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The Censorship That Dare Not Speak Its Name By James F. Tracy
The panel on which I participated was organized by Project Censored Director Mickey Huff to address the contrast between the radical journalistic activity practiced by Project Censored and the decade-old US media reform movement that has sought to initiate broader policy changes at the federal level. In previous years PC has been excluded from media… Continue reading
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NSA: Every Nuclear-Tipped Missile is an “Accident Waiting to Happen”
nuclear accident never produced a nuclear detonation, but according to a new book by Eric Schlosser every nuclear-tipped missile “is an accident waiting to happen, a potential act of mass murder.” Schlosser’s book, Command and Control: Nuclear Weapons, the Damascus Incident, and the Illusion of Safety (Penguin Press, 2013) includes a truly sobering account of… Continue reading
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Bradley Manning Newslinks 9 June 2013
9 June 2013 — williambowles.info Bradley Manning: Martyr To Freedom Of Expression Or Traitor? Sunday Leader Will the 25-year-old Bradley Manning, former First Class Private of the US Marines, now being tried for leaking the biggest ever trove of diplomatic and military secrets of America to the web site Wikileaks, in the future be considered a 21st Continue reading
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Bradley Manning Newslinks 8 June 2013
8 June 2013 — williambowles.info Bradley Manning’s WikiLeaks trial: Book parts delivered as it happens Los Angeles Times Leftie publisher O/R Books is covering the Bradley Manning trial for a book slated to appear in October, “The United States vs. PFC Bradley Manning: A Graphic Account From Inside the Courtroom.” The chronicler is Clark Continue reading
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Bradley Manning Newslinks 7 June 2013
7 June 2013 — williambowles.info As Bradley Manning Trial Begins, Press Predictably Misses the Point RollingStone.com Well, the Bradley Manning trial has begun, and for the most part, the government couldn’t have scripted the headlines any better. In the now-defunct Starz series Boss, there’s a reporter character named “Sam Miller” played by actor Troy Continue reading
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Bradley Manning / Wikileaks Newslinks 11 May 2013
11 May 2013 — williambowles.info The good soldier – Sydney Morning Herald Sydney Morning Herald In part, The Passion of Bradley Manning can be read as a biography. Manning, a talented but troubled computer geek, enlisted in the army (perhaps because of an unhappy relationship with his father) and, despite struggling as a recruit, Continue reading
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Bradley Manning / Wikileaks Newslinks 10 May 2013
10 May 2013 — williambowles.info Wanted: Bradley Manning trial court reporter Politico (blog) Frustrated by government restrictions surrounding the court martial of Army Pfc. Bradley Manning, the Freedom of the Press Foundation has announced a crowdsourcing campaign to pay a professional court reporter to transcribe the trial. In a release … http://www.politico.com/blogs/under-the-radar/2013/05/wanted-bradley-manning-trial-court-reporter-163608.html Continue reading
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Bradley Manning / Wikileaks Newslinks 9 May 2013
9 May 2013 — wiliambowles.info Bradley Manning SF Pride: Directors Try to Weasel Out Of Ditching Manning … PolicyMic In a press release on the afternoon of May 7 prior to their monthly board meeting, the San Francisco Pride Board of Directors released a statement intended to clarify the reasons that Bradley Manning was Continue reading
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Bradley Manning / Wikileaks Newslinks 7 May 2013
7 May 2013 — williambowles.info Bradley Manning Pretrial Hearing Reaching New Level Of Secrecy Huffington Post FORT MEADE, Md. — Government secrecy reaches a new level this week in the court-martial of Army Pfc. Bradley Manning, an intelligence analyst who sent 700,000 classified U.S. documents to the WikiLeaks website. A military judge, Col. Denise Continue reading
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Bradley Manning / Wikileaks Newslinks 6 May 2013
6 May 2013 — williambowles.info Listen: Chris Hedges Interviews Julian AssangeTruthdigIn these audio excerpts from their extended conversation in the Ecuadorean Embassy in London, Chris Hedges asks Julian Assange about legal strategy and the WikiLeaks founder’s thoughts on Pfc. Bradley Manning. For much more, including an in-depth …http://www.truthdig.com/avbooth/item/listen_chris_hedges_interviews_julian_assange_20130505/ Continue reading
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Bradley Manning / Wikileaks Newslinks 2 May 2013
2 May 2013 — williambowles.info The most bitter Bradley Manning-Pride piece yet San Francisco Bay Guardian Lots of people angry about the Pride Committee’s decision to fire Bradley Manning as a grand marshal. But the most savage, all-out assault comes from Steven W. Thrasher, a former Village Voice writer who has nothing good to Continue reading
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Wikileaks / Bradley Manning Newslinks 1 May 2013
1 May 2013 — williambowles.info Pirate Party gains three seats in Iceland’s parliament CBS News Physically isolated near the Arctic Circle, it is one of the world’s most wired countries and has been a hub for the online secret-spilling group WikiLeaks. Jonsdottir has worked with WikiLeaks in the past. In 2011 the country announced it would crowd Continue reading
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Bradley Manning / Wikileaks Newslinks 30 April 2013
30 April 2013 — williambowles.info Protesters slam Bradley Manning parade decision San Francisco Chronicle (blog) Parade-goers at the San Francisco Pride celebrations won’t see Bradley Manning, the U.S. Army private accused of leaking classified documents to the website WikiLeaks, marching down Market Street in June. But if they passed by SF Pride headquarters on Continue reading
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Wikileaks / Bradley Manning Newslinks 29 April 2013
29 April 2013 — williambowles.info WikiLeaks to release more records – The Frontier Post Frontier Post LONDON: Whistleblowing website WikiLeaks was on Monday to publish more than 1.7 million US diplomatic and intelligence documents from the 1970s, founder Julian Assange revealed. The website has collated a variety of records including cables, … http://www.thefrontierpost.com/article/4152/ 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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Videos: Police Conspire to Shut Down OWS Nationwide By Michael Chester
19 November 2011 — Veterans Today Similar Tactics in Use Throughout the Country In recent days, a pattern has appeared across the country in the actions of police in dealing with the peaceful protesters taking part in the OWS movement. This coordinated effort leads many to suspect the dark presence of the Federal government in Continue reading
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Video: COURTS OVERRULED BY COPS – DHS ABOVE THE LAW….
The ugly hand of the federal government is becoming increasingly suspected behind what appears to be a nationwide attempt to repress and evict the Occupation Movement. Continue reading
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Welcome to the #OWS 99% Movement “We Will NOT Be Co-Opted” Working Group
This is not an official statement from the #OWS 99% Movement. As a decentralized leaderless movement, in our opinion, there is no one group, organization, website or individual who can speak for the movement as a whole. We, a working group of people currently occupying Liberty Park and many other locations throughout the US, are… Continue reading
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Arabian Sights… (Re)occupy America
A roundup of occupations. Continue reading
The New Dark Age 