EU politics
Marco D’Eramo: Western Pravdas
There is a strong whiff of McCarthyism in The West over the Ukraine war. In New Left Review’s ‘Sidecar’. Read the article HERE.
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Peter Oborne – The Telegraph sale: The UAE bid is a risk to press freedom
The United Arab Emirates, which ranks 119th in the world press freedom index, might buy one of the UK’s most influential newspapers. Peter Oborne is a British journalist and commentator. Cross-posted from Middle East Eye […]
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Ramzy Baroud – Is Western Media’s Perception of Africa racist?
Africa is depicted by Western media as corrupt and desperate whenever they refuse to toe the West’s line. Ramzy Baroud is a journalist and the Editor of the Palestine Chronicle. He is the author of […]
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Novara Media – The Oxygen of Democracy: w/ Amy Goodman
“Democratic media is the oxygen of democracy.” That’s the maxim that motivates Amy Goodman, award-winning American journalist and longtime host of Democracy Now!, the daily news show that has blazed a trail for alternative media […]
EU politics
Politico: EU capitals want media law carve-out to spy on reporters
The Orwellian ‘European Media Freedom Act’ – a very serious attack on journalism. Read the article HERE.
EU politics
Binoy Kampmark – Deaths at sea: from the Titan to the Mediterranean
The Titan implosion was foolhardy exploration, the Greek shipwreck was an enormous disaster with the state’s fingerprints all over it – which is more significant for the media to focus coverage on? Binoy Kampmark was […]
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International Federation of Journalists – UK: Assange closer to extradition to the US after appeal rejected by High Court
The latest legal development on Assange’s extradition to the US. In a judgement issued on 6 June, a High Court in the UK has rejected the latest appeal by Wikileaks founder Julian Assange against an […]
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Branko Marcetic: Attacks on Freedom of the Press Are Ramping Up
The state of democratic rights for journalists in some of the world’s leading Western powers is becoming increasingly worrisome. In Jacobin. Read the article HERE.
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Max Blumenthal: British police detain journalist Kit Klarenberg, interrogate him about The Grayzone
Worrying persecution of alternative media by UK police forces. Read the article HERE.
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John Pilger – The Coming War: Speak Up, Now
Those who want to stop the US-led march to war with China must raise their voices. Cross-posted from Counterpunch In 1935, the Congress of American Writers was held in New York City, followed by another […]