By Edit Inotai* – Balkan Insight The state broadcaster abruptly halted news shows, admitting it ‘became a platform for spreading hatred and lies’ under Viktor Orban’s previous government and vowing to change. It took Hungary’s new government six weeks to deliver on one of its…
Venezuela’s government has mounted a substantial earthquake relief response despite devastating destruction from June 24 tremors and years of U.S. sanctions that froze $30 billion in public assets, according to this analysis countering narratives of government failure and blocked humanitarian aid.
By Jessica Corbett* – Common Dreams The United Nations human rights chief and American whistleblower Edward Snowden on Monday joined the wide range of public figures demanding urgent action after reporting that Pegasus hacking spyware, sold by the Israeli firm NSO Group…
By Shaun Walker* – The Guardian Hungary’s far-right government suspected of hacking phones of investigative journalists and targeting owners. Since Viktor Orbán became prime minister in 2010, Hungary has fallen from 23rd to 92nd in the World Press Freedom Index. Viktor…
By Thomas Neuburger* – God`Spies This is the state we defend when we defend the state. It looks like the U.S. government’s case against Julian Assange is falling apart. One of its most important witnesses has now confessed to lying. Via the late Robert Parry’s site, Consortium…
By Kenny Stancil* – Common Dreams In an opinion piece, the Washington Post‘s publisher on Sunday accused President Joe Biden’s Justice Department of exacerbating the Trump administration’s assault on press freedom and called for a “full accounting” of the Biden…
By Hazel Henderson* All nations evolve their infrastructure along with their peoples’ knowledge and technologies. From our distant past as small bands of nomadic hunter-gatherers, we learned the use of fire to smelt iron and tin — progressing from the Iron Age to the…
By Siva Vaidhyanathan* – The Guardian The reality is that Trump used Facebook most effectively as an organizing and fundraising tool, not as a platform for ‘posting’ The world is a lot better off without Donald Trump as president of the United States. And Facebook is a lot more…
Deutsche Welle (DW) * The Burmese military regime has routinely arrested journalists and banned independent media. But reporters continue to work underground — under pressure from the ruling junta, but also from the opposition. Myanmar’s military government, which…
By Thalif Deen* UNITED NATIONS, May 2021 (IPS) – In the contemporary world of journalism, female reporters face a double jeopardy: they are increasingly targeted both as journalists and as women– particularly in repressive regimes and misogynistic societies. As the United…
