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Julian Assange appeared on CNN’s “OutFront with Erin Burnett” on November 28, 2012. He discusses his new book “Cypherpunks”, the mass surveillance state, and Bradley Manning
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Human rights activists denounce Israeli spokesman Mark Regev’s attempts to justify attacks on media offices.
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Can an opposition activist in Russia successfully challenge the might of the country’s president?
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What we are dealing with is a culture of impunity, a culture in which the powerful silence the powerless without consequences. When citizens and journalists face threats and attacks for exercising their right to free expression and the people responsible for these crimes are not held accountable, the result is a climate in which people are afraid to speak out, the hard questions go unasked, the powerful are not challenged, and criticism is stifled.
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This strike is important. Firstly, it’s in the U.S. where labor has been dumped on and unions weakened over the past decades. Secondly, Walmart is the largest employer in the world. Thirdly, the workers are doing this despite the lack of a union safety net and at the risk of losing their jobs.
(Pic via The Other 98.)
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Meet Matthew Fogg, a former U.S.Marshal whose exploits led him to be nicknamed “Batman.”…
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Two young women were arrested here on Monday on charges of “promoting enmity between classes” and “sending offensive messages through [a] communication service,” after one posted, and the other ‘liked,’ a message on Facebook on Sunday, questioning the Mumbai bandh that followed Shiv Sena leader Bal Thackeray’s death. Both of them were released on bail by a local court on Monday afternoon.
