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International Right to Know Day Impact Stories
Today we celebrate the 14th annual International Right to Know Day by highlighting a few of the year’s most impactful news stories that were made possible by people taking advantage of right to know (RTK) laws around the world. Continue reading
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US threats mount against journalists, Snowden By Patrick Martin
Congressional leaders and representatives of the US military-intelligence apparatus have stepped up their threats against Edward Snowden and the journalists who have worked with him to expose massive illegal spying by the National Security Agency (NSA). Continue reading
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Without investigative journalists, the UK will move closer to a police state
Without healthy, thriving newspapers and investigative journalists prepared to ask difficult questions of security services, the UK will move closer to a bona fide police state, British journalist Tony Gosling told RT. Continue reading
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Rise Up or Die By Chris Hedges
Joe Sacco and I spent two years reporting from the poorest pockets of the United States for our book “Days of Destruction, Days of Revolt.” We went into our nation’s impoverished “sacrifice zones”—the first areas forced to kneel before the dictates of the marketplace—to show what happens when unfettered corporate capitalism and ceaseless economic expansion… Continue reading
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Video: Assange’s Christmas Address: Outlines Wikileaks battle plan for 2013
Not much is known about the subject of Assange’s address, but he recently confirmed intentions to run as a candidate for the Australian Senate in 2013. Speculation is also rife that he will use the occasion to officially launch a WikiLeaks political party. Continue reading
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Wikileaks: “Malaysia Today editor freed”
WIKILEAKS PRESS RELEASE For immediate release. Mon Nov 10 22:43:37 GMT 2008 On Friday Malaysia’s Shah Alam High Court freed blogger and Malaysia Today editor Raja Petra Kamarudin from the Kamuting detention center, where he had been held under Malaysia’s notorious Internal Security Act. Raja Petra, 58, was detained on September 12, two and a Continue reading
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Wikileaks accepts $2.1M journalism competition
WIKILEAKS PRESS RELEASE For immediate release. Tue Nov 11 03:59:05 GMT 2008 “News Challenge” As of November 1st Wikileaks has accepted the Knight Foundation News Challenge 2009 and applied for $2.1M funding. As the Challenge has received over 2,000 submissions, Wikileaks is asking its supporters to draw Knight’s attention to the importance of the Wikileaks Continue reading
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