Jim Risen
Photo credit: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing

To lead off the Yelm Community Blog in 2015 come these very important stories:

– “If Journalists Ever Stop Uncovering Abuses of Power, We Will Lose Our Democracy”
“Perhaps the administrations of George W. Bush and Barack Obama have been prosecuting James Risen for not revealing a confidential source not so much because “classified information” was disclosed, but rather because Risen has a long record of detailing government incompetence and misdeeds. In PAY ANY PRICE, Risen uncovers fraud and malfeasance of massive financial proportions during the war in Iraq and the cancerous spread of the surveillance-industrial state,” by James Risen, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing, in Truthout.
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– “Award Winning German Journalist: ‘I was educated to lie, to betray, and not to tell the truth to the public.'”
“A top German Journalist and Editor Dr. Udo Ulfkatte has just gone public with some shocking admissions.
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