Wednesday, May 13, 2026

Tag: journalism

Making American journalism great and different

The same miserable mob that mauled Main Street banks has plundered and pillaged newspapers across the country.

US government spying on journalists and immigration activists

Department of Homeland Security's abusive tactics against innocent U.S. citizens fits right alongside with its historically corrupt sister agencies.

Real climate coverage names names, avoids false hope and probes solutions

But mostly, real climate journalism is about asking the right, and sometimes vexing, questions.

Where did the tradition of journalists speaking truth to power go?

Requiem for a (sort of) free press in the U.S

The new Agitprop? The Integrity Initiative exposed

Expect these evidence free smears to continue and for more well funded groups like the Integrity Initiative to appear in the future, claiming to be fighting disinformation while engaging in it themselves, often against their own citizens or those of allied countries.

Free the free press from Wall Street plunderers

Rather, the demise of the real news reporting by our city and regional papers is a product of their profiteering owners.

Jim Acosta, Julian Assange and the real US war on the...

That a perfect opportunity to show a real, if still only potential, attack by the Trump Administration’s Justice Department on the freedom of the press was almost entirely ignored says a lot about the mainstream press’ actual priorities, not only in the U.S. but in most Western countries with less objectionable leaders.

The case against WikiLeaks is a crisis for the First Amendment

The Trump administration once celebrated WikiLeaks. Now it wants to prosecute Julian Assange simply for publishing things it doesn't like. That's a threat to all journalists.

Warning of ‘dangerous chilling’ of Free Press, CNN sues Trump for...

Defenders of free expression and members of the media denounced the president's move as a "clear attack on the First Amendment."

‘You ask a lot of stupid questions’: Latest attack on free...

Smearing one reporter as a "loser," the president said he might revoke the credentials of more journalists.

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The researchers found that 100 percent of the plant-based meat substitutes contained at least one of 19 different types of mycotoxins, often showing high "co-occurrence" (multiple toxins in a single product).

Supreme Court rulings and new Southern maps intensify battle over Black voting power before...

A series of redistricting fights in Alabama, Tennessee, and Virginia is reshaping the struggle over voting rights and congressional control as critics warn that recent Supreme Court decisions are accelerating the erosion of protections for Black voters.

The electric car is the only winner in the latest Iran war

The Hormuz Choke Point and the Twilight of Petroleum.

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?

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.