EXCLUSIVE Interview: DVB Chief Returns to Burma After 24 Years of Exile
Joseph Stiglitz, the Nobel Prize-winning US economist, recently wrote an article on Burma that has widely been syndicated around the world. In it he says it is time for the […]
Interview with Michael Ratner of the Center for Constitutional Rights
[Audio clip: view full post to listen] Have a listen to excerpts of my interview with Michael Ratner, from which I quote liberally in this article. Mr. Ratner is president […]
Wikileaks, War Crimes, and the Rise of the Fascist State
On March 19, 2003, I was sitting at the bar of Jaks Tap in Chicago’s West Loop with a friend when the large television screen above flickered for a moment. […]
Open Letter to The Pulitzer Center and Mr. Vernaschi
I should like to take the time to address some of the issues raised in Marco Vernaschi’s response to his critics on the Pulitzer Center’s website. Both Jon Sawyer, director […]
Interview with Marco Vernaschi Retracted
For those of you who check in regularly, you may have noticed that I have removed two posts on the subject of child sacrifice in Uganda by the photographer Marco […]
Magnum Photo: Paolo Pellegrin in Iran Shortly Before Elections
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Iranian Blogger on the Run
A brave Iranian blogger who has been providing amazing original footage and minute by minute updates of events in Iran at his blog and through Facebook is apparently on the […]
Possibly Missing Journalists
I have received reports of two possibly missing journalists who have not appeared on any lists of officially detained press. The first is Amir Sadeghi of TehranLive.com and an anyonymous […]
Iran – A Nation of Bloggers
Independent reporting on human rights, environmental and conflict issues
Foreign Journalists Tell of Arrests and Beatings of Press Corps in Iran
I received a first hand report from an Iranian I know inside Iran that he was arrested and his cameras were taken away from him. Also this has appeared on […]
Letter From the Grave
Last Thursday, Lasantha Wickramatunga, editor of the Sri Lankan newspaper the Sunday Leader, was assassinated on his way to work by two gunmen riding motorcycles. He knew it was only […]
Propaganda Wars and the Gaza Offensive
by Anne Holmes Turkey’s Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan, who is working to broker a cease-fire between Israel and Gaza said yesterday that slanted coverage of the war mocks world opinion. […]
Jose Cendon and Collin Freeman Released
Jose Cendon and Collin Freeman were freed today against ransom and are on their way to Nairobi. The photographer and writer team were reporting on piracy in Somalia when they […]
ALERT: Somali Kidnappers Threaten to Kill Canadian and Australian Journalists
Amanda Lindhout While I was in Afghanistan last summer I met a young, budding photojournalist named Amanda Lindhout. She was kidnapped this past August in Somalia along with her Australian […]
Help Burma
Here is a good place to donate for Burmese victims of Cyclone Nargis. Friends have been streaming in with various reports from Burma. Most of us have been denied visas. […]
Media Blackout = Mass Murder?
An assassinated monk floating in a river. As far as we can tell Burma is not issuing any visas at the moment. The junta has shut down communication with the […]
Video of Japanese Journalist Shows Deliberately Shot
New footage has emerged of Kenji Nagai being what appears to be quite deliberately gunned down by Burmese forces at near point blank range, contradicting the junta’s official statement that […]
Burmese Kill 2 Foreign Journalists
Purported to be the Japanese journalist shot dead by Burmese troops….doesn’t look like much of an accident. Although not yet confirmed by the Embassy of Japan, the Japanese video journalist […]
Saffron Revolution: Burma on the Brink of Change?
Sign the petition Several people have contacted me asking if I am plan to go to Burma. The answer is no. I know that even going down to the embassy […]
U.S. Military Deletes AP Photos
These are the words of Col. Victor Petrenko, chief of staff to the top U.S. commander in eastern Afghanistan, as quoted in Editor and Publisher: “”When untrained people take photographs […]
Boring Day
© Anne Holmes There was no violence and no opposition to be seen on the day the courts announced they would disolve Thai Rak Thai and ban its party leaders […]
May 30: Playground or War Zone?
The May 30 Constitutional Court decision is likely to be one of the most important events since the September 2006 coup. Various groups are pledging to stage massive protests in […]
Photographer Injured in South Thailand Bomb Blast
Veteran conflict photographer Philip Blenkinsop sustained minor injuries when a bomb exploded in South Thailand’s Yala province, early Tuesday morning. 11 others were injured in the blast. Violent incidents in […]