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NOW LIVE ON WhoWhatWhy RadioWhoWhatWhy: Trials are Not a Search for the Truth by Jeff Schechtman The mainstream media seems to be moving to where WhoWhatWhy has long been on the Boston bombing story. Welcome to the truth. 2016 Presidential Race: WhoWhatWhy Curates the Best of the Media Stream by The WhoWhatWhy Team Following the […]
NOW LIVE ON WhoWhatWhy RadioWhoWhatWhy: Economic Growth Slows for a Decade. Governments Do Exactly the Wrong Thing By Jeff Schechtman Just how weak is the global economy, how did we get here, and what should governments be doing to rekindle growth? Jeff Schechtman talks to the FT’s economics guy. WHO Is the Pentagon Crying Wolf […]
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U.S. banks are summarily canceling accounts of some customers with Islamic surnames. Why? They won’t say. And the trend is happening coast to coast, according to a Muslim advocacy group. Is the government behind it?
NOW LIVE ON WhoWhatWhy BOSTON UPDATE: Tsarnaev Tries To Move Bombing Trial Again by Andy Thibault Dzokhar Tsarnaev’s lawyers are again trying to get his looming trial moved out of Boston. Despite a stream of potentially prejudicial publicity and polls showing the majority of Bostonians think he’s guilty, there’s little chance the judge will agree. […]
WhoWhatWhy Editor-in-Chief Russ Baker is interviewed by Boston-based syndicated radio host Chuck Morse about the Boston Marathon Bombing trial and the FBI.
Convicted Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev’s lawyers filed a motion last month requesting a new trial, at a different venue. Media superficially covering the filing glossed over an important defense claim: evidence Tsarnaev’s team says shows at least some of the jurors were exposed to “inflammatory” information on their social media feeds.
The Ft. Lauderdale shooter has something significant in common with other recent perpetrators of violence: he had been previously investigated by the FBI and other agencies. Instead of the usual hand-wringing over “missed opportunities,” maybe it’s time to ask what exactly is going on in these assessments?
The latest from the prosecution in the trial of Dzhokhar Tsarnaev from the federal courthouse in Boston.
The latest from the defense in the trial of Dzhokhar Tsarnaev from the federal courthouse in Boston.
NOW LIVE ON WhoWhatWhy Marathon Bomber Appeals Conviction: Do His Lawyers Know Something We Don’t? By James Henry Dzhokhar Tsarnaev’s lawyers continue the legal formalities necessary to build a case for appeal, despite an unequivocal admission by the defendant of his own guilt. Is there anything to be gleaned from an appeals trial about the […]