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US politics
New FCC Rules Will Put “Stake in Internet’s Heart”
(By Jon Queally) Defenders of an open, innovative and fair internet are up in arms Thursday after learning the Federal Communications Commission is about to issue new rule proposals that will kill the online principle known as "net neutrality." The death of net neutrality—which has governed the equal treatment of content since the internet was […]
The Impunity of American Torture: From Abu Ghraib to Sen. Feinstein’s Brawl with the CIA
(by Karen J. Greenberg via Tomdispatch.com) It’s mind-boggling. Torture is still up for grabs in America. No one questions anymore whether the CIA waterboarded one individual 83 times or another 186 times. The basic facts are no longer in dispute either by those who champion torture or those who, like myself, despise the very idea […]
Can America’s descent into Plutocracy (Rule-by-the-Rich) be Reversed?
Harvard’s Lawrence Lessig, the crusader for campaign finance reform, feels that his fellow reformers don’t think big or boldly enough to inspire the kind of grassroots campaign that might break elite donors’ stranglehold on America’s political…
State Dept Launches ‘Free the Press’ Campaign Same Day DOJ Asks Supreme Court To Jail Reporter
The US State Department announced the launch of its third annual “Free the Press” campaign today, which will purportedly highlight “journalists or media outlets that are censored, attacked, threatened, or otherwise oppressed because of their reporting…
Jon Stewart v. Hannity on Bundy & Law Enforcement: “Proportionality”
Jon Stewart examines whether Sean Hannity really is concerned, as he says, only with the disproportionate use of force by law enforcement, in the Cliven Bundy case. Turns out, police can use all the force they like against minorities and the left, from right wing bully Hannity’s point of view. The Daily ShowGet More: Daily […]
GOP Divided on Whether to Support Cliven Bundy’s “Negro” Remarks
Cliven Bundy wonders if blacks were ‘better off as slaves’: Republican supporters start fleeing (via The Moderate Voice) More responsible Republicans are now starting to flee. Nevada rancher Cliven Bundy, the rancher who refused to pay grazing fees, suggested he’d violently resist if the feds showed up to try and coerce him or touch his […]
Is Obama right that America’s Future is in Asia, not the Middle East?
(by Juan Cole) Barack Obama, brought up in Hawaii and having lived as a child in Indonesia, is the first Pacific president, and his current trip to Asia, beginning in Japan, is meant to underline his policy of “rebalancing” toward Asia. Although the phrase has miffed some Europeans, the policy isn’t intended to substitute US […]
FCC Plots Murder of Blogs on Behalf of Billionaire Media Lords
Breaking: FCC Will Announce the Death of Net Neutrality Tomorrow (via Americans Against The Tea Party) If you thought corporations played a big role in your life already, just wait until tomorrow, when the FCC gives up on trying to find a way to enforce equal access to broadband and finally kills net neutrality. What […]