4+ mon, 2+ day ago  (497+ words) If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor. If an elephant has its foot on the tail of a mouse, and you say that you are neutral, the mouse will not appreciate…...

1+ mon, 2+ week ago  (903+ words) The Washington Post's decision " at the behest of billionaire Jeff Bezos " to fire, according to some estimates, over 40 percent of the newsroom is devastating for journalism and the DC area. Despite its storied history and name recognition, the Post had…...

5+ mon, 4+ week ago  (273+ words) You can't handle the truth!" Jack Nicholson sneered in A Few Good Men. Many foreign journalists in the US don't wait to be told. They censor themselves first'scrubbing social media, I am told, stripping bylines, cancelling travel, or resorting to…...

2+ mon, 3+ week ago  (730+ words) Seymour Hersh, still from Cover-Up (Netflix). The Mouse Turd and the Pentagon The Trade Value of Secrets and Why Sources Talk One of the most revealing moments in Cover Up comes when Poitras presses Hersh on why his sources talk…...

7+ mon, 2+ hour ago  (1144+ words) Founded in 1988, the Muslim Public Affairs Council (MPAC) is a national public affairs nonprofit organization working to promote and strengthen American pluralism by increasing understanding and improving policies that impact American Muslims. Over the past 30+ years, MPAC has built a…...

6+ mon, 3+ day ago  (6+ words) Tells the Facts, Names the Names...

7+ mon, 1+ week ago  (610+ words) I recently beat up on the Washington Post for all but welcoming President Trump's takeover and militarization of Washington, DC. And I'm going to do more of that below. But I also need to say, even as the Post Opinion Page…...

7+ mon, 3+ week ago  (558+ words) In one night, Israel murdered Al Jazeera's entire media crew in Gaza City. The Israeli military admitted to assassinating the journalists in an August 10 airstrike on a media tent outside Al-Shifa hospital. The strike killed Al Jazeera Arabic correspondents Anas…...

8+ mon, 2+ week ago  (675+ words) Image by Vagelis Karathanasis. "The press is the people's window to the truth, and we need that window to be clear and unobstructed." "Ronald Reagan, White House briefing for the American Society of Newspaper Editors, April 17, 1986. Donald Trump doesn't hate…...

10+ mon, 3+ day ago  (492+ words) Image by Jonathan Gong. These denunciations fortify the long-standing documented condemnations by sixteen Israeli human rights groups, including "Breaking the Silence," whose most recent report details how Israeli platoons in Gaza use Palestinians as "human shields." It is time to…...