No wonder more and more soldiers are getting pissed about Iraq. We now have the very government they defend trying to censure their lives online. This is highly disturbing: We realize that when it comes to freedom of the press, the USA has fallen to Number 53 in the world — tied with our fascist […]
Reporters Without Borders has released their annual Worldwide Press Freedom Index and the United States has now fallen 53rd place: The United States (53rd) has fallen nine places since last year, after being in 17th position in the first year of the Index, in 2002. Relations between the media and the Bush administration sharply deteriorated […]
Now we have it. The United States House of Representatives is officially trying to throw their weight into the freedom of the press: The U.S. House of Representatives on Thursday condemned public disclosure of secret surveillance programs as Republicans stepped up their criticism of news media that published details of a bank-monitoring program last week. […]
Well this goes kind of hand in hand with the Joint Chiefs of Staff writing their letter to the editor’s of the Washington Post: US sides with Muslims in cartoon dispute Washington on Friday condemned caricatures in European newspapers of Islam’s Prophet Mohammad, siding with Muslims who are outraged that the publications put press freedom […]