Media
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Independent Media & the New McCarthyism
Thursday, 27 August 2026 — Defending Rights & Dissent Defending Rights & Dissent convenes a panel of experts to discuss recent attacks on journalists amid the Trump admin’s wider crackdown on dissent in the United States. Continue reading
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The government wants to turn off free access to TV channels
The Government is threatening to switch off Freeview – the free telly you get from an ordinary aerial. If they get their way, millions could be forced to pay for expensive broadband or lose their TV entirely. The move risks leaving older people, those in rural areas, and anyone feeling the pinch isolated and priced… Continue reading
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Detained For 300-Plus Days, Journalist Shot By ICE Could Lose Arm
In December, a United States judge dismissed the case against detained journalist Carlitos Ricardo Parias with prejudice, ruling that the U.S. government had deprived Parias of access to counsel prior to his trial. There was no other “remedy.” Continue reading
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Wilfred Burchett: One of the Greatest War Correspondents of 20th Century and First Western Journalist to Expose Horrors of Atomic Attack on Hiroshima
[This is one of two articles I have written for CovertAction Magazine on the 81st anniversary of the dropping of the two atomic bombs. The other article addresses Hiroshima pilot Claude Eatherly who expressed remorse about the dropping of the bomb and was subjected to a defamation campaign by a CIA-linked journalist-JK] Continue reading
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CNN or CIA?
Fourth estate or national security state? It is often difficult to know which one you are listening to when turning on cable news. In this series, MintPress highlights five senior media figures you might not know have extremely close links to the CIA. Continue reading
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Google blocked from stealing news
Under new rules announced this week by the UK competition regulator, the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA), news publishers will be able to stop Google stealing their articles to feed its auto-generated summaries. Continue reading
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Google driving independent journalists out of business
Great news on our work to stop Google driving independent journalists out of business – an influential government watchdog in Brazil has launched a formal investigation into Google’s theft of journalists’ work for use in its AI products. Continue reading
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Imperialist crime: The murder of journalists Fatima Ftouni and Ali Sheaib
Pedro Monzón Barata frames the killing of journalists in Lebanon as a deliberate assault on truth, linking it to broader imperial war dynamics, emphasizing Cuba’s historic solidarity with resistance movements and its condemnation of these crimes. Continue reading
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BBC editor’s libel case against Owen Jones falls at the first hurdle. Here’s why
Journalist Raffi Berg may be fighting for damages, but it’s really the BBC in the dock – for being utterly wedded to an editor whose objectivity on Israel is so clearly in question Continue reading
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Three Massive Funds Control a Chunk of Most Media:
Thursday, 5 March 2026 — FAIR Maybe that’s why you might not have heard of them Saurav Sarkar Continue reading
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‘Operation Epic Fury’ – Anatomy Of A War Of Aggression
Commenting last week on the build-up of US military forces targeting Iran, Robert A. Pape, Professor of Political Science at the University of Chicago, got it right: ‘This represents 40-50% of the deployable US air power in the world. Think air power on the order of the 1991 and 2003 Iraq war. And growing. Never… Continue reading
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‘We Returned From Hell’: Report Details Israeli Torture Against Palestinian Journalists
A report from the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) features testimonies from Palestinian journalists, who were detained and tortured by Israeli security forces. Continue reading
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Western journalists continue to disgrace themselves
The Epstein reporting has only confirmed this retreat by the western media into disgrace and venality. It has only confirmed their betrayal of what should be a noble profession. Continue reading
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Files expose Britain’s secret D-Notice censorship regime
Documents obtained by The Grayzone reveal how British soldiers and spies censor news reporting on ‘national security,’ coercing reporters into silence. The files show the Committee boasting of a “90% + success rate” in enforcing the official British line on any controversial story – or disappearing reports entirely. Continue reading
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Whose news is it — and who decides what we see?
Fidel Castro was one of the great communicators. He focused on the problems of raising the cultural level so that people could gain control of their own destiny. Continue reading
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US Cartooning Tradition in Peril in Trump’s First Year
The political cartoon is of vast importance to the history of the United States. Benjamin Franklin’s “Join or Die” made the case for unity to colonists wanting independence from Great Britain. Thomas Nast exposed the corruption of Boss Tweed’s Tammany Hall; when Tweed attempted to escape justice, he was identified from a Nast cartoon. It… Continue reading
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MintPress: Keeping truth alive in a war of lies
Friday, 12 September 2025 — MintPress News / IndieGoGo MintPress is at risk of shutting down. Support independentwatchdog journalism that names the names This is an urgent call to action. After 14 years of operations, MintPress News is in danger of being silenced. One of our main lines of funding has been cut, and if… Continue reading
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Even the media’s Gaza ‘investigations’ hide the real story of Israel’s atrocities
The atrocity news treadmill makes sure western media are so busy chasing after Israel’s latest crime in Gaza they never pause long enough to piece together the bigger story of genocide Continue reading
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How western media helped turn Israel’s genocide into ‘fake news’
Israel’s intent to annihilate Gaza would have been clear much sooner had we listened to Palestinian journalists, rather than the evasions and equivocations of the BBC Continue reading
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Defend The Palestine Chronicle against a Legal Assault on Press Freedom – Urgent Appeal
The Palestine Chronicle is under attack. A year ago, a well-funded team of lawyers filed a lawsuit against our organization and two of its principals. We believe this is a concerted effort to silence independent journalism and suppress the truth about Palestine. We know of similar lawsuits targeting other media outlets, and this legal pressure… Continue reading
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