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NOW LIVE ON WhoWhatWhy Bring Snowden Home? European Panel Says It’s Time by Klaus Marre Is Edward Snowden “still a traitor” or is he now an agreed-upon American hero? Europe seems to think it is the latter, and it is urging the United States to bring him home. WHO Top U.S. CEOs Reaped Billions From […]
NOW LIVE ON WhoWhatWhy RadioWHO Ep. 8: Danny Schechter the News Dissector R.I.P. by Jeff Schechtman Pioneering author, filmmaker and media reform activist Danny Schechter saw the dystopian future of the corporate media long before it became a reality. RadioWHO host Jeff Schechtman spoke with “the News Dissector,” who died last week at the age […]
NOW LIVE ON WhoWhatWhy The Politics of Surviving Guantánamo by Mohamedou Ould Slahi Mohamedou Ould Slahi reveals what it takes to make it through Gitmo when the American justice system won’t take “I didn’t do it” for an answer. WHO Americans Split on Support for Fracking in Oil, Natural Gas Fracking isn’t a slam-dunk. A […]
NOW LIVE ON WhoWhatWhy RadioWHO Ep. 7: The Truth, the Whole Truth and Everything But the Truth by Jeff Schechtman Criminal trials are often anything but a search for the truth. That’s certainly the case with the trial of Dzhokhar Tsarnaev. Tune in with RadioWHO host Jeff Schechtman for a conversation with WhoWhatWhy Editor-in-Chief Russ […]
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 No “Eureka” Moment in Boston Bombing Videos or Images by Lara Turner Grainy, dark, faded and inconclusive. That’s what most of the photographic and video evidence in the case against Dzhokhar Tsarnaev looks like. And since the defense has done little to question it, who’s going to? Lara Turner looks at […]
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 Will a $30 Million Lawsuit Over FBI Killing of Witness Todashev Shed Light on Boston Bombing? by Joanne Potter Will a $30 million lawsuit being filed over the FBI killing of a Boston Bombing witness shed any more light on shooting riddled with questions, secrecy and official reversals? Joanne Potter looks […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 on the edge of the nuclear abyss.
NOW LIVE ON WhoWhatWhy The Real Reason Walmart U-Turned on Wages by Curt Hopkins Walmart’s recent decision to raise its workers’ wages got plenty of applause. But it looks like the deep-discount retailer gave itself a huge public-relations bargain, instead of making real changes that could help some of its employees get off welfare. Curt […]