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…
The Press Act. It’s A Good Act
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…
Press Freedom: Slippin’ & Slidin’ in the US of A
Journalism vs Fake News: Fake Winning From the annual index by Reporters Without Borders: 2023 World Press Freedom Index – journalism threatened by fake content industry The 21st edition of the World Press…
Reporters Committee Freedom of the Press Award Honorees 2022
The Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press announced the recipients of this year’s Freedom of the Press Awards, which recognize the accomplishments of leaders in the news media and legal fields whose work…
Never Forget: 1995.04.19
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…
Wednesday WayBack: Insecure Domestic Tranquility; The Road To America’s Ruin
As part of his long-game manifesto to disrupt America's domestic tranquility, Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell openly urges the current unhinged disruptor having his moment, coal multimillionaire Corporate-Democratic Senator Joe Manchin of West Virginia,…
Yay! U.S. Up One In 2021
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!…
Local News In Ashes
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…
Democracy: It’s Complicated and Fragile
It's Always About Choices During his Memorial Day 2021 address to the nation President Joe Biden warned that U.S. democracy is in danger of failing: “The mission falls to each of us,…
Danger Ahead: Anti-Democracy Drift
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…
Monday Ménage
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…
A Free Press Means A Free People
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:…
Repost: The American Normal UPDATED
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…
Think Republican Attacks On Voting Rights In Georgia And Other States Is No Big Deal…
Then Remember This... 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.
Our Last Line Of Defense In The War On U.S. Democracy
Real life consequences of the intense five year battle against freedom of the press in America beginning in 2015 has been buried by corporate media interests across the north, east, west and south of…
Republicans Chose Treason
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.
6 Images That Can Hurt Your Eyes
Petty, I know - but still deserved...
Monday Reminder: America, Pay Attention
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…
Worse Of The Worst: #1
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…
Worse Of The Worst: #2
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.…
Worse Of The Worst: #3
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…
Worse Of The Worst: #4
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…
Will Our Democracy Survive? Don’t Bet On It
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…
Barr Sycophantish Nature On Full Display
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…
Fascists In The House
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…
SEDITION. PERIOD!
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,…
War Mongers and Sycophants and Psychopaths: A Replay
As the drums of war grow louder inside the White House and as Trump's orgasmic dreams of bombing Iran on his way out get more vivid, I remembered a post put up here in…
Yes, It Could Happen Here
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…
America 2020. Or, America 2024
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…