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January 4, 2021 The Park Center for Independent Media circulates the Indy Brief. Subscribe for a weekly selection of news stories from journalists operating outside traditional corporate systems. Subscribe The Headlines Our Stories Nominations Open for the...
The Ghion Journal The MSNBC website’s caption for the recent pro-Assange Rachel Maddow segment was hilariously begrudging. The caption reads: “as detestable a character as Assange may be, the charges are an assault on American press liberties.” Now that many...
Counter Punch During the media frenzy, diplomatic flurry and widespread speculations around a hitherto marginal Saudi journalist’s apparently grizzly demise in Istanbul’s Saudi consulate last October, my thoughts stayed with the deathly silence that had fallen around...
Julian Assange was arrested inside the Ecuadorian embassy in London on April 11. The Australian-born co-founder of Wikileaks had been trapped in the building since 2012 after taking refuge there. He was immediately found guilty of failing to surrender to a...
January 11, 2021 The Park Center for Independent Media circulates the Indy Brief. Subscribe for a weekly selection of news stories from journalists operating outside traditional corporate systems. Subscribe The Headlines Our Stories Nominations Open for...
October 9, 2020 The Park Center for Independent Media circulates the Indy Brief, a weekly selection of news stories from journalism outlets operating outside traditional corporate systems and news organizations. The Headlines Our Stories SAVE THE DATE:...
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...
The portrayal of Democratic candidates in the debates is not the positive picture, especially with a prevalence of less left-leaning ideas permeating the public consciousness. This is the general argument made by The Nation, who continue that the trust we place...
The Ghion Journal In the opening to a piece published here on The Ghion Journal a few weeks ago, The Noir Detective, Julian Assange and What Comes Next, I mentioned how important the keeping of secrets is to empires (and most authoritarian societies, for that...
The ever increasing surveillance state we live in is something many either choose to ignore or pay no mind because they are not the ones being targeted. For many others, that is not an option, and as the Nation reports, the ways in which the US government is...