Julian Assange: Facebook, Google, Yahoo Spying Tools for US intelligence
By Julian Assange: The man behind WikiLeaks says his website’s revelations are just the tip of the iceberg. In an exclusive interview with RT, Julian Assange said it is only a matter of time before...
View ArticleNir Rosen: Western Media Fraud In The Middle East
By Nir Rosen: Too many journalists report official narratives of the powerful, missing the stories of working class people. Too often, you consumers of mainstream media are victims of a fraud. You...
View ArticleAaron Peters: The Communication Commons – Resisting The Recuperation Of The...
By Aaron Peters: “A community will evolve only when a people control their own communication” - Frantz Fanon Why is it that most of those keen to praise the democratic and participatory potential of...
View ArticleLanguage Of War
BY strangesanum91: (Video: Watch this video on the post page) One man’s collateral damage is another man’s son… “The frightening thing about the use of euphemisms is their power to efface the memory of...
View ArticleDan Hind: The Limits of Acceptable Controversy
By Dan Hind: The News of the World scandal is finally taking on its proper dimensions in the minds of the British people. It has long been obvious to insiders that elements in the media were...
View ArticleLaurie Penny: The Momentum Of The Murdoch Backlash Must Not Slow
By Laurie Penny: The Murdoch red-tops are not moral arbiters, they are brutal mercenary machines. For years, the Murdoch press has manipulated a particular type of moral outrage in order to peddle its...
View ArticleBilly Bragg: Never Buy The Sun
By Billy Bragg: A song about the News of the World scandal called “Never buy the Sun”. Debut at Garforth Arts Festival. Recorded in his dressing room before the show. (Video: Watch this video on the...
View ArticleCharles Arthur: How LulzSec Hacked The Sun’s Website
By Charles Arthur Source: The Guardian Weakness in a disregarded server was used to gain access to News International systems and then redirect traffic to fake web page, and then to LulzSec’s Twitter...
View ArticleDSG: Wikileaks Moment / Napster Moment
By DSG Source: DSG The ongoing News International fiasco appears, on the face of it, a good old-fashioned scandal, a “Watergate” for our times, as the #hackgate hashtag suggests. This, the story goes,...
View ArticleLaurie Penny: Occupy the Media
By Laurie Penny Of all the many outrages, anticipated and unanticipated, that I have seen perpetrated by American police against peaceful protesters and members of the public this week, perhaps the...
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