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Jason Leopold Receives Reporting Award From Project Censored »

By The Public Record - The Public Record

We missed posting this announcement when the news was released late last year. TPR co-founder and Truthout’s lead investigative reporter, Jason Leopold, received an award from Project Censored for an in-depth report he published in January 2011 about a controversial spiritual fitness test the US Army required all of its active duty soldiers to take. [...]...

February 21 2012 / No comment / Read More »

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Military Officer Exposes Afghanistan “Success” As A Lie »

By William Fisher - The Public Record

“Rosy official statements” from top US military brass are misleading the American people into believing our occupation of Afghanistan is yielding solid results toward...

Feb 21 2012 / No comment / Read More »

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Economic Elite Vs. The People: 99% Movement Call To Action Two Year Anniversary Book Release »

By David DeGraw - The Public Record

Editor’s Note: History should record that the birth of the 99% Movement was on September 17, 2011. That was when the movement became a...

Feb 20 2012 / No comment / Read More »

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Support Independent, Investigative Journalism: Help TPR Raise $1,000! »

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Dear Readers, Running a project such as The Public Record running is very difficult. We’re not supported by foundation grants or corporate interests. Our...

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Investigative Journalist Jason Leopold Sues FBI, CIA, DOJ Claiming FOIA Violations »

By Truthout - The Public Record

This report was written by Jason Leopold and originally published on Truthout. Over the past year, I’ve filed dozens of Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests with the FBI, CIA, Department of Defense, and other government agencies in hopes of prying loose documents I need...

Feb 18 2012 / 2 comments / Read More »

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Judith Miller Defends “The Hunted Men Who Brought Growth And Reform” To Egypt »

By William Fisher - The Public Record

Judith Miller, you may recall, is the Pulitzer Prize-winning ex-New York Times journalist who left the paper after it was discovered that she was Bush-era Vice President Dick Cheney’s “stenographer.” A Times investigation found serious errors in many of her stories about weapons of mass...

Feb 16 2012 / No comment / Read More »

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Egypt: The Army’s Chess Match? »

By William Fisher - The Public Record

Tensions between long-standing allies Egypt and the US climbed to a new high this week as Egypt’s ruling generals arrested 43 employees of the country’s non-profit non-governmental human rights organizations – including several from the US. But many are suggesting that the US organizations are...

Feb 14 2012 / No comment / Read More »

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Is It Time To Occupy Big Media? »

By Dustin Slaughter - The Public Record

“Between the public sector and the private sector, we have wreaked untold havoc on the media environment.” These aren’t the words of a progressive media advocate such as University of Illinois professor Robert McChesney or The Nation’s John Nichols, but of ex-FCC commissioner Michael Copps...

Feb 14 2012 / 3 comments / Read More »

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Iran’s Bomb: Haven’t We Been Here Before? »

By William Fisher - The Public Record

I am far from any kind of expert in nuclear weapons development, so I could be 180 degrees wrong. But I have a growing sense that the increasingly ominous reports about Iran’s A-bomb aspirations mimic a story I’ve heard before. It was in 2002 and...

Feb 7 2012 / No comment / Read More »

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How Did An Al-Qaeda Magazine Get Into Guantanamo? That’s A Secret, Pentagon Says »

By Jason Leopold - The Public Record

This report was originally published on Truthout. The Pentagon won’t release any details of an investigation initiated by the commander of the Guantanamo Bay detention facility revolving around the discovery of “contraband” at the prison, which included a magazine produced by an offshoot of al-Qaeda...

Feb 4 2012 / 3 comments / Read More »

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Former Guantanamo Detainee Forcibly Repatriated To Algeria By US Sentenced To Prison »

By Jeffrey Kaye - The Public Record

This story was originally published on Truthout. The UK action charity Reprieve, whose attorneys represent over a dozen prisoners at Guantánamo Bay, reports that former Guantánamo prisoner, Algerian citizen Abdul Aziz Naji, has been sentenced to three years in prison in Algeria. Reprieve says the...

Feb 1 2012 / No comment / Read More »

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