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Risen: The Indictment of Julian Assange
A true democracy does not allow its government to decide who is a journalist. A nation in which a leader gets to make that decision is on the road to dictatorship
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Pilger: The Assange arrest is a warning from history
The glimpse of Julian Assange being dragged from the Ecuadorean embassy in London is an emblem of the times.
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Assange was reduced from one of the few towering figures of our time – a man who will have a central place in history books, if we as a species live long enough to write those books – to nothing more than a sex pest, and a scruffy bail-skipper.
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Harris: Four Decades of Radical Radio
An Interview With WPKN’s Scott Harris
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Grim: Means TV, A Post-Capitalist Streaming Service
Launched Thursday morning, Means TV plans to bring a leftist lens to news and entertainment in the burgeoning subscription video-on-demand industry
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Flanders: Making American Journalism Great and Different
For all the changes that have hit the news, some things have remained the same: a handful of mostly pale, male editors and publishers downtown have defined who and what is newsworthy and who gets to tell the news
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Chomsky: Manufacturing Consent Revisited
Noam Chomsky's ideas on the media in Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media have provided us with a guide, full of cautionary tales and ideas that are still controversial to this day
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Wokusch: The Case Against WikiLeaks Is a Crisis for the First Amendment
The Trump administration once celebrated WikiLeaks. Now it wants to prosecute Julian Assange simply for publishing things it doesn't like. That's a threat to all journalists
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"I think the Acosta incident is... a symbol of an attempt to discredit not only CNN but the entire press corps."
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Avery: The Importance Of Alternative Media
The superficiality of today’s television Social critic Neil Postman contrasted...
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Pilger: Hold the front page. The reporters are missing
Complex stories are reported to a cult-like formula of bias, hearsay and omission: Brexit, Venezuela, Russia, Syria
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MacLeod: Facebook Censoring the Left Isn’t a Worry—It’s a Reality
The latest action by Facebook is part of a worrying trend towards greater censorship of media
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We will strive to keep a clear and vigilant eye on the lived experience of oppression and resistance, and to develop new frames for making adequate sense of our time and place, and prospects for a better future
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Risen: It’s Time for a Crusading Press to Fight Back
Crusading journalism is what is needed now
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Cole: Attack on Free Press Turns Liberty to Tyranny
Ben Franklin made sure that “political libel,” which is really political free speech for the most part, was never criminalized in the United States
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Trump voters call MS-13 a 'serious' threat to U.S., but it ain't so
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Wallerstein: Recurrent Themes: Corruption and National Security
People everywhere make claims and complain regularly about corruption and...
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Hedges: Thought Police for the 21st Century
The abolition of net neutrality and the use of algorithms...
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Street: Reflections on the Not-so Public Broadcasting System
the news and commentary one finds on PBS is in rich tune with the narrow capitalist parameters of acceptable coverage and debate that typify the more fully and explicitly for-profit and commercialized corporate media
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Staff: Danny Schechter, 1942-2015
Schechter infused almost all his work—whether it was for alternative or mainstream media—with his advocacy of human rights. In 1971, Schechter joined the Boston rock station WBCN-FM, where he found a following as “Danny Schechter, the News Dissector.” This Memorial was compiled from a number of emails to Z.
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Sargent: Our Dilemma, Your Dilemma
Since “Our Dilemma” appeared in the March issue, things have improved and we can take more time with our decision. Meanwhile, we would like to assure you that we have never asked ourselves, “Why Bother?”
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Information on Z's mission, submission guidelines, contacts, and subscription rates for 2014
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Contributors: Zaps – September 2010
Events ANARCHY FEST – The fourth annual Victoria...
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Rosen: User Generated Content & the Remaking of Media Publishing
Reports of newspapers and magazines closings are daily occurrences. Similar...
Alt. Media Video
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M.j.: Independent Publishing in India
Continuing our focus on independent publishing in India, we talk to...
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Harrison: Wikileaks: Interview with Investigations Editor Sarah Harrison
Interview on the case of Julian Assange, the findings of the UN working group on arbitrary detention, national security, international law and how one can support whistleblowers
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Schwarz: I.F. Stone’s One Weird Trick to Do Great Journalism
If you don’t know Stone but want to find out why he’s so beloved, the videos describe his approach and some of his accomplishments
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Katsiaounis: Greek Book Publishing in a Time of Crisis
The Greek social and material crisis has forced many book stores and publishers to close while writers and readers are considering new political ideas
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Schechter: Michael Albert On Participatory Media
A former member of Students for a Democratic Society, Michael would go on to develop, along with Robin Hahnel, an alternative to market capitalism called participatory economics.
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Wilpert: Announcing TeleSUR English
Greg Wilpert is director of teleSUR English, a newly launched multimedia website that is sponsored by teleSUR, the Latin American TV channel that is funded by the left governments of Venezuela, Ecuador, Bolivia, Uruguay, Argentina, Nicaragua, and Cuba
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: A Frament of Time with Andy Nemmity / 1
A fragment of time, broadcast on Killradio.org
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Jensen: Enough with the Christopher Hitchen’s worship
I woke up this morning to a barrage of twitter...
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Albert: Parecon as Anarcho Snake Pit: Scene Setting
Finding Unity? Anarchism says, in all life's dimensions, reduce...
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Burrows: Montreal Anarchist Bookfair 2011
Montreal's annual Anarchist Bookfair is coming up on May 21-22,...
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Kearns: The “middle class mob”: press coverage of Saturday’s UK Uncut action
Discourses around protests develop pretty quickly such that it's tricky...
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Campagna: What Are We Struggling For? – Seminar
Last year’s student protests saw a new generation take to...
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Andrews: After 90 Years, History Still Unbalanced
Why is the town of Braintree still wrestling with a...
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Spannos: Athens Botanical Garden: Free Social Center
[Originally in Greek. Special thanks to Athens anti-authoritarian movement friends...
