Global • Human Rights • Journalism • Press Freedom • Safety • Violence
UN Human Rights Office condemns targeting journalists and attacks on hospitals
UN Human Rights Office
un.org
Directing attacks against protected persons such as journalists is a violation of international humanitarian law and also constitutes a war crime.
Corruption • Cryptocurrency • Executive Power • Financial • Legal • Regulations
From Truth Social to bitcoin empire: Trump’s $2 billion pivot
Judd Legum, Rebecca Crosby and Noel Sims
Popular Information
Trump has the authority to take actions that will drive the price of bitcoin higher. If recent history is any guide, that is exactly what Trump will do.
Corruption • Cryptocurrency • Executive Power • Financial • Global • Legal • Regulations • Technology
Does Trump’s Biggest Crypto Backer Really Exist?
Jacob Silverman
The Nation
The strange saga of a shadowy UAE company’s $100 million investment in World Liberty Financial, the Trump-aligned crypto trader.
Cyber Security • Democracy • Europe • Global • Surveillance • Technology • Threat Management
Spain: Huawei must not be allowed access to wiretap data in the EU
Article 19
Article 19
"Beyond immediate censorship and surveillance fears, Spain risks normalising Huawei tools and technologies in ways that are detrimental to human rights and fundamental freedoms in the EU and around the world."
Democracy • Financial • Journalism • Legal • Press Freedom
Why the Fight for Local Journalism Matters
Joel Simon
Columbia Journalism Review
To sustain this new system, Thornton told me, nonprofit news organizations need diversified funding from membership, sponsorship, events, and philanthropy, which will need to support local media in perpetuity, the way they do the arts.
Executive Power • Financial • Journalism • Press Freedom • Recommended
Colbert’s Termination is a Corporate Assault on Dissent
Jeff Cohen
Common Dreams
In recent months, we’ve seen one media conglomerate after another offer what amounted to multimillion-dollar bribes to Trump by settling frivolous Trump lawsuits that these companies could not possibly have lost in court.
Democracy • Democratic Party • Disinformation • Elections • Journalism • Press Freedom • Social Justice and Equity
‘Media and Corporate Power Structures See Genuine Democracy as a Terrible Danger’
Janine Jackson
FAIR
CounterSpin interview with Jeff Cohen and Norman Solomon on Mamdani and the Democrats
Democracy • Disinformation • Executive Power • Fascism • Human Rights • Journalism • Legal • Press Freedom • Safety • Threat Management • Violence
Six months of Trump’s war on the press
Reporters Without Borders
Reporters Without Borders
This exchange of ideas, tactics, and rhetorical techniques to attack the press has created an apparent authoritarian feedback loop.
