Rally for North Africa, Wikileaks, Bradley Manning – April, NYC
Press Release
For Immediate Distribution
January 13th, 2011
An unprecedented coalition of information activists and organizations have come together in an effort to advance the ongoing campaign against the informational tyranny that has been on view as of late in the context of Wikileaks,…
Anonymous launches new effort, clarifies own nature
I have just received the following press release in which a contingent of Anonymous spells out its general aims and practices while also announcing another effort, Project Truth is Revolutionary.
The aims of Anonymous
WikiLeaks may be a small player, really, in the bigger scheme of things. But to some degree it is also a bellwether, a forecast of things to come as information and technology continue to nip at the heels of the state. Perhaps we really are approaching a time when government becomes less…
Palin Biographer Accuses Me of Planning Violent Political Attack
So, I wake up this morning all hung over and whatnot and thus decide to spend the day doing nothing, and then I see that there’s a trackback thingy on my most recent blog post here, and it’s ol’ Robert Stacy McCain having a go at me in his inimitable way. The main point seems to be that I’m…
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Debate on atheism, Christianity, and the state
As per the protocols agreed upon yesterday evening between myself and First Things editor Joe Carter, our respective persons will be engaging in a contest of rhetoric (hereafter referred to as the “debate”) concerning the nature and existence of God and His proper relation to the state, with the…
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Project PM Science Journalism Project Launches Today
Scientists and media critics tend to agree that there has been a noticeable decline in the quality and accuracy of science journalism over the last decade or two. Although the causes of this are many and sometimes obscure, the solution may be quite simple. Today, I announced in my monthly column…
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Conservative Blog Fight!
It’s difficult to know where to begin here, or even to be sure that there is any such thing as a beginning in this case; more to the point, this whole affair, this day itself, may very well constitute some teleological attractor towards which all events have been flowing, having themselves been…
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