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democracynow on Jan 21, 2014
democracynow – One year ago this month, the young Internet freedom activist and groundbreaking programmer Aaron Swartz took his own life. Continue reading
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by Rick Rozoff
Writer, Dandelion Salad
Stop NATO
December 20, 2013
John Robles
Voice of Russia
December 19, 2013
With the restructuring of the Russian media there are many people worldwide who are hopeful that the changes will produce a balance and a counterweight to the 5 worldwide newswires that are controlled by the West and possess a true and barely transparent bias. Continue reading
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by Rick Rozoff
Writer, Dandelion Salad
Stop NATO
December 16, 2013
John Robles
Voice of Russia
December 16, 2013
Since the days of the Cold War the West has launched illegal wars against Yugoslavia, Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya, and attempted to do the same thing in Syria. They have been successful in avoiding blowback and responsibility due to their monopoly on the corporate controlled media and the fact that most of the media in the world passively accepts their interpretation of world events. Continue reading
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wikileaks.org
Dec. 9, 2013
[…] Today, 9 December 2013, WikiLeaks has released two more secret TPP documents that show the state of negotiations as the twelve TPP countries began supposedly final negotiations at a trade ministers’ meeting in Singapore this week.
One document describes deep divisions between the United States and other nations, and “great pressure” being exerted by the US negotiators to move other nations to their position. The other document lists, country-by-country, the many areas of disagreement remaining. It covers intellectual property and thirteen other chapters of the draft agreement. This suggests that the TPP negotiations can only be concluded if the Asia-Pacific countries back down on key national interest issues, otherwise the treaty will fail altogether.
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via wikileaks.org
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Moyers & Company
Nov. 1, 2013
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by Lo
editor, Dandelion Salad
September 15, 2013
Truly a huge thank you to all the photographers on Flickr with Creative Commons licenses on their photos.
The photos add of course, a visual aspect to the blog posts but I use them for editorial reasons, too.
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By Imani Henry
Workers World
January 21, 2013
The largest online protest in history, known as the anti-SOPA Internet strike, took place on Jan. 18 a year ago to oppose the Stop Online Piracy Act and the Protect IP Act. If passed, SOPA and PIPA would have had the potential to drastically censor and limit users’ access to online information, as well as give the U.S. government more power to police the Internet. The bills were backed by corporations in the entertainment industry.
CNN.com
August 5, 2009
In an attempt to generate new revenue, the Associated Press has partnered with iCopyright to charge licensing fees for quotes as short as five words.
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via Associated Press excerpts may cost $2.50 per word – SciTechBlog – CNN.com Blogs
from the archives:
AP Demands Bloggers Cease Printing Exerpts!!!
see also
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/09/21/copyright_enforcement_bill/
http://www.inthesetimes.com/article/6449/copyright_enragement/
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