Journalist all around the world, including the West are being shot, killed, threatened, and imprisoned for reporting facts & the truth. Why is that? — Most American’s take the First Amendment, more specifically “freedom of the press” for granted. I suspect once “freedom of the press” has been abolished people will then speak up, if they even notice it’s missing. The breakdown of global press freedom is closely related to the broader decline of democracy.

Assange’s persecution and jailing would have global repercussions for journalism and freedom of the press — Love him or hate him but WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange’s fate is of profound and historical importance and could define the future of the freedom of the press and journalism There are some in the West who are fully convinced Assange deserves to be tried and thrown in jail for…

Trump continues to publicly imagine journalists who work with leakers getting raped in prison — The former US President Donald Trump will supposedly announce his 2024 presidential run next week and hence, the continuation of his war on the media. …

The Kyiv Independent, the cure for propaganda . . . hopefully — One thing that bothers me about the “Ukrainian war” is the conflicting stories from Russia and the conflicting stories coming from the west: In other words the propaganda. I really want to know what’s going on, the truth. But in wartime, the truth is usually the first casualty. Just look…

Threats both old and in the digital age seek to impose censorship on independent journalists around the world — Threats both old and in the digital age seek to impose censorship on independent journalists around the world. This couldn’t be more true today than ever. The birth of the internet, it’s argued foreshadowed the death of censorship. In 1993, internet pioneer one of the founders of the Electronic Frontier…

The truth becomes more and more a crime in the West. Either you agree with their Anti-Russia narrative or you end up in their Gulags. — Threats both old school and in the digital age seek to impose censorship on independent journalists around the world who undermine western narratives. This couldn’t be more true today than ever before and the war in Ukraine proves this fact. A German independent journalist, 28-year-old Alina Lipp, who is a…