FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: FREEDOM OF THE PRESS FOUNDATION: According to court documents, the Department of Justice and Julian Assange have reached a plea agreement in the DOJ’s long-running case against the WikiLeaks founder that…
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ACLU Cheers House Passage of the PRESS ACT The bill protects journalists and their sources from government overreach and censorship. Press Release: American Civil Liberties Union The House of Representatives voted to pass HR…

A terrorist attack on 19 April 1995 at the Alfred P. Murrah federal building in Oklahoma City killed 168 people including 19 children and over 850 were injured. It was the deadliest act of…

Reporters Without Borders 2021 World Press Freedom Index The United States moved up one spot in the 2021 World Press Freedom Index, from 45th to 44th. That's 45th out of 180. What an achievement!…

Since 2004, 1800 newspapers have closed in the US, 1700 are weeklies. There are hundreds — if not thousands — of communities at risk of becoming isolated news deserts. There are almost 200 of…

Reminders     “The radicalization of the Republican Party has outpaced what even most critical observers imagined. We need to grapple with what that should mean for our expectations going forward and start thinking…

Angela Davis. H.L. Mencken. Adlai Stevenson.   I think the importance of doing activist work is precisely because it allows you to give back and to consider yourself not as a single individual who…

World Press Freedom Day   'Startling Extent of Police Violence Against Journalists' Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press released its annual report on the state of press freedom in the U.S. 5 Takeaways:…

The U.S. Supreme Court will hear a gun law case challenging New York law which prohibits carrying concealed handguns outside the home without a license. This post is just one of many offering a…

Now, the Neo-Nazi Party of America (NNPOA - previously known as the Republican Party) are making moves to give their Führer a pass on crimes committed.  

Propaganda machines in all totalitarian countries habitually depict the dictator as the saviour of his people from some danger real, or more usually imaginary, and as the man of action who decides what is…

2020. A WTF! Year. So what better way to celebrate the end of the Shitty 366 than to offer our favourite four Worst News picks. It Rings True Posted 2020.09.04 As a veteran who…

2020. A WTF! Year. So what better way to celebrate the end of the Shitty 366 than to offer our favourite four Worst News picks. ICE Cops Launching Six-Week Training Camp Creating A U.S.…

2020. A WTF! Year. So what better way to celebrate the end of the Shitty 366 than to offer our favourite four Worst News picks. Don't Let Them Take It, Our Democracy Posted 2020.08.24…

2020. A WTF! Year. So what better way to celebrate the end of the Shitty 366 than to offer our favourite four Worst News picks. GOP Backing Trump's Attempted Coup Posted 2020.11.10 Sycophant and…

So stunned by Donald Trump's latest attack on our democracy (Trump Reportedly Floated Michael Flynn's "Martial Law" Suggestion During White House Meeting), top U.S. Army brass felt it necessary to immediately issue a joint…

Your dishonourable, shameful, suck-up - and down right disgusting - resignation letter will not change the fact that William Barr will be remembered as the worst (and possibly most corrupt) Attorney General of the…

UPDATE Supreme Court: NO! UPDATE 20 More Join Attempt At Coup, Including Top Republican Leadership: Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) and Minority Whip Steve Scalise (R-La.). 106 Anti-Democracy House Republicans Sign On To Texas…

Former Army Lt. General, former National Security Advisor in Trump Administration, admitted criminal (guilty of twice lying to the FBI), fired by Trump, pardoned by Trump, and, good buddy of Vladimir Putin, Michael Flynn,…

Political Leaders Need To Speak Out As Did Chairman Of Joint Chiefs of Staff And House Majority Whip.   We are unique among militaries. We do not take an oath to a king or…

Ain't History Something... "In 1930, Germany is a liberal democracy. Just four years later, democracy is dead, Germany’s leader is a dictator and the government is in the hands of the Nazis." See how…