The ongoing international investigation of Henry Kissinger’s role in the Pinochet’s regime has now led to a Chilean court drawing up a list of questions about his role in the 1973 murder of American journalist Charles Horman by pro-Pinochet forces. The story has been reported in the Guardian (United Kingdom) and in El País (Spain), but is conspicuously absent from the international pages of the Washington Post or the New York Times. What a surprise–a member of the Washington power elite is being shielded by newsmedia censorship. Surely this has never happened before… Oh, wait, it happened about this time last month when US newsmedia refused to report on Kissinger being summoned by a French court [FAIR] for questioning about French nationals who disappeared under Pinochet.

Steve Lohr highlights some interesting parallels between the emerging technological privacy movement and the early days of the environmental movement in the 1960s [NY Times]. A couple of brief notes:

• Who says that there has been no book on privacy with the impact of Silent Spring? After all, there are few political books as well known and as shattering as George Orwell’s 1984, a book which is in large part about the destruction of privacy through State technological surveillance and control.
• It’s worth noting that a deeper parallel between the two movements rests in their mutual fears of technology being turned into an instrument of exploitation and control: for the environmentalists, of nature; for the privacy advocates, of individual people. They both come out of a strong background of populism and autonomous self-government.
• For hands-on information on protecting your privacy online, check out Electronic Frontier Foundation’s Privacy Now! campaign, security.tao.ca — oriented towards leftist / anarchist activists doing political work online, and SafeWeb — an online anonymizer.

Adriene Sere questions who is being silenced and who is doing the silencing in the debate over pro-sex within feminism and leftist media [Said It].