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Ellsberg Says Assange, as a Journalist, Can’t Be Tried Under Espionage Act
Ellsberg Says Assange, as a Journalist, Can’t Be Tried Under Espionage Act In an interview with Consortium News Editor-in-Chief Joe Lauria, Pentagon Papers whistleblower Daniel Ellsberg says the Espionage Act, under which he was indicted, cannot apply to Julian Assange because he is a journalist. Speaking during an online vigil for Assange organized by Unity4J.com, […]
Chuck Todd Blames Fox For Press Distrust, Urges Liberal Media To ‘Rise Up’
Chuck Todd Blames Fox For Press Distrust, Urges Liberal Media To ‘Rise Up’ In what we initially assumed was a satire piece, NBC News’ ‘fair and balanced’political chief Chuck Todd has taken to the auspiciously open-minded pages of The Atlantic to pen an op-ed explaining how we’ve all got it all wrong – it is […]
Five Years On, Death of Journalist Michael Hastings Remains a Mystery
Five Years On, Death of Journalist Michael Hastings Remains a Mystery Michael Hastings was one of America’s most popular modern journalists, perhaps best known for his 2010 expose in Rolling Stone magazine, The Runaway General, which led to the resignation of General Stanley McChrystal, then commander of NATO forces in Afghanistan. In the early hours of June […]
Julian Assange and the Fate of Journalism
Julian Assange and the Fate of Journalism Photograph Source Jeanne Menjoulet | CC BY 2.0 Julian Assange is the Australian founder of Wikileaks—a website dedicated to the public’s right to know what governments and other powerful organizations are doing. Wikileaks pursues this goal by posting revelatory documents, often acquired unofficially, that bring to light the […]
OMG This This This This!
OMG This This This This! That’s right, I’m writing an entire goddamn article about a single tweet made by another political commentator. It probably won’t even be a long article, because the excellent Tim Black said it all. Call me lazy, I don’t care, this is the most interesting thing I’ve seen all day: “Last night, […]
Seymour Hersh and the Disappearing Iconoclast
Seymour Hersh and the Disappearing Iconoclast He won a Pulitzer for My Lai and cracked Abu Ghraib wide open. But this reporter is still a lonely breed. Journalist Seymour Hersh in 2009. Credit: Institute for Policy Studies/Flickr Seymour Hersh, Reporter: A Memoir, Sy Hersh. Knopf, June 2018, 368 pages When people are comforted by government lies, […]
Ten Bombshell Revelations From Seymour Hersh’s New Autobiography
Ten Bombshell Revelations From Seymour Hersh’s New Autobiography Among the more interesting revelations to surface as legendary investigative journalist Seymour Hersh continues a book tour and gives interviews discussing his newly published autobiography, Reporter: A Memoir, is that he never set out to write it at all, but was actually deeply engaged in writing a massive exposé of […]
Journalists Are All Julian Assange
Journalists Are All Julian Assange As Ecuador threatens to expel Julian Assange, CN Ed. Joe Lauria will speak in a 50-hr. online vigil for Assange on Sat., 8pm EDT. In 2010, Bob Parry, late CN founder & editor, wrote this incisive essay on Assange’s vital work. Whatever the unusual aspects of the case, the Obama administration’s […]
The Death of the Investigative Journalist
The Death of the Investigative Journalist The Yes Minister series portraying the skulduggery of Whitehall during the Thatcher years throws up a salient reminder how certain things do not mix. Should the art portfolio be slotted alongside television? Probably not, but politics is politics. Civil servants will intrigue and seek to influence the minister of the day […]
For Our Rulers, Smearing A Dissident Journalist Is As Good As Killing Him
For Our Rulers, Smearing A Dissident Journalist Is As Good As Killing Him As I write this, demonstrations around the world are taking place in protest of WikiLeaks editor Julian Assange’s arbitrary detention and silencing by the US-centralized power establishment that has been actively pursuing his destruction for over a decade. The demonstrations will be well-attended, but […]
The Babchenko False Flag Exposed The Deep State-Journalist Nexus
The Babchenko False Flag Exposed The Deep State-Journalist Nexus Self-exiled Russian journalist Arkady Babchenko’s false flag “assassination” in Kiev is one of the most scandalous media stunts in recent memory. Most people are already aware of his dramatic stunt in appearing at a live press conference about his reported “killing” and then admitting that the […]
1984: The UK is Illegally Detaining Two Journalists, Seemingly Making Them Vanish
1984: The UK is Illegally Detaining Two Journalists, Seemingly Making Them Vanish The UK government is responsible for the illegal arrest, sentencing, and detainment without trial of two journalists: Julian Assange, who recently had his Internet and communications cut off; and Tommy Robinson, all without any type of legal concession. Argue as you may about […]
May You Live in Stupid, Corrupt and yet Fascinating Times
May You Live in Stupid, Corrupt and yet Fascinating Times In the old days, America’s top spies would complete their tenures at the CIA or one of the other Washington puzzle palaces and segue to more ordinary pursuits. Some wrote their memoirs. One ran for president. Another died a few months after surrendering his post. But today’s national-security establishment retiree has […]
UK: You’re Not Allowed to Talk about It. About What? Don’t Ask.
UK: You’re Not Allowed to Talk about It. About What? Don’t Ask. “I am in a country that is not free… I feel jealous as hell of you guys in America. You don’t know how lucky you are.” — Carl Benjamin (aka Sargon of Akkad), YouTuber with around a million subscribers. “I am trying to […]
Have We All Been Silenced?
Have We All Been Silenced? Leonard Misonne Waterloo Place, London 1899 Let me start by saying I have nothing against the English newspaper The Guardian. They publish some good things, on a wide range of topics. But they also produce some real stinkers. And lately they seem to publish quite a few of those. On […]
