[Center for Constitutional Rights]'s Michael Ratner break downs how documents expose United States economic and political spying as CCR calls on UN to Protect Publishers as well as Whistleblowers.
[youtube=http://youtu.be/OR9k2IzpbEQ] Published on Aug 15, 2014 TheRealNews: Award winning journalists James Risen and Phil Donahue discuss the importance of grassroots movements in preserving the basic tenants of democracy at a time of unprecedented attacks on whistle-blowers and journalists. Subscribe or “Follow” us on RiseUpTimes.org. Rise Up Times is also on Facebook! Check the Rise Up Times page for posts More
Mnar Muhawesh, Founder and Editor In Chief, MintPress News, talked about how the tightly controlled corporate media ignores reporting and good journalism to follow directives on creating enemies and promoting wars. Almost all of the media outlets in this country are owned by a few corporations. Thank you so much for having me, I’m honored to be More
United Nations - A new report published by the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) shows that nine out of 10 cases of journalist killings go unpunished. By Lyndal Rowlands Inter Press Service | Report Truthout.org 10 November 2014 The report found that between 2004 and 2013, 370 journalists were murdered “in direct retaliation for their work” and that More
Isis has sent a heartfelt letter of encouragement to the west. We give you the best extracts The Guardian September 24, 2014 • Hear First Dog talk through the cartoon • Having trouble viewing this cartoon? Click here. Subscribe or “Follow” us on RiseUpTimes.org. Rise Up Times is also on Facebook! Check the Rise Up Times page for More
Isis has sent a heartfelt letter of encouragement to the west. We give you the best extracts The Guardian September 24, 2014 • Hear First Dog talk through the cartoon • Having trouble viewing this cartoon? Click here. Subscribe or “Follow” us on RiseUpTimes.org. Rise Up Times is also on Facebook! Check the Rise Up Times page for More
Michael Ratner USAToday June 17, 2014 (Photo: David Paul Morris, Bloomberg) A whistle-blower living in exile in Russia. A publisher seeking the asylum he has already been granted while his sources are imprisoned. This isn't the cast of a summer blockbuster. It's a perfect storm of real-life cases that make it clear that constitutional More
Posted by Alexander Reed Kelly truthdig.com March 14, 2014 Photo by bulliver (CC BY 2.0) Sarah Harrison, an editor at WikiLeaks who has also worked with NSA whistle-blower Edward Snowden, won’t return to her home country of England because she fears being prosecuted as a terrorist for seeking to influence her government. Harrison’s fear comes More
However, the Snowden revelations and their subsequent publication haven’t just had an impact on issues of privacy and national security. They’ve also occasioned a re-awakening of a debate about the role of journalism (and journalists) in a democracy and its relationship to authority. By Reed Richardson December 20, 2013 Moyers & Company This essay More
'If MI5 warns that this is not in the public interest who am I to disbelieve them?', says the former editor of The Independent Published on Monday, October 14, 2013 by The Guardian CommonDreams.org by Glenn Greenwald Some journalists view this as an inviolable decree that may not be questioned or defied (Photo: Alamy) Like many people, More
At this year's Socialism Conference in Chicago, Jeremy Scahill spoke about the war against whistleblowers, what a country's treatment of its own citizens says about how it will treat non-citizens and the difference between having principles and playing a partisan game. [youtube=http://youtu.be/4xU-eH7IpCw] Published on Wednesday, July 17, 2013 by The Nation via Common Dreams videonation Published on Jul 11, More
At this year's Socialism Conference in Chicago, Jeremy Scahill spoke about the war against whistleblowers, what a country's treatment of its own citizens says about how it will treat non-citizens and the difference between having principles and playing a partisan game. [youtube=http://youtu.be/4xU-eH7IpCw] Published on Wednesday, July 17, 2013 by The Nation via Common Dreams videonation Published on Jul 11, More
