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...
Month: April 2019
Did William Barr Cover Up Mueller’s Report?
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....
Dictator: Media Code for ‘Government We Don’t Like’
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...
WENDELL PRIMUS, THE MOST POWERFUL STAFFER IN CONGRESS, REPRESENTS A GENERATIONAL DIVIDE ON THE LEFT
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...
Sudan protesters turn anger from deposed Bashir towards ‘military coup’
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...
Julian Assange’s Arrest Should Worry Anyone Who Cares About Freedom of the Press
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...
From Elections to Dictators
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...
PCIM Internships
Independent - Progressive Media Internships The Park Center for Independent Media sponsors a summer internship program aimed at giving justice-oriented students the opportunity to work at some of the best independent/progressive media institutions and advocacy...
Photos from the 2010 Izzy Awards
FAIR: Coverage of Mental Illness
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."