- The Declaration of Internet Freedom: how the net’s minutemen plan to protect the future
- From Global Voices:
“Five days before his arrest in September last year, a prominent Ethiopian dissident blogger, Eskinder Nega, wrote, ‘Freedom is partial to no race. Freedom has no religion. Freedom favors no ethnicity. Freedom discriminates not between rich and poor countries. Inevitably freedom will overwhelm Ethiopia.'”
- The Legitimate Criticisms of the Popular Resistance in Palestine by Maath Musleh
- Noted Moroccan journalist Ahmed Benchemsi writes about Feb20’s Rise and Fall: A Moroccan Story
- Occupy and the 99% Opposition by Jeremy Brecher in the Nation
- Jess Hill’s beautiful piece in the Globe & Mail: “The Bold Comedians of Syria Strike Back“
- The Economist on a recently-deported Emirati activist:
Several other activists in the UAE have been punished this year by being stripped of their citizenship. But stateless people are hard to deport. So according to the Emirates Centre for Human Rights, a London-based lobby, the UAE authorities confiscated Mr Abdelkhaleq’s UAE passport and issued him with a Comoros one instead.
It is said that the poor Comoros, the southernmost country in the Arab League, has been paid several million dollars by the UAE in order that the boiling-rich Gulf state can send people who have become a nuisance to the remote islands. However, on this occasion, the Comoros authorities were unwilling to take Mr Abdelkhaleq.
- “Can the government declare anything a Guantanamo detainee says or does automatically classified?” + the original ProPublica piece.
- Why is the FBI spying on protesters? The ACLU-NC is determined to find out.
- Ethiopian blogger Endalk’s perspective on the new Ethiopian telecom bill (from June)
And for laughs…
- First read McSweeneys suggested list of Buzzfeed articles.
- Then read this.
- Then click here.