Park Center for Independent Media
January 4, 2021 The Park Center for Independent Media circulates the Indy Brief. Subscribe for a weekly selection of news stories from journalists operating outside traditional corporate systems. Subscribe The Headlines Our Stories Nominations Open for the...
Parts of the world economy may have been on pause during 2020, dampening greenhouse gas emissions for a while. But that didn’t slow the overall buildup of atmospheric carbon dioxide, which reached its highest level in millions of years. If anything,...
It’s becoming increasingly clear that it will be many months until the U.S.’s COVID-19 vaccination campaign reaches the general public, as government data shows severe delays in the effort amid a lack of planning by the Trump administration. The country has managed to...
In its hurry to use its final days in power to execute federal prisoners, the administration of President Donald Trump has trampled over an array of barriers, both legal and practical, according to court records that have not been previously reported. Officials gave...
Wayne Colson Sr. recalls feeling “helpless” with his son sitting in jail as news of the COVID-19 pandemic was breaking. A loyal father, Colson had visited his son every Sunday. “I didn’t want him to feel like nobody was there,” he says in an interview. “I was never...
Even before Covid arrived, total household debt in the United States had reached a record-breaking $14 trillion, the result of decades of stagnating wages and slashed social services. The pandemic only reinforces the reality that mass indebtedness is a structural...
In 2020, we saw perhaps the largest protest movement in U.S. history, a presidential election whose outcome could have changed the nature of U.S. democracy, a global pandemic that has killed hundreds of thousands and has completely transformed everyday life, and a...
In the newest chapter of President Donald Trump’s refusal to accept defeat and his aggressive attempt to undermine an election that he lost decisively, the Washington Post reported on an hour-long telephone call Trump made on Saturday to Georgia...
A British judge early Monday rejected the Trump administration's attempt to extradite Julian Assange to the United States, citing the risk such a move would pose to the WikiLeaks founder and publisher's life. Judge Vanessa Baraitser of the Westminster Magistrates'...
With the Izzy Award set to celebrate its 13th year, award nominations are now open for work produced in the calendar year 2020. The annual honor for outstanding achievement in independent media — named after legendary journalist I. F. “Izzy” Stone — is...