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Gawker hits HuffPost I Fund
Tough piece on Gawker yesterday about the HuffPost Investigative Fund. John Cook particularly goes after the project for running almost all of its investigations on its for-profit partner, The Huffington Post, along with a scattering of other sites, such as AlterNet and Common Dreams.
Esther Kaplan

January 26, 2010
Sri Lanka Blocks Websites Hours Before Announcement of Poll Results
After Google's announcement that it would stop filtering its search results in China when its email accounts were hacked from within the country, there's more news on the silencing of information front: Sri Lanka's main internet service provider blocked access to independent news websites just hours before the expected announcement of poll results.
Jayati Vora

January 26, 2010
For Obama, No Opportunity Too Big To Blow
Contrary to countless reports, the debacle in Copenhagen was not everyone's fault. It did not happen because human beings are incapable of agreeing, or are inherently self-destructive. Nor was it all was China's fault, or the fault of the hapless UN...
Naomi Klein

December 21, 2009
Ambassador Lumumba, What Do You Really Think?
On Wednesday in Copenhagen, I interviewed Lumumba Stanislaus Di-Aping, the chief negotiator for the G77, the largest developing country bloc represented at the climate summit in Copenhagen. Over the course of the negotiations, Ambassador Lumumba has gained a reputation for candor...
Naomi Klein

December 17, 2009
Climate Structural Adjustment: We’ll Save Your Life on Our Terms
It's the second to last day of the climate conference and I have the worst case of laryngitis of my life. I open my mouth and nothing comes out. It's frustrating because I was just at Hillary Clinton's press conference and desperately wanted to ask her a question...
Naomi Klein

December 17, 2009
Memo to Danes: Even You Cannot Control This Summit
On Saturday night, after a week of living off of conference center snack bars, a group of us were invited to a delicious home-cooked meal with a real live Danish family. After spending the evening gawking at their stylish furnishings, a few of us had a question...
Naomi Klein

December 13, 2009
Fight Climate Change, Not Wars
In the U.S. plenty of bloggers have pointed to the irony of Barack Obama collecting the Peace Prize while he launches a major escalation of the war in Afghanistan. Here in Copenhagen, the Nobel carries a special set of ironies...
Naomi Klein

December 10, 2009
Copenhagen: Where Africa Took on Obama
The highlight of my first day at COP15 was a conversation with the extraordinary Nigerian poet and activist Nnimmo Bassey, chair of Friends of the Earth International. We talked about the fact that some of the toughest activists here still pull their punches when it comes to Obama...
Naomi Klein

December 8, 2009
Blasts in Iraq Aren’t News Anymore
At the front desk, the hotel manager tells me to settle up my tab; it's been a long time and the bill is rising. "Tomorrow," I tell him...
Shane Bauer

February 21, 2009
Army Builds Fantasy Island in Second Life
The U.S. Army has scores of bases scattered all across the world. Soon, it’ll be occupying virtual territory in a bid to win recruits.
Nick Turse

December 3, 2008

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