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Entries for the ‘Alternative Media’ Category

DHS Document Lists “Alternative Media” As Potential Terrorists

Paul Joseph Watson
Prison Planet.com
Monday, May 4, 2009
A new Homeland Security document that received little attention during last week’s swine flu coverage shockingly lists the “alternative media” with other radical extremist groups and implies that people who disagree with the mass media’s version of events are potential domestic terrorists.
The “official use only” document is entitled “Domestic [...]

Video Bloggers Fear “You” Being Phased Out Of YouTube

Paul Joseph Watson
Prison Planet.com
Friday, April 17, 2009
A new You Tube video getting a lot of attention highlights concerns that the “You” is being phased out of YouTube, as individual users are sidelined by regulation and censorship in favor of corporate domination of the popular video website, an eventuality that we first warned about years ago.
The [...]

Should Obama Control the Internet?

Mother Jones
By Steve Aquino
April 2, 2009
Should President Obama have the power to shut down domestic Internet traffic during a state of emergency?
Senators John Rockefeller (D-W. Va.) and Olympia Snowe (R-Maine) think so. On Wednesday they introduced a bill to establish the Office of the National Cybersecurity Advisor—an arm of the executive branch that would have [...]

Real Journalism Versus “Professional Journalism”

George Washington’s Blog
Monday, March 30, 20099
If Jon Stewart walked out of his studio with his camera crew, went to where establishment figures were speaking, and threw tough questions at them, you’d get something like We Are Change.
The We Are Change reporters have asked the tough questions - a la Stewart (well, minus the comedy) - [...]