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At CNN, Imagining an Absurd Iranian/ISIS Alliance

Pro-torture legal scholar Alan Dershowitz was on CNN the other night (Anderson Cooper 360, 5/17/17) arguing that the person who told the Washington Post that Donald Trump had disclosed classified information about ISIS to Russian visitors…

May 20, 2017
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Roger Ailes: No One Did More to Debase US Politics

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Roger Ailes, the man who pioneered “alternative facts,” is dead. During the first five years of Fox News—which was built almost single-handedly by Ailes’ genius—I was a regular on-air contributor/panelist there.…

May 18, 2017
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Anabel Hernández on the Death of Javier Valdez & Mexican Journalists Confronting a Surge in Violence

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Since 2000, more than 100 journalists have been murdered in Mexico. A recent report by the International Institute for Strategic Studies says that Mexico endured the second most conflict deaths…

May 18, 2017
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Saying "No to Silence": Hear Murdered Mexican Journalist Javier Valdez in His Own Words

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"Let them kill us all, if that is the death sentence for reporting this hell. No to silence." Those are the words of award-winning Mexican reporter Javier Valdez, after one…

May 18, 2017
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https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/01/opinion/donald-trump-embraces-rodrigo-duterte.html

Media to Trump: Don’t Cozy Up to Dictators–Unless They’re the Right Dictators

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After a series of friendly gestures by President Donald Trump toward Filipino President Rodrigo Duterte and Egypt’s Abdel Fattah el-Sisi over the past few months, US media have recoiled with…

May 17, 2017
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