Arriving behind the anti-Trump “resistance” and the Russia-gate “scandal” is a troubling readiness to silence dissent in the U.S., shutting down information that challenges Official Narratives, writes Robert Parry.

A photojournalist facing a criminal trial on several felony charges sounds like something that would happen in another country. So this article is written in the style that would be used if it did. By Ryan J. Reilly and Christopher Mathias.

A sobering assessment and a warning. By Melody Kramer.

We need a new 'Manufacturing Consent.' By Matt Taibbi.

As the author of an article labeled “pro-Russia propaganda,” I can testify that unorthodox views are under attack. By Dave Lindorff.

DNAinfo and Gothamist weren’t shuttered because of money. They were shut down because they unionized. By Hamilton Nolan.

They say that journalism is a calling. Noble as that may seem, part of the job is sitting through advance screenings of films like Thor: Ragnarok to inform readers whether it’s worth their time and money. That mission is particularly important for The Los Angeles Times, given LA’s position at the heart of the entertainment industry. But a multinational corporation is denying the newspaper a chance to complete it out of spite. By David Uberti.

That’s a handy attitude to cultivate for the next time you want to sell a “humanitarian” war. By Jim Naureckas.

The oral history of how a determined Chicago reporter convinced her boss to do something that hadn’t been done before—to create a fake business with a real location. By Andy Wright.

Thomas Jefferson was looking for someone to write a hit piece... By David Uberti.

It depends on what counts as a mass shooting — and the typical definition leaves out some pretty bad attacks. By German Lopez.

Forget China, the Internet police are already here in U.S. By Philip Giraldi.

Media depicted the end to the CIA's Syrian rebel program, which fueled Al Qaeda and ISIS, as a concession to the evil Russian puppet master. By Ben Norton.

Russian journalists called for less “hysteria” in U.S. news coverage of the Trump-Russian investigation. By Joshua Yaffa. (July 6, 2017)

It has been amusing watching the New York Times and its fellow mainstream media cohort express their dismay over the rise and spread of “fake news…” By Edward S. Herman.

Mary Katherine Goddard printed one of the most famous copies of our founding document. To do it, she had to face down the Twitter trolls of 1776. By Petula Dvorak.

The New York Times announced earlier this month that it was “restructuring” its copy desk, which is corporate-speak for laying off lots of copy editors, turning more than 100 jobs into about 50. Today, fellow Times reporters protested. As they should. By Diana Moskovitch.

Why can’t America reliably separate out fact, falsehood, opinion and reasoned analysis? By David V. Gioe.

A founding Russia-gate myth is that all 17 U.S. intelligence agencies agreed that Russia hacked into and distributed Democratic emails, a falsehood that The New York Times has belatedly retracted, reports Robert Parry.

How a group from Rebel Media has been bullying the White House Press Correspondents. By Brian Karem.