Investigative journalism declares its independence
A few days ago I was contacted by Adam Chadwick, a former copyeditor for the New York Times who's currently filming a feature-length documentary on "the decline of the traditional newspaper business"...
View ArticleVA-04 - Forbes: "I won't debate." LeGrow: "No problem."
The following is text from a press release that we at the Wynne LeGrow campaign have just sent out to every major media outlet in Virginia as well as to the campaign office of Randy Forbes.
View ArticleScientist? Writer? Help us improve science journalism
Scientists and media critics tend to agree that there has been a noticeable decline in the quality and accuracy of science journalism over the last decade or two, thereby creating an environment in...
View ArticleMy debate with Huckabee advisor Joe Carter
I've just become engaged in a written debate with Joe Carter, the online editor of First Things and a former spokesperson for the Family Research Council as well as a former communications advisor to...
View ArticlePalin biographer accuses me of planning violence
So, I wake up this morning all hung over and whatnot and thus decide to spend the day doing nothing, and then I see that there's a trackback thingy on my most recent blog post here, and it's ol' Robert...
View ArticleAnonymous launches new Wikileaks defense effort
WikiLeaks may be a small player, really, in the bigger scheme of things. But to some degree it is also a bellwether, a forecast of things to come as information and technology continue to nip at the...
View ArticleWikileaks, Shell, Nigeria, and misplaced priorities
The following is one of several short essays I wrote on Wikileaks between March and April of this year, both before and after the organization released the Afghanistan tape. This one appeared on April...
View ArticleAnonymous, Wikileaks and the Fall of the Nation-State
A number of people have been linking to the following essay over the past couple of days, which provides additional information on Anonymous as well as an examination of what the organization...
View ArticleConspiracies and Pseudo-Skepticism, Part I
Ongoing events, coupled with some discussions I've been having in the context of those events, have prompted me to revisit a story which I consider to be among the most telling in terms of the nature...
View ArticleAnonymous launches new project, press release
I have just received the following press release in which a contingent of Anonymous spells out its general aims and practices while also announcing another effort, Project Truth is Revolutionary. I...
View ArticleTunisia under attack by Anonymous; press release
The faction of Anonymous that launched the anti-Scientology movement Chanology and has more recently been supporting Wikileaks through various information and direct action campaigns has launched an...
View ArticleUpdate on Tunisia protests and Anonymous attacks
As I noted yesterday, a faction of Anonymous has launched OpTunisia, its response to a recent clampdown on civil liberties by the Tunisian government in the wake of Wikileaks releases and protests by...
View ArticleGeorge Will accidentally calls Krauthammer "progressive"
The rhetorical dance that ensues in the wake of every act of domestic political violence took an amusing turn yesterday when the relatively reasonable George Will decided to discredit those of us who...
View ArticleRally for Information Freedom - NYC, April 7
We've just begun sending out the following press release in support of a rally and press conference at which I and others in the free information movement will be speaking, with meetings and other...
View ArticleGuide to safety for Tunisians, please distribute
Update This is the first incarnation of the first edition of what has become Anonymous' Guide to Protecting the North African Revolutions series. Second edition is available here and the third, which...
View ArticlePlease distribute to Tunisians: Safety in Confrontation
The following document is the second created by Anonymous and veterans of people's revolutions stretching from the '60s to today's more communications-driven conflicts, with contributions from...
View ArticleLet's help Tunisia achieve liberty.
I've just sent out the following message to some people I've been working with and wanted to post it to Daily Kos as well; it concerns what we've been doing with Tunisian revolutionaries and how we...
View ArticleGuide to Protecting the Tunisian Revolution
As has been noted, Anonymous and related parties continue to work with Tunisian revolutionaries and activists to establish new institutions capable of helping to secure national liberty and a reasoned...
View ArticleGuide to Protecting the North African Revolutions
This is being placed here for the benefit of North Africans who wish to emulate their brothers in Tunisia; it is the product of collaboration between experts on revolutionary tactics, Anonymous...
View ArticleRally for North Africa, Wikileaks, Bradley Manning, Anon
This April, several leading figures in the struggle for information freedom will be taking to the steps of NYC City Hall to speak out in favor of Wikileaks, Anonymous, and those heroes such as Bradley...
View ArticleAnonymous statement on Egypt
The following press release was created last night by a committee of Anonymous participants who have been engaged in OpTunisia and OpEgypt for much of the last month. It was provided first to ABC but...
View ArticleAnonymous Begins Announcing Legal Team
This is a slightly less censored copy of Anonymous' latest press release regarding the several dozen individuals who have been served with warrants and/or grand jury subpoenas over the past few days....
View ArticleMessage from a Tunisian
The following was posted by an Egyptian participant of Anonymous on a collaborative pad a few minutes ago; I'm sharing it here for those who would like a view of the Egyptian revolution from one of the...
View ArticleGuide to Safety and Victory in Street Confrontations UPDATE
This guide, which has just been compiled and edited by Anonymous-affiliated veterans of prior revolutions and other occasions on which civilians have successfully fought security forces, will soon...
View ArticleEgyptian protesters state their demands UPDATED
The following message was just now left on Project PM's collaborative document wherein we are compiling and editing medical and first aid information in support of the guides we've been creating and...
View ArticleAnonymous concedes defeat
It's been a rough couple of weeks for Anonymous, with five U.K. participants arrested and 40 U.S. participants raided by the FBI and a California grand jury assembling on February 10th. As such, the...
View ArticleAnon pwns HBGary Federal UPDATED w/PRESS RELEASE
Yesterday, I posted a press release noting that the Financial Times article that appeared yesterday and which drew on input from HBGary Federal employee Aaron Barr was laughably inaccurate. An hour...
View ArticleAnonymous to UN: Help Libya Now
The following press release was just created by an emergent task group of Anonymous participants who have been involved in OpLibya. English and German so far.
View ArticleHelp Anonymous stop Palantir. Do it now.
Anonymous' counterattack against HBGary and the network of federal contractors and even government agencies that colluded in unethical and perhaps illegal activities in an effort to destroy Glenn...
View ArticleAnonymous Will Avenge Manning
The decision to charge Bradley Manning with a capital offense in addition to other charges is a provocation and Anonymous is set to respond accordingly. Thus it is that we have begun #opbradley at...
View ArticleBooz Allen Hamilton VP Caught Lying
Pursuant to our ongoing investigation into the various intelligence contractors who worked in conjunction with the Department of Justice and other agencies to commit unethical and possibly illegal...
View ArticleRally for Manning, Wikileaks, and Anonymous
Tomorrow, a group of longtime information activists will be convening on the steps of City Hall in New York City tomorrow to present the case for information freedom and transparency over the tyranny...
View ArticleHelp Anonymous help Iran, now.
It is 2011, and the world is now open, interconnected. Anyone with internet access is now in a position to do any number of things in support of those who now seek to obtain the relative liberty that...
View ArticleYes, you should join Anonymous
By now, you are likely familiar with the basics of Anonymous - what is, what it does, and why. The last six months or so of activity, ranging from Operation Tunisia to the HBGary onslaught to our...
View ArticleAnonymous, Sony, and the rule of law
For Immediate Distribution Press Release May 4, 2011 Anonymous Enterprises LLC (Bermuda)
View ArticleAnonymous and our respectable enemies
I woke up the other day to a dozen or so queries from reporters about allegations that the Anonymous collective is responsible for the theft of more than a hundred million user accounts and their...
View ArticleThe Nature of Romas/COIN
I've released the following document to a number of news outlets over the past 24 hours; I've also written an explanation and announcement which is posted at The Guardian...
View ArticleThreats from the Invisible Industry
In February, a team of Anonymous hackers revealed a massive conspiracy on the part of Bank of America, U.S. Chamber of Commerce, the Hunton & Williams law firm, and three intelligence contracting...
View ArticleBoston police versus Anonymous: An Update
Today saw the release of a leaked administrative subpoena from Suffolk County District Attorney Daniel F. Conley to Twitter, demanding that the company release to them any IP addresses and other...
View ArticleWhy Stratfor was Really Hacked (Updated)
In the wake of the recent operation by which Stratfor's servers were compromised, much of the media has focused on the fact that some participants in the attack chose to use obtained customer...
View ArticleBradley Manning Support Network Under Investigation By U.S. Army
The Bradley Manning Support Network is under investigation by the U.S. Army Criminal Investigation Command, as revealed by a copy of a Freedom of Information Act request response. In this case, the...
View ArticleDaily Kos not interested in press issues if hard to read
Update An hour or so after posting a piece that has directly prompted coverage of this issue and demonstrably been understood by a number of other people, including many are new to the issue as well,...
View ArticleThe Firm That Makes Fake People and Bans Real News
Yesterday, I posted something here about a major story emanating from last week's Wikileaks release involving Cubic - a massive defense contractor - that managed to get a story shut down in Australia...
View ArticleNYT said it wasn't a story. Then the story was banned
You probably haven't heard of Trapwire. It took a lot of media incompetence, corporate corruption, and actual legal censorship of a news story to ensure that this is the case. Even well-informed...
View ArticleIn which Cubic exec lies to me about attacks on activists, surveillance
Do you respect Glenn Greenwald for holding powerful feet to the fire on torture, civil liberties, and other issues that define our ethical worldview? Did you know that the very fighting he's done on...
View ArticleE-mails between Anonymous and NYT reporters released
This first appeared on Pastebin yesterday here: pastebin.com/v63mkNqt More e-mails being released tonight, will post here in update. * The Secret History of the New York Times's National Security...
View Article2nd round of leaked NYT e-mails from Anonymous
Posted here: http://cryptome.org/... First round: http://www.dailykos.com/... Background: http://www.dailydot.com/... http://www.theatlanticwire.com/...
View ArticleMy Conspiracy with LA Prosecutor Patrick Frey
This blog post refers to individuals and situations with which the reader may have been previously unfamiliar. Read at your own risk. * Originally published: http://cryptome.org/... Barrett Brown...
View ArticleMore ammo you don't how to use
Here's part 2 (chronologically part 1) of the conversation I had with Los Angeles County prosecutor Patrick Frey after my associates in Anonymous and I had dealt with the corrupt government contractor...
View ArticleObama had a 16-year-old American murdered, but was Arab so it's ok
Update 3:55 AM What's truly incredible about today's post is that I didn't even write it, and I made that very clear in the first few sentences. Of course, some of the dumber people here who hate me...
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