Horse racing is a very old sport that people all around the world love. It’s called the “Sport of Kings” because it began a long time ago with simple horse races to find out which ...
(By: James DiEugenio, CovertAction Magazine) When Oliver Stone’s blockbuster film JFK premiered in 1991, it delivered a hugely embarrassing shock to academic historians, Democratic Party grandees, corporate media pundits and other respected purveyors of conventional wisdom. ...
U.S. poster from 1953. (By: David Swanson) Excerpted from Leaving World War II Behind Hitler was clearly preparing for war long before he started it. Hitler remilitarized the Rhineland, annexed Austria, and threatened Czechoslovakia. High-ranking ...
The United States has a long history of meddling in the political affairs of other nations and using shadowy military and espionage techniques as a means of overthrowing governments seen as being a threat to ...
The biggest banks, it turns out, are every bit as complicit in the climate crisis as they were in the slave trade. (Common Dreams) In case you missed their tweets and statements, Wall Street wants ...
From the beginning, policing in this country has primarily protected the powerful. Maybe now that can change. (Common Dreams) For decades, we’ve been told that policing is a public good: available to all, for the ...
Taking “movement moments” to change, from the Red Summer to Black Lives Matter. It is said that Mark Twain once quipped that “history does not repeat itself, but it rhymes.” These days one cannot escape ...
“In June, the WHO, along with other UN agencies, released a landmark study, ‘Global Status Report on Preventing Violence Against Children 2020.’ Sadly, this study—like so much about the status of children in our time—has ...
“After the Civil War, Southern police departments often carried over aspects of the patrols. These included systematic surveillance, the enforcement of curfews, and even notions of who could become a police officer.” On May 25 ...
Bill Barr is covering up for Donald Trump. Trump’s first national security adviser, General Michael Flynn, met with the Russian ambassador to the U.S., Sergey Kislyak, just after President Obama had imposed sanctions on Russia for interfering ...
From Coca-Cola to Nestle, some of the most iconic American brands eagerly took part in the Nazi experiment. (By: Alan Macleod, Mintpress News) May 8 marks the 75th anniversary of the Allied armies’ victory in ...
The FCC’s 1949 Fairness Doctrine required broadcast television and radio licensees to present controversial issues of public interest in a “fair, equitable, and balanced” manner, but critics have argued that it actually hinders open discourse ...
“A March 1968 FBI memo, from the month before King’s death, discussed ways to ‘prevent the rise of a ‘messiah’ who could unify, and electrify, the militant black nationalist movement.’” The Federal Bureau of Investigation ...
“My grandparents, my aunts, and uncles lived under siege in Sarajevo for three and a half years. It was basically dubbed the largest open-air concentration camp; they had no running water, noting could come into ...
After Israel, the Islamic Republic is home to the largest population of Jews in the Middle East. On December 14, 2019, a white male entered the Nessah Synagogue in Beverly Hills, vandalizing the sanctuary. He unrolled Torah ...
Grumpy Old Men, the heist film & a true story of Dick Nixon’s dirty money: meet director Mark Steven Johnson of Finding Steve McQueen. Filmmaker Mark Steven Johnson dishes on filmmaking, screenwriting, Richard Nixon’s dirty ...
The late 19th and early-to-mid 20th centuries marked both the rise and fall of objectivity in American news media. Even so, the golden age of objectivity, paradoxically characterized by both elitism and ethicism, was anything ...
When ‘fake news’ has been a part of U.S. journalism since the days of William Randolph Hearst and Joseph Pulitzer, is there any hope for modern-day journalism? This is the eighth part in a Citizen ...
Popular uprisings rejecting longheld neoliberalist policies are sweeping the globe, and Chile, fittingly, may be at the forefront. Uprisings against the corrupt, generation-long dominance of neoliberal “center-right” and “center-left” governments that benefit the wealthy and ...
Ordinary people do extraordinary things all the time, some become whistleblowers and blow the whistle on some of the U.S.’ biggest scandals. Whistleblowers have long been a part of American history, though depending on what ...
Could a president removed from office legitimately take the oath of office again? (By Austin Sarat, The Conversation) The launching of an “official impeachment inquiry” into President Donald Trump’s conduct has sailed America into largely ...
Today, Mississippi is one of only two states where the winner of the popular vote does not automatically become governor. (By Gideon Cohn-Postar, The Conversation) A lawsuit over a Mississippi election law, if successful, will ...
As the world burns — and as kids sound the alarm — the original environmental scientist is worth revisiting. Alexander von Humboldt was born on September 14, 1769. In his day, he was a globetrotting, ...
Simmering racial and cultural tensions in the U.S. have played out in the debate over the legacy of Confederate monuments across the country, but have any statues been removed? According to the latest Southern Poverty ...
Saturday, July 20, is the 50th anniversary of the Apollo 11 space program’s landing on the moon. In honor of the achievement, Citizen Truth will run a series of articles about little known aspects of ...
Saturday, July 20, is the 50th anniversary of the Apollo 11 space program’s landing on the moon. In honor of the achievement, Citizen Truth will run a series of articles about little known aspects of ...
This Saturday is the 50th anniversary of the Apollo 11 space program’s landing on the moon. In honor of the achievement, Citizen Truth will run a series of articles about little known aspects of the ...
This Saturday is the 50th anniversary of the Apollo 11 space program’s landing on the moon. In honor of the achievement, Citizen Truth will run a series of articles about little known aspects of the ...
This Saturday is the 50th anniversary of the Apollo 11 space program’s landing on the moon. In honor of the achievement, Citizen Truth will run a series of articles about little known aspects of the ...
Jerrie Cobb and twelve other women passed astronaut testing for the United States’ first human spaceflight program in the early 1960s, but born years too early, not one would ever make it to space. However, ...
The Vatican is opening files on ‘Hitler’s Pope’ almost a decade ahead of schedule. Pope Francis has decided to open secret Vatican archives on May 2, 2020, to reveal details about the papacy of World ...
Not until the rise of the internet would technology have as great an impact on news as the telegraph. This is the seventh part in a Citizen Truth series on media bias and the history ...
The advent of the “pennys” marked a transition towards a broader appeal and more objectivity in newspapers. Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Part 4 | Part 5 The first five ...
“Some of the best weapons do not shoot,” said a leaked U.S. military guidebook referencing how the U.S. relies on financial institutions such as the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the World Bank (WB) to ...
“We’ve always worried about a fire at SSFL. SSFL could have and should have been cleaned up a long time ago.” Just over two weeks ago, one of California’s two major fires at the time ...
The first four parts of this series have discussed the basics of media bias, as well as press in the colonial, revolutionary and constitutional eras of U.S. history. This segment concerns a period of history ...
An explosive report from a relatively unknown journalist, Gary Webb, claimed the CIA helped foster the crack epidemic that ravaged Los Angeles in the 1980s. In 1996, a bombshell report by journalist Gary Webb claimed ...
With Brett Kavanaugh’s confirmation to the United States Supreme Court being an international topic of conversation, it would be logical for most to believe Americans would agree on the importance of exercising their voting rights ...
So far, in the “Understanding and Unpacking Media Bias” series, we have discussed the basics of media bias as well as partisanship as it related to the press during the colonial and revolutionary periods of ...
Civil rights leader Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. was assassinated by James Earl Ray in 1968—but King’s friend, attorney William Pepper, spent the remaining decades trying to prove it was merely a cover-up for a ...
The peace sign has been a universal symbol used in activism for decades, but would you believe it was birthed from an anti-nuclear weapons protest? The peace symbol is one of few universally recognizable signs, ...
It’s been a while since I published the first two articles in this series, so click here to review the first article, which provided a brief introduction to media bias and its related terms, or ...
Tamerlan Tsarnaev was the orchestrator behind the Boston Marathon Bombing in 2013, earning him labels like “terrorist” and “murderer,” but does he also fit the label of being a federal informant? Boston journalist Michele McPhee claimed ...
Towards the end of the presidential election in 2016, it was discovered that both candidates, Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton, shared one notable similarity: an office in Wilmington, Delaware that had become famous for helping ...
In 1974, a legendary bond trader from Salomon Brothers brokered a covert do-or-die deal that would reshape U.S. – Saudi relations for generations, and not become public knowledge until a report from Bloomberg in 2016. ...
“We consider this case against the background of a profound national commitment to the principle that debate on public issues…may well include vehement, caustic, and sometimes unpleasantly sharp attacks on government and public officials.” (New ...
The Domestic Security Alliance Council is a partnership of professionals connecting major U.S. companies with the FBI and DHS to help protect businesses, the economy, and national security. The Domestic Security Alliance Council (DSAC) is a strategic ...
Historical context is essential to a true understanding of bias and partisanship in U.S. news media. This article focuses on the advent and early development of newspapers in the colonial era, from about the mid ...
Occupy Wall Street (OWS) was a peaceful protest movement that began on September 17, 2011, in New York City’s Wall Street financial district. It received global attention and spawned a huge movement against economic inequality worldwide, but there was evidence that the FBI maybe have ...
The 2016 election was the year of fake news, but fake news is not such a new problem in our country. We take a look back at the congressional testimony of a young Kuwaiti ...
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