Newest Alt. Media

• Licata: The Underground Press

  The legacy of the underground press was to question all authority and seek answers based on independently verifiable knowledge and not on what was being provided by those in power
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  Greenwald: Charlie Hebdo & Criticism

  It should have never been difficult to grasp the basic yet vital distinction between defending the right of ideas to be expressed and celebrating those ideas
• Nieto Del Rio: Deadly Words

  Mexico is the third deadliest place in the world to do journalism — and the U.S. is making things worse
• Essam: Egypt Silencing Independent Media

  The Egyptian government’s efforts to crack down on critical media platforms reached news heights this week
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  Koerner: Authoritarianism in Venezuela?

  A Reply to Gabriel Hetland
• Frieden: Hyping North Korean Threat

  Between March 8 and April 27, NPR.org published 60 stories on US/North Korea relations
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  Solomon: Urgent to Progressives: Stop Fueling the Anti-Russia Frenzy

  If civil liberties instead of repression and diplomacy instead of war are progressive values, then all too many progressives -- eager to tar Trump as a Kremlin product -- have been undermining those values
• ThinkProgress: ThinkProgress Will No Longer Describe Racists as ‘Alt-right’

  We won’t do racists’ public relations work for them
• Holloway: Normalizing the Abnormal: NPR Begins Its Whitewashing of Breitbart’s Racism

  Trumpites all use the same technique; trot out blame the victim reverse racism.
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  Podur: Three Lessons this Leftist Takes from Trump’s Victory

  I have been surprised by two electoral events in a...
• Germanos: Filmmaker Facing 30 Years for Documenting Climate Action Stands Resolute, Determined

  "There's little question that the severity of these charges are meant to send a chill down the spine of any journalist who dares cover the protests in ways the authorities and fossil fuel industry don't like"
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  Naureckas: Charges Dropped Against Amy Goodman–No Thanks to Corporate Media

  North Dakota District Judge John Grinsteiner stood up for the First Amendment by dismissing “riot” charges against Democracy Now!’s Amy Goodman
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  Taibbi: Journalist Amy Goodman Shouldn’t Be Arrested for Covering Dakota Pipeline Story

  If your primary interest is in doing this job correctly, you usually have to give up the access, the money and the audience
• 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