PCIM Izzy winner, David Sirota profiled in The New York Times with an Izzy mention
“… Mr. Sirota, who even while working as a journalist seemed to delight in trolling the media from inside the house. Accepting the 2015 Izzy Award for special achievement in independent media (it is named for the radical muckraker I.F. Stone), Mr. Sirota spoke of doing hard-hitting investigations “at an outlet that allows you to […]
From Impeachment Backlash to Youth Climate Lawsuit
House Democrats made their formal case on Saturday to the Senate that President Trump should be removed from office for withholding military aid to pressure Ukrainian officials into investigating a political opponent, Mother Jones reports. The 111-page document argues that Trump is guilty of abuse of power and obstruction of justice and that the Senate should remove […]
Kids’ Climate Lawsuit Thrown Out by Appeals Court
A federal appeals court on Friday dismissed a lawsuit brought by a group of young people that had sought to compel the federal government to rein in the nation’s climate emissions. In dismissing the suit, the court noted that the plaintiffs had succeeded in making a strong case that the government had for decades not […]
Where Are the Oscar Nominations for Asian Actors?
Director Bong Joon Ho is having a major, well-deserved moment this year with numerous film award wins for 2019’s class thriller “Parasite” (Golden Globe, Cannes Film Festival, National Society of Film Critics Awards to name just a few). The film is also the first South Korean movie to receive Academy Award nominations—a total of six, for Best Picture and Best International […]
MLK and the Black Misleadership Class
Dr. Martin Luther King’s birthday is the greatest sheer spectacle of hypocrisy and historical duplicity of the year, as Black misleaders take center stage to claim his mandate and mission on behalf of a corporate party. “While Dr. King rejected an alliance with the ‘triple evils,’ Black Democratic misleaders describe their deal with the Devil […]
The Big Loser in the Iowa Debate? CNN’s Reputation
The biggest loser from last night’s Democratic debate (1/14/20) was CNN’s journalistic credibility. CNN debates have been marked by a tendency to pit one candidate against another, American Gladiators-style (FAIR.org, 8/2/19), so it’s no surprise that the cable network took its own journalistically dubious “scoop” (CNN, 1/13/20)—about Bernie Sanders allegedly telling Elizabeth Warren in 2018 that “he did not believe a woman […]
Why Anti-Semitism Is on the Rise in the United States
My grandmother Sarah would not have been surprised by the upsurge in anti-Semitism during the past few years. “Scratch a goy, you’ll find an anti-Semite,” she used to say, using the Yiddish word for non-Jew. I didn’t agree with her, but I understood where she was coming from—both geographically and psychologically. She was born in […]
Jeff Bezos Plays the Cowboy With the Indians
Forbes has followed Jeff Bezos on his pilgrimage to India this week. On January 15, the journal reported on Amazon’s declared ambition to help boost the Indian economy. The magazine reports: “Amazon founder and chief executive Jeff Bezos said on Wednesday from New Delhi that his e-commerce behemoth will invest $1 billion to bring small and medium […]
We Found Major Trump Tax Inconsistencies. New York’s Mayor Wants a Criminal Investigation.
New York Mayor Bill de Blasio said Friday that he had asked Manhattan’s district attorney to investigate discrepancies ProPublica and WNYC revealed last fall between what President Donald Trump’s company reported in filings to city tax officials and what it reported in loan filings. The discrepancies made his properties seem more profitable to a lender and less […]
GAO report backs private Pentagon conclusions that Trump broke the law on Ukraine
President Donald Trump’s White House broke the law by withholding aid from Ukraine last summer, the nonpartisan U.S. Government Accountability Office announced Thursday morning. The congressional auditing agency said the Office of Management and Budget’s actions carrying out Trump’s orders had clearly violated the Impoundment Control Act, a law forcing the president to spend money […]