Newest Alt. Media

• Cameron: Struggle over the Cuban press intensifies

  The crisis of the press in Cuba is bound up with the crisis of the prevailing Cuban socialist model
• Moody: The Rank and File’s Paper of Record

  The history of Labor Notes shows that labor’s strength — and socialists’ relevance — depend on a militant and independent rank and file
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  Chomsky: The Legacy of the Obama Administration

  Electoral campaigns, especially in the US, are being run by the advertising industry
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  Albert: What Is Wrong With Us?

  Does our style of engagement with others contribute to the left’s inattention to developing sustainable effective mechanisms of large scale lasting change?
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  Pilger: Trump and Clinton: Censoring the unpalatable

  There is a need, a compulsion, for many liberals in the United States to embrace a leader from within a system that is demonstrably imperial and violent
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  Pearson: Clickbait v Political Impact: Alternative Journalism as Social Media Becomes the New News Source

  Counting likes and shares is easy, but how do we gauge the political impact of our articles and ensure their quality?
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  Chomsky: Media, NATO, ISIS, Free Trade Agreements & Humanity

  Interview on the significance and role of whistleblowers, the alternative media, activism and a host of other related issues
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  Albert: Why Write, Why Read?

  If you are intent on contributing to social change won't you address issues that need voice because they aren't visible, not issues everyone has already written to death?
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  Proyect: Jacobin and “The War on Syria”

  Higgins presents an addled history of the war in Syria that is meant to demonize the FSA
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  Solomon: Julian Assange and the Value of WikiLeaks: Subverting Illusions

  Three years after Ecuador’s government granted political asylum to Julian Assange in its small ground-floor London embassy, the founder of WikiLeaks is still there
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  Fletcher: The Philippines: Invisible Neo-Colony

  The ongoing repression and wars in the Philippines would be unsustainable were it not for the direct involvement of the United States
• Murtha: Why the Laura Poitras case is bigger than you think

  These systemic delays in responding to requests have really hampered the ability of journalists to use FOIA as a tool
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  Albert: Left Media?

  Our priority, of course, should be to aid changing the world for the better
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  Prashad: Saleem Shahzad (1970-2011)

  In Memory of a Journalist
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  Swanson: Is Al Jazeera Trying to Be CNN or Fox?

  "Your plan is to compete with Meet the Depressed and such shows by imitating them?"
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  Chomsky: ‘I Don’t Look at Twitter Because It Doesn’t Tell Me Anything’

  Interview on the current media landscape
• Gillmor: Why journalists should (at least sometimes) be activists

  So I ask this of my journalism friends: Take stands, loudly and proudly. Be activists. Unless you prefer a world of choke points and control by others, this is part of your job
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  Spannos: Haitian Fight Song for Danny Schechter, Our Mingus of Media Analysis

  Through his work, Danny did stir souls to rise. He certainly stirred mine. I hope that today’s media makers will seek to do the same. You will be missed Danny
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  Emersberger: Nice about Katharine Viner, but Ads keeps the Guardian’s Lights On

  We urgently need a mass media that does not chase after ad revenue or well-off subscribers
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  Street: Name That System and/or Work to Overthrow It

  Movement-building would seem the major order of the day