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The Forgotten Media Purges of the Great Depression
The Forgotten Media Purges of the Great Depression Republican Hoover built the federal broadcasting shield in 1927. Roosevelt fashioned it into a weapon in 1934 and Democrats have never put it down since. One might consider the elaborate FCC speech barriers: A Poll Tax on Public Debate One of the more enduring myths accepted as reality […]
The Prosecution Of Julian Assange Is Infinitely Bigger Than Assange
The Prosecution Of Julian Assange Is Infinitely Bigger Than Assange Julian Assange’s mother reported yesterday that the WikiLeaks founder has not been permitted any visitors during his detention in Belmarsh Prison, including from doctors and his lawyers. Doctors who visited Assange in the Ecuadorian Embassy have attested that he urgently needs medical care. Belmarsh is a maximum security prison sometimes […]
Empire Versus Democracy and Freedom. Will The Espionage Act Displace the US Constitution?
5Empire Versus Democracy and Freedom. Will The Espionage Act Displace the US Constitution? The public interest, and democratic political economies, both domestic and internationally, are poison to Empire. But this must be hidden from view, hence war propaganda/fake news is protected by legislation, while Constitutionally-protected, evidence-based real journalism, a dying phenomenon, continues to be attacked. […]
Cascading Cat Litter
Cascading Cat Litter And so now Julian Assange of Wikileaks has been dragged out of his sanctuary in the London embassy of Ecuador for failing to clean his cat’s litter box. Have you ever cleaned a litter box? The way we always did it was to spread some newspaper — say, The New York Times — on the floor, […]
Avoid the Slippery Slope
Avoid the Slippery Slope Everything government touches turns to crap. Ringo Starr Social media companies, search engines, and payments platforms are excising conservative, libertarian, and assorted anti-government voices. SLL argued in “The Friendly Faces of Fascism” that the largest and best known of these companies were essentially arms of the government. They are mechanisms for […]
The War on Assange Is a War on Press Freedom
The War on Assange Is a War on Press Freedom Mr. Fish / Truthdig The failure on the part of establishment media to defend Julian Assange, who has been trapped in the Ecuadorean Embassy in London since 2012, has been denied communication with the outside world since March and appears to be facing imminent expulsion […]
The Official Fake News
The Official Fake News Emmanuel Macron, who was comfortably elected to the presidency with the support of almost the entire French media, has demanded that his parliamentary majority provide him with a law against ‘fake news’ during election campaigns. Perhaps he’s preparing for the next one. The draft legislation reveals both the blindness of those […]
Free Assange
Free Assange Last week, rallies in support of Julian Assange were held around the world. We participated in two #AssangeUnity events seeking to #FreeAssange in Washington, DC. This is the beginning of a new phase of the campaign to stop the persecution of Julian Assange and allow him to leave the Ecuadorian Embassy in London […]
Kick Turkey Out of NATO
Kick Turkey Out of NATO There’s a Petition at Change.org to suspend Turkey’s membership in NATO. Why kick Turkey out of NATO? Because: Turkey just shut down the largest Turkish newspaper using tear gas, water canons and brutality: Turkey has destroyed free speech and freedom of the press Turkey imprisons more journalists than any other country in the world Journalists […]
Newly Published Clinton Email Reveals How Government Manipulates Media
Newly Published Clinton Email Reveals How Government Manipulates Media A Hillary Clinton staffer planted questionsin a CBS 60 Minutes interview with Wikileaks founder Julian Assange, according to email records released this week. At the time of the interview in early 2011, Assange had already leaked sensitive, embarrassing information from the State Department. The unclassified staff email to Clinton, released amid her ongoing […]
The West Suppresses Report on Ukraine’s Suppression of Journalists
The West Suppresses Report on Ukraine’s Suppression of Journalists OSCE Squelches Ukrainian Commission on Human Rights Speaker At a 21 September 2015 meeting of the OSCE (Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe), which is run by the Western powers and which is the leading organization concerning security and cooperation in Europe, a couragous speech […]
‘Kiev persecuting media reporting truth’ – blacklisted Spanish journo to RT
Kiev persecuting media reporting truth’ – blacklisted Spanish journo to RT The Ukrainian government is “persecuting people who are telling the truth,” Cesar Vidal, Spanish historian and journalist, who has been blacklisted by Kiev along with other European journalists, told RT. Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko on Wednesday introduced sanctions against hundreds of individuals and legal […]
GCHQ and me: My Life Unmasking British Eavesdroppers
GCHQ and me: My Life Unmasking British Eavesdroppers I stepped from the warmth of our source’s London flat. That February night in 1977, the air was damp and cool, the buzz of traffic muted in this leafy North London suburb, in the shadow of the iconic Alexandra Palace. A fellow journalist and I had just spent three […]
The Case of John Peter Zenger and the Fight for a Free Press
The Case of John Peter Zenger and the Fight for a Free Press This week marks the 280th anniversary of a landmark event in the history of a free press: the trial of John Peter Zenger in New York. Zenger, publisher of the New-York Weekly Journal, was found not guilty of seditious libel by a 12-member jury at […]
UK Police Confirm Ongoing Criminal Probe of Snowden Leak Journalists
UK Police Confirm Ongoing Criminal Probe of Snowden Leak Journalists A secretive British police investigation focusing on journalists working with Edward Snowden’s leaked documents remains ongoing two years after it was quietly launched, The Intercept can reveal. London’s Metropolitan Police Service has admitted it is still carrying out the probe, which is being led by its counterterrorism department, […]
