Author: Richard Eskow

American Press Drops to 49th in Free Press Status Rankings

American Press Drops to 49th in Free Press Status Rankings

Posted by | Feb 16, 2015 | , |

Reporters without Borders (ROWB) released their 2015 World Press Freedom Index report, and the United States fell to 49th out of 180, down from 32nd in from just two years ago. According to RWOB, “In the United States, 2014 was marked by judicial harassment of New York Times investigative reporter James Risen in connection with the trial of Jeffrey Sterling, a former CIA officer charged under the Espionage Act with giving him classified information. US journalists are still not protected by a federal shield law that would guarantee their right to not name their sources or reveal other confidential...

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Fox News Host Eric Bolling Says Christians Never Killed For Religion

Fox News Host Eric Bolling Says Christians Never Killed For Religion

Posted by | Feb 9, 2015 | , , , |

Fox News host Eric Bolling appeared on television Saturday to criticize President Obama’s speech at the National Prayer Breakfast, reported Talking Points Memo. In doing so, Bolling said Christians have never murdered anyone in the name of God. “Reports say radical Muslim jihadists killed thousands of people in the past few months alone,” said Bolling. “And yet when you take Christianity, Judaism, Hinduism, Buddhism, whatever, their combined killings in the name of religion — well that number would be zero.” Conservative Republican-types got up in arms when Obama compared the massive, religious-fueled slaughters committed by the Islamic State to...

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Prosecutor: Vatican Police Investigated Two Cases of Child Pornography in 2014

Prosecutor: Vatican Police Investigated Two Cases of Child Pornography in 2014

Posted by | Feb 6, 2015 | , |

Gian Piero Milano, the Vatican’s Promoter of Justice, recently reported that Vatican police had investigated “two delicate cases, of varying degrees of seriousness, of possession of child pornography material” by people living or working within the city-state. Milano gave no specific details, but a Vatican spokesman confirmed that one of the cases involved Jozef Wesolowski, “a former archbishop who was arrested last September in the Vatican on charges of having paid for sex with children while he was a papal ambassador in the Dominican Republic, Reuters reported. Pope Francis, who has “vowed zero tolerance” for those who sexually abuse...

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Zero Question That Greenland is Melting; Impact Far Worse Than We Thought

Zero Question That Greenland is Melting; Impact Far Worse Than We Thought

Posted by | Jan 24, 2015 | , |

New research from Ohio State University has shown unequivocally that climate change is forcing the ice on Greenland to melt away. During the course of their research they observed two lakes that had disappeared. According to Addicting Info: Lakes that contain billions of gallons of water form underneath Greenland’s ice sheet. Their existence has been known of and well documented for a long time. A lake disappearing though, is a bizarre occurrence that Cornell University, Michael Bevis, Ohio Eminent Scholar in Geodynamics and professor of earth sciences at Ohio State, who co-authored the paper, call a “milestone” for Greenland’s...

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Papantonio: Republicans Are Too Dysfunctional to Lead

Papantonio: Republicans Are Too Dysfunctional to Lead

Posted by | Jan 13, 2015 | , |

Virtually every serious critic of the Democratic Party usually concludes that the party suffers from a severe lack of cohesiveness and unity. They usually use the description of trying to herd a huge number of addle brained cats up a muddy hill. On the other hand, the GOP in the past has usually been characterized as a disciplined, unified, well coordinated political party, even as they have consistently tried to lead America to the edge of an ugly abyss. It is their discipline and skewed vision that has allowed them to help create the dysfunctional democracy that we all...

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