Free Speech

Media Once Bitten, Forever Scorn (VIDEO)

"It would be wholly inappropriate for the President to involve himself in a criminal investigation." -Jay Carney Hurrah, the worm has turned! Or has it? The corporatist controlled mass media love affair with the puppet spinmeister seems to be on the rocks. For progressive propagandists, the profession of journalism has long sunk into the sewer.


Spies "R" Us

  A previous article discussed institutionalized spying on Americans. Anyone can be monitored for any reason or none at all. Manufactured national security threats, silencing dissent, targeting whistleblowers, and challenging press freedom subvert constitutional rights. Doing so is worse than ever now. Obama bears full responsibility. He governs by diktat authority. He's waging war on


Dead For Now: CISPA Halted At Senate

Privacy advocates can breathe a sigh of relief as the controversial US Cyber Information Sharing and Protection Act (CISPA) appears to be all but dead in the water, with all signs pointing to it being shelved by the Senate. The bill, which was purportedly designed to allow the federal government to share private user information


Georgia Court Censorship Order Threatens Message Boards Everywhere

Earlier this month, a Georgia Superior Court issued a breathtaking restraining order against Matthew Chan, the operator of a copyright troll criticism message board, holding him responsible for the posts of his users. As part of the Court’s reasoning, Judge Frank Jordan wrote: As the owner and operator of the site, Respondent has the ability


Bradlee Dean On Today's Youth: Dying For The Truth (VIDEOS)

“The reports that you are getting about the beliefs of students in public schools is not coming from the students, but rather the sick media spin-doctors and their disinformation.” – Bradlee Dean Sen. Frank Lautenberg, D-N.J., and Rep. Barbara Lee, D-Calif., have introduced sex-education legislation limiting funding for “ineffective” abstinent-only programs, while expanding the dangerous


FDA Now Censoring Consumer Free Speech on the Internet (PETITION)

Or, to be more precise, demanding that supplement companies do it on their orders. Action Alert!   The US Food and Drug Administration has recently issued warning letters to two different supplement companies. Here is what triggered one of them: supplement company AMARC Enterprises “liked” a Facebook customer testimonial about how their product helped “keep cancer


Report Prepared for Obama’s DHS & DOJ Targets Survivalists, Patriots & Conservatives as Terrorist Threats

The Southern Poverty Law Center, a group who regularly attacks patriotic Americans by masquerading as a civil rights group, is compiling lists and conducting surveillance on what it calls “patriots”, “survivalists”, and “conspiracy theorists”. Even more disturbing, is the access this group has to the Obama administration’s Department of Justice. In a report prepared for


Turkey Targets Press Freedom

  No country imprisons more journalists than Turkey. Ragip Zarakolu understands well. He's a prominent human rights activist/publisher. He's a former Nobel Peace Prize nominee. He's been maliciously targeted for years. In 1998, he won the International Publishers Association (IPA) International Freedom to Publish Award. He couldn't attend the Frankfurt ceremony. Authorities confiscated his passport.


Freedom of Expression, Defamation of Religion and the Hypocrisy of Limits

"Derogatory, disrespectful and inflammatory," were the words used to describe this exercise of free expression. These words were not used to describe the Innocence of Muslims movie, but were uttered by Judge Jane Goodwin in criminally convicting British teen Azhar Ahmed late last year  for a Facebook status update celebrating the deaths of six British


The New Inquisition

“No one expects the American Inquisition” (apologies to Monty Python).  The Spanish Inquisition was said to be the worst time in the history of humanity, culminating in the Dark Ages, a time when man's forward evolution was stifled by fear.  When all is said and done, it may be viewed as a “cakewalk” compared to


Join Occupy Monsanto in St. Louis!

The World’s Most Hated Corporation won’t be feeling the love at its annual shareholders meeting this year. On Jan. 31, anti-GMO activists will descend on Monsanto’s global headquarters to protest the company's evil ways. One of those activists, who also happens to be a Monsanto shareholder, will go inside the meeting to present a shareholder resolution


Activists Gather In Washington, D.C. For The Dis-inauguration Of Barack Hussein Obama

Activists will gather at the Christoper Columbus Memorial Fountain (Union Station) in Washington, D.C. Monday, January 21, 2013 for the Dis-Inauguration of Barack Hussein Obama. FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE PRLog (Press Release) - Jan. 4, 2013 - January 21st, Obama will be inaugurated for his 2nd term as President of the United States of America. A


India Government Wiretapping Meets Blackberry Interception

According to a report, All major Indian telecom companies, including Bharti Airtel, Vodafone India and Tata Tele services, have agreed to share real-time interception of BlackBerry calls and data services on their networks with Security agencies to meet the December 31 deadline fixed by the Indian government .     Research In Motion (RIM), the


Aaron Swartz, Activist, Dead At 26

We often say, upon the passing of a friend or loved one, that the world is a poorer place for the loss. But with the untimely death of programmer and activist Aaron Swartz, this isn’t just a sentiment; it’s literally true. Worthy, important causes will surface without a champion equal to their measure. Technological problems


OWS Activists Called Domestic Terrorists

US history is littered with repressive laws. Constitutional protections and civil liberties have been targeted. The 1798 Alien and Sedition Acts restricted First Amendment freedoms. So did the 1917 Espionage Act, 1919 anti-communist Palmer raids, 1934 Special Committee on Un-American Activities, its House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC) successor, FBI COINTELPRO crackdowns, 1996 Anti-Terrorism and Effective


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