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    Hammond, Manning, Assange and Obama’s Sledgehammer Against Dissent

    By Amy Goodman with Denis Moynihan
    One cyberactivist’s federal case wrapped up this week, and another’s is set to begin. While these two young men, Jeremy Hammond and Bradley Manning, are the two who were charged, it is the growing menace of government and corporate secrecy that should be on trial.
    May 30, 2013 | Columns & Articles
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    Did Public Television Commit Self-Censorship to Appease Billionaire Funder David Koch?

    Filmmakers Tia Lessin and Carl Deal say plans for their new documentary to air on public television have been quashed after billionaire Republican David Koch complained about the PBS broadcast of another film critical of him, "Park Avenue: Money, Power and the American Dream," by acclaimed filmmaker Alex Gibney. Lessin and Deal were in talks to broadcast their film, "Citizen Koch," on PBS until their agreement with the Independent...
    May 30, 2013 | Story
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    Julian Assange on Meeting with Google, Responds to Anti-WikiLeaks Attacks from New Film to Finances

    WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange took refuge in the Ecuadorean embassy last year to avoid extradition to Sweden, where he is wanted for questioning over sex assault and rape allegations. He fears that Sweden will agree to extradite him to the United States. On Tuesday, Ecuador’s foreign minister accused the British government of trampling on Assange’s rights by refusing to allow him to travel to Ecuador, which granted him political...
    May 29, 2013 | Story
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    Editor of The Progressive Calls for Eric Holder to Resign over Spying on Press, Occupy Protesters

    As the Obama administration faces criticism for the Justice Department’s spying on journalists and the IRS targeting of right-wing organizations, newly released documents show how the FBI, the Department of Homeland Security and local police forces partnered with corporations to spy on Occupy protesters in 2011 and 2012. Detailed in thousands of pages of records from counter terrorism and law enforcement agencies, the spying monitored the...
    May 22, 2013 | Story
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    Obama Worse Than Nixon? Pentagon Papers Attorney Decries AP Phone Probe, Julian Assange Persecution

    The Justice Department’s disclosure that it had secretly subpoenaed phone records from the Associated Press has prompted a wave of comparisons between President Obama and Richard Nixon. Four decades ago, the Nixon administration attempted to block The New York Times from publishing a secret history of the Vietnam War leaked to the newspaper by whistleblower Daniel Ellsberg. Two days after the Times first published excerpts of what became...
    May 17, 2013 | Story
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    AP Monitoring Raises Fears of Government Overreach: How Far Will Obama Go to Crack Down on Leaks?

    David Cay Johnston, a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and president of Investigative Reporters and Editors, joins us to discuss the growing scandal over the Justice Department’s seizure of telephone records from Associated Press editors and reporters. The action came as part of a probe into the leaks behind an AP story about how U.S. intelligence thwarted a Yemen-based al-Qaeda bombing plot on a U.S.-bound airplane. "This is a very...
    May 16, 2013 | Story
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    AP Reporter Appeared on Democracy Now! While Being Targeted By Justice Department Dragnet

    On April 17, 2012, Associated Press reporter Matt Apuzzo appeared on Democracy Now! to talk about the New York City Police Department’s surveillance of Muslim communities in the city and around the northeastern United States. Records of all of Apuzzo’s phone calls from that time were later seized by the government.
    May 15, 2013 | Web Exclusive
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    Chris Hedges: Monitoring of AP Phones a "Terrifying" Step in State Assault on Press Freedom

    The Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Chris Hedges joins us to discuss what could mark the most significant government intrusion on freedom of the press in decades. The Justice Department has acknowledged seizing the work, home and cellphone records used by almost 100 reporters and editors at the Associated Press. The phones targeted included the general AP office numbers in New York City, Washington, D.C., and Hartford, Connecticut, and the main...
    May 15, 2013 | Story
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    Former Attorney General Ramsey Clark Decries Government's "Big Brother" Seizure of AP Phone Records

    The Associated Press says the U.S. Department of Justice has secretly obtained a trove of journalists’ phone records in what its chief executive called a "massive and unprecedented intrusion." The Obama administration seized records for the work and personal phone numbers of individual reporters, for general AP office numbers in New York City, Washington, D.C., and Hartford, Connecticut, and for the main number for the AP in the...
    May 14, 2013 | Story
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    READ: "Digital Disconnect" Ahead of Democracy Now! Broadcast From Nat'l Conf. for Media Reform

    Democracy Now! will interview Robert McChesney, author of "Digital Disconnect: How Capitalism Is Turning the Internet Against Democracy" and others when we broadcast live Friday from the National Conference for Media Reform in Denver.
    Apr 04, 2013 | Web Exclusive