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from Vice.com Jan 16, 2015 The trial of alleged Silk Road mastermind Ross Ulbricht took an unexpected turn Thursday when his defense team laid the blockbuster claim that Ulbricht was framed by another shadowy Bitcoin heavyweight, Mt. Gox founder Mark Karpeles. In his opening statement Tuesday, defense attorney Joshua Dratel […]
by Anthony Nowicke – originally appeared on Louisville.com May 8, 2014 Hunter S. Thompson was a talent all his own, a breed of genius rarely seen. Tom Wolfe, the godfather of New Journalism, compared Thompson to none other than Mark Twain, calling Thompson “the century’s greatest comic writer.” Thompson grew […]
from Amnesty International & CNN The Saudi Arabian authorities have an opportunity to improve their appalling human rights record by heeding the international outcry about the public flogging of Raif Badawi and halting it immediately, said Amnesty International. The organization has learned that the imprisoned activist, who was sentenced to 10 […]
from the New York Times James Risen, a New York Times reporter, will not be called to testify at a leak trial scheduled to begin this week, lawyers said Monday, ending a seven-year legal fight over whether he could be forced to identify his confidential sources. The Justice Department wanted […]
by Lawrence Weschler from Salon.com Back in the days of Occupy Wall Street, David Graeber, the anthropologist-author of “Debt: The First 5,000 Years” and one of the movement’s principal catalyzing theorists, got a whole lot of things exactly right and at least one thing (as far as I was concerned at […]
By: Mark A. Linnhofer I came across the Transatlantic Trade And Investment Partnership on one of those hung-over Sunday mornings where everything just seems kind of shitty through the haze of pain killers, weed, and the remaining blood-alcohol-level. I was unsuspectingly skimming through a variety of news, when a commentary […]
from Rolling Stone The conservative wave of 2014 featured an unlikely, progressive undercurrent: In two states, plus the nation’s capital, Americans voted convincingly to pull the plug on marijuana prohibition. Even more striking were the results in California, where voters overwhelmingly passed one of the broadest sentencing reforms in the […]
from the New York Observer Jan. 10. 2015 Robert Crumb is considered by many to be the single best cartoonist America has ever produced. The creator of counter culture icons like Fritz the Cat, the Keep On Truckin guy and Mr Natural, Mr. Crumb was inducted into the comic book […]
from Democracy Now Art Spiegelman is renowned American cartoonist, editor and comics advocate. In 1992 he won a Pulitzer Prize for “Maus,” considered one of the most important graphic novels ever published and one of the most influential works on the Nazi Holocaust. Spiegelman also founded the comics magazine RAW. […]
from popularresistance.org On Jan. 22, journalist, activist and author Barrett Brown, 33, is scheduled to be sentenced by U.S. District Judge Sam A. Lindsay in Dallas for threatening an FBI agent, hiding evidence during an FBI raid, and attempting to negotiate on behalf of a person wanted by the FBI […]
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