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WASHINGTON, D.C-Chinese censorship is evolving in new directions as the regime confronts the expansion of the Internet and cell phone users in China, and criticisms from the West. While the information controls are adapting, the objectives remain the same: the Chinese media and citizens are not allowed to broadcast or print any news that cast an unfavorable light on the Chinese communist regime.

Just in case you haven't noticed before, the United States of America has become a presidential tyranny. We've been clanging this bell here (and elsewhere) since late September 2001, and have seen it confirmed over and over through the years – with torture edicts, domestic spying, rendition, secret prisons, indefinite detention of uncharged, untried captives, etc. – and most recently and most baldly with the "Military Commissions Act," which enshrined the principle of arbitrary presidential power in law and gutted the ancient privilege of habeas corpus. This was rubberstamped by the Republican-led Congress last year – and is still standing strong under the Democratic-led Congress.