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Antiwar.com Original U.S. presidents never have been fond of journalists who criticize their policies – especially if that negative coverage exposes blunders or criminal conduct. White House occupants devote considerable effort to uncovering the identity of sources leaking such information to enterprising reporters. The obsessive campaigns that the Obama, Trump, and Biden administrations have waged to demonize, prosecute and destroy WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange provide...

POLITICO Get the New York Playbook newsletter Email Sign Up By signing up you agree to receive email newsletters or updates from POLITICO and you agree to our privacy policy and terms of service. You can unsubscribe at any time and you can contact us here. This sign-up form is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply. Presented by Uber Driver Stories New York will lose one House seat under a new census count — falling just 89 people short of the number ...

If Israel really did seek ‘revenge’ by attacking Iranian targets, then it’s changed the unwritten rules of the unacknowledged game, which could have grave consequences

WATERTOWN — While campaigning for the presidency leading up to the 2008 election, Barack Obama pledged unprecedented openness. Long story short, that didn’t happen. Obama actually gained a reputation for operating an incredibly closed administration, according to May 24, 2016, column in the Washington Post by Margaret Sullivan. “[T]he Obama administration itself has been part of a different know-nothing problem. It has kept the news media — and therefore the public — in...

Here’s Merrick Garland’s Orientation Memo for the Trump-Era Hangover on Press Freedom President Joe Biden walks along the Colonnade of the White House Tuesday, Feb. 23, 2021. (White House photo by Adam Schultz) When President Biden announced the nomination of Merrick Garland as the next attorney general, Biden criticized incendiary rhetoric against the press as contributing to the Jan. 6 assault on the U.S. Capitol. A new president—and new leadership at the Department of Justice—will me...

Infowars: There's a War on for your Mind!

Antiwar.com Original U.S. presidents have had a long, dishonorable history of trying to undermine the First Amendment, especially freedom of the press. Woodrow Wilson’s brutal suppression of critics, primarily through prosecutions under the Espionage Act of 1917, remains the most odious example, but it’s hardly the only one. During the late 1930s, Franklin Delano Roosevelt harassed activists, including members of the press, who sought to keep the United States out of the ...

U.S. presidents have had a long, dishonorable history of trying to undermine the First Amendment, especially freedom of the press. Woodrow Wilson’s brutal suppression of critics, primarily through prosecutions under the Espionage Act of 1917, remains the most odious example, but it’s hardly the only one. During the late 1930s, Franklin Delano Roosevelt harassed activists, including members of the press, who sought to keep the United States out of the war raging in Europe. Richard Nixon ...

US should pay Iran reparations David Swanson | Published: 00:00, Feb 09,2021 | Updated: 22:28, Feb 08,2021   Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi meets US president Jimmy Carter in 1977. — World Socialist Web Site WHY would I say such an outrageous, treasonous, delusional, obviously-funded-by-Putin thing? Am I hoping to enrage war-crazed sadists who’ve seen too much television ‘news’? Not at all. I want them to still be around when I say that it ...

He developed confrontational tactics to harass abortion providers and won a long legal battle against the National Organization for Women.