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...legal challenges by corporate lawyers and rhetorical ripostes by the Pirates, the battle between profiteers and buccaneers was joined when Swedish police raided the site in 2006, resulting in the ongoing civil and criminal trials. The proceedings are the latest twist in a long history of a global fight over property rights - a struggle that some say began in America with the country's Founding Fathers ( Benjamin Franklin was all for handing out for free the ideas for his inventions like the Franklin Stove) and extended through Yippie Abbie Hoffman (who named his 1971 book about conning the system Steal...
...fight is more than just a new way to wage an old war of ideas. It's about whether Internet companies whose business is to help users find content that other companies have spent money to create ought to be hailed as innovators or hauled into court as thieves. Some folks, for example, see Google News as a quick and easy way to find the best journalism on the Web. Others complain that it lets the search engine company make billions while the media companies that paid to produce the content struggle to break even...
...Calderón put the army on the front lines of the fight against cartels as soon he took office in December 2006. There are now some 50,000 troops deployed against the gangsters, both in the marijuana-growing mountains and in cities such as Juarez, Monterrey and Tijuana. That campaign has coincided with skyrocketing violence, as criminal gangs wage war on government forces and on one another, leaving more than 5,300 dead last year. Many citizens support the soldiers, whom they see as Mexico's only hope against thugs armed with high-powered rifles and rocket-propelled grenades...
...Political analyst Jose Antonio Crespo suggests the protests are, indeed, the work of drug cartels, who he says are throwing everything they have into their fight against the government crackdown. But he argues that Calderón has made a mistake by keeping the soldiers on the streets throughout his first two years in office. "The army could be tolerated as an extreme measure. But now they have become the first level of enforcement against the cartels," he said. Crespo contends that this deployment has actually weakened the army's position. While criminals once viewed the troops as untouchable, they...
...troops now in Afghanistan - with perhaps 30,000 more to come - with fuel, food and all the other supplies a war machine needs. While the flow of troops and materiel through the base isn't huge, it highlights the difficulty Washington is having getting other nations to help fight al Qaeda and Taliban forces that are expanding their reach inside Afghanistan...