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.
Media
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 […]
Media
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 […]
Media
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.
Media
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.
Media
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 […]
Media
Jonathan Cook: I once admired George Monbiot. But his grim trajectory shows us where politics is heading
Everyone who dissents from the mainstream liberal press seems to get smeared as ‘far-right’ these days. Jonathan Cook is the author of three books on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, and a winner of the Martha Gellhorn […]
Fake News
Chris Hedges, Jeff Gerth: The failure of the US press in the Trump-Russia saga
Walter Lippmann in his 1920 book Liberty and the News warned that when journalists “arrogate to themselves the right to determine by their own consciences what shall be reported and for what purpose, democracy is […]
Media
Jonathan Cook: Why the western media is afraid of Julian Assange
Jonathan Cook’s speech from an event in London on the media and democracy. Cross-posted from Jonathan Cook’s Substack During an interview back in 2011, Julian Assange made an acute observation about the role of what […]
Corruption
Branko Marcetic: A Missile Strike in Poland Shows Why Government Agencies Can’t Be the Sole Arbiters of Truth
After a Ukrainian missile mishap in Poland, misinformation blaming Russia quickly spread. The lie came from precisely the “authoritative sources” now being treated as the arbiters of truth by social media platforms. Read the article […]