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Less Than a Week in Office, Trump May Erase Obama’s Real “Progress” in War on Terror
Today, New York Times journalist Charlie Savage published a three-page draft of an executive order that President Trump is preparing to sign. In short, the draft order would undo many of the actual reforms to the war on terror implemented by the Obama administration. (I say “actual” because many national security observers give Obama too…
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At Company’s New York Office, Activists Protest Facebook’s Collaboration with Israel on Political Repression
Outside of Facebook’s office at 770 Broadway in New York on Friday afternoon, activists protested Facebook’s recent partnernership with the Israeli government to crack down on “incitements to violence.” Despite the constant heavy rain, nearly two dozen protesters showed up to the event, organized by the Samidoun Palestinian Political Prisoner Solidarity Network and NYC Students…
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What type of investigation did the FBI conduct into Ahmad Khan Rahami?
As news breaks that Chelsea bomber Ahmad Khan Rahami’s father contacted the FBI two years ago to report that he feared his son was a “terrorist” (as did the father of the “underwear bomber” to the CIA), a slight discrepancy has surfaced between reports published by The New York Times and The Guardian. While the…
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At RNC, Media Put a Happy Face on Suppression of Speech
Originally published at Fairness and Accuracy In Reporting. News media could either be our ally or our enemy—we wanted them as an ally,” Laurie Pritchett said in a 1985 interview about his strategy as police chief in Albany, Georgia, during Martin Luther King, Jr.’s desegregation efforts in 1962. Pritchett famously ordered his officers to enforce…
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Police Keep Blocking Access to Cleveland’s Public Square Using “T-Formation”
(See my Perisocope video of the police action here.) For the past hour and a half, police have gradually pushed demonstrators and other members of the public out of the center of Public Square in Cleveland, the site of 2016’s Republican National Convention. A local ABC reporter told (about 4:30 in the Periscope video) her…
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Prophets of Rage Take Over Streets of Cleveland on Day One of Republican National Convention
Day one of the 2016 Republican National Convention in Cleveland, Ohio, began with an eerie hush. The streets were empty for much of the morning as a few drivers and walkers (including Wolf Blitzer) alike tried to figure their way around the 10-foot tall fence – plastered with “No Drone Zone” signs courtesy of the…
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The Fordham Observer’s Milquetoast Journalism Manifests Itself Perfectly in Story About Its Own Well-Being
The Fordham Observer failed to alert its readers to an administrative decision that threats its well-being and long-standing structure.
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The Supreme Court Just Agreed with Me on Arizona’s Redistricting Plan
Yesterday, in Harris v. Arizona Independent Redistricting Commission, the Supreme Court unanimously affirmed a lower court’s decision to uphold a legislative map drawn by an independent redistricting commission that ensures representation among voters of color. Republican voters sued on the grounds that they believed the map violated the “one-person, one-vote” principle because it was too…
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Q&A with Prof. Christina Greer on the Presidential Election
A condensed version of the following interview, conducted on April 6, was originally published at the Fordham Observer. Until I can afford to upgrade my website, unfortunately I am unable to upload the audio file of the interview. Gunar Olsen: This is Gunar Olsen with the Fordham Observer, and I’m speaking with Christina Greer, associate…