Author Topic: Ever wonder why US is severely lacking balanced info on Iran, Sudan, Cuba, etc.  (Read 276 times)

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Apprently it was illegal for an American company to publish any book or article by ANY author from one of those countries. They could get jail time and a fine.

http://freeinternetpress.com/module...rticle&sid=2523
http://www.lenconnect.com/articles/...news/news12.txt

But they got lit up in a lawsuit and backed down:

http://www.aaupnet.org/ofac/index.html
http://www.aaupnet.org/ofac/release121504.html
 

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