June 2012
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Marjane Satrapi in conversation...
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“The American media industry tries to stifle user freedom. Every time. Every...”
– Clay Shirky
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“Many of us believe we know who Gandhi was and what he represented. The truth is...”
– Julian Assange on Norman Finkelstein’s What Gandhi Says (via orbooks)
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South Africa grilled on Secrecy Bill at the UN →
South African delegates were grilled at the UN Human Rights Council on Thursday about the so-called “Secrecy Bill” by representatives from Sweden, Britain, Canada, the Netherlands, Norway, Spain, Switzerland, and the U.S. Ostensibly designed to cure defects in an old apartheid-era law, vague and overbroad wording in the proposed Protection of Information Bill would criminalize the...
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Cuba: Dissident Blogger Yoani Sanchez files legal...
univisionnews:
Sanchez has asked Cuba’s Ministry of the Interior to explain why she has been denied permission to leave the island 20 times.
By MANUEL RUEDA
Cuban dissident blogger Yoani Sanchez filed a complaint with Cuba’s Ministry of the Interior on Wednesday, in which she asks the government to tell her why she has been consistently denied permission to leave the communist island.
Sanchez...
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“We have a rich literature. But sometimes it’s a literature too ready to be neutralized, to be incorporated into the ambient noise. This is why we need the writer in opposition, the novelist who writes against power, who writes against the corporation or the state or the whole apparatus of assimilation. We’re all one beat away from becoming elevator music.” —Don DeLillo
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May 2012
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“Their extraordinary education in business, economics, philosophy, and, of...”
– Camille Pestacaing on France’s new president and his finance minister.
French Socialism, Take Two | Foreign Affairs 