Blackout: Military Personnel Banned From H1N1 Vaccine Sites

Allen McDuffee, 11.10.2009

Part journalist, part investigative reporter, part blogger

If you want to draw attention to a problem, try hiding it. That's the strategy of several military bases when it comes to the H1N1 vaccine.

Iranian Women's Voices

Mahnaz Afkhami, 10.26.2009

President and CEO of the Women's Learning Partnership

In the flood of news and information that surrounds us every day, we may take for granted the constant ripple of voices around the globe whose struggle to be heard often ends in violence, imprisonment or death.

Guantanamo Bay: College Division

Stu Kreisman, 10.26.2009

Emmy award winning writer-producer and author.

Is a school entitled to discipline a student? Of course -- if a crime is committed. But let's get real here. We're talking about freedom of speech on the Internet.

"Cuba: Waiting for a Revolution"

Current TV’s “Vanguard”, 10.21.2009

FREEDOM 

 Congrats. You're free. Who cares, right? Sure, I'm free, you're free, we're all free. Presidents and puritans have paraded under the b...

Fighting the "Demons of Kidnapped Information"

Yoani Sanchez, 10.21.2009

Award-Winning Cuban Blogger

The press here in Cuba has been turned into a delicate profession required to measure adjectives, carefully weigh topics and often to hide personal opinions in order to keep a job.

As Congress Prepares to Reauthorize the Patriot Act, Reader Privacy Must be Protected

Judy Platt, 10.19.2009

Director of Communications and Public Affairs and Director of Freedom to Read for the Association of American Publishers

Readers need to make it clear to their members of Congress and Senators that the privacy of what they read is non-negotiable and that they're entitled to that privacy whether the books they read are borrowed or bought.

Student Blogger Shut Down and Sued by Butler University Over Free Speech

Stu Kreisman, 10.19.2009

Emmy award winning writer-producer and author.

Jess Zimmerman is a junior at Butler University. Last year he wrote criticisms of Butler's administration in an anonymous blog. We now have the first case of a university suing a student over online free speech.

The Internet as Toxic Avenger: Trafigura and the Ungagging of the Guardian

Micah Sifry, 10.13.2009

Here's a cautionary tale in how not to manage your message in a networked media age, or rather, further evidence of John Gilmore's brilliant maxim, "The Internet interprets censorship as damage and routes around it."

Interview With Pro-Bono Civil Rights Defense Attorney Paul Hetznecker

Rob Kall, 10.07.2009

Host, Bottom-up Radio Show WNJC 1360, publisher, OpEdNews.com and Futurehealth.org

On Monday, October 5, over 60 peace activist, anti Afghan war protesters were arrested in front of the White House. It seems like a good time to publish this interview I did on my Rob Kall Bottom Up Radio Show a few weeks ago with Paul Hetznecker, who defends protesters as part of his life work.

An Open Letter to Hugo Chavez

Reporters Uncensored, 10.02.2009

A new Web destination, TV model and online community

Dear Mr. President, I bet you're tired, so I'll keep this short. It's tough to go through a UN press conference when the style is so different from what you're used to. Reporters here can just be so... Critical.

Oh Noes, You're Outrage: Hating On The Family Guy Critics

Brandon Mendelson, 09.25.2009

Co-Author, Dracula And Kittens

If we don't stand up to bullies like this, it won't end until bland, stale programming, not targeted to anyone in particular, airs on every single channel, on every time of night, on every website around the world.

What Beck, Dobbs and Limbaugh Are Really Afraid Of

Timothy Karr, 09.16.2009

Campaign Director, Free Press and SaveTheInternet.com

The ultimate irony of Beck, Dobbs and Rush is that they couch in populist rhetoric a message that is anti-populist, designed to protect the swindle at the core of our media system's failure.

Reporter Arrested While Photographing Protest at Army Experience Center

Rob Kall, 11.14.2009

Host, Bottom-up Radio Show WNJC 1360, publisher, OpEdNews.com and Futurehealth.org

It is a frightening situation when the press can't cover arrests of peaceful protesters when they are turned into political prisoners. The police should be disciplined for their actions.

God and Man and Mohammed at Yale

Joan Z. Shore, 11.10.2009

Co-founder, Women Overseas for Equality (Belgium)

This is worse than censorship: this is self-censorship. This is knowing what is right and appropriate and deliberately overriding it, and then trying to rationalize the decision.

Censorship American-Style: Hide the US Dead

Dave Lindorff, 11.10.2009

Veteran investigative journalist

When American policy-makers talk about the "lesson of Vietnam," they're talking about the "lesson" of not letting the American people learn the real nature and cost of the war in question.

Bombing Russia and Media Censorship

Larisa Alexandrovna, 10.22.2009

Investigative Journalist and Writer

Though em>GQ spiked their article on allegations that the Russian FSB were behind the 1999 false-flag bombings in Russia, Gawker helped translate it into Russian, a serious first for news.

Egg on the Face of the Alcohol Control Board of Alabama: Banning Bodies is So Passe

Danielle Cavallucci, 10.17.2009

Co-author of "Your Orgasmic Pregnancy: Little Sex Secrets Every Hot Mama Should Know"

I am loath to understand why, in this day and age, the female body is banned and blamed for its potential to incite unsavory behavior in what should be responsible adults.

"This Comment Has Been Removed"

Norm Stamper, 10.17.2009

Retired Seattle police chief, member of Law Enforcement Against Prohibition

How long will it be before one of those pistol-packing town-hallers, driven to the brink by publicly aired hate-talk, pulls his gun, and then its trigger?

Without Freedom of Expression

Craig and Marc Kielburger, 09.28.2009

Co-founders, Free The Children

10 years. That's the length of the sentence that Thai man, Suwicha Thakor, received in April for posting two comments on a website deemed insulting to Thailand's monarchy.

Iran Inside Out Shocks and Provokes at the Chelsea Art Museum

Marissa Bronfman, 09.13.2009

Writer

Iran Inside Out offers a veritable platter of provocative work that begs for discussion, debate and perhaps most importantly, an open mind.

Will Sharon Stone Topless On the Cover of Paris Match Destroy American Civilization?

Sheldon Filger, 09.08.2009

Writer, founder of GlobalEconomicCrisis.com

I have photographed numerous bare breasted women, and have yet to sense that my level of culture and civility is eroding. The sight of a woman's nipple does not transform me into a barbarian.