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Dangerous Terrorists Released by Tony Blair!
This week, four British Muslims were transferred to UK custody after three years in Guantanamo. They are still dangerous, according to the U.S. authorities. B…
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Now for a brief word on Gitmo
"It is an American Gulag and we will not be satisfied until this experiment with human lives is ended," the president of the Center for Constitutional…
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Internet and Society News -- 050125
"Your Online Source for Overblown Rhetoric and Continuing Quagmires" COMPETITION ========== Estimating the Price Effects of Mergers and Conce…
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Justice Denied
R. Jeffrey Smith and Josh White of the Washington Post report on the Army's failure to investigate charges of abuse. We had been told that one of the hallm…
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Imagine if Michael Berube Replaced William Safire
How much fun the old "Grey Lady" would be... (This is an excerpt from his latest post, responding to reader emails) In his defense of Harvard preside…
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Should India, Japan and South Africa Have a Veto?
Should new permament members to the Security Council have the same veto power as the original 5 permanent members (China, France, Russia [replacing the USSR], t…
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Internet and Society News -- 050124
"Extremely Flammable with the Consistency of Creme Brulee" COMPETITION ========== Microsoft Won't Appeal EU Sanctions Microsoft Corp.…
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Documenting copyright problems for documentarians
There's an interesting article in the Globe and Mail this week re: how difficult it is for documentary film makers to clear copyrights. As the article (quo…
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Revolutions in file sharing... paying the artists?
Ren Bucholz (of EFF) published a hopeful article in the SF Guardian about how artists will someday (perhaps soon?) get paid when their works are shared online.…
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Townsend's patent reform roundtable
Last evening I attended the first of three patent reform roundtable discussions being hosted by Townsend and Townsend and Crew. The Townsend attorneys, Ted Her…
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Internet and Society News -- 050120
"Losing Our Respect for the Truth for Over 39 Years" COMPETITION ========== Perjury Charged In Antitrust Inquiry Ex-Department Store Execu…
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Kahle v. Ashcroft Appellate Brief Filed
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