The Green New Deal & What it Leaves Out: Reading Act V of Cory Morningstar’s Research
The Ghion Journal For last week’s Words of Others podcast, I read Act V of investigative journalist Cory Morningstar’s ongoing series about the NGO Industrial Complex. It’s a lengthy piece titled For Consent: The Green New Deal is the Trojan Horse for...
NBA-China outrage reveals how free speech is being crushed by Washington’s new Cold War
The Grayzone Tensions between the United States and China have boiled over yet again in recent weeks, with the latest dispute being set off by one of the rare sources of unity between the two countries: basketball. Ignited by a now-deleted tweet, in which a...
Julian Assange’s Extradition Process Is ‘A Charade’
The Real News Network GREG WILPERT: Welcome to The Real News Network. I’m Greg Wilpert in Arlington, Virginia. Julian Assange recently lost a court bid to have his upcoming February 2020 extradition hearing postponed. The hearing about the postponement took place...
Sick and Shrouded in Secrecy: Alabama’s Contract to Gas Humans to Death
CounterPunch For $25,000, Alabama’s Attorney General Steve Marshall has contracted with Tennessee company “FDR Safety,” to assist Alabama in developing a barbaric new protocol – to execute its death row prisoners, whom Alabama treats like human guinea...
“Release My Mother”: A Yale Student Fights to Halt Deportation of His Mother with Stage IV Cancer
Democracy Now! Tania Romero, an undocumented mother from Honduras and survivor of stage IV cancer, is fighting to remain in the United States with her four children. Two months ago, Romero was imprisoned by Immigration and Customs Enforcement at the privately owned...
Is the Run on the Dollar Due to Panic or Greed?
Truthdig What’s going on in the repo market? Rates on repurchase (“repo”) agreements should be about 2%, in line with the Federal Reserve funds rate. But they shot up to over 5% on Sept. 16 and got as high as 10% on Sept. 17. Yet banks were refusing to...
Media Conceal Chile’s State Criminality, Delegitimize Bolivian Democracy
FAIR Chile’s anti-neoliberal rebellion is entering its third week, and the brutal crackdown continues. Hard-right President Sebastian Piñera and his generals have effectively decreed the country’s oligarch-dominated democracy out of existence by sending soldiers into...
PG&E SPENT MILLIONS ON LOBBYING FOLLOWING BANKRUPTCY, WINING AND DINING LAWMAKERS WHO SPONSORED BAILOUT
The Intercept THE DECISION BY Pacific Gas & Electric to declare bankruptcy in January did not prevent the utility giant from continuing to spend big on political influence in California’s Statehouse. The investor-owned utility’s transmission lines...
‘Saving our country from the enemy’: Iraqis defend attack on Iranian consulate
Middle East Eye On Sunday night, Iraqi security forces fired tear gas canisters and live ammunition at hundreds of protesters who were attempting to set fire to the Iranian consulate in the holy city of Karbala. Witnesses said protesters scaled the walls surrounding...
Student Work
PCIM Intern: Jackie Marusiak (’21) mixes the second episode of WRFI’s Loneliness Project
In the second episode of The Loneliness Project, an audio production of WRFI and the Ithaca College Park Scholars Program, we see a breakdown of the role of social media in loneliness.
PCIM Intern: Anna Lamb (’19) edits WRFI radio story on sexual violence
WRFI’s Laura Rosbrow-Telem spoke with the organizers of the event, DJ Ben Ortiz (also known as DJ ha-MEEN) from the Ithaca DJ Festival and Naomi Barry from the Advocacy Center. In this interview, the organizers talk about "the not so obvious ways people can act as...
The Indy Brief
From the Trump campaign to the Green New Deal
With the 2020 election approaching, President Trump is undertaking steps to improve his popularity in key demographics that support him. As The Nation reports, the Trump administration is trying to implement several policies to deter immigration and reduce...
Bolivia and Tulsi Gabbard
Bolivia is dealing with the contentious results of a recent election and, as The Nation reports, “Even if this fraud thing falls apart, I don’t know if people who are protesting against the results will accept the results, because there’s so much...
PCIM Exclusives
A Jury In Georgia Declares Kings Bay Plowshares 7 Guilty of Conspiracy at Naval Base Housing Nuclear Arsenal
By Vaughn Golden On April 4, 2018, seven activists, devout Catholic Workers, following a calling of their faith to symbolically disarm nuclear weapons, broke into the Kings Bay naval base in southern Georgia. Nearly 19 months later, they were pronounced guilty by a...
Kings Bay plowshares seven begin arguing defense in court
Inside a sterile, but lavish wood paneled courtroom in Brunswick, Ga. Monday, the Kings Bay plowshares seven, formally opened their legal argument, providing hints to what Judge Lisa Godbey Wood would allow. The government, represented by Assistant U.S. Attorney Karl...
Indy Outlets: Hard to Start Up, Harder to Keep Going
If building an independent media outlet from the ground up was easy, I’m sure many journalists would ditch the competitive world of corporate media.
The Higher the Pedestal, the Harder the Fall: Arianna Huffington and her AOL Deal
Huffington Post was once regarded as an independent media superstar that embraced liberal ideals while being powered by a team of dedicated, unpaid bloggers who wrote for a cause.
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A Jury In Georgia Declares Kings Bay Plowshares 7 Guilty of Conspiracy at Naval Base Housing Nuclear Arsenal
By Vaughn Golden On April 4, 2018, seven activists, devout Catholic Workers, following a calling of their faith to symbolically disarm nuclear weapons, broke into the Kings Bay naval base in southern Georgia. Nearly 19 months later, they were pronounced guilty by a...
Kings Bay plowshares seven begin arguing defense in court
Inside a sterile, but lavish wood paneled courtroom in Brunswick, Ga. Monday, the Kings Bay plowshares seven, formally opened their legal argument, providing hints to what Judge Lisa Godbey Wood would allow. The government, represented by Assistant U.S. Attorney Karl...
Oct. 3 -The Crisis of the Media-Industrial Complex: Nermeen Shaikh of Democracy Now!
Journalist Nermeen Shaikh will speak about the fallacies and distortions of mainstream media and how independent news outlets like Democracy Now! provide an urgently needed corrective. Nermeen Shaikh is a cohost and news producer at Democracy Now! She is the author...