http://www.jareducation.com What's really sad is it never got weird enough for me. . . Lazlo and Nixon are both gone now, but I don't think I'm going to believe that 'til I can gnaw on their skulls with my very own teeth. . . If they're out there, I'm going to find them, and I'm going to gnaw on their skulls. Because it still hasn't gotten weird enough for me. - Hunter S. Thompson Thu, 30 Apr 2009 19:05:28 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en From Chicago-based journalist Robert Koehler. His full essay on torture as treason. It's an eloquent argument (maybe the best I've seen yet and I've read everything published in the media on torture for the last two months). Politics as we practice it these days - as the Democrats practice it, I ... http://www.jareducation.com/2009/04/30/politics/ Immigration Detention story. I'm sending you to Free Speech Radio News which took my story and paid me–the first time I earned money on an assignment! This story opened my eyes to our countries treatment of prisoners. Read "Hellhole" in the New Yorker on solitary confinement. Its torture and we know ... http://www.jareducation.com/2009/03/30/430/ Glen Greenwald writes about the split in journalism known as Cacooning, where only those with sympathetic views to a particular source will be allowed to talk to them. I couldn't help but feeling that is the way objective journalism would have it, don't challenge the source, just ask the easy ... http://www.jareducation.com/2009/02/28/427/ For three weeks now I have been covering stories related to torture. With little time and no leads on sources, I did a good job with a story on Obama and the rendition program. Rendition, a Human Rights Watch director told me, means different things to different people. John Hamilton ... http://www.jareducation.com/2009/02/17/on-the-torture-beat/ This is the non-narrative piece that I did for KPFA over the last few weeks. It will air on our station at some point, maybe soon, and with any luck will be featured on a national broadcast in March for a homelessness day. The idea for this assignment was to ... http://www.jareducation.com/2009/02/11/my-name-is-ethan/ Audio: D-TV in Oakland http://www.jareducation.com/2009/01/27/digital-transition-in-oakland/ Anchor: More front doors in West Oakland are being boarded up because of the housing crisis. But some housing rights organizations are fighting to keep their communities in tact. This Martin Luther King Holiday, the national reform group ACORN went house to house today educating people about their rights as homeowners ... http://www.jareducation.com/2009/01/20/acorn-working-in-west-oakland/ I just wrote a long article on Gaza in response to the ongoing conversation with Josh Bull and Jonathan Harper. After I wrote it I came across this article by Tariq Ali written in the Guardian, where he echoes this theme of humanity. He also argues for a one-state solution, which ... http://www.jareducation.com/2009/01/15/humanity-of-palestinians/ For background: Josh Bull sent me this article. I reference it several times. A much fairer treatment is found here: Hamas compromising, not hell-bent on Israeli destruciton, and here. Dig around on that site, counterpunch.org, for some really-well informed, rational articles, especially in relation to Israel, Hamas and Palestine. Its not ... http://www.jareducation.com/2009/01/15/response-to-alan-dershowitz/ I had the pleasure of doing a follow-up story on the SEIU. Because of the nature of the day, I was able to spend time conversing with experts about the larger picture of unions, and not just focus narrowly on one news item. Steve Early, a labor journalist whom I ... http://www.jareducation.com/2009/01/13/seiu-labor-story/