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“Increasingly we’re trapped, because those who can tell us what’s going on have a stake in not telling us what’s going on, or what its consequences may be.”
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“Increasingly we’re trapped, because those who can tell us what’s going on have a stake in not telling us what’s going on, or what its consequences may be.”
We talk about what would really need to change to “normalize” US/Cuba relations. And in Argentina, a thrilled press corps tells us a new day is dawning with the election of “former businessman” Mauricio Mauri.
“We need to be very much present in all these dialogues about where our money is being spent and what kind of city we wish to live in, what kind of country we wish to live in.”
Last week, New York City police officers arrested four well-known activists for filming them. Copwatchers—people who regularly film and document police activity—have often been targeted by cops who don’t want to be recorded, despite reminders that recording police interactions is legal in the city. While legal protections for filming police are still unclear in some parts of the country, the invaluable role that copwatchers play as journalists—acting as the eyes, ears and media of the streets—deserves to be recognized. Much was made in the media about the 2014 arrests of the Huffington Post‘s Ryan Reilly and the Washington Post‘s Wesley […]
While American human-rights hypocrisy is nothing new, a string of Bush-era, pro-torture, pro-Guantánamo pundits expressing indignation at Cuba’s human rights failings was still remarkable.
People who worry about a Trump presidency just don’t understand how Washington works, according to Newsweek’s Matthew Cooper. But it’s Cooper who doesn’t know how Washington works—or is pretending not to.