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How FBI Entrapment Is Inventing ‘Terrorists’ – and Letting Bad Guys Off the Hook POSTED: May 15, 3:10 PM ET | By Rick Perlstein Rolling Stone Mark McGowan, Patricia Faella, Marcus Faella, Kent McLellan, Jennifer McGowan, Dustin Perry, Richard Stockdale and Christopher Brooks of the American Front arrested in Florida. REUTERS/Osceola County Jail /LANDOV This past October, at [...]
Bored With Occupy—and Inequality Class issues fade along with protest coverage By John Knefel Extra! May 2012 FAIR Occupy Wall Street is rightly credited with helping to shift the economic debate in America from a fixation on deficits to issues of income inequality, corporate greed and the centralization of wealth among the richest 1 percent. The movement [...]
Make A Ruckus”> Robert Reich Hails Occupy for Exposing Concentration of Wealth and Power Amy Goodman> Democracy Now! Video Interview May 8, 2012 Nation of Change In his new book, “Beyond Outrage,” former Labor Secretary Robert Reich opens with a dedication to the Occupy Wall Street movement. He writes: “To the Occupiers, and all [...]
The Bureau of Investigative Journalism’s Chris Woods on drone strikes Submitted by sosadmin on Sun, 04/29/2012 – 13:44 Privacy SOS Among the presenters at the Drone Summit yesterday in Washington DC was Chris Woods, a journalist with the Bureau of Invesitgative Journalism (TBIJ). His reporting contributed to TBIJ’s groundbreaking study on the effects of [...]
Media Malfeasance: Corporate News Downsizes OWS, Downplays Murdoch Ruling By Gustav Wynn May 3, 2012 OpEdNews NYC streets occupied May 1, 2012 by gw Tuesday’s May Day march was Occupy Wall Street’s largest ever, with one NY Times estimate topping out at 30,000 demonstrators.The exact crowd size was hard to gauge from the [...]
Progressive Media Outlets Pledge Coverage of May Day Protests by Beth Buczynski April 28, 2012 care2.com May Day, otherwise known as International and Immigrant Workers’ Day, marks the first major resurgence of the Occupy Wall Street movement since massive arrests and police brutality drove most occupations indoors over the winter. Although OWS has [...]
Shedding Light on the Secret Pre-Trial of Bradley Manning By Mike Ludwig 26 April 2012 Truthout | News Analysis With the threat of life in prison and the ideal of government transparency looming heavily in the background, Pfc. Bradley Manning’s hired defense attorney and attorneys representing WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange pressed the military [...]
CNN Pushing Alarmist Tales of Hezbollah Sleeper Agents Posted on 03/26/2012 by Peter Hart FAIR With discussions of a military attack on Iran circulating among U.S. and Israeli political elites, CNN has added fuel to the fire with a series of alarmist reports about supposedly Iranian-linked terrorist operatives inside the United States who are ready to strike. On the March [...]
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The corporate media crisis: Everything old is new again By Robert Jensen 03 April 2012 MWC News These days there’s one political point on which one can usually get consensus: Mainstream journalists are failing. In common parlance, most everyone ‘hates the media.’ But there is little agreement on why journalism might be inadequate to the task [...]
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