Reality rarely penetrates the Byzantine and self-referential court of the paper, which was on full display at the recent memorial for Joe Lelyveld, who died earlier this year.
Chris Hedges: Requiem for The NYT
Category: Press Freedom
How Britain Would Be Obliged to Free Julian Assange While Biden ‘Considers’ Ending the Case
UPDATED: The High Court ruled the U.S. must assure free speech and no death penalty for Julian Assange or the court might have to free the publisher who marked five years in prison today, reports Joe Lauria.
Palestinian Journalists Urge Boycott of White House Correspondents’ Dinner
The appeal to boycott the April 27 event says the White House’s support for Israel’s genocidal policies implicates it directly in the relentless targeting and massacring of journalists in Gaza.
Craig Murray: UK Legal Shambles in Case of Assange
The British establishment continues to move inexorably towards ordering the WikiLeaks’ publisher’s extradition at the time of its choosing.
Chris Hedges: A Mockery of British Justice
British courts for five years have denied due process to Julian Assange as his physical and mental health deteriorates. That is the point of his show trial.
Chris Hedges: PEN America Self-Destructs
In May 2013 Hedges resigned from PEN America when it appointed former State Department official Suzanne Nossel to run it. A decade later, PEN America has become a propaganda arm of the state, including on Julian Assange.
WATCH: Death Penalty for Assange?
Australian Sen. David Shoebridge spoke of the danger of the death penalty for Julian Assange in this discussion after a Sydney screening of the new film, The Trust Fall. (w/transcript)
Chris Hedges: Joe Biden’s Parting Gift to America
The Democratic Party had one last chance to implement the kind of New Deal Reforms that could save us from another Trump presidency and Christian fascism. It failed.
WATCH: Sights & Sounds Outside Assange Court
Consortium News was outside the Royal Courts of Justice for Julian Assange’s two-day hearing on Feb. 20-21. This is what we saw and heard.
Biden DOJ Indicts Journalist for Tucker Carlson Leaks
Timothy Burke, a Tampa-based media consultant and former Daily Beast staffer, was hit with more than a dozen federal charges this week in an action that raises press-freedom concerns.