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Looking Inside Fukushima Prefecture
Looking Inside Fukushima Prefecture An Insider’s Story Because of Japan’s unconscionable open-ended new secrecy law, it is very likely journalism in the nation has turned tail, scared of its own shadow. Nevertheless, glimmers of what has happened, of what is happening, do surface when brave people come forward. On May 22nd 2015 Hiromichi Ugaya, a […]
James Risen, Obama, Holder and the NSA
James Risen, Obama, Holder and the NSA “He made my life miserable for a long time.” Earlier this year I did an hour long interview with James Risen. We discussed his case with the Department of Justice, where he was being threatened with incarceration for refusing to reveal his source who gave him insights about […]
Council of Europe Calls on U.S. to Let Snowden Have a Fair Trial
Council of Europe Calls on U.S. to Let Snowden Have a Fair Trial The Council of Europe, the self-proclaimed “democratic conscience of Greater Europe,” urged the United States on Tuesday to allow NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden to return home and make the case that his actions had positive effects. The call for Snowden to be […]
Ukraine- Nazi’s Target American Journalist in Donbass
Ukraine- Nazi’s Target American Journalist in Donbass Preface from Washington’s Blog: We are not pro-Russian. We think Putin can be an asshole, and we are appalled by Russia’s crackdown on human rights. We are Americans who are pro-truth. And we follow the truth wherever it leads. Journalists are seldom the story and they shouldn’t be. […]
Watching Shadows of Liberty
Watching Shadows of Liberty A powerful new film on what’s wrong with the U.S. media is now being screened around the country. It’s called Shadows of Liberty and you can set up a screening of it as part of an upcoming international week of actions for whistleblowers called Stand Up For Truth. Or you can buy the DVD […]
Japan seizes passport of journalist planning Syria trip
Japan seizes passport of journalist planning Syria trip Move follows brutal killing of Japanese by ISIL and comes amid soaring ratings for PM over handling of hostage crisis. Japan has seized the passport of a journalist planning to travel to Syria following the brutal killing of two Japanese hostages by the Islamic State of Iraq […]
Turkey indicts Dutch reporter over ‘terror propaganda’
Turkey indicts Dutch reporter over ‘terror propaganda’ Geerdink, who rejects charges, is indicted for making “terrorist propaganda” in social media and her opinion articles. A Dutch journalist based in southeastern Turkey has been officially indicted by Turkish prosecutors for spreading “terrorist propaganda” on social media. Frederike Geerdink, who rejected the charges, told Al Jazeera that […]
Russia In The Cross Hairs
Russia In The Cross Hairs Washington’s attack on Russia has moved beyond the boundary of the absurd into the realm of insanity. The New Chief of the US Broadcasting Board of Governors, Andrew Lack, has declared the Russian news service, RT, which broadcasts in multiple languages, to be a terrorist organization equivalent to Boko Haram […]
This is How the U.S. Government Convinces a Newspaper to Kill a Story
This is How the U.S. Government Convinces a Newspaper to Kill a Story Under President George W. Bush, the White House urged reporters to withhold accounts about many of the most contentious aspects in the war on terrorism: the existence of a secret prison in Thailand, the Central Intelligence Agency’s interrogation and detention program, warrantless wiretapping […]
Saudi blogger receives first 50 lashes of sentence for ‘insulting Islam’
Saudi blogger receives first 50 lashes of sentence for ‘insulting Islam’ A Saudi blogger convicted of insulting Islam was brought after Friday prayers to a public square in the port city of Jeddah and flogged 50 times before hundreds of spectators, a witness to the lashing said. The witness said Raif Badawi’s feet and hands […]
Al Jazeera Journalist Mohamed Fahmy Should Be Released Not Retried in Egypt | Amal Clooney
Al Jazeera Journalist Mohamed Fahmy Should Be Released Not Retried in Egypt | Amal Clooney. On 1 January 2015, the Egyptian Court of Cassation issued a ruling upholding the appeal filed by Mohamed Fahmy to overturn his conviction and 7-year sentence. In so doing, Egypt’s highest court has recognized that there were legal errors in the original […]
