Editor’s Note: The American Freedom Agenda Act of 2007 (H.R. 3835), which addresses most of the issues outlined below, was introduced by U.S. Rep. Ron Paul on October 15, 2007. Click here to read the text of the bill. At critical moments in our history, Americans have been called upon to protect our Constitutional guarantees [...]
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The American Freedom Campaign Agenda
Posted in America, Freedom, Journalism, Prisoners, Protest on February 15, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
The Real News Network
Posted in Journalism, tagged Journalism, Political on December 23, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Source: The Real News Network
When Laws and Liberties Test Each Other’s Limits | NY Times
Posted in America, Freedom, Journalism, Liberty, Prisoners on December 3, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
By Stephen Holden “The End of America,” an unsettling documentary polemic about the erosion of civil liberties in the wake of 9/11, brings up matters many of us would rather not contemplate in the middle of a financial crisis and on the eve of a new administration. Federal laws enacted during the last seven years [...]
Fiji: “Draconian Prosecution” of press
Posted in Freedom, Journalism, tagged Freedom, Journalism, Persecution on November 14, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
By John Liebhardt For the second time this month, Fiji’s military government has threatened to send a newspaper editor and its publisher to prison for publishing a letter to the editor alleged to be in contempt of court. In mid-October, the Fiji Times and Fiji Daily Post printed a letter from a certain Vili Navukitu [...]
Remembering the fallen: To those who paid the ultimate price for their journalism
Posted in Freedom, Journalism, tagged Journalism, Political, Press on June 22, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
By Robert Fox, 22 Jun 2008 The dedication of Jaume Plensa’s giant glass vase ‘Breathing’ on the roof of the BBC at Portland Place as a memorial to all who have fallen in the cause of news and reporting was moving, fitting and strangely remote. It is fitting and timely because reporting is an increasingly [...]















