Freedom of Press

Ellsberg: ‘Assange can’t be tried fairly under Espionage Act because he is a journalist’

In a recent online interview, Pentagon Papers whistleblower Daniel Ellsberg talks about the possibility of Julian Assange being tried in the US under the Espionage Act for publishing classified material.
Joe Lauria, Editor in Chief of Consortium News, spoke to Ellsberg during an ‘online vigil’ for the WikiLeaks founder and editor organized by Unity4J.com.

Unfair Facebook Censorship targets Conspiracy Watch and Similar Pages

This is actually an update, since this article was originally published on Mar 10, 2014, however seeing that we’ve been censored again since then, I felt it important to not only share the new developments against freedom of speech and freedom of the press, but also to inform those of you who missed the original release of this story the first time around, of what has been happening in the Land of The Free.