Kevin Gosztola
- Location
- Mishawaka, Indiana, USA
- Birthday
- March 10
- Bio
- Kevin Gosztola is a multimedia editor for OpEdNews.com. He will be serving as an intern for The Nation Magazine during the spring in 2011. His work can be found on OpEdNews, The Seminal, Media-ocracy.com, and a blog on Alternet called "Moving Train Media." He is part of CMN News, which produces a weekly podcast or radio show on Talk Shoe. He is a 2009 Young People For Fellow and a documentary filmmaker who graduated with a Film/Video B.A. degree from Columbia College Chicago in the Spring 2010. In April 2010, he co-organized a major arts & media summit called "Art, Access & Action," which explored the intersection of politics, art and media and was supported by Free Press.
MY RECENT POSTS
- Report: AZ Police Often Use
Tasers Preemptively on
Subjects
June 29, 2011 02:55PM - US to Bring 'Rule of Law' to
Internet with New Strategy
May 17, 2011 03:46PM - WikiLeaks Grand Jury
Investigation: A New
McCarthyism?
May 11, 2011 11:22AM - Release the Dead Bin Laden
Photos
May 05, 2011 03:27PM - US Hosts World Press Freedom
Day
May 03, 2011 12:47PM
MY RECENT COMMENTS
- “Thanks Don.
Do
cyber wars really not kill
people? I don't know. Seen
Live Free
or…”
May 17, 2011 05:44PM - “Thanks for your
response, Blue. The photos are
going to be
released,
eventually.…”
May 12, 2011 09:06PM - “Appreciate your comment,
denese. Thank you.”
May 06, 2011 05:38PM - “I don't think the right
wants to see photos cause they
are
sadists.”
May 05, 2011 06:26PM - “Rated. For style.”
May 05, 2011 06:10PM
Kevin Gosztola's Links
Report: AZ Police Often Use Tasers Preemptively on Subjects
(photo: hradcanska)
ACLU of Arizona Report Finds Arizona Law
Enforcement Lacks Guidelines for Taser Use on Children &
Pregnant Women
Law enforcement and correctional agencies in Arizona, the state where TASER International has its corporate headquarters, often use Tasers &ldqu… Read full post »
US to Bring 'Rule of Law' to Internet with New Strategy
The United States officially launched its international cyber security strategy in a White House event on Monday, May 16. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton joined by the following administration officials: John Brennan, the president's counterterrorism and homeland security adviser; H/… Read full post »
WikiLeaks Grand Jury Investigation: A New McCarthyism?
Latest Government 'Fishing Expedition' Part of Wider Crack Down on Whistleblowers
A federal grand jury is meeting at 11 am EST in Alexandria, Virginia. The grand jury is being employed to "build" a case against Julian Assange, the WikiLeaks founder who just won a gold medal for peace… Read full post »
Release the Dead Bin Laden Photos
Celebration Photos Just as Likely to Inflame ‘Terrorists’ as Bin Laden Death Photos
The decision to not release photos of a dead and fatally wounded Osama bin Laden rests on at tenuous set of reasons that rest purely on Beltway conventional wisdom.
In sharp contrast with blu… Read full post »
US Hosts World Press Freedom Day
Today, the United States hosts World Press Freedom Day. The day, which was proclaimed to be May 3 by the UN General Assembly in 1993, is supposed to be an occasion for informing citizens of violations of press freedom. The day is to serve as a reminder “in… Read full post »
US Gets 'Bastard' Bin Laden: What Next in War on Terrorism?
Nearly a decade after the Bush Administration announced a "war on terrorism" after the attacks on US soil on September 11, 2001, the US mounted a covert military operation that killed Al Qaeda figu… Read full post »
Guantanamo Children: Not Simply 'Little League' Terrorists
[*For those in the Open Salon community not preoccupied with Donald Trump or the Royal Wedding.]
(Photo:Omar Khadr)
Pakistani national Naqib Ullah (also Naqibullah) was 14 years old and out doing an errand for his father when he was kidnapped from his village in Khan, Af… Read full post »
New York Times, NPR Collude with Gov't on Gitmo Files
A statement from the Pentagon was published just after 9
pm ET on April 24th, no more than an hour or two after the New
York Times had posted their package covering the Gitmo Files
they had not obtained from WikiLeaks. The statement was posted on
NPR and the Times… Read full post »
The Gitmo Files: What Can Be Found in a File
McClatchy Newspapers writes “the US military set
up a human intelligence laboratory at Guantanamo,” the
Washington Post details new classified military documents obtained
by the “anti-secrecy organization” present “new
details” of detainees whereabouts on S… Read full post »Obama Condemns Bradley Manning's Contempt for Rule of Law
Obama on Manning: "He Broke the Law"
At a fundraiser for President Barack Obama at the St. Regis Hotel in San Francisco, a group of progressive supporters of Bradley Manning paid tens of thousands of dollars to attend and disrupt the event. Oakland activist Naomi Pitcairn personally paid for tickets… Read full post »
(update below)
In the middle of the day, Bradley Manning was transported from Quantico Marine brig in Virginia to Fort Leavenworth in Kansas. Pentagon officials say he is being moved to "an environment more conducive for a longer detention." They also claim Ft. Leavenworth… Read full post »
State Dept: US Working to 'Transform', Not Undermine Syria
The Washington Post’s coverage of US State Embassy cables that suggest the US has been secretly backing Syrian opposition groups snowballed into a big story today. With the regime gunning down more protesters, senior Obama Administration officials took the opportunity to rehash the talking poin… Read full post »
Screen shot from an archive reel of footage from the Bay of Pigs
The National Security Archive has, on the fiftieth anniversary of the Bay of Pigs invasion, filed a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit to force the release of the CIA's "Official History of the Bay of Pigs
US Strategy for Establishing Identity in Cyberspace Unveiled
The National Strategy for Trusted Identities in
Cyberspace (NSTIC), which some believe could establish and require
Internet users to have ID on the Internet, was unveiled today at
the US Chamber of Commerce. NSTIC aims to establish "identity
ecosystems," what the National Institute for Stand
100 Revelations to Mark the 100th Day of Cablegate
*Special thanks to
C-Cyte for recording my tweets and posting them online in a
post for people to view if they do not normally use
Twitter.
One hundred days ago, WikiLeaks began to release the US State
Embassy cables. The release event, which continues, became known as
Cablegate.
A future… Read full post »
Assange: Sleazy Anti-Semitic High-Tech Info-Terrorist Or Not
WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange by a.powers-fudyma
(update below)
Anyone following WikiLeaks and the releases of US State Embassy Cables it has been coordinating with newspapers around the world has no doubt been confronted with details on the organization's founder Julian Assan… Read full post »
From Cairo to Madison: Spirit of Resistance is Alive
Screen shot of the Ustream feed from the Madison capitol on Sunday at 5:20 PM CT
At 4 pm on Sunday, February 27, the state attempted to close the Madison capitol building, which thousands of public workers and supporters of workers' rights have been occupying to prevent a so-called budge… Read full post »
Saif Speaks to Libyans: What Cables Say About His Address
An address from Muammar al-Gaddafi's son, Saif al-Islam al-Gaddafi, was aired on television in Libya early on February 21. Saif al-Islam told Libyans he had come without a prepared speech and was going to speak from his heart and mind.
The address (which can be read
here) was given as
… Read full post »
Millions of Egyptians Protest in Tahrir Sq.—Mubarak Must Go
A protester carrying a banner: "Leave you thief! Mubarak should be tried in front of an international court." by Hossam el-Hamalawy
*Cross-posted at WLCentral.org
At 2:30 PM Egypt time, there are well over a million Egyptians in and around Tahrir Square. The atmosphere is being described by Al
…
Cablegate and Former CIA Spy Who Runs Own CIA
U.S. Army Special Operations Soldiers at the Kandahar Airfield in Afghanistan by The U.S. Army
The New York Times' Mark Mazzetti reports that Duane R. Clarridge, who parted with the Central Intelligence Agency over twenty years ago, has been running a private network of spies from… Read full post »
Standing Up for Bradley Manning, Opposing FBI Witch-Hunts
Coleen Rowley being interviewed at an action at the FBI Headquarters in Washington, D.C. by Bill Hughes
On Martin Luther King Jr. Day, nearly one week ago, a few hundred activists participated in two protest actions, one at the FBI headquarters in Washington, D.C. and the other at… Read full post »
The Best Films of 2010
Screen shot from the trailer of Inception
10. Black Swan
Using the ballet "Swan Lake" as a backdrop, this film intensely brings to life the reality that performers can often lose their selves when performing. Directed by Darren Aronofsky (Requiem for a Dream, The Wrestler),… Read full post »
2010 Comes to an End But Impact of BP Oil Disaster Continues
Photo by New Orleans Lady
Featuring an Interview with Gulf Resident Elizabeth Cook
[I previously interviewed Cook one hundred days after the disaster. That post appeared on Open Salon's Cover Page. To see that post, click here.]
As 2010 comes to an… Read full post »
And So This is Christmas
A billboard from the campaign against war, which Lennon and Yoko carried out during the Vietnam War around Christmas. by Sam Harrelson
A number of people know this song. Somehow, the celebrity and enigma of John Lennon managed to catapult this song into the catalog of Christmas mu… Read full post »
Indefinite Detention to Be Part of Long-Term U.S. Policy
Street art of a hooded detainee at Guantanamo Bay by The 2 Tone Man
The Obama Administration will be making indefinite detention a more institutionalized part of U.S. policy in the so-called war on terrorism. An executive order to set up a "parole board" to periodically "… Read full post »
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