Matt Taibbi: Tracking Orwellian Change: New Meanings of ‘Deep State’ and ‘Working Class’
When left/liberal fixations fall out of establishment favor, they're re-christened as conservative menaces.
Mass Media — Stop Being a Trump Megaphone and Cover Civic Critics Rebutting Him
By Ralph Nader / Nader.org Marc Fisher of the Washington Post is often the “go-to” reporter editors choose to write Page One stories that synthesize and analyze the Big Story…
Survivors of Oppenheimer’s Trinity Test Are Still Fighting for Justice and Recognition
Nearly 80 years after the first atomic test in New Mexico, a consortium of “downwinders” are documenting the bomb’s impact on their community and organizing for restitution.
Oppenheimer’s Deadly Legacy of Nuclear Terror
For every second you sit in the air conditioned theater with a warm buttery popcorn bucket in your lap, 18 people dead in the blink of an eye. Thanks to…
Matt Taibbi: On The Explosive Coronavirus Story
As months-long joint investigation goes public, some additional details and context.
Patrick Lawrence: Deaf, but Not Blind to US Decline
In Fiona Hill’s recent speech it’s possible to detect the very faint signals of Washington’s policy elite responding to the immense global power shift that is underway.
State Department Won’t Say If It’s Working to Free US Citizen Detained in Ukraine
Gonzalo Lira, a popular YouTuber and writer, was arrested by the SBU for his political views on the war
Detained “Cop City” Journalist Sues Atlanta Police, Alleges Intimidation
The lawsuit alleges that the arrest is part of a pattern of retaliation against journalists by Atlanta police.
Patrick Lawrence: The USA’s Soviet-Style President
We are in for 19 months of relentless, insultingly transparent spin by way of which a patently incompetent man will be purveyed as commander in chief for another four years.
Bono Is Doing Illustrations For The Atlantic Now, Because Everything’s Fake And Stupid
By Caitlin Johnstone / CaitlinJohnstone.com So U2 singer Bono is literally just doing illustrations for the imperialist propaganda rag The Atlantic now, because that’s the sort of thing that happens…
Don’t Laugh, There Is a Policy Solution to the Problem of American Journalism
By Mark Lloyd / Original to ScheerPost If we can’t figure out a way to pay local reporters then, as a country, we’re only left with that many more blind…
Biden Hypocritically Slams Arrest of US Journalist in Russia But Pursues Assange
The double standards of the U.S. government are on full display in the lead-up to World Press Freedom Day.
Joe Lauria: State Dept. & Senate Leaders Troll Assange
Increasing pressure is being brought by politicians and the public on the DOJ to drop the charges against Julian Assange. Despite some progress, the political obstacles are formidable.
An Insider’s Guide to “Anti-Disinformation”
Andrew Lowenthal spent more than two decades defending digital rights, and watched as peers and partner organizations switched to an opposite mission called "anti-disinformation." An inside account:
1st Amendment Authorized Assange’s Possession of Classified Data
The Espionage Act, as it is applied to the WikiLeaks publisher or any other journalist, also violates basic norms of due process, argues Bruce Afran.