I am writing today to announce the closure of the Michigan Messenger. After four years of operation in Michigan, the board of the American Independent News Network, has decided to shift publication of its news into a single site, The American Independent at Americanindependent.com. This is part of a shift in strategy, towards new forms [...]
An abstinence-only presentation provided to numerous school districts in Calhoun and Eaton Counties in October of this year provided false and misleading information to students about HIV, experts allege.
Two county registers of deeds filed a class action lawsuit Monday on behalf of Michigan’s 83 counties alleging that the Mortgage Electronic Registration Services owes millions of dollars in property title transfer taxes.
Despite evidence of the impact of mercury on children and public health, Michigan Attorney General Bill Schuette last month joined with 24 other state attorneys general in filing a lawsuit to scuttle new EPA regulations that would reduce mercury emissions from power plants.
A London court has agreed to release Wikileaks founder Julian Assange from jail after a group of supporters, including filmmaker Michael Moore, posted $315,000 in bail.
“Governments have always been discomfited by a probing press,” Moore wrote in a witness statement filed with the court. “With the hollowing out of newsrooms, in large part as a consequence of the new digital world, old media have largely abandoned the territory of investigative journalism. … I support Julian, whom I see as a pioneer of free speech, transparent government and the digital revolution in journalism.”
Last month Wikileaks shared hundreds of thousands of secret diplomatic cables with media organizations and published them online.
Assange has been in jail for a week in connection with Swedish sex crime charges.
In a public statement Moore said that by releasing secret government information Wikileaks is promoting better U.S. foreign policy.
We were taken to war in Iraq on a lie. Hundreds of thousands are now dead. Just imagine if the men who planned this war crime back in 2002 had had a WikiLeaks to deal with. They might not have been able to pull it off. The only reason they thought they could get away with it was because they had a guaranteed cloak of secrecy. That guarantee has now been ripped from them, and I hope they are never able to operate in secret again.
Moore asked those who think it is wrong to support Assange because of the sexual assault charges he faces to “not be naive about how the government works when it decides to go after its prey. Please — never, ever believe the “official story.”
In addition to $20,000 in bail money Moore has offered Wikileaks the use of his website, servers, and domain names.
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