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Elliot D. Cohen, Ph.D. is a political analyst and media critic. His most recent book is Technology of Oppression: Preserving Freedom and Dignity in an Age of Mass, Warrantless Surveillance(Palegrave Macmillan, 2014.) He is a Fellow at the Secular Policy Institute in Washington, D.C.
(7 comments) SHARE Wednesday, February 28, 2018 The Trump-Russia Conspiracy Web
Here is a timeline of events involving major Trump team and Russian figures building a coherent conspiracy plot that shows motive, forethought, mutual self-interest, and cooperative effort to besmirch Hillary Clinton and win the 2016 presidential election for Trump.
(1 comments) SHARE Thursday, February 8, 2018 Trump Disqualified from Judging Democrat's Russia Memo?
As Trump moves toward redacting the Democrat's Russia Memo, his obvious conflict of interest and status as Chief Magistrate calls into question his legal authority to decide matters of law pertaining to this memo.
(1 comments) SHARE Tuesday, July 19, 2016 Trump Rejects Term Limits, Portends Monarchy, End of Free Elections
This article demonstrates that a Trump presidency would portend the end of free elections in the U.S., the end of our constitutional republic, and the beginning of a monarchical order.
SHARE Tuesday, July 5, 2016 Corporate Media Fail to Hold Trump's Feet to Fire on Ongoing Bigotry Once Again
During the ascent of Adolf Hitler to power, the U.S. media, including the New York Times, helped to paint a positive image of this demagogue. History now repeats itself in corporate media's coverage of U.S. presidential candidate Donald Trump.
(20 comments) SHARE Monday, April 25, 2016 Support Sanders as A Third Party Candidate
This article issues a call to support Bernie Sanders as a third party candidate. THIS CALL NEEDS TO GO VIRAL if the people of the U.S. are to be afforded a viable candidate for President of the United States.
SHARE Tuesday, October 30, 2012 Mitt Romney's New American Century: Its Frightening Implications for America
The Project for the New American Century has regrouped and established itself as the puppetmasters of a prospective Romney adminstration. This portends dire consequences for America if a Romney adminstration takes the White House.
(1 comments) SHARE Tuesday, November 29, 2011 Congress May Deputize Telecoms to Conduct Cyber Witch-Hunts
House Bill 3261, the so-called "Stop Online Piracy Act" (SOPA), would deputize Telecoms such as Comcast and AT&T to help it police the Internet and to shut down websites without a court order and with full legal immunity. This is tantamount to giving government and its telecom cronies the power to conduct cyber-witch hunts against political opponents, competitors, and anyone else they think threatens their interests.
(1 comments) SHARE Friday, November 11, 2011 Why Are 99 Percent of Americans Fed Up? A Video Tells All
A new music video by journalist and media ethicist, Elliot D. Cohen, vividly drives home the human rights violations now motivating the "occupy" movement.
(1 comments) SHARE Wednesday, January 12, 2011 New group formed for Net Neutrality!
THE INTERNET NEUTRALITY FREEDOM ORGANIZATION (INFO) HAS JUST BEEN ESTABLISHED ON FACEBOOK. ITS AIM IS TO STOP BIG ISPS FROM DEMOLISHING THE FREE AND DEMOCRATIC ARCHITECTURE OF THE NET.
SHARE Sunday, January 9, 2011 Join INFO on Facebook!
Elliot D. Cohen has established the Internet Neutrality Freedom Organization (INFO) on Facebook. The mission of INFO is to stop the big ISPs such as Comcast from demolishing the free and democratic architecture of the Net.
(2 comments) SHARE Sunday, December 26, 2010 Help Stop Destruction of the Free Internet Now: Go Offline, New Year's Day, Between 2:00-3:00 PM EST (US)
The Recent FCC decision failed to protect net neutrality; now the end of a free Internet is near. On New Year's Day, between the hours of 2 and 3 p.m. Eastern Standard Time, go offline to express one unified voice against the creation of a pay-for-priority Internet system, the abolition of a flat fee for Internet access, and any attempt by Internet service providers to block, censor or otherwise interfere with Internet content
(2 comments) SHARE Sunday, December 12, 2010 Crime, Conspiracy, and Wikileaks
When Robert Novak published the name of a CIA Operative in the Washington Post, he jeapardized her operation and endangered lives; but he was not prosecuted for a crime; nor should Julian Assange. To do so sets a dangerous precedent and undermines the existence of a free press in the U.S.
(2 comments) SHARE Tuesday, November 23, 2010 Beyond "1984': New Frontiers of Mass Surveillance
Unless we draw a line in the sand very soon, the surveillance technologies that are in store for us will predictably make body scans and aggressive pat-downs look like respectful treatment.
(3 comments) SHARE Sunday, October 24, 2010 Mass Surveillance and State Control: The Total Information Awareness Project
Now afoot is an interconnected web of trends toward greater and greater modes of control, which will predictably advance with the advent of new technologies and the loosening of constitutional safeguards against the abridgment of privacy. Elliot Cohen's new book, Mass Surveillance and State Control, details these dangerous trends and makes the case for organizing a grass roots movement to stop these trends before it's too late
SHARE Sunday, May 24, 2009 President Obama's Orwellian New Category of "Prolonged Detention"
President Obama wants to replace "unlawful enemy combatant" in Bush's 2006 Military Commissions Act with a new system of "prolonged detention" that could conceivably keep detainees in prison into perpetuity in order to prevent crimes they have not yet committed. Add to this Obama's continuation of the Bush administration's program of warrantless spying on millions of Americans, and the recipe for abuse is chilling.
(1 comments) SHARE Thursday, May 7, 2009 Taking a Page from the Bush Playbook
The Obama administration is now considering reinstating the Military Commissions Act, in contradiction to the president's promise to end military tribunals for detainees and to close down Gitmo. The disparity between the tribunals and due process for other criminals leaves intact the concept of "unlawful enemy combatant," as contained in the act, and thus threatens further evisceration of the rule of law.
(9 comments) SHARE Monday, February 9, 2009 What's Cheney Up to?
Dick Cheney's recent warning of a future "9-11 type" terrorist attack on the U.S. homeland was quickly dismissed by some mainstream media pundits as just another benign and misguided attempt by the former Vice President to frighten us. But perhaps he should be taken more seriously.