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Texas Cops v. Journalism
Reason: In April 2017, [Priscilla] Villarreal, who reports near the U.S.-Mexico border, broke a story about a Border Patrol agent who committed suicide. A month later, she released the surname of a family involved in a fatal car accident. The agency that confirmed...
US Hopes to Find Third Country to Lead UN Mission to Haiti
Officials in Washington say the United States has not abandoned its effort to find a country to lead a United Nations rapid response force to quell unrest in Haiti. The White House has proposed a multilateral security deployment to the Caribbean nation, with the State Department saying it expects to have a country prepared to lead the mission by early November.
‘Fletch’ Lives in the Courageous Pen of Reporters
“I must follow the journalistic instinct of being skeptical of everything until I personally have proved it true.”- Irwin Fletcher In the post-Watergate world, fiction was full of lone wolf reporters, the courageous typewriter and camera that pointed where it was...
Free Assange Movement Plans Global Protests Before Extradition to US
Supporters of journalist Julian Assange and freedom of the press are holding international protests on October 8th. The founder of Wikileaks is set to be extradited to the United States. Advocates for Assange say his conviction in an American courtroom would mean the...
White House Considering Banning Nicaraguan Imports
Washington is undergoing discussions about cutting imports from Nicaragua, according to two unnamed sources that spoke with Voice of America, a US-government outlet. Analysts believe barring Nicaraguan imports will do serious damage to the Central American country’s...
Where Is the Anarchism in HBO’s ‘The Anarchists’?
I had the opportunity last week to watch the sixth and final episode of the HBO documentary, The Anarchists. Director and executive producer Todd Schramke accomplished the primary mission of any good documentary filmmaker: he made an interesting miniseries about...
Concerned About the Fentanyl Crisis? Blame the Government
As drug overdoses continue rising in the United States, one drug has emerged as the most notorious killer of our day: fentanyl. Unfortunately, those clamoring loudest about fentanyl’s death toll support policies that actually bolster its position in the illicit drug...
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