The Washington Post broke with recent corporate media practice by daring to raise questions about who killed Martin Luther King Jr., as William F. Pepper and Andrew Kreig explain.

There will always be a margin of error, but after years of reporting on the region, certain things can be fairly accurately anticipated, such as the outcome of Arab elections. By Robert Fisk.

Reflecting on revisionist history 50 years later. By Matt Taibbi.

If you are a radical leftist who believes, as generations of leftists before you have done, that military, political, media, and financial elites operate in the shadows to promote their interests, to wage class war, then not only are you a conspiracy theorist, according to Pfeffer, but you are by definition anti-semitic as well. By Jonathan Cook.

Six Questions for A.G. Sulzberger. By Andrew J. Bacevich.

Huey Long was a populist who championed the little guy over big business, but his attempt to muzzle the press empowered the very corporate interests he inveighed against. By Adam Winkler.

Worshipping the media is as foolish as worshiping politicians. By James Bovard.

ABC, AP and others ran with false information on shooter’s ties to extremist groups. By Shawn Musgrave.

The war in Syria has resulted in the deaths of hundreds of thousands, the majority are most likely to be from among the Syrian Arab Army soldiers, defending their country and their people against the wave of terrorism that has been unleashed upon Syria by a cabal of over seventy UN member states. Another regime change war under the familiar banner of “humanitarian” intervention on behalf of the “people” who are, again, dying in droves thanks entirely to this latest US/UK/EU-Coalition proxy military intervention. By Vanessa Beeley.

The daily newspaper columns of H.L. Mencken. By Bill Kauffman.

Three were fired, and two others left in limbo, in a purge that targeted employees involved in coverage of Newsweek Media Group’s financial and legal troubles. By Maggie Astor.

The late publisher of Consortium News was a trailblazer who held lazy reporters and groupthink in the highest contempt. By Kelley Beaucar Vlahos.

Photojournalist Eddie Adams captured one of the most famous images of the Vietnam War - the very instant of an execution during the chaos of the Tet Offensive. It would bring him a lifetime of glory, but as James Jeffrey writes, also of sorrow.

The War Nerd’s interview with guest, journalist and author Robert Parry, one of the original crusading investigative journalists who broke the Iran-Contra and Contra-cocaine stories in the 80s, the October Surprise— and experienced first-hand the crushing of independent investigative journalism from Reagan through today. Starts at 33:30. (Mar. 20, 2017)

Robert Parry, editor and publisher of Consortiumnews.com, died peacefully Saturday evening. In this tribute, his son Nat Parry describes Robert's unwavering commitment to independent journalism.

The crew of The Post celebrates leaking the Pentagon Papers but gets all touchy when Obama's secret surveillance is mentioned. By Nick Gillespie.

The Guardian recently published an amazingly deceitful hit piece on skeptics of the establishment Syria narrative who point to the piles of evidence that the so-called White Helmets are nothing other than a western-backed propaganda firm for the destabilization efforts in Syria. By Caitlin Johnstone.

The way reporters are responding to a dishonest White House is not enhancing their credibility. By Ramesh Ponnuru.

Where No Center Holds. By Alexander Zubatov.

The Times’ favorite shitposter says he wasn’t radicalized on the internet. But that’s where his movement has been revived. By Charlie Warzel.