How A Dancing Baby Video Helped Save The Online Right To Fair Use
Published in partnership with MintPress News. SAN FRANCISCO — Free speech activists are hailing a recent court decision about a dancing baby video which they say protects Internet fair use, a critical free speech right, from corporate repression. The 29-second video, published in 2007 by Stephanie Lenz, shows her 13-month-old
A Shadowproof Government — Kevin Gosztola On Occupy.com (VIDEO)
Kevin Gosztola wants media and movements to work together, ensuring that every politician, corporate tool, law and legislation is shadowproof.
US Targets Bolivia With Secret Drug Indictments Against Evo Morales’ Government
A Drug Enforcement Agency informant-turned whistleblower revealed the agency’s plot to undermine the Bolivian government through secret indictments for cocaine trafficking.
Rumors Persist That The CIA Helps Export Opium From Afghanistan
Despite billions spent to eradicate opium crops in Afghanistan, the crop is more popular than ever there, leading many to wonder whether some U.S. forces may actually be encouraging its growth and the heroin it later becomes.
Buried Alive: Solitary Confinement In U.S. Prisons (VIDEO)
American Friends Service Network: At any given time, there are more than 80,000 people in solitary confinement in prisons across the United States—locked up in closed cells for at least 23 hours every day and deprived of human contact for months, years, even decades.
#YouStink: Lebanese Rise Up Against The Capitalist Dream Of Privatization
“Lebanon is brutally capitalist in its structures … all public infrastructures are run privately,” one analyst tells MintPress. “And so what you see today as a ‘revolution’ against the establishment is really a denunciation of Western capitalism.”
DEA Chief Admits Marijuana Is Less Dangerous Than Heroin, But Won’t Reschedule
Despite ample evidence pointing to the therapeutic, non-addictive qualities of marijuana, the new head of the Drug Enforcement Agency wants to keep it legally classified alongside heroin and other highly addictive substances. “If we come up with a medical use for it, that would be wonderful. But we haven’t,” declared Chuck Rosenberg, the acting head of the Drug Enforcement Agency, in an interview with Fox News.
US And UK Arm Child Soldiers At World’s Largest Arms Fair In London
Against the objections of the United Nations, this week the United States and the United Kingdom together helped arm the world’s child soldiers.
Not The Nukes: What Israel Fears Most About Iran
The airwaves are clogged with media pundits and politicians repeat special interest talking points that have been funded by the Israeli and Saudi lobbies, not facts. Mnar Muhawesh speaks with geopolitical analyst Sharmine Narwani who was present in Geneva during the Iran talks about the deal as it’s written.
Breaking Our Gun Addiction: Laura Flanders, Marlon Peterson & Jeff Chang (VIDEO)
The Laura Flanders Show: “How do we break America’s addiction to guns and gun violence? We talk with a young man who served ten years in prison on a gun-related crime and hear from cultural critic Jeff Chang about the cultural changes that have and haven’t transformed America.”