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The story of a crusading reporter’s determined search for truth, “Kill The Messenger” gains its not-inconsiderable power by not being the kind of movie that particular description might lead you to expect.

Screen shot of journalist Gary Webb from Vimeo. There is more truth about American journalism in the film "Kill the Messenger," which chronicles the ma

History Is Going To Record That Gary Webb Got It Right. By Maxine Waters THE NIGHT THAT I read Gary Webbs "Dark Alliance" series in the San Jose Mercury News, I was so alarmed that I literally sat straight up in bed, poring over every word. I reflected on the many meetings I attended throughout South Central Los Angeles during the 1980s, when I constantly asked, "Where are all the drugs coming from?" I asked myself that night whether it was possible for such a vast amount of drugs to be smug...

Exhibition brings recent contemporary acquisitions into conversation with rarely seen works Joseph Lewis as Eze Nri (2018), Stephen Hamilton. © Stephen Hamilton. Image courtesy of the artist. BOSTON, MASS .- This summer, New Light: Encounters and Connections at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, brings more than 60 works of art from across the collection—including 23 newly acquired contemporary pieces—into thought-provoking dialogue. Organized into 21 “conversations,” the exhibition juxtapos...

The COVID-19 pandemic has been a death knell to so many industries in Afghanistan. Charities and aid agencies have even warned that the economic dislocation could spark widespread famine. But one sector is still booming: the illicit opium trade. Last year saw Afghan opium poppy cultivation grow by over a third while counter-narcotics operations dropped off a cliff. The country is said to be the source of over 90% of all the world’s illicit opium, from which heroin and other opioids are...

Iwas... i wasjust out of it, i didnt care. and then i pulled myself together, amy was born. and now you live with it and cope with it every day. nicholas sainsbury went to treloar�*s from 1974 to 1980 — he found out hed been infected after he left. hes giving evidence to the inquiry tomorrow and joins us now. good tomorrow and joins us now. afternoon to you, nich thank good afternoon to you, nicholas. thank you so much forjoining us. it afternoon, thank you for having me. listening to gary w...

A PUB in Yate will be hosting a tree-planting day to celebrate and remember lives that were lost during the Covid-19 pandemic.

The MSU Horse Ranch Team members with their awards (from l-r): Will Boyer, coach and animal science senior instructor, Shianne Walther, Natalie Rector, Anna Reinkemeyer, Brayden Gruben, Grace DelVecchio, Emily Selby and Dr. Gary Webb, coach and animal science department head. A stand-out performance at national horse show MSU’s team wins multiple awards. It was a successful outing for Missouri State University’s Ranch Horse Team at the recent American Stock Horse Association National Show...

Note to Readers: For a period of about ten years, I operated a website of political commentary that contained thousands of articles, many of which were content from various media, but many being my own work. That website experienced occasional but persistent DDOS and other attacks by forces unknown Some years ago, I published on that website a three-page article on the Western media similar in content to the media series I am presenting here. Of all my written work, only this one article was u...

by Laura Wells / May 4th, 2021 Headlines from two major Venezuelan newspapers (Photo Credit:  Laura Wells) Even when we’re being lied to by almost every available source across the media and political spectrum, we can still become better lie detectors. A focus on lies about Latin America is important because we do care about how the US treats other people, and we also need hope that things can improve in the US, in healthcare, housing, education, justice, the arts, and in the whole system of...