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MacLeod: Media Cheer Assange’s Arrest
Whatever your view of Assange might be, it seems clear he shares virtually nothing in common with those in positions of influence in big media outlets, who have been only too happy to watch his demise
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Ingram: The case against Assange is a clear threat to journalism
The risk is that the case establishes ground rules related to the behavior of investigative journalists that could be used to go after reporters who receive or publish classified documents
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Falk: Julian Assange: Criminal or Benefactor?
The Nuremberg Obligation in light of the material discussed above means that every person has the right and is subject to the duty to contribute to the exposure of violations of international criminal law in war/peace and human rights contexts
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Glass: Assange in Prison as Journalistic Collaborators Brandish Their Prizes
Assange waits to know whether he will ever be free again, while journalists who published his leaked documents continue working without fear of prosecution
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Ali: Julian Assange Outside the Gate of Hell
Wikileaks and its founder expect and deserve the solidarity of all those of us who believe that citizens should not be treated like children
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Timm: Assange’s indictment is Trump’s next step in war on press freedom
The case against the WikiLeaks founder is the justice department’s perfect vehicle to ultimately get what Trump wants
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Kampmark: Shredding Asylum: the Arrest of Julian Assange
Who better to blame than a man in confinement, whose communications had been restricted, whose health was failing?
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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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Monbiot: How the media let malicious idiots take over
Be it Jacob Rees-Mogg or Nigel Farage, blusterers and braggarts are rewarded with platforms that distort our political debate
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Molloy: Grand Wizards, Cultural Marxism and Blueshirts
In the midst of the Brexit chaos, prominent Tories are using language that encourages the crank right and the wannabe militia. And the media is ignoring or making excuses for them
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MacLeod: Horrific ‘Uplifting’ Stories
Under neoliberalism, every problem is understood through an individualist lens, and not a result of systemic forces that dominate society
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Harris: Four Decades of Radical Radio
An Interview With WPKN’s Scott Harris
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Cook: Three lessons for the left from the Mueller inquiry
Russiagate was never about substance, it was about who gets to image-manage the decline of a turbo-charged, self-harming neoliberal capitalism
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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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Corcoran: WaPo’s ‘Hard-Line’ Stance Against Medicare for All
What the Post describes as “hard-line” and “far left” is actually a very popular position
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Jackson: Exposure of Pro-War Lie Doesn’t Make Media More Skeptical
The Venezuelan government has and does allow aid into their country—from countries that are not actively and vituperatively threatening to overthrow the elected president with an external coup
ZMag Media
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Pilger: The War on Venezuela is Built on Lies
A war has been declared on Venezuela, of which the truth is “too difficult” to report
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Cook: Bolsonaro: A Monster Engineered By Our Media
The western elites will decry Bolsonaro in the forlorn and cynical hope of shoring up their credentials as guardians of the existing, supposedly moral order. But they engineered him. Bolsonaro is their monster
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Wittner: Getting the Story Wrong: The Distortion of American Politics by the Press
Ever since the foundation of the American Republic, there has been both praise for and suspicion of the press
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Herman: Publishing Edward S. Herman
An important semantic development of the past decade that is closely related to the doublespeak of moderateness and extremism is the new usage of the concept of “special interests.”
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Dolack: An Honest Conversation About Vietnam
More than four decades past the end of that imperialist adventure, having a serious discussion about it remains taboo.
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Herman: “Meddling in Fake News and the Real World”
The United States outclasses Russia and its predecessor, the Soviet Union, in both the number, and frequency of resort to violence, in their interventions in foreign elections.
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Baroud: How Palestine Disappeared from U.S. Media Coverage
As if he has, overnight, been transformed into a master politician, Donald Trump’s 27-hour trip to Israel has left many analysts mystified.
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Phillips: Propaganda, Fake News, and Media Lies
Both PR and propaganda seek to change behaviors and ideas among the masses in support of the agendas of public and private institutions.
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Herman: The New Anti-Russian Hysteria
It is sad to see the liberals carried away on the wave of hysteria about the supposed Russian information warfare menace and possible influence over or even capture of the Trump presidency. It is also very dangerous to human welfare as it helps consolidate the power of the military-industrial complex
Video Media
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Greenwald: The Media and Political Humiliation from the Mueller Report
I obviously intended to write about the fallout from Attorney...
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Hedges: Crucifying Julian Assange
Chris Hedges and Joe Lauria, journalist and editor-in-chief, Consortium, discuss...
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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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Interview on a wide range of topics, from the development of his personal political views to the control of information and media
Blogs Media
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: Media Coverage Misrepresents Yemen’s Real Problems
Yemen has found itself splashed all over the news again...
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Peterson: Srebrenica-Related Graves Through 2002
On behalf of the Bosnian Serb defendant Ljubiša Beara in...
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Paul: ‘The War You Don’t See’: Iraq, Afghanistan and Israel/Palestine
Global Policy Forum, Blog http://globalpolicyinbrief.blogspot.com/ Seven months prior to the...
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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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Sinclair: Email exchange with the BBC’s Mark Mardell about US military aid to Egypt
Please see below an email exchange I had in January...
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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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Dominick: NY Times’s Sympathy for the Devils
I've spent my entire adult life writing media analysis, so...
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Peterson: Solidarity Versus Indifference — Part 4
When citizens of foreign countries are denied their democratic rights,...
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Peterson: Solidarity Versus Indifference — Part 3
When citizens of foreign countries are denied their democratic...
Audio Media
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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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Bennis: Afghanistan after the Wikileaks War Logs
Interview about the impact of the Wikileaks documents and the...
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Pilger: Journalism and the War on Terror
John Pilger is an acclaimed Australian journalist and documentary maker....
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Robbins: Address to National Association of Broadcasters
A renowned actor, director and writer, Robbins used his keynote...