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NOW LIVE ON WhoWhatWhy Surveillance and Oppression We Can Believe In by DonkeyHotey and Dan Engelke Sometimes, pictures speak louder than words. With evidence the Obama Administration is the most tight-lipped ever, here’s a picture to complete the story. DonkeyHotey and Dan Engelke show you the score. In Tsarnaev Trial, Prosecutors Turn Hostile Toward Own Witness […]
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 […]
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 looks at what’s missing from the mainstream press at Tsarnaev’s trial.
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.
NOW LIVE ON WhoWhatWhy MEDIA FAIL: Is the West’s Coverage of Ukraine a Failure of Nuclear Proportions? by Martin Hellman Mainstream media coverage of the Ukrainian crisis focuses almost exclusively on Putin’s errors, overlooking mistakes made by the West. This bias increases the risk of a false step that could put U.S. and Russia back […]
ABC News took the Boston Marathon bombing prosecution’s spin at face value—and quickly regretted it. Instead of correcting it, though, ABC just made stealthy changes to its online story. Who’s got the secret online life now?
Anyone in the spin business knows the value of releasing bad news at the right time. Is that what Hillary Clinton did with her email brouhaha? Klaus Marre levels a critical eye at the timing of Hillary’s “revelation.”
The drug war brought U.S. commandos into Mexico, but the opening of the country’s once publicly-owned energy resources to foreign investors may provide justification for the secretive American presence there to escalate—especially if the cartels are successfully painted as “narcoterrorists.”
NOW LIVE ON WhoWhatWhy FBI’s ‘Smoking Gun Video of Boston Marathon Bombing Doesn’t Exist By Lara Turner Right up until the opening of Boston Marathon Bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev’s trial, rumors about the existence of a video showing him dropping a bomb-laden backpack at the scene persisted. Now, the evidence is in – the video […]
NOW LIVE ON WhoWhatWhy Net Neutrality: Victory for the People or One Set of Companies Over Another? — by Joseph L. Flatley The FCC defied cynics by preserving Net Neutrality, resisting pressure from big telecom providers to give them greater control over the Internet. But is all the cheering about people power masking a risky marriage […]
NOW LIVE ON WhoWhatWhy The ISIS Truth We Hide From by Bob Hennelly Is it possible that American foreign policy, rather than exporting democracy and building nations, has in fact been fomenting terrorism and destroying countries? Bob Hennelly examines the disturbing evidence. Boston Bombing Trial Finally Gets A Date For Opening Statements by The WhoWhatWhy […]
Is it possible that American foreign policy, rather than exporting democracy and building nations, has in fact been fomenting terrorism and destroying countries? Bob Hennelly examines the disturbing evidence.