,… Continue reading
The New Dark Age 