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Privacy as the New Free-Trade Zone of Corporate Exploitation
Should we feel just as violated and outraged being surveilled online as we would if police came bursting through our doors and ransacked our homes to gain data about …
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Henry A. Giroux | Totalitarian Paranoia in the Post-Orwellian Surveillance State
Henry A. Giroux: The NSA and other intelligence agencies work hard to create an authoritarian state in which the “electronic self” becomes public property.
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Henry A. Giroux | Reclaiming the Radical Imagination: Challenging Casino Capitalism’s Punishing Factories
Henry Giroux: Cultivating the radical imagination, civic education and critical modes of literacy are central to producing an informed citizenry, but even more so to constituting any viable notion …
Would as Many as 1 Million Be Alive if the Media Had Done Its Job
John Pilger: "Imagine if the lies of governments had been properly challenged and exposed as they secretly prepared to invade Iraq - perhaps a million people would be alive …
NYT Editorial Backs Snowden but Fails Other Whistleblowers
Michael Ratner: New York Times recognizing Snowden should spur backing of other whistleblowers.
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Chris Hedges | Shooting the Messenger
The differences among Snowden, Manning, Assange and Hammond should not be permitted to diminish the vital importance of all their acts.
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Are We Depending Too Much on the Military’s Media Management?
The Pentagon has spent billions to manage media coverage of the war in Iraq but is imprisoning the one person who made the truth public.
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WikiLeaks’ “Mediastan”; The True Fifth Estate Bringing the First Amendment to the World
The WikiLeaks documentary ‘Mediastan’ is a perfect antidote to Disney's propaganda turkey, ‘The Fifth Estate.’
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Governing in the Dark
The NSA scandal isn't going away, and each leak tears a bigger hole in our current governing structure.
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Henry A. Giroux | Intellectuals as Subjects and Objects of Violence
Henry Giroux: Public intellectuals must use their resources to question the authoritarian forces of war, violence and privatization threatening the planet.