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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Bipartisan bill introduced in House to ban use of pesticide paraquat in US agriculture
The bill would "direct the Environmental Protection Agency to cancel all existing paraquat registrations, revoke any tolerances permitting paraquat residue in food, and ban the sale and use of existing stocks upon enactment."
Why Biden’s debate disaster two years ago matters for the future
Looking ahead, a great need will be to overcome the ongoing culture of conformity that so badly damaged the Democratic Party in 2024 and helped Trump get back into the White House.
Losing face, losing the base, losing the midterm race—a tidal trifecta
Though daring MAGA lies seem tidal,/ Denying outcomes suicidal.
Anti-ICE protesters sentenced to decades as Trump turns ‘antifa’ label into prosecution tool
The Prairieland case transformed a July 4 protest outside a Texas immigration jail into a terrorism prosecution, with sentences from 30 to 100 years and warnings of a new federal playbook against left-wing dissent.
Alaska governor vetoes single-use polystyrene foam foodware ban
For now, polystyrene products will remain legal for use by commercial food vendors statewide.