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Democracy Now! Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu appears to be on the verge of securing a record fifth term in office as votes continue to be counted in Tuesday’s election. Last night, Netanyahu and his top challenger, ex-military chief Benny Gantz, both...
truthdig I trust Attorney General William Barr to handle the final report of special counsel Robert Mueller almost as much as I trusted James Clapper to handle national intelligence during the Obama years. Which is to say, I do not, and neither should you....
FAIR Let’s start with a quiz: Quick! Name some dictators! I’m willing to bet most of you responded with just a few of the same names: Assad, Putin, Castro, Kim Jong-un, Gaddafi, Maduro. This is not because they are the only dictators in the world (far from it), or...
The Intercept The remark drifted quietly past nearly all political watchers, but inside Congress, it reverberated like a patch of rolling thunder. “I’m not worried what Wendell thinks,” said Mark Pocan, D-Wisc., the co-chair of the Congressional Progressive Caucus, in...
Middle East Eye A career soldier trained in Egypt, Sudanese General Ahmed Awad ibn Auf went to the same military academy in Cairo as Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi. During his long military career, he served as the director of military intelligence and deputy...
The Nation Julian Assange’s strange seven-year residence in Ecuador’s London embassy has ended, and Assange, thanks to the American president he helped elect, is now in British custody facing a US extradition request. The question now is what the freshly unsealed...
The Park Center for Independent Media (PCIM) has announced this year’s Izzy Award “for outstanding achievement in independent media." Laura Flanders provided progressive and internationalist perspectives to American audiences; Dave Lindorff uncovered the...
Independent Media Outlets The Park Center for Independent Media (PCIM) sponsors a summer internship program aimed at giving Park students the opportunity to work at some of the best independent media institutions and advocacy nonprofits in the nation. Participating...
During the summer of 2018, Olivia Riggio, from Ithaca College's class of 2019, interned for Fair and Accuracy in Reporting (FAIR). While at FAIR, Riggio worked on this piece titled "Mental Illness Serves as Easy Scapegoat in Mass Murder Accounts."