10 results returned for search: "" category ("Other" AND "Opinion") author Thomas L. Knapp
Donald Trump signed an executive order in June providing for sanctions against persons who “have directly engaged in any effort by the [International Criminal Court] to investigate, arrest, detain or prosecute any United States personnel without the ...
DATE: Sep 08, 2020
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May 3 was World Press Freedom Day. The annual observance usually focuses on the World Press Freedom Index published each year by Reporters Without Borders. Break out the champagne!
The United States ranked 48th of 179 countries this year, falling th...
DATE: May 07, 2019
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The continuing saga of journalist and transparency activist Julian Assange took a dangerous turn yesterday. Ecuador’s president, Lenin Moreno, revoked his asylum in that country’s London embassy. British police immediately arrested him, supposedly pu...
DATE: Apr 12, 2019
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According to CNN Business, “Facebook, YouTube and Twitter struggle to deal with New Zealand shooting video”.
“Deal with” is code for “censor on demand by governments and activist organisations who oppose public access to information that hasn’t first...
DATE: Mar 19, 2019
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Cryptocurrencies had a rough ride in 2018. As of January 7, 2018, the total market capitalisation of all cryptocurrencies tracked by CoinMarketCap.com came to more than $800 billion, its highest point ever.
As I write this on January 3, 2019, that t...
DATE: Jan 05, 2019
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America’s New Red Scare escalated in mid-October as the United States Department of Justice demanded that the US division of television network RT, formerly known as Russia Today, register as a “foreign agent” under the aptly named Foreign Agents Reg...
DATE: Oct 31, 2017
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In a September 21 post, Mark Zuckerberg shared nine steps that the site he started is taking “to protect election integrity and make sure that Facebook is a force for good in democracy” — by “actively working with the Government” and “partnering with...
DATE: Sep 28, 2017
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As I write this, Hurricane Harvey hovers off the Gulf Coast, menacing Louisiana and possibly ramping up for another go at Texas. Much of Houston, the fourth largest city in the United States, is under water.
It may be weeks before the storms end, the...
DATE: Aug 30, 2017
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“It is the sense of Congress,” according to the annual Intelligence Authorisation Act now working its way through the United States Senate, “that WikiLeaks and the senior leadership of WikiLeaks resemble a non-state hostile intelligence service often...
DATE: Aug 28, 2017
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On May 27, Barack Obama became the first sitting United States president to visit Hiroshima, the site of history’s first atomic attack on August 6, 1945. The Japanese Government did not ask Obama for an apology, nor did he offer one.
On December 27, ...
DATE: Dec 19, 2016
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