Nathan Robinson: Media bias is OK – if it’s honest
Conservatives are more open to leftwing arguments when they come from people who don’t pretend to be perfectly objective Most people distrust the media,…
Angie Speaks Interview: Witchcraft, Anarchy and the Rise of LeftTube
A new generation of leftists are fighting the alt-right and influencing the progressive discourse one video essay at a time. We asked anarchist and…
Joan Donovan & Brian Friedberg: Source Hacking: Media Manipulation in Practice
Online media manipulators often use specific techniques to hide the source of the false and problematic information they circulate. Joan Donovan and Brian Friedberg…
Zapatista Communique: We Broke the Siege
Hermanos, Hermanas, Hermanoas: Compañeras, Compañeros, Compañeroas: We bring you our word. The same word as yesterday, today, and tomorrow. It is the word of…
The Straits Times, “Police in Indonesia’s Papua ban ‘anarchist’ demos after mass protests”
Police in Indonesia’s Papua region on Monday (Sept 2) banned demonstrations that could lead to “anarchist acts” following nearly two weeks of mass protests…
The Washington Post, “There is an anti-fascist rebellion brewing in the Pacific Northwest. And soccer is at the center of it.”
The seeds of dissent were visible almost immediately. Soccer officials had notified the Timbers Army, the main fan organization for the team in Portland,…
Willamette Week, “Cider Riot Releases Iron Front Cider in Protest of the Portland Timbers’ Ban of the Antifascist Symbol”
When the Portland Timbers announced in May that its fans could no longer fly banners bearing an antifascist symbol, the raucous Timbers Army was…
Rebecca Centeno: What the Border Patrol Doesn’t Want You to Know About Their Abuses
They don’t protect me, they rape me,” women in green bandanas shouted at police in Mexico City on August 16 as thousands of mostly…
Charlotte Shane: Still Eating Animals – Jonathan Safran Foer’s struggles to save the planet
Way back in 2001, when I was a teenager furious at Bush for withdrawing from the Kyoto treaty, I still believed Something Would Happen…
The Nation, “A Soccer Game Becomes an Anti-Fascist Demonstration in Portland”
The silence was stunning. Portland Timbers soccer matches are renowned for their raucousness, but the first 33 minutes of the Timbers’ match against their…