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Considering the common U.S. reaction to 9/11, we must ask: Can the U.S. do without its exceptionalist consciousness? Or is this consciousness indispensable to America? By Patrick Lawrence Original to ScheerPost Mut zur Ethik is a forum associated with a publishing cooperative that holds con
SCOTT RITTER, SEP 9, 2023 Thirty years ago, a gathering of like-minded teachers, social workers, and medical professionals took place in a village some 40 miles outside of the northern Swiss city of Zurich. Their goal was to create a discussion group dedicated to the idea of the courageous pursuit of ethical living—“Mut zur Ethik,”…
Consortium News has won the first annual Julian Assange International Award at a ceremony in the Netherlands on Saturday. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fabNukSQ590 The Dutch Independent Journalist Association (VVJ) has awarded Consortium News the first Julian Assange International Award a
An embedded civilian journalist taking photographs of U.S. soldiers in Dana, Afghanistan, 2007. (Michael L. Casteel, U.S. Army, Wikimedia Commons, Public domain) By Patrick Lawrence / Consortium News Some years ago, as the decline of American media became evident even among those not in the profession, friends and acquaintances began to ask two questions. Do journalists believe what they report and write? Or do they know what they tell us is misleading or false but mislead or lie so as to keep
All mainstream journalism is “embedded journalism” now, for the battlefield is everywhere, writes Patrick Lawrence in this excerpt from his new book, Journalists and Their Shadows. By Patrick Lawrence Special to Consortium News Journalists and Their Shadows is out now from Clarity Press.