World-News

Hawaii Reporter
by John S. Carroll

01/22/12

The bills, while purporting to protect intellectual property and attack the online piracy of things like music and movies also included language that made it possible for the government to unilaterally censor or shut down any Web operations it wanted. This blatant infringement of free speech, and affront to the U.S. Constitution was tucked into the small print...

http://tinyurl.com/6og64sw



An opportunity gone to waste

CounterPunch
by Paul Craig Roberts

01/23/12

Civil Liberty, essentially the accountability of government to law that serves to protect the innocent, is the historic achievement of the English over many centuries from its beginnings with the foundation for common law established by Alfred the Great in the 9th century through Magna Carta in the 13th century to the Glorious Revolution in the 17th century. If this human achievement is lost, it is unlikely to be resurrected. If the Constitution that Bush and Obama have murdered stays in its grave one more presidential term, no one will be able to re-establish the Constitutions? authority...

http://bit.ly/yWBXN8



The American press and war

Future of Freedom Foundation
by Tim Kelly

01/12

There is a myth of an independent American press existing as a counterforce to government power. Unfortunately, the truth is less inspiring, especially with respect to the U.S. governments' wars, invasions, and foreign interventions. Rather than keeping the public well-informed, journalists and reporters have all too often served as conduits for government propaganda in the march to war...

http://www.fff.org/comment/com1201l.asp


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

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Destroying the Commons: How the Magna Carta Became a Minor Carta

Noam Chomsky, TomDispatch: ''Down the road only a few generations, the millennium of Magna Carta, one of the great events in the establishment of civil and human rights, will arrive. Whether it will be celebrated, mourned, or ignored is not at all clear.... What we do right now, or fail to do, will determine what kind of world will greet that event. It is not an attractive prospect if present tendencies persist, not least, because the Great Charter is being shredded before our eyes.''

http://truth-out.org/opinion/item/10473-destroying-the-commons-how-the-magna-carta-became-a-minor-carta

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The Price of Infringement
http://www.lewrockwell.com/orig6/larosa7.1.1.html



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