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Posts Tagged ‘Free Speech’
January 13th, 2015 - 10:11 am § in Uncategorized
Subscribe to Charlie Hebdo
The cover of the new issue of Charlie Hebdo, to be published tomorrow and translated into 16 languages. i6 million copies (rather than th eusual 60,000). The headline says: “everything is forgiven”. CLICK to donate. CLICK to subscribe.[...]
January 8th, 2015 - 2:14 pm § in America
Freedom Of Speech . in the 21st Century
Chairman Tom Wheeler didn’t say so directly, but he left little doubt that he and fellow Democrats on the FCC will stand up to cable and telco Internet providers next month by adopting net neutrality rules that redefine broadband as a regulated, communications service. ISPs have said that such a [...]
January 5th, 2015 - 9:17 am § in America
GOP Allies With North Korea To Strike Against Net Neutrality
So much for the GOP’s belief in free speech.[...]
December 12th, 2014 - 9:34 am § in Uncategorized
CENSORED
Jakarta Police have arrested The Jakarta Post Chief Editor Meidyatama Suryodiningrat. He was charged with blasphemy for the publication of a cartoon mocking the jihadist group Islamic State The cartoon published on July 3 depicted a flag emblazoned with the Arabic phrases “La ilaha Illallah,�[...]
December 10th, 2014 - 11:25 pm § in China
CHINA: pot calls kettle black.
Commentary: Hypocrisy of U.S. as human rights police The hegemony it has exercised, the inquisition by torture it has practised, and the profound racial inequalities all point to the sheer hypocrisy of the United States as a defender of human rights.[...]
December 10th, 2014 - 11:43 am § in Hypocrisy
New (Re)Public RIP
Mike James from Facebook Addendum to The New Republic shakeup – editors and writers resigning after kid owner (Chris Hughes of Facebook millions) brings in new boss who says he’s into “breaking shit” and imagines the old and honorable mag as a “vertically integrated d[...]
Speaking the truth!
Mark Udall threatens to disclose the truth about torture The Senate Intelligence Committee, led by Dianne Feinstein of California, is soon expected to release its summary of the so-called CIA Torture Report, the committee’s four-year-long investigation into the CIA’s Bush-era torture practices[...]