Newspapers’ New Profit: Suing Blogs for Copyright Infringement
David Kravets Wired Steve Gibson has a plan to save the media world’s financial crisis — and it’s not the iPad. Borrowing a page from…
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Shadow Banking Makes a Comeback
Mike Whitney BlackListedNews Credit conditions are improving for speculators and bubblemakers, but they continue to worsen for households, consumers and small businesses. An article in…
Corporate Media Discover Private Spies. In Other News, No WMD in Iraq
Jeremy Scahill The Nation Stop the presses and call the government spokespeople back from Martha’s Vineyard. The corporate media have discovered that the United States…
Congressman Introduces Resolution to Protect Citizens Who Videotape Cops
Carlos Miller A U.S. Congressman has introduced a resolution that would protect citizens who videotape cops in public from getting arrested on state wiretapping charges….
Oliver Stone’s New Project: The Secret History of America
Oliver Stone and the politics of film-making There’s no let-up for Hollywod’s most controversial director – the sequel to Wall Street, a documentary about Hugo…
U.S. military turns to TV for surveillance technology
Julian E. Barnes Los Angeles Times Reporting from Washington — As it rapidly expands its drone program over Afghanistan, the U.S. military is turning to…
“They Just Don’t Know Who They’re Messing With”
Kate Sheppard Mother Jones If you’ve been reading Mother Jones lately, you’ve heard about BP’s stranglehold on media access in the Gulf, which has included…
Bilderberg Corporate Media Mogul Wrote Obama Speech
Paul Joseph Watson Prison Planet.com The fact that Barack Obama is nothing more than a corporate sock puppet, a completely hollow vassal being used and…
The Cybersecurity Directive Goes Viral
Michael Edwards Activist Post The latest National Security Directive presented by the establishment mouthpiece, The Wall Street Journal, indicates that the marketing campaign for Cybersecurity…
Will Gitmo Shrinks Lose Their Credentials?
Daniel Schulman Mother Jones Human rights groups target two military psychologists with ethics complaints for complicity in torture. If their aim was to break him,…
US soldier linked to Iraq helicopter video leak charged
BBC NEWS The US military has pressed criminal charges against a soldier suspected of leaking video of a US helicopter attack in Iraq to the…
API: We Like Our Handouts!
Kate Sheppard Mother Jones The Gulf oil disaster has created some impetus in Congress to reduce the lavish subsidies granted to oil companies to incentivize…
The BP/Government police state
Glenn Greenwald Salon Last week, I interviewed Mother Jones‘ Mac McClelland, who has been covering the BP oil spill in the Gulf since the first day it…
Photos of BP Failures Could be a Felony
Hot Tweet: Photographers Feel Rights Threatened by BP Sarah Gilbert DailyFinance Taking photographs of failed oil booms — which trap oil in coastal waterways,…