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Criminal Defense Lawyer Columnist Adjunct Professor of Law at DePaul Supporter of independent journalism

Chicago
Joined February 2011
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Corporate media constantly presents Pentagon officials and other war profiteers as “impartial experts” rather than what they are: people with a vested interest in maintaining a permanent war economy. @YoBenCohen @upinarms_us
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Legacy media is withering away, writes Patrick Sullivan in @RStatecraft. The rise of independent media has shattered the grip of corporate news, seriously weakening the “fanciful and self-serving narratives” our government and its corporate backers use to shepherd America to war. responsiblestatecraft.org/le…
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Max Blumenthal with the mic drop. "The Israeli regime doesn't want the media to tour Gaza for the same reason Nazi Germany didn't want the Western press to enter Buchenwald." @MaxBlumenthal @TheGrayzoneNews
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In 2007, then-CIA officer @JohnKiriakou blew the whistle on official US torture practices. Our government threw him in jail for 2.5 years. He remains the only US official to do time in connection with the torture program. Not for participating in it, but for telling the truth.
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DISPATCHES FROM A POLITICAL HIT JOB “I’m the anti-Nixon. I want the tapes played.” Hosts @GoodmanLen and Patrick Sullivan interviewed former Illinois governor, @realBlagojevich, the victim of one of the preeminent political witch hunts of the 21st century. Rod’s case laid the groundwork for the rash of malicious political lawfare we’ve seen unleashed by both party machines in recent years. Let’s break it down. (1/10)
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