People Who Are Against Hate

Journalism Is The Only Profession Explicitly Protected By The U.s. Constitution, Because Journalists Are Supposed To Be The Check And Balance On Government. We're Supposed To Be Holding Those In Power Accountable. We're Not Supposed To Be Their Megaphone. That's What The Corporate Media Have Become.

While Law-abiding Muslims Are Forced To Hide In Their Homes, And Animal-rights Activists Are Labeled As Terrorists For Undercover Filming Of Abusive Treatment At Factory Farms, Right-wing Hate Groups Are Free To Organize, Parade, Arm Themselves To The Hilt And Murder With Chilling Regularity. It’s Time For Our Society To Confront This Very Real Threat.

In One Of His Final Acts In Office, President Obama Shortened The Sentences Of 209 Prisoners, Pardoned 64 Individuals .the List Included Army Whistleblower Chelsea Manning, Longtime Imprisoned Puerto Rican Independence Activist Oscar López Rivera And Retired U.s. Marine Corps General James Cartwright. But Missing From The List Is 71-year-old Native American Activist Leonard Peltier.

War Coverage Should Be More Than A Parade Of Retired Generals And Retired Government Flacks Posing As Reporters.

But For The Media To Name Their Coverage Of The 2003 Invasion Of Iraq The Same As What The Pentagon Calls It — Everyday Seeing 'operation Iraqi Freedom' — You Have To Ask: 'if This Were State Controlled Media, How Would It Be Any Different?'