Samizdat

The Samizdat Page is dedicated to providing political information that you won't necessarily get anywhere else. It provides information on media activism, pirate media, cyber-activism, and research on parapolitics. This site is not really left or right wing - politics is not one-dimensional anymore.

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Culture Jamming: Alternative Media and Media Activism

• Culture Jamming: Detourning the Media Stream
• Emergency Broadcast Network: EBN, media pirate-activists
• A Situationist Bibliography: a guide to the Situationist movement
• ACTIV-L Alternative Media Guide
• Resources for the Media Activist
• Inside the Radio Underground: the World of Pirate Radio
• Video Resources List from ACTIV-L
• The Zany World of Zines
• Packet Radio homepage

Some Culture-Jamming Links

• AdBusters - detourning Madison Avenue
• Culture Jamming at abrupt.org
• The Billboard Liberation Front (BLF)
• NegativLand's website
• Situationist Texts - from black planet direct
• Pirate Radio Central - all about free and underground/clandestine radio
• Radio4All - reclaiming the airwaves
• Undercurrents - supporting "pirate" TV and independent video
• iContact - a network for alternative videomakers

Manifestos

• The Abolition of Work by Bob Black
• SALUSTRA: A Plan for a Sustainable Future by Dave Pyles
• Slacker's Manifesto
• A Third Way in Politics

Cyber-Activism

• The Constitution in Cyberspace by Laurence Tribe
• Cyberpunk as Counterculture
• The Politics of Cyberpunk
• Barriers to Accessing Government Electronic Information
• Coding Up a Bit of Privacy: The Cypherpunks by Joshua Quittner
• A Declaration of Independence for Cyberspace
• Architects of the Info Highway by Richard Sclove
• Swerving Off the Infobahn
• Networks and NGOs
• Technology and Transgression

Links to cyber-activist groups

• Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) - the 'grand-daddy' of them all
• Computer Professionals for Social Responsibility
• The Electronic Privacy Information Clearinghouse (EPIC)
• The Society for Electronic Access (SEA)
• Hacktivism.Org - 'electronic civil disobedience'
• Jon Lebkowsky's Cyber-Activism Page
• IGC Internet Progressive Gateway - home of PeaceNet, EcoNet, etc.
• Center for Democracy and Technology - good source for CDA info
• Center for Campus Organizing - a clearinghouse for campus activists
• Center for Civic Networking - promotes freenets and community networks
• DRCNet - Drug Reform Coordination Network
• SOLSTICE - promotes sustainable development, appropriate technology, and alternative energy
• Protest.Net - get information on demonstrations worldwide
• Seattle Community Network - home base of Doug Schuler, community networking activist

Knowledge is Power

• The Fully Informed Jury Amendment (FIJA)
• A Guide to the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA)
• GNP vs ISEW: Which Measures National Prosperity Better?
• Heterodoxy and Orthodoxy
• The Militarization of Education
• The Rampage of GATTzilla
• The Pentagon's New Clothes: the Race to Develop the High-Tech Advantage

The Konspiracy Korner

Posting a theory does not mean you believe it is true. Caveat lector. This should go without saying, but I guess people believe that I believe everything here is "true". Among certain chic circles, this type of analysis is now called "power-structure" research.

Konspiracy Theory 101

• Manufacturing Consent: an introduction to "Chomskian" media theory
• Conspiracy Theorist's Bibliography
• Join the Conspiracy!
• Lyndon Larouche: Conpiracy Theorist or Conspirator?: note to online fans of Lyndon LaRouche: I do not know, and have never met, Dennis King
• The Left and U.S. Fascism: A Dangerous Alliance

Conspiracy Theory Links

• DisInformation.Org
• The Konformist
• The Black Ops Web Site - links to RAW's Encyclopedia of Conspiracy Theories
• The Black Vault - government secrets unveiled
• Mind Control Forum
• Jam Echelon Project Page - stopping the global surveillance society
• NameBASE Online - a who's who of the spook world
• FAS Government Secrecy Project - shining light on the black budget
• MKUltra Info - the CIA mind control program
• The CIA and Drugs
• FACTNet information on psychological coercion and cults
• Alternative 3 - watch it for yourself, see what the furor is about
• High Tech Black Projects
• The Stargate CONspiracy
• Project Censored - the news that didn't make the news

Parapolitics

• Access Guide to Parapolitics
• The Aviary and the Aquarium: Who are the "singing birds" and the "talking fish"?
• Intelligence Agency Resource Guide
• Welcome to Spookland
• The Mysterious Shortwave Numbers Stations

The Surveillance Society

• The Espionage Society
• Scanscape: LA's Ecology of Fear
• Project Scanate: Developing military remote viewing (RV) techniques

We Shall Not Be Kontrolled or Konformed

• Martin Cannon's THE CONTROLLERS: An interesting theory of alien abductions, as intelligence agency psy-warfare
• EMF Warfare
• Mind Kontrol is Not Kool: but it just might be real
• Heaven's Gate: some surprising facts

Lies of Our Times?

• The Dead Sea Scrolls Deception: Do they threaten current theories of the origins of Christianity?
• Drug War Lies: what are the real facts in the "War on Drugs"?
• The Pope Must Die!: the assassination attempt on Pope JP I
• Occultism and the Third Reich
• The Stargate CONspiracy: Is there a "con" to promote the idea that aliens created human civilization?

Technology is Your Friend, Komrade

• HAARP Controversy: Angels don't play this HAARP
• The Montauk Project: Just what the hell IS going on on Long Island?
• SDI Deaths: Some British SDI scientists die some weird deaths
• EMF Hazards

The Octopus

• The INSLAW Affair: the Justice Department as software pirate
• The October Surprise: secret dealings with Iran
• Danny Casolaro's Octopus: follow the tentacles