“This is an amazing book by an amazing author. Heinrich is a naturalist of the first rank, champion ultramarathoner, woodsman of skills seldom seen in modern times, and not least, as Mind of the Raven illustrates, a nature writer of uncommon talent. By living with the ravens for many years, literally at home and in…
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#BoycottCNN: Do Not Give the Criminal Trump a Platform for Lies
“Our government … teaches the whole people by its example. If the government becomes the lawbreaker, it breeds contempt for law; it invites every man to become a law unto himself; it invites anarchy.” – Justice Louis Brandeis “The Press was protected so that it could bare the secrets of the government and inform the…
The Secret But True Story of Network News and The Happy Pill
Satire – Fiction – Film Proposal -Â By Glynn Wilson -Â WASHINGTON, D.C. â Here’s a movie script idea for Netflix or one of the other streaming companies. FADE UP FROM BLACK – A secret cabal of corporate executives are huddled in a conference room in a New York skyscraper. They are watching video clips…
Operation Zap: A Novel and Film by Aaron Murphy
Editor’s Note: In 1992, while working as a staff writer and reporter for a chain of newspapers on the Gulf Coast, I stumbled onto a dangerous story involving electromagnetic fields and pulses being developed by Naval Intelligence in Pensacola, Florida. The stories I wrote about it were so controversial that a rogue agent working for…
The American Crisis: By Thomas Paine – 1776
Editorâs Note: We publish this here today in honor of Presidentâs Day, and especially to honor George Washingtonâs brilliant plan to cross the Delaware River and attack the British Red Coats at Trenton, New Jersey on the night of December 25, 1776, which turned the tide and gave the American Revolution the public opinion boost…
Common Sense: By Thomas Paine – 1776
Rudyard Kipling’s ‘If: A Father’s Advice to His Son’
Justice Department Sues Google for Monopolizing Digital Advertising Technologies
Staff Report – WASHINGTON, D.C. — The United States Department of Justice and eight states filed a civil antitrust lawsuit against Google on Tuesday for monopolizing multiple digital advertising technology products in violation of Sections 1 and 2 of the Sherman Act. Filed in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia on…
Big Tech’s Advertising Monopoly is Destroying the American Press and Damaging Democracy
By Ken Buck – Special to the New American Journal – The first brilliant idea Google founders Sergey Brin and Larry Page had was to “crawl” — and trawl — the World Wide Web. Using spiders, it would copy what it found, create vast databases of web content, and then “index” that content, evaluating it…
Bipartisan Support for Regulation of Big Tech Means It’s Coming in 2023
By Glynn Wilson â WASHINGTON, D.C. — Elon Musk of Twitter, Mark Zuckerberg of Meta, the methhead hacker/programmers at Google and YouTube and their lobbyists in Washington, as well as their Republican friends in the House, do not want to hear this. But there is little doubt that more government regulation of social media is…
Reflections on Dr. Martin Luther King
By Bob Reilly – Rideshare by Robert: Every Ride’s a Short Story, contains stories, observations, inspirations, and reflections resulting from a 7-Year, 25,000 ride journey before, during and after the Covid-19 Pandemic. Here’s one story from the book: Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Passions were running high, and confusion, fear and chaos reigned. And as…
Beyond Section 230: Three Suggested Ways to Make Big Tech More Accountable and Transparent
Editor’s Note: As we have been reporting for some time, there is academic research taking place to offer potential solutions to the problems of social media. Here’s one example. The difficulty of making any progress on these issues over the next few months is going to be the problem of partisan divisiveness in Congress, distorted…
Porn, Piracy, Fraud: What Lurks Inside Google’s Black Box Ad Empire
By Craig Silverman and Ruth Talbot – – In late 2021, the right-wing site Conservative Beaver published a story falsely claiming the FBI had arrested Pfizerâs CEO for fraud. It wasnât Conservative Beaverâs first brush with fabricated news. The site had falsely claimed Barack Obama was arrested for espionage, Pope Francis was and âhuman trafficking,â…
Democrat Katie Hobbs Beats Trump Republican Kari Lake in Arizona Governor’s Race
Google’s Ad Business Funds Disinformation Around the World
By Craig Silverman, Ruth Talbot, Jeff Kao and Anna Klühspies – ProPublica – Google is funneling revenue to some of the webâs most prolific purveyors of false information in Europe, Latin America and Africa, a ProPublica investigation has found. The company has publicly committed to fighting disinformation around the world, but a ProPublica analysis, the…
Facebook-Cambridge Analytica Scandal Lawsuit Settled for Undisclosed Sum
Staff Report – As the legal and financial heat continue to rain down on Mark Zuckerberg at Meta-Facebook, the tech giant has caved at the last minute and agreed to settle a massive lawsuit seeking billions in damages for allowing Cambridge Analytica to access the private data of tens of millions of users, data used…
Public Confidence in the Press, Media and American Institutions Continues Free Fall in the U.S.
The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – WASHINGTON, D.C. — Where should a wary public turn for reliable information? Too bad it’s not working out to try turning the clock back to the 20th century to trust in newspapers and television news. The Gallup Poll became the gold standard for public opinion back then,…
A Novel Theory: Try Being Nice, People
The latest public opinion on gun control, white nationalism and the future of democracy – The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – Here’s a novel theory: What if people at least tried to be nicer? Boring, I know. And of course it won’t work, because so many people are, let’s face it, basically dumbasses…
Frederick Douglass Delivers Address on John Brown in West Virginia, May 30, 1881
Full text of “John Brown. An address by Frederick Douglass, at the fourteenth anniversary of Storer College, Harper’s Ferry, West Virginia, May 30, 1881”: source text edited from print style to web press style JOHN BROWN: AN ADDRESS FREDERICK DOUGLASS, FOURTEENTH ANNIVERSARY, STORER COLLEGE, Harper’s Ferry, West Virginia, May 30, 1881. DOVER, N. H.: MORNING…
Facebook Hosted Surge of Misinformation and Insurrection Threats in Months Leading Up to Jan. 6 Capitol Attack, Records Show
The Insurrection – The Effort to Overturn the Election – By Craig Silverman and Jeff Kao, ProPublica, along with Craig Timberg and Jeremy B. Merrill, The Washington Post — Facebook groups swelled with at least 650,000 posts attacking the legitimacy of Joe Biden’s victory between Election Day and the Jan. 6 siege of the U.S.…