SEATTLE LEADS THE NATION

Seattle, WA - The Seattle City Council passed a resoulution calling upon U.S. policymakers to support the Media Bill of Rights, ensuring that present and future generations are able to exercise their constitutional rights to free speech. The council joins a broad coalition of consumer, public interest, media […]

SUPREMES REBUFF NY TIMES ON LEAK
The United States Supreme Court refused today to stop a federal prosecutor from reviewing the telephone records of two reporters for The New York Times. The records, the paper said, include information about many of the reporters’ confidential sources. In a one-sentence order offering no reasoning and noting no dissenting […]

David Friedlander writes:
To your point about the American occupation and the growing “civil war” in Iraq, I think it’s worth remembering the old slogan of colonialist and occupiers everywhere — “divide and conquer.”
Isn’t it a little too neat to imagine that the inter-communal strife in Iraq is an unintended consequence of […]