Have You Noticed How Social Media Purges Always Align with the U.S. Empire?
The Ghion Journal Twitter has suspended multiple large Cuban media accounts for reasons the social media platform has yet to explain as of this writing, a move which journalist Dan Cohen has described as “the equivalent of silencing CNN,...
Was the imprisonment of Iranian-American journalist Marzieh Hashemi spun into expanded US sanctions?
The Grayzone Disgusted by the atrocities she claimed to have witnessed in the US Air Force in Iraq and Afghanistan, a counter-intelligence analyst named Monica Witt defected to Iran in 2013. She allegedly provided its intelligence services with classified information...
48 States to Investigate Google: Anti-Trust or Politicking?
The Real News Network GREG WILPERT: Welcome to The Real News Network. I’m Greg Wilpert in Baltimore. Fifty Attorney Generals from 48 states, the District of Columbia and Puerto Rico announced on Monday that they are launching an anti-trust investigation into...
The Four Storms of the Apocalypse: Katrina, Sandy, Maria and Dorian.
CounterPunch The history of the United States remains shrouded in the fog of myth and overlain by the mists of time. Here in the stygian gloom, its founding looms as the triumph of freedom over tyranny; its slaveholding the reasonable exploitation of an inferior race;...
Another Flint? Newark, NJ, Faces Public Health Crisis over Lead Contamination in City’s Water Supply
Democracy Now! Thousands of residents in Newark, New Jersey, remain unable to drink their tap water in an enduring public health nightmare. Lead contamination has plagued the city for years, but lead levels have spiked even higher in 2019. The crisis recently came to...
Trump Leaves Afghanistan and Pakistan at His Mercy
Truthdig The Doha talks between the United States and the Taliban to work out a peace deal to end Afghanistan’s 18-year conflict began with a whimper a year ago. They ended Saturday with a presidential tweet from the White House that was...
On 18th Anniversary of 9/11, Media Worry About ‘Premature’ End to Afghan War
FAIR On the 18th anniversary of the September 11 attacks, the illegal US occupation of Afghanistan continues as the longest overseas war in American history. Although President Donald Trump recently declared that peace negotiations over the...
THE FBI WAS DEEPLY INVOLVED IN CIA BLACK SITE INTERROGATIONS DESPITE YEARS OF DENIALS, GUANTÁNAMO DEFENSE LAWYER SAYS
The Intercept ON MONDAY MORNING, two days before the 18th anniversary of 9/11, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, the Pakistani engineer accused of masterminding the attacks on New York City and Washington, D.C., appeared in a Guantánamo Bay courtroom sporting a black turban....
‘Easy pickings’: In Tunisia’s interior, neglect leaves youth ripe for indoctrination
The Middle East Eye The night of 25 June will forever be etched in Mahfouz bin Der’a’s memory. It was supposed to mark the arrival of the last ten nights of the Muslim holy month of Ramadan, a time of reverence and remembrance. But at the al-Furqan mosque,...
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 meritocracy to social media
"We don’t need to cleanse our meritocracy of undeserving people or upgrade our meritocrats; we need to dismantle the whole system. Even when it works, Markovits argues, meritocracy is a primary driver of inequality in America." The Nation features an...
From banning Palestinians to tech censorship
There has always been a focus on Trumps immigration policies since he announced he was going to ban Muslims from entering the country during the campaign. While he tried following up on that promise when he entered office through executive order, and faced extended...
PCIM Exclusives
Activist and Journalist: Are they one and the same?
By Ben Kaplan - Ithaca College (Journalism, '19) Journalism is a unique profession in that there is no set job description. We are learners and teachers at the same time. We dictate the news and we respond to it. We are tools of communication and of change. It is near...
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.
VIDEO: Graeme Joffe on Uncovering Corruption in South African Sports
Graeme Joffe, an independent reporter and sports journalist born in South Africa, visited Ithaca College on Tuesday, March 26 to discuss his experience in investigative reporting.
The 2019 Izzy Award happening April 15
Izzy Award to Be Shared By Earth Island Journal and Journalists Laura Flanders, Dave Lindorff and Aaron Maté BY DAVE MALEY, APRIL 3, 2019 Award Ceremony will be held on April 15. The Park Center for Independent Media (PCIM) at Ithaca College has announced...
Featured
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...
Izzy Award 2019
2019 Izzy Award: Editors of Earth Island Journal, Laura Flanders, Dave Lindorff, Aaron Mate The eleventh annual Izzy Award was presented on April 15, 2019 to the editors of Earth Island Journal, Laura Flanders, Dave Lindorff, and Aaron Mate. Earth Island...
Todd Miller Comes To IC This Fall
Todd Miller, an award winning journalist will speak at Ithaca College on October 22, 2019 at 5:30 pm. The venue is Emerson Suites at Ithaca College. EMPIRE OF BORDERS “Joining meticulous documentation and vivid on-the-ground research in multiple border hot spots...