] EMMA GOLDMAN (1869-1940) stands as a major figure in the
] history of American radicalism and feminism. An
] influential and well-known anarchist of her day, Goldman
] was an early advocate of free speech, birth control,
] women's equality and independence, and union
] organization. Her criticism of mandatory conscription of
] young men into the military during World War I led to a
] two-year imprisonment, followed by her deportation in
] 1919. For the rest of her life until her death in 1940,
] she continued to participate in the social and political
] movements of her age, from the Russian Revolution to the
] Spanish Civil War.

The Emma Goldman Papers (DL SunSITE)

] "Jon Lech Johansen has been acquitted of all charges in a
] trial that tested the legality of the DeCSS DVD
] decryption utility he produced, Norwegian paper
] Aftenposten reports."

Jon Johansen Freed

] A Norwegian teenager who helped crack a code meant to
] protect the content of DVDs won full backing from an Oslo
] court on Tuesday. The court acquitted him on all charges,
] a ruling that comes as a crushing blow to public
] prosecutors and entertainment giants.

Aha! Take that MPAA!

'DVD Jon' Scores Huge Legal Victory

] "he Bush administration is planning to propose requiring
] Internet service providers to help build a centralized
] system to enable broad monitoring of the Internet and,
] potentially, surveillance of its users."

George "Big Brother" Bush just loves this wild run he has on the constitution.

Bush Administration to Propose System for Monitoring Internet

] "SAN JOSE, Calif.--A jury on Tuesday found a Russian
] software company not guilty of criminal copyright charges
] for producing a program that can crack antipiracy
] protections on electronic books.
] The case against ElcomSoft is considered a crucial test
] of the criminal provisions of the Digital Millennium
] Copyright Act (DMCA), a controversial law designed to
] extend copyright protections into the digital age. "

Hurray!

ElcomSoft verdict: Not guilty - Tech News - CNET.com

Check it out.

Take the Homeland Security Quiz!

MP3 audio of a great talk by Howard Zinn. Required listening for anyone with an interest in dissent or non-standard history.

Howard Zinn - Reed College Talk - People's History of the United States

] "Bush has given us the worst of both political worlds:
] the wasteful tax-and-spend big government of wild-eyed
] liberalism without any of the compassion or desire for
] justice that normally goes along with bleeding-heart
] bureaucracy; the most tyrannical aspects of right-wing
] demagoguery--scapegoating, depriving people of basic
] rights, domestic spying, warmongering--without any of the
] positive attributes that usually accompany it, such as
] attention to reducing waste and balancing the budget."

Rall's Conclusion:

] "Hoover, Eisenhower and Goldwater were conservatives.
] George W. Bush is not. He's a radical right-winger
] applying selective liberalism in order to create an
] expansionist military empire centered around an
] oppressive police state.
]
] Bush has given us the worst of both political worlds: the
] wasteful tax-and-spend big government of wild-eyed
] liberalism without any of the compassion or desire for
] justice that normally goes along with bleeding-heart
] bureaucracy; the most tyrannical aspects of right-wing
] demagoguery--scapegoating, depriving people of basic
] rights, domestic spying, warmongering--without any of the
] positive attributes that usually accompany it, such as
] attention to reducing waste and balancing the budget.
]
] We Americans need both liberals and conservatives to lead
] us. But a government run by right-wing liberals will lead
] us into a world of trouble. "

Dubya is dragging us down faster than I thought possible.

GEORGE W. BUSH, LIBERAL

I read this article in MoJo today. I thought it was an interesting analysis of the current oligarchy. Unfortunately, the full article is not online, but a fair portion of it is. If you get a chance read it if you are in a bookstore in the near future.

A Confederacy of Cronies

] Last week, a member of Congress asked Federal Reserve Chairman
] Alan Greenspan to assess investors’ views about the
] administration’s long-term fiscal plan. His answer: “That there
] isn’t one.”
] "Republican regime could swiftly launch us back into an
] era of seemingly permanent structural deficits, just when
] the baby boomers are set to retire. "

From deficit hawk to GOP hack - Greenspan & the Republican regime