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  Pilger: The Global War on Assange, Journalism & Dissent

  Interview about the persecution of the WikiLeaks publisher and the rapid crackdown on investigative journalism
• Cho: According to NYT, ‘Relentless Flooding’ in Midwest Just Happens

  Asking whether the climate crisis caused the flooding is a failure to understand the conceptual distinction between weather phenomena like droughts, floods and unremarkable days, and the climate
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  Fisk: While the World Watches Trump

  The real stories are getting pushed down the page – or “to the back of the book”
• O'Day: Corporate Media Have Second Thoughts on Assange

  So long as the persecution of Assange seemed only to do with his particular style of journalism, corporate media were happy to throw him under the bus
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  Fisk: The Final Punishment of Julian Assange

  I’m getting a bit tired of the US Espionage Act....
• Fischer: Hawkish Trump White House Endangers our Collective Conscience

  The war drums in the White House have been beating louder in recent months
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  Cook: The western media is key to Syria deceptions

  The media are not a watchdog on power but the public relations arm of giant corporations pursuing their narrow interests in the Middle East
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  Fisk: The Evidence We Were Never Meant to See About the Douma Gas Attack

  It is difficult to underestimate the seriousness of this manipulative act by the OPCW
• 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
• Tveten: Space Capitalists

  If you want your sales pitch for a Moon rocket to be written up as a news article in the Washington Post, it helps to own the Washington Post
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  Gallagher: France Takes Unprecedented Action Against Reporters

  Journalists in France are facing potential jail sentences in an unprecedented case over their handling of secret documents detailing the country’s involvement in the Yemen conflict
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  Koerner: Far More Diversity in Venezuela’s ‘Muzzled’ Media Than in US Corporate Press

  The international corporate media have long displayed a peculiar creativity...
• Hasan: How U.S. Media Could Prevent a Trump War With Iran

  Sixteen years after the U.S. media helped the Bush administration spread myths and lies about the threat posed by Iraq to the United States and its allies, the Trump administration is spreading similar myths and lies about the threat posed by Iran
• Research: The Propaganda Multiplier

  How Global News Agencies and Western Media Report on Geopolitics
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  Porter: Bolton Is Spinning Israeli ‘Intelligence’ to Push for War Against Iran

  The United States is in danger of falling for yet another war ruse as malignant as those that led Congress and the mainstream media to accept the invasion of Iraq or the Gulf of Tonkin resolution
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  Solomon: Why So Many Journalists Are Clueless About the Bernie 2020 Campaign

  The elite-oriented atmosphere of media aversion to Sanders is in sync with media disregard for the power of community-based activism that could result in a Sanders presidency
• MacLeod: It’s Only a Coup if the US Government Says So

  Media side with Trump cronies rather than common sense in labeling coup a 'protest'
• Kavanagh: Avoiding Assange

  It’s important to understand that the US government in this case is asserting its prosecutorial authority over someone who is not an American and whose journalistic activity took place outside the United States
• 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
• 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