Why Are European Governments So Terrified of ‘Fake News’?

“The Swedish media giants involved in the anti-‘fake news’ project consist of Swedish State Television, Swedish State Radio, Bonnier, Schibsted Sverige, and NTM. Together, these media companies effectively own Swedish mainstream media in the form of newspapers, online news outlets, and state and private television and radio. The Swedish state is financing the technical aspects of the project with 1.9 million Swedish kroner ($240,000), while the Swedish mainstream media is financing the remaining project costs themselves.”

Read more: https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/11830/europe-governments-fake-news

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The First Amendment Transcends the ‘Law’

“The officer who shot McDonald, Jason Van Dyke, was charged with first-degree murder.  Van Dyke’s lawyers sought to compel me to testify on the basis of their claim, for which they offered no evidence, that the source had given me documents protected under the Garrity rule, which protects public employees from being compelled to incriminate themselves during internal investigations conducted by their employers.”

Read more: https://theintercept.com/2018/02/07/laquan-mcdonald-case-first-amdendment/

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4 Complaints About Gun Owners Debunked

“People should be thrilled to learn their friends, neighbors, and coworkers are gun permit holders. It means they are in the presence of some of the least likely people in society to commit a crime.”

Read more: http://www.thedailybell.com/news-analysis/4-complaints-about-gun-owners-debunked/

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Jacob Hornberger: Massacres, Here and Abroad

“The best thing Americans could ever do to end killing sprees here is to end the U.S. government’s killing sprees abroad.”

Read more: https://www.fff.org/2018/02/16/massacres-here-and-abroad/

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The Patheticism of U.S. Sanctions on North Korea

“I can’t help but wonder whether the North Korean people are more afraid of their government than Samsung, Nike, and other big businesses are scared of the U.S. government. I also can’t help but wonder whether it matters to a North Korean whether he dies from North Korean socialist policies or U.S. sanctions policies.”

Read more: https://www.fff.org/2018/02/12/patheticism-u-s-sanctions-north-korea/

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16 Years Ago, Bush Opened the Floodgates to Torture at Guantánamo

“February 7, 2002 remains a grim day in the modern American calendar, and one that, I think, should be marked every year, along with other key dates — August 1, 2002, for example, when the ‘torture memos,’ seeking to redefine torture so that it could be used by the CIA, were issued by the Justice Department’s Office of Legal Counsel, written by John Yoo and approved by his boss, Jay Bybee, and December 2, 2002, when Donald Rumsfeld approved his own specific torture program for use at Guantánamo, which was initially intended for use on just one prisoner, Mohammed al-Qahtani, but which ended up being used on one in six of the prisoners, according to a former interrogator who spoke to Neil A. Lewis for a New York Times article in January 2005.”

Read more: https://www.commondreams.org/views/2018/02/07/exactly-16-years-ago-george-w-bush-opened-floodgates-torture-guantanamo

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An Open Letter to the FBI

“A tax-paying citizen who loved America could not trust you and fled for his life because he knew you could murder him and get away with it. Let that sink in.  When Finicum got out of his vehicle with his hands up, within seconds you gathered around him and shot him in the back. Moments later you shot rounds of ammunition into Finicum’s truck with scared women inside screaming for help- trying to surrender. You threw gas cans inside the vehicle. Is this how you do it now? Are you sincerely okay with this?”

Read more: https://www.lewrockwell.com/2018/02/kate-daley/an-open-letter-to-the-fbi/

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Blowback: How Torture Fuels Terrorism Rather Than Reduces It

“From Abu Ghraib in Iraq to Guantánamo Bay in Cuba, the U.S. has engaged in brutal and violent abuse toward detainees suspected of terrorism — despite the fact that such brutality and abuse is what may have motivated many of those detainees to begin with.”

Read more: https://theintercept.com/2018/02/12/torture-terrorists-guantanamo-abu-ghraib/

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Torture Memo Author John Yoo: President Can Wage War Without Declaration

“This debate has particular salience as Congress has been taking steps to check the president’s authority to continue funding military support of Saudi Arabia’s war in Yemen.”

Read more: http://www.theamericanconservative.com/articles/can-the-president-wage-undeclared-war-the-author-of-the-torture-memo-john-yoo-bruce-fein-yemen/

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Former Narcotics Detective Blows Whistle on the Justice System

“If you want a justice system that prevents and solves violent crime, stop voting for the enforcement of victimless crime laws. Detective Baeza’s example models a path towards such a system of true justice.”

Read more: https://fee.org/articles/former-narcotics-detective-blows-whistle-on-the-justice-system/

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