A Nonprofit, Reader-Supported News Organization
NOW LIVE ON WhoWhatWhy Book Excerpt: “Syria Burning” By Charles Glass If you want to know the who, what, why of how things got so bad in the Syria (and, in some ways, the rest of the Middle East)—read this excerpt from Syria Burning by Charles Glass, a book so beautifully written you will hardly […]
If you want to know the who, what, why of how things got so bad in the Syria (and, in some ways, the rest of the Middle East)—read this excerpt from Syria Burning by Charles Glass, a book so beautifully written you will hardly know you are reading. It is more like seeing.
Published by OR Books, New York and London, 2015.
NOW LIVE ON WhoWhatWhy No Love For Snowden By Klaus Marre The chairman of the Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs recently praised whistleblowers, though he has been an outspoken opponent of Edward Snowden. Why the double standard when it comes to Snowden? WhoWhatWhy Media Extras: Russ Baker’s Jeb Bush Analysis By Russ Baker […]
NOW LIVE ON WhoWhatWhy Editorial: Sheriff Out of Town, Election Cash Outlaws Rule By Klaus Marre A WhoWhatWhy editor laments the FEC’s regulatory collapse in the face of blatant election law dance-arounds. WhoWhatWhy Media Extra: Paul DeRienzo on Thom Hartmann By The WhoWhatWhy Team Paul DeRienzo appeared on the Thom Hartmann Program to talk about […]
NOW LIVE ON WhoWhatWhy Drone Deaths, Obama, and a Better Use for These Craft By Lisette Cheresson Earlier this year, two innocent hostages—one American, one Italian—were killed by a US-led unmanned drone strike meant to target al-Qaeda. By some estimates, the drone strikes that President Obama has authorized have murdered more innocent people than the […]
With the June 30 deadline looming to reach a deal in the Iran nuclear talks, we revisit the good old days when everyone was still entirely misled about Iran’s nuclear program. Have those days really passed?
The goodwill President Obama first enjoyed with our Latin American neighbors has thawed, in large part due to an executive order signed in March that labels Venezuela an “extraordinary threat.”
The War on Drugs has caused just as much damage, destruction, and loss of life as any war in the traditional sense. Rebecca Gordon, University of San Francisco professor and author of the book Mainstreaming Torture: Ethical Approaches in the Post-9/11 United States, joins us to discuss.
NOW LIVE ON WhoWhatWhy New FBI Tactic Hints at Big DC Cover-up of Saudi 9/11 Funding by Russ Baker The FBI is disowning an explosive internal report—which ties the 9/11 hijackers to some highly connected Saudis. Just what is going on here? Russ Baker looks at the Deep Politics in play as Cover-up Central goes […]
NOW LIVE ON WhoWhatWhy Why WhoWhatWhy’s Boston Marathon Bombing Coverage Is Important by Klaus Marre Traditional news outlets have all but abdicated their duty to ask the hard questions. Boston Globe columnist Kevin Cullen is a case in point – he’s on a first-name basis with the police involved in Dzhokhar Tsarnaev’s capture. Klaus Marre […]
NOW LIVE ON WhoWhatWhy RadioWHO Ep. 6: From Russia With Death by Jeff Schechtman The role of Vladimir Putin on the world’s stage, from Syria to Ukraine, is complicated, and some see him as an important moderating influence on the West’s virtually unchecked power. But his role in his own country is deeply troubling. And […]
The role of Vladimir Putin on the world’s stage, from Syria to Ukraine, is complicated, and some see him as an important moderating influence on the West’s virtually unchecked power. But his role in his own country is deeply troubling. And the public is terrified, because his opponents keep getting murdered. RadioWHO host Jeff Schechtman talks to Bill Browder, who was once Russia’s largest foreign investor. That’s until his criticism of Putin forced him to leave, and his lawyer was jailed and murdered.