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Facebook Censorship over Sandy Hook School Massacre

Despite the fact that the mainstream media got key facts wrong in early reporting Paul Joseph Watson, Infowars.com | Facebook is suspending user accounts that question the official narrative behind the Sandy Hook school massacre, following a warning by Connecticut State ...

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Torture: America’s other national pastime

Don’t let “Zero Dark Thirty” fool you. The suffering we inflict is psychological — and has lasting consequences This piece originally appeared on TomDispatch. If you look backward you see a nightmare. If you look forward you become the nightmare. There’s ...

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RINF Video: The Leveson Smokescreen – illusion of choice

RINF News reports on the illusion of choice by either accepting or rejecting the proposals by Lord Leveson to regulate the British press.

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UK told to quit EU Human Rights Court

Press TV | Britain should quit the European Court of Human Rights to pave the way for Parliament to block prisoners’ right to vote, says former justice minister Nick Herbert. “We shouldn’t defy the European Court of Human Rights – ...

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RINF Video: The Destruction of Freedom of Speech

RINF News reports on the destruction of freedom of speech within the UK. This report cites examples including the arrest and imprisonment of teenagers for posting offensive comments on social media and explores how Section 5 has been misused to ...

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Bolton calls for use of torture on Benghazi suspects

David Edwards, RAW Story | Neoconservative former U.S. Ambassador to the United Nation John Bolton is suggesting that the U.S. should restart its practices of using “rendition” and torture to investigate the September attacks in Benghazi, Libya. During an interview ...

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WikiLeaks and the War on the First Amendment

Nozomi Hayase | In 2010, a little known whistleblowing site came to public prominence with the release of a video called Collateral Murder. Since then, WikiLeaks has become a center of media attention, bringing issues of transparency and government secrecy to ...

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American military gets away with torture

NY Times | In a decision that ignored a 41-year-old precedent and American obligations under international law, a United States appeals court has ruled that American civilians who are tortured by the American military cannot recover damages from the people ...

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Obama’s first-term track record on freedom

John W. Whitehead, Antiwar | “I was a constitutional law professor, which means, unlike the current president, I actually respect the Constitution.” – Barack Obama, March 2007 Four years after Barack Obama was elected on a platform of “change you can ...

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Waiving Freedom

Among the objections to ObamaCare, one that has not gotten as much attention as it should is the president’s power to waive the law for any company, union or other enterprise he chooses. The 14th Amendment to the Constitution provides ...

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