Tuesday, May 12, 2026

Tag: Freedom of the Press

Meet the reporter dragged from Trump-Putin press conference for trying to...

“It wasn’t a protest,” he says. “It was just an attempt to do serious, aggressive journalism, which I think is what we need.”

In the era of ‘fake news,’ Americans would like to change...

Does the population agree with this view?

What we can do about Trump’s escalating lies

His lies go out to tens of millions of Americans every day unmediated.

Assange is a journalist, should not be persecuted for publishing the...

You can support Julian Assange by spreading the word in your communities about what is happening to him and why.

In Memphis, an attack on both immigrant rights and press freedom

May 3 is World Press Freedom Day – jailed journalists around the globe should be free to do their work, outside the prison walls that confine them today.

There’s fake news on your television, too

There’s fake news on your television, too. And there’s about to be more of it, unless something is done to stop an upcoming merger.

Building the Iron Wall

The ominous assault on the final redoubts of a free press, through an attempt to brand dissidents, independent journalists and critics of corporate power and imperialism as agents of a foreign power, has begun.

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Could Trump’s Iran fiasco be America’s Suez crisis?

The U.S. war on Iran today, but similarities in the larger context, suggest that the United States is facing the same kind of “end of empire” moment that the British Empire faced in that historic crisis.

Trump DOJ subpoenas reporters after Iran war leaks trigger escalating clash with the press

The Trump administration has reportedly issued subpoenas targeting journalists and news organizations over Iran war reporting, intensifying concerns that the Justice Department is being used to expose confidential sources and pressure outlets covering national security issues

Wow! Losing the war PLUS losing the peace – the frenzy of fiascos ravage...

What other blundering buffoons ever lost a war (of choice), then willfully lost the peace via threats, phony bluffs and tin-ear, belligerent BS?

Too much money, too little democracy: Americans across party lines reject billionaire power in...

A new national poll finds widespread bipartisan concern that billionaires, dark money and special interest spending are overpowering ordinary voters in U.S. elections as campaign spending continues to shatter records.

Now you see them… now you don’t

Women leaders and Trump 2.0.