Journalism

Venice Protest: No to Big Ships! The Nation 6/10

Flying into Venice for a long-awaited vacation, the biggest thing we could see from the air was not the Piazza San Marco, or the Doge’s Palace, or the Basilica—the biggest thing in Venice was a cruise ship docked in the passenger port.
In town an hour later, we saw the posters, which said (in Italian, of course), “Defend the City—Take Back the Lagoon—Days of International Struggle Against the Big Ships—June 7-8-9.” We had arrived just in time. . . .
. . . continued at TheNation.com: HERE.

We Steal Secrets: Alex Gibney talks about Wikileaks: The Nation 5/24

It’s a classic David and Goliath story: one man with a computer against the world’s most powerful nation.  But the real David in the Wikileaks story, according to filmmaker Alex Gibney, is not Julian Assange — it’s Bradley Manning.  Q&A at TheNation.com, HERE.
Alex Gibney’s film “We Steal Secrets” The Story of Wikileaks” opens in LA and NYC on Friday May 24.

Jeremy Scahill: Dirty Wars: Q&A in LA Review of Books 5/23

From the Center for the Study of Dirty Wars: my Q&A with JEREMY SCAHILL – he wrote about Obama’s secret wars in Yemen, Somalia and elsewhere in his new book DIRTY WARS: The World is a Battlefield. It entered the New York Times bestseller list at #5 last week.
At the LA Review of Books, HERE.

The Harvard Ph.D. & the Hispanics’ IQ: TheNation 5/11

He’s probably the first person ever to lose his job because of his Harvard Ph.D. dissertation–but why did Harvard give him a Ph.D. in the first place?
“The Harvard PhD and the Hispanics’ IQ: How Jason Richwine’s Dissertation Got Him Fired by the Heritage Foundation.”  TheNation.com, May 11, 2013.
http://www.thenation.com/blog/174291/harvard-phd-and-hispanics-iq-how-jason-richwines-dissertation-got-him-fired-heritage-fou