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Jan Verwoert: Bas Jan Ader: In Search of the Miraculous (2006)

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Bas Jan Ader disappeared at sea in 1975 while attempting to sail from the east coast of the United States to Europe as part of a project titled In Search of the Miraculous. The circumstances of his disappearance have led many interpreters to identify Ader with the role of the tragic romantic hero. This identification [...]

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U.S. Government Wins Appeal in Kim Dotcom Extradition Battle

Kim Dotcom and his associates have lost a key battle in their extradition fight against the United States. On two earlier occasions, including once in the High Court, Dotcom’s legal team successfully argued they were entitled to examine mountains of evidence held by U.S. authorities. But those rulings were overturned this morning when the Court of Appeal said that the U.S. would be allowed to present a summary case after all. Dotcom says he’ll take an appeal to the Supreme Court.

Source: U.S. Government Wins Appeal in Kim Dotcom Extradition Battle

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U.S. ‘Pirate’ Streaming Site Operator Gets Amnesty

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The Texan operator of Channelsurfing.net has made a deal with the United States Government to avoid prosecution. The man, who was arrested in 2011 after the domain name of his website was seized, stood accused of criminal copyright infringement for linking to sport streams. In the agreement, the U.S. attorney says that it’s in the best interest of all concerned to give McCarthy amnesty.

Source: U.S. ‘Pirate’ Streaming Site Operator Gets Amnesty

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How Did the Gates of Hell Open in Vietnam?

A New Book Transforms Our Understanding of What the Vietnam War Actually Was For half a century we have been arguing about “the Vietnam War.” Is it possible that we didn’t know what we were talking about? After all that has been written (some 30,000 books and counting), it scarcely seems possible, but such, it [...]

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Antigua Government Set to Launch “Pirate” Website To Punish United States

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The Government of Antigua is planning to launch a website selling movies, music and software, without paying U.S. copyright holders. The Caribbean island is taking the unprecedented step because the United States refuses to lift a trade “blockade” preventing the island from offering Internet gambling services, despite several WTO decisions in Antigua’s favor. The country now hopes to recoup some of the lost income through a WTO approved “warez” site.

Source: Antigua Government Set to Launch “Pirate” Website To Punish United States

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The Anarchist Odyssey of Alexander Berkman and Emma Goldman

“Every good person deep down is an anarchist,” said Paul Avrich, who died in 2006 after spending his academic life at Queens College and writing 10 books on anarchism that included The Haymarket Tragedy, Sacco and Vanzetti, and two oral histories – Anarchist Portraits and Anarchist Voices. Shortly before he died, Avrich requested that his [...]

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Gretchen Simms: The 1959 American National Exhibition in Moscow and the Soviet Artistic Reaction to the Abstract Art (2007)

“The American National Exhibition was an exchange exhibition organised by the United States Information Agency (USIA) and took place at Sokolniki Grounds in Moscow in 1959. The overall director George V. Allen and the Association of Federated Artists (AFA) Vice President Lloyd Goodrich, who was also President of the Whitney Museum of American Art in [...]

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‘Oliver Stone’s Untold History of the United States’: Facts through a new lens

‘Oliver Stone’s Untold History of the United States’: Facts through a new lens

It’s somehow appropriate that Oliver Stone has chosen a hotel just a few blocks from the Agriculture Department to talk about his new project. “Oliver Stone’s Untold History of the United States,” a documentary series that debuts Monday on Showtime, focuses on Henry A. Wallace — former agriculture and commerce secretary, as well as Franklin [...]

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Megaupload’s Planted Evidence Allegations are Baseless, U.S. Says

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The Department of Justice has responded to Megaupload’s claims that they planted evidence and tried to mislead the court. According to United States Attorney Neil MacBride these allegations are baseless and unfounded. In a new filing the U.S. asks the court to deny Megaupload’s request for a hearing on the matter.

Source: Megaupload’s Planted Evidence Allegations are Baseless, U.S. Says

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U.S. Judge Dismisses “Copyright Shakedown” of Foreign Video Sites

Tube sites EmpFlix and TNAflix, which grew out of the famous BitTorrent trackers Empornium and PureTNA, were targeted in 2011 by an adult rightsholder company in a copyright case. If successful it could have seen the sites losing their domains and being shut down. However, in a case described by their lawyers as “higher-end versions” of the current wave of BitTorrent troll suits, the non-US based sites have just come out the winners after a U.S. judge dismissed the case.

Source: U.S. Judge Dismisses “Copyright Shakedown” of Foreign Video Sites

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Christopher Hayes: Twilight of the Elites: America After Meritocracy (2012)

A powerful and original argument that traces the roots of our present crisis of authority to an unlikely source: the meritocracy. Over the past decade, Americans watched in bafflement and rage as one institution after another – from Wall Street to Congress, the Catholic Church to corporate America, even Major League Baseball – imploded under [...]

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IMAGiNE BitTorrent Group Leader Sentenced To Five Years in Prison

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The former leader of a now-defunct online movie piracy group has been handed a record-breaking prison sentence in the United States today. Jeramiah Perkins was described as the sysop of the BitTorrent release group IMAGiNE, a group that was busted by the FBI in 2011 following an MPAA investigation. Perkins will now serve five years in a federal prison, the longest sentence ever handed out in a case of this type.

Source: IMAGiNE BitTorrent Group Leader Sentenced To Five Years in Prison

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Inside the Cave: Obama’s Digital Campaign (2012)

Inside the Cave is an in-depth look at the digital, technology, and analytics operations of the President Obama’s re-election campaign. Engage Research compiled insights, data, and anecdotes from hundreds of news stories, blog posts, conference presentations, and conversations into a single presentation. Publisher Engage Research, December 2012 93 pages via pht commentary (Mashable.com) When the [...]

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U.S. and Russia Announce Online Piracy Crackdown Agreement

The United States and Russia have announced an agreement to crack down on online piracy. The countries have agreed to disrupt sites that facilitate infringement and take action against their operators. As a result, uncertain times may lie ahead for the many BitTorrent and other file-sharing sites hosted in Russia.The agreement also allows for the improved takedown of infringing content and discussions on allowing Russian rightsholders to use the United States’ “six strikes” system.

Source: U.S. and Russia Announce Online Piracy Crackdown Agreement

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Scandal Alert: Congress Is Quietly Abandoning the 5th Amendment

The sun rises over the U.S. detention center "Camp Delta" at US Naval Base Guantanamo Bay

Meet the prominent legislators who think it’s okay to throw Americans in jail forever without charges or trial. What everyone must understand is that American politics doesn’t work the way you’d think it would. Most people presume that government officials would never willfully withhold penicillin from men with syphilis just to see what would happen [...]

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U.S. judge orders 9/11 suspects’ CIA experience kept secret

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The U.S. military judge overseeing the Guantanamo prosecution of five alleged conspirators in the September 11 attacks has issued an order maintaining secrecy over the defendants’ experiences in clandestine CIA prisons. The protective order safeguarding classified information in the case was signed on December 6 by the judge, Army Colonel James Pohl, and unsealed on [...]

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Canadian ISP Prepares For “Unprecedented” BitTorrent Troll Assault

Popular Canadian ISP TekSavvy is warning its customers that BitTorrent trolls have been calling and will likely strike in the weeks to come. Voltage Pictures, the company that sued thousands in the United States over its Hurt Locker movie, monitored TekSavvy users sharing two dozen of its titles during September and October and will go to court next week to obtain their identities. What will follow is a claim for more than CAD$10,000, but will people really pay that to make a weak case go away?

Source: Canadian ISP Prepares For “Unprecedented” BitTorrent Troll Assault

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A-infos: (en) Anarkismo.net: Nationwide Organization of Revolutionary Anarchists in the United States? by Colin O – Rochester Red & Black, Common Struggle

An article by a member of Rochester Red & Black and Common Struggle making the case for a
unitary class struggle anarchist organization in lead up to a conference in February 2013
focused on the potential formation of exactly such a grouping. —- …

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