Information Control

Communication Control: T-Mobile Claims Right to Censor Text Messages, 9/22/10; Apple assumes role of Big Brother by developing patent to automatically disable iPhone cameras at concerts (and police or government abuse incidents?), 6/17/11; A Wireless Communications System That Works When Cell Phones, Internet Are Down , 8/18/11; Sprint Launches Soon To Be Mandatory Emergency Alert Messages, 11/18/11; Obama To Control Communications During Crisis, 7/9/12
SF Transit: SF transit blocks cellphones to disrupt protest, 8/12/11; SF cell shutdown: Safety issue, or hint of Orwell?, 8/13/11; BART spokesman blames protesters for cell phone service shut down, 8/15/11; Hackers Expose San Francisco Subway Police Data, 8/17/11

Information Control: 25 Ways To Suppress Truth; 17 Techniques for Truth Suppression; i-9/11 & i-Patriot Act; Joel Skousen - How to Analyze the News; Inside Iron Mountain; Government Claims Power to Ban Books and Speech, 4/1/9; Cointelpro, Provacateurs,Disinfo Agents, 9/30/9; Tell me again, Who can't film on public property?, 7/5/10; Everything is a Lie - The Deliberate Intent to Deceive People is at an All Time High, 8/12/10; What the State Fears Most, 12/15/10; Merger of journalists and government officials, 12/28/10; Before WikiLeaks: The Large Scale Spying Machine Was Cryptome.org, 12/28/10; 25 Ways To Suppress Truth: Rules of Disinformation, 1/13/11; Justice Dept: Whistleblowers Worse Than Spies, 1/17/11; NASA Shuts Down Prolific Sky-Mapping Space Telescope, 2/21/11; Mexican film on the court system is now the subject of its own trial, 3/8/11; Obama takes ‘unprecedented’ aim at leakers, 3/23/11; Government Orders You Tube To Censor Protest Videos, 5/20/11; 25 Rules of Disinformation, 5/24/11; Minority rules: Scientists discover tipping point for the spread of ideas, 7/25/11; Uneven post-9/11 data-cloaking persists, 8/22/11; Infomocracy Dilemma: Revolution or Disengagement?, 10/13/11; Judge Blocks Graphic Images On Cigarette Packs, 11/7/11; Framework for Suppressing Information: Public Opinion in America's 21st Century Police State, 6/12/12; Disinformation: How It Works, 8/10/12; Not Burning Books Like ‘Farenheit 451′ – Altering Them, 8/16/12; Larken Rose: Deciphering Propaganda, 8/29/12; Delusional reality: Everything peddled by politicians, media, banks and television is a fiction, 9/6/12; Digital Technologies vs. Truth Suppression, 9/22/12; In America, Journalists Are Considered Terrorists, 9/29/12; Obama Has Turned Journalists into Criminals, 10/16/12; Illusion of Choice, 1/11/13

'Intellectual Property Rights': Company tries to claim intellectual property ownership over children's exercises like 'leap frog', 7/18/12; Why Copyright Is Bad for Musicians, 7/21/12; We Are All Aaron Swartz! Fighting Back Against the “Intellectual Property” Racket, 1/14/13; Internet Freedom and Copyright Reform: Aaron Swartz’s Suspicious Death, 1/17/13; Thoughts on the Great IP Debate, 4/12/13
Stephan Kinsella: Intellectual Property Racket, 9/14/10; How Intellectual Property Hampers Capitalism, 10/11/10; On the Logic of Libertarianism and Why Intellectual Property Doesn't Exist, 3/19/12
Copyrights: Copyright terror: Man sentenced to 15 years in jail for selling 6 counterfeit discs, 11/14/12; Copyright Bombshell: New Study Finds Megaupload's File-Sharing Supported Box Office, 11/26/12; German lawmakers condemn Google campaign against copyright law, 11/28/12; Copyright Law: Standing in the Way of Progress, 11/29/12; Supreme Court rules that goods made overseas can be resold here, 3/19/13; Federal judge: ‘Clipping’ news articles violates copyright law, 3/21/13; Court Ruling Threatens Internet First Amendment Freedom, 3/27/13
Digital Millennium Copyright Act: Unlocking new cell phones to become illegal on Saturday, 1/25/13
Patents: How the America Invents Act Will Change Patenting Forever, 3/15/13

Fake Social Media: Revealed: Air Force ordered software to manage army of fake virtual people, 2/18/11; You Know Those Obnoxious Posters Who Almost Seem Like Alter Egos of the Same Person? They Actually Might Be..., 2/18/11; Army of Fake Social Media Friends to Promote Propaganda, 2/23/11; Obama Admin to Concoct Phony ePeople for Propaganda, 3/2/11; Revealed: US spy operation that manipulates social media, 3/17/11

Top Secret: Washington Post Reveals 'Top Secret America', 7/19/10; Hidden world, growing beyond control, 7/19/10; America’s Database of Private Spooks, 7/19/10; Search Top Secret America’s Database of Private Spooks, 7/19/10; Penis Envy in the Intelligence-Industrial Complex, 7/19/10; How Congress Fueled the Rise of Private Spies, 7/21/10; secrets next door, 7/21/10; Top Secret America: Expensive, Chaotic and Dangerous, 12/22/10; Official Spin On Top-Secret Government Programs? - 63 Documents the Government Doesn’t Want You to Read, 1/26/11; A Hidden World, Growing Beyond Control, 1/31/11; PBS: 'Top Secret America'; Nearly 5 Million People Have Government Security Clearances, 7/23/12

War Reporting: War Is Sold Just Like Soda or Toothpaste , 11/3/10; War You Don't See trailer, 12/12/10; clips; Why Are Wars Not Being Reported Honestly, 12/17/10; O-SPAN: Pentagon's Unmanned Spokesdrone

Wikipedia: Israel is paying internet workers to manipulate online content, 11/6/10; Veterans Today Bans Wikipedia References from Site, 1/3/11

Wikileaks: Works for CIA & Mossad?, 7/28/10; US embassy cables: browse the database; WikiLeaks embassy cables: download the key data and see how it breaks down; Top 10 revelations from WikiLeaks cables, 11/29/10; 5 Biggest Revelations of WikiLeaks Release, 11/29/10; If This Be Treason…, 11/30/10; CableGate: Obama's Katrina Times Ten, 11/30/10; Why I Love WikiLeaks (for restoring distrust in our most important institutions), 11/30/10; WikiLeaks suspect Bradley Manning "designed Facebook" as a schoolboy, friends say, 12/1/10; US State Department tells employees not to read WikiLeaks, 12/1/10; Amazon faces boycott over WikiLeaks axe, 12/1/10; WikiLeaks: Conformists vs. Individualists, 12/1/10; Wiki-leak? Or pre-planned scare tactic?, 12/2/10; WikiLeaks Copies 16th Century Amsterdam, 12/2/10; Cable reveals US behind airstrike that killed 21 children in Yemen, 12/2/10; A Government Caught Up in Mendacity and Lies, 12/2/10; Doug Casey on Wikileaks; again, 12/3/10; WikiLeaks Exposes Israeli Mafia’s Growing Influence, 12/3/10; Ron Paul calls Wikileaks Heros, 12/3/10; On Wikileaks and the Library of Congress: A Statement by the Progressive Librarians Guild, 12/4/10; Hackers take down website of bank that froze WikiLeaks funds, 12/6/10; Live with the WikiLeakable world or shut down the net. It's your choice, 12/6/10; Cyber War Fake Leak - Is WikiLeaks a CIA Op?; Assange ‘rape’ accuser linked to notorious CIA operative, 12/6/10; WikiLeaks and U.S. Computer Security: The ‘Second Spy’ Theory, 12/6/10; Net neutrality, the FCC, Wikileaks and the future of internet freedom, 12/7/10; again; Gonzalo Lira: Hacker’s Treehouse , 12/7/10; WikiLeaks No Threat to Free Society, 12/8/10; Assange accuser flees to Middle East, may not be cooperating with police, 12/9/10; Wikileaks and the Worldwide Information War, 12/9/10; Everything You Need to Know About Wikileaks, 12/9/10; Gonzalo Lira: New McCarthyism, Real Terrorists, 12/10/10; WikiLeaks backlash: The first global cyber war has begun, claim hackers, 12/11/10; It’s Payback Time!, 12/10/10; WikiRebels – Documentary; 'Assange Effect': How WikiLeaks is leveraging the world; Hype, Propaganda or Revolution?, 12/13/10; Iceland may ban MasterCard, Visa over WikiLeaks censorship, 12/13/10; Michael Moore offers his servers to host Wikileaks docs, posts $20,000 bail, 12/14/10; Michael Moore: Why I'm Posting Bail Money for Julian Assange, 12/14/10; Necessary 'Revolution in Journalism', 12/14/10; Grave Domestic Threats to National Security, 12/15/10; Visa & MasterCard Deny Service to Assange Supporters, 12/15/10; US Air Force Blocks Internet Access To Websites Posting WikiLeaks Documents, 12/15/10; Who is Behind Wikileaks?, 12/15/10; Ron Paul: US Gov is More Dangerous than WikiLeaks, 12/15/10; Timeline of the key WikiLeaks revelations; Separating the Truth from the Irrelevant and the Fiction, 12/16/10; ‘A new type of business McCarthyism’ hunts WikiLeaks, site founder says, 12/18/10; ‘People affiliated with our organization have already been assassinated,’ Assange claims, 12/21/10; WikiLeaks to release Israel documents in six months, 12/23/10; Advancing an Israeli Agenda?, 12/26/10; Cheering for WikiLeaks’ Demise Is Cheering for Our Own, 12/30/10; If imprisoned or killed, Assange reportedly prepared to out CIA-linked Arab leaders, 12/30/10; Rise of the IT guerrillas, 12/31/10; WikiLeaks' Most Terrifying Revelation: Just How Much Our Government Lies to Us, 1/4/11; Ideological Legitimacy and the Crisis of Empire, 1/5/11; US court demands WikiLeaks' Twitter account info, 1/8/11; WikiLeaks Subpoenas Spill Out Into Public Realm, 1/9/11; Patriot Act Being Used to Crack Down on Wikileak’s Supporter; Banking secrets of rich leaked, 1/17/11; What Is The WikiLeaks Ideology? A Bunch of Statist Dupes?, 1/17/11; Confirmed: Wikileaks is Government Disinfo Operation, 2/2/11; Air Force legal office: All of our members’ families can be prosecuted for reading WikiLeaks, 2/7/11; In restricted speech, former MI6 chief credits WikiLeaks with ‘tidal wave’ of revolutions, 3/3/11; WikiLeaks Exposes North American Integration Plot, 5/2/11; WikiLeaks gags staff, threatens leakers with $20 million penalty, 5/11/11; Ex-Wikileaks man 'deleted files', 8/22/11; Paul Craig Roberts: The Last Whistleblower, 8/31/11; WikiLeaks Prompts New Diplomatic Uproar, 8/31/11; WikiLeaks blames Guardian journalist for release of 251,000 unredacted U.S. cables, 8/31/11; Wikileaks Needs You!, 10/19/11; WikiLeaks Releases Documents on Government Surveillance Tactics, 12/1/11; WikiLeaks' Stratfor dump lifts lid on intelligence-industrial complex, 2/28/12
Openleaks: WikiLeaks rival launches new secret-spilling site, 1/28/11
Julian Assange: Why the world needs WikiLeaks, 7/19/10; WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange 'will release poison pill of damaging secrets if killed or arrested', 12/6/10; Julian Assange Arrested, 12/7/10; How two one-night stands sparked a worldwide hunt for Julian Assange, 12/7/10; British judge denies wikileaks founder Julian Assange bail, 12/7/10; Julian Assange: Don't Shoot Messenger for Revealing Uncomfortable Truths, 12/8/10; Man who kicked the hornet's nest, 12/8/10; Mum's plea: bring Julian home, 12/9/10; Russia suggests that Julian Assange should be awarded Nobel peace prize, 12/9/10; Having ‘political objective’ disqualifies Assange ‘from being considered a journalist,’ State Dept. says, 12/10/10; Naomi Wolf: Julian Assange Captured by World's Dating Police, 12/10/10; Interview with Julian Assange, 12/11/10; UK court grants bail to WikiLeaks' Julian Assange, 12/14/10; 10 days in Sweden: the full allegations against Julian Assange, 12/17/10; Transcript: Assange interview, 12/21/10; Julian Assange: 'I feel at peace', 12/21/10; Assange Warns US Media of Government Censorship Attempts, 12/22/10; We're stepping up release of leaked docs, 1/11/11; Former Reagan official: If law fails, CIA will assassinate Assange, 2/28/11; Assange: Internet is world's 'greatest spying machine', 3/15/11; WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange rails against Facebook, says it's a spy tool for US government, 5/2/11; Wikileaks’ Assange to Address 9/11 Conspiracy?, 7/12/11; Julian Assange loses appeal against extradition, 11/2/11; Former Senior NSA Official: US Could Put Assange to Death If It Gets Him, 7/14/12; Ecuador President Rafael 'We Are Not a Colony' Correa Stands Up to the Jackbooted British Gestapo, 8/17/12; 'Assange will not get safe passage out of UK', 8/17/12; Declassified Documents Reveal US Military Designated Assange ‘Enemy of State’, 9/26/12; Assange: Entire nations intercepted online, key turned to totalitarian rule, 11/30/12
Bradley Manning: Inhumane conditions of Bradley Manning's detention, 12/15/10; Typical Day for PFC Bradley Manning, 12/18/10; Manning’s message on Christmas Eve: ‘I greatly appreciate everyone’s support’, 12/24/10 ; Bradley Manning: One Soldier Who Really Did “Defend Our Freedom”, 12/30/10; Psychologists protest ‘inhumane, harmful’ treatment, 1/3/11; US can’t link Julian Assange to Bradley Manning, 1/24/11; Army Leaks Hit Piece on Bradley Manning, 1/27/11; Bradley Manning Is a Hero, Yet the alleged WikiLeaks informant is being tortured in a cage, 2/12/11; U.S. files 22 new charges against WikiLeaks soldier, 3/2/11; P.J. Crowley Resigns As State Department Spokesman, 3/13/11; Torturing Bradley Manning, 3/19/11; Obama on Bradley Manning: “He broke the law”, 4/22/11; Motives of Bradley Manning, 7/4/11; U.S. soldier in WikiLeaks case to get his day in court, 12/15/11; Bradley Manning Nominated for Nobel Peace Prize, 2/27/12; U.S. ‘withheld’ emails on WikiLeaks suspect Bradley Manning: defense, 8/28/12; Bradley Manning Offers Guilty Pleas, 11/8/12; Manning tells court of harsh prison conditions, 11/29/12; Bradley Manning: a tale of liberty lost in America, 11/30/12; Lawyer for Bradley Manning speaks out, 12/5/12; Bradley Manning: A Window Into the American Soul, 12/5/12; Ron Paul condemns "terrible treatment" of Bradley Manning from House Floor, 12/8/12; Bradley Manning wins Guardian's Person of Year 2012, 12/10/12; Shameful Exploitation of Bradley Manning, 12/14/12; Even a Military Judge Recognizes What Many Progressives Deny: Bradley Manning Was Mistreated, 1/9/13; Bradley Manning will be credited 112 days for horrendous stay at Quantico, 1/9/13; Bradley Manning nears 1000 days in US jail with no trial, 2/19/13; Today Is Bradley Manning's 1,000th Day Without a Trial, 2/23/13; Bradley Manning Takes ‘Full Responsibility’ for Giving WikiLeaks Huge Government Data Trove, 2/28/13; Face of Heroism, 2/28/13; Bradley Manning Pleads Guilty to Leaks, Not Guilty to Aiding the Enemy, 2/28/13; Bradley Manning: "Americans had a right to know the true cost of war", 3/1/13; Collateral Murder Revisited, 3/1/13; Bradley Manning: “I Have a Clear Conscience”, 3/3/13; Bradley Manning Nobel Peace Prize Nomination 2013, 3/4/13; Freedom of the Press Foundation Publishes Leaked Audio of Bradley Manning’s Statement, 3/11/13; War Against Bradley Manning – A War Against All Who Speak Out Against Injustice, 3/12/13; Finally: hear Bradley Manning in his own voice, 3/12/13; Ron Paul: Bradley Manning Promotes Peace More Than Obama, 4/12/13; WikiLeaks prosecutor accepts GI's plea to 1 count, 5/21/13
WikiLeaks Mirror Sites: Mirrors; more Mirrors; again; Best WikiLeaks Mirror Site?; Assange freed (court rejects appeal), 12/16/10
Espionage Act: Espionage Act makes felons of us all; Death of American Freedoms, 12/14/10; A sad day for the US if the Espionage Act is used against WikiLeaks, 12/15/10; ‘threatens every left wing activist,’ son of executed US communists declares, 12/29/10
Edward Bernays: Propaganda^; again; Century of Self Happiness Machines; Erik Du Plessis: Advertised Mind^; Murray Edelman: Politics of Misinformation (2001)^; Lawrence Lessig: Freeculture^; Matt Mason: Pirates Dilemma^; J. Michael Waller: Fighting the War of Ideas^