Eating Their Own: How the Clinton Wing is Retaliating Against Gabbard by Funding Her Opponent
The Ghion Journal If you’ve paid any attention whatsoever to the national political discourse in the last week, you undoubtedly know at least one thing: Hillary Clinton and Tulsi Gabbard do not like one another. The reasons for this could theoretically stretch...
USAID funds salaries of Venezuelan coup leaders to lobby US politicians for regime change
The Grayzone American taxpayers are now paying the salaries and expenses of dozens of Venezuelan opposition figures who have created a “shadow government” inside Venezuela and abroad. On October 8, USAID signed a bilateral agreement with the faction of the Venezuelan...
Facebook’s Threat to Democracy Could Motivate Redefinition of Anti-Trust Laws
The Real News Network MARC STEINER: Welcome to The Real News Network. I’m Marc Steiner. Good to have you all with us today. Facebook Founder, Mark Zuckerberg, has been grilled by the House Financial Services Committee pretty intensely. ALEXANDRIA...
The DNC Versus Democracy
CounterPunch With Bernie Sanders the people’s choice for winner of the Democratic primary in terms of political organizing and campaign contributions, the powers-that-be in the DNC are putting out a call for establishment figures like Hillary...
“State of Emergency”: Special Report on California’s Criminalization of Growing Homeless Encampments
Democracy Now! In a Democracy Now! special report, we look at the rise in homelessness in many major cities across the United States. California has become the poster-child for this economic and humanitarian disaster, with growing encampments in Los Angeles...
The Drug Trade Isn’t Just Killing People, but the Planet Itself
Truthdig There are just 15 vaquita porpoises left in the Gulf of California, and in just a few months, that number could plummet to zero. The earth’s most endangered whale has become a victim not only of the usual environmental suspects, but, due to the fact that its...
The Revolution Isn’t Being Televised
FAIR It’s all kicking off everywhere in 2019. Haitians are revolting against a corrupt political system and their President Jovenel Moïse, who many see as a kleptocratic US puppet. In Ecuador, huge public manifestations managed to force President...
River of Trash
The Intercept THE FISHERMEN STAND thigh-deep in the muddy water as our boat pulls up to the shore, grass shushing against the hull. It is a still, cool morning and mist wicks off the river as the sun begins to rise above the trees. Down the beach, a white egret...
‘Davos in the Desert’: Rights advocates decry attendance of Kushner and Mnuchin
The Middle East Eye Advocates seeking justice for the murder of Jamal Khashoggi say that Saudi Arabia has still not faced accountability for the crime. Riyadh has yet to deal with any serious repercussions over the killing, the kingdom has not carried out a...
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
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...
From privatized electricity to climate change
As California moves to outlaw private prisons, there are still services that could benefit with de-privatization, in this case, electricity. The Nation reports that PG&E (Pacific Gas and Electric), the electricity provider for two million Californians,...
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...