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Can Responsible Journalism and Investor Capitalism Co-Exist?
Gannett Newspapers Severs Its Relationship With Associated Press To Please Its Shareholders Gannett Newspapers is the largest publisher of newspapers in the United States with millions of readers and...
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Antisemitism: The Big Lie Smearing Campus Protesters
Mainstream journalists and politicians have engaged in a campaign of mass slander against US college students protesting the Gaza genocide. Their “antisemitism’ Big Lie echoes the racist hate campaigns...
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War, Money and Universities
Peaceful protest, violent response – that says it all. Human politics – from global to local – remain mixed with hatred, dominance and . . . well, dehumanization. We’ve organized ourselves across the...
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House Passes Bill That Defines Criticism of Israel as “Antisemitism”
House lawmakers voted overwhelmingly Wednesday to approve legislation directing the U.S. Department of Education to consider a dubious definition of antisemitism, despite warnings from Jewish-led...
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NYC Mayor Smeared A Grandmother As An “Outside Agitator” To Justify NYPD...
Nahla Aa-Arian has been living a nightmare for the past seven months, watching from afar as Israel carries out its scorched-earth war against her ancestral homeland in the Gaza Strip. Like many...
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The Fiction of the “Outside Agitator”
More than 2,000 people have been arrested on US college campuses for peacefully protesting Israel’s war on the people of Palestine. For the “crime” of forming tent cities, or “encampments” on campus,...
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Media Coverage of Campus Protests Focuses on Spectacle, Rather Than Substance
Protest movements can look very different depending on where you stand, both literally and figuratively. For protesters, demonstrations are usually the result of meticulous planning by advocacy groups...
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TikTok Law Is an Attempt to Censor, Not a Warning to Big Tech
As US lawmakers’ agitation over TikTok culminates in a law that threatens a nationwide ban if the social media platform isn’t sold to a US buyer within nine months, an emergent media narrative finds a...
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Local Newspapers Are Lifelines for Climate-Disaster Communities
When wildfires began erupting in the Texas Panhandle in February, Laurie Ezzell Brown, the editor and publisher of the Canadian Record, was in Houston on a panel discussing ways in which losing local...
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Student Encampments Have The Power To Change Minds — If They Control The...
Gaza solidarity protests on college campuses have gripped the U.S., particularly as encampments are being violently shut down by police with the approval of university administrators. At a time when...
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Shameless
Incredibly the Israeli genocide in Gaza is now reaching new heights of violence. Casualty figures are not coming in, as the attacks are so bad that bodies cannot be recovered, medics cannot travel and...
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Weight Loss Drugs Go Hand-in-Hand With Junk Food Industry
Manufacturers of the new weight-loss drugs that have taken the nation by storm are salivating at the prospect of how best to extract profits from people. What Americans eat, how they diet and exercise,...
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Twitter Files Brazil: Elon Musk’s Newest Propaganda Campaign
Since Russia’s interference in the 2016 US presidential election, important elements of the US ruling class have been concerned about the spread on the US internet of disinformation (sometimes called...
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Beyond Awards and Accolades: Why Gaza Journalists are the Best in the World
By granting its 2024 World Press Freedom Prize to Palestinian journalists covering the Israeli war on Gaza, UNESCO has acknowledged a historic truth. Even if the decision to name Gaza’s journalists as...
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Who Will Be the Village Voice of the 21st Century?
Review of The Freaks Came Out to Write: The Definitive History of the Village Voice, the Radical Paper That Changed American Culture by Tricia Romano (PublicAffairs, 2024) When Village Voice columnist...
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Local News Is Vital: Can We Survive the Climate Crisis Without It?
Local news has its finger on the pulse of our communities. When city council acts (or acts up), when disaster strikes, when corruption or scandal needs to be scrutinized, local news steps up. From our...
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A Whistleblower’s Return To The World
I had a palpable sense of nerves approaching the day I was to travel to Perugia for the International Journalism Festival. I was invited by Kathleen McClellan and Jesselyn Radack of WHISPeR who were...
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The Drive for War
The collective shrug with which the Western media and political class noted the attempted assassination of Slovakian Prime Minister Robert Fico has been telling. Can you imagine the outrage and emotion...
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A Reprieve for Assange
The High Court’s decision to permit Julian Assange to appeal his pending extradition is an important, if partial, victory. The judges are only too aware that, in reality, he has no case to answer. The...
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Small Victory in the Assange Case: Permission to Appeal Extradition
In this video, acTVism Munich provide an update on the extradition case of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange from London, England. During a two-hour permission to appeal hearing on Monday May 20 at the...
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The Turning of the Tide
In the normal run of things, if a very senior judge instructs you to give an assurance to their Court, it would probably not be wise to avoid giving the assurance, to devote a huge amount of text to...
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The Hollow Myths Of A ‘Maverick’ Empire
As the US geopolitical project stumbles, and the idea of ‘benevolent statecraft’ is revealed as a sham, so too its ideological apparatus starts to wane. Hollywood, for years a supporter of the imperial...
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‘Extremely Harrowing’: British Surgeon’s Gaza Testimony Buried By The ‘MSM’
Propaganda by omission is a dominant feature of the ‘mainstream’ news media. Indeed, it is a requirement. Rather than serving the public interest by fully exposing the brutal machinations of power,...
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The Slow-Motion Execution of Julian Assange Continues
The ruling by the High Court in London permitting Julian Assange to appeal his extradition order leaves him languishing in precarious health in a high-security prison. That is the point. The decision...
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The Media Still Doesn’t Grasp the Danger of Trump
Donald Trump represents an existential threat to democracy in the United States. If he is elected president, he will try to become a dictator. That warning must be repeated, over and over again, so...
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The ICC Takes on Israel and the US Congressional Mafia
Senator Lindsay Graham was bursting with contempt for the International Criminal Court (ICC) when he grilled Secretary of State Blinken at a May 21 Congressional hearing. Wagging his finger, he warned...
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On Climate Change, Centrism Means a Slow Death
The Miami Herald recently reported on the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s (NOAA) latest forecast predicting a record-breaking hurricane season for the Atlantic Ocean. “Brace Yourself,...
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The BBC Is Afraid to Report the Facts About Israel’s War
This BBC journalist wrote under condition of anonymity to provide us with insight into what has been happening behind the scenes at one of the world’s most influential media organizations. Afew months...
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In a Victory for Assange and First Amendment, UK Court Grants Right to Appeal
From the First Amendment to the European Convention on Human Rights, Assange’s defense relies on freedom of expression. On May 20, a two-judge panel of the High Court of England and Wales handed...
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