Articles by Blake
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Three CNN Journalists Resign amid False Anti-Russia Reporting Controversy
Evan Blake | WSWS – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Jul 2017
28 Jun 2017 – Three CNN journalists resigned Monday [26 Jun] after the outlet retracted an article published on 22 Jun containing false allegations of connections between Donald Trump and Russia. It was written by Thomas Frank and edited by Pulitzer-Prize reporter Eric Lichtblau. Lex Harris, the executive editor overseeing the investigative unit, resigned alongside Frank and Lichtblau.
→ read full articleThe Statue of Liberty Was Originally a Muslim Woman
Erin Blakemore - Smithsonian Magazine,
13 Feb 2017
A little-known fact about Lady Liberty adds an intriguing twist to today’s debate about refugees from the Muslim world: The statue itself was originally intended to represent a female Egyptian peasant as a Colossus of Rhodes for the Industrial Age. That might be surprising to people more familiar with the statue’s French roots than its Arab ones.
→ read full articleMississippi Governor Signs Anti-Gay Law
Evan Blake, WSWS – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Apr 2016
6 Apr 2016 – Yesterday, Mississippi’s Republican Governor Phil Bryant enacted a sweeping anti-LGBT law that allows public and private businesses to refuse service to gay people, effectively legalizing discrimination based on sexual orientation across the state.
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Nessun Dorma (Music Video of the Week)
Blake & Camilla Kerslake – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Apr 2013
Celebrating 20 years since Pavarotti first sang Nessun Dorma for the 1990 World Cup, Blake join beautiful Camilla Kerslake to perform a unique version of the anthem at the Royal Albert Hall in London.
→ read full articleANIMAL ACTIVISTS OUTRAGED BY NEPAL’S PLANS FOR MASS ANIMAL SACRIFICE
Rhys Blakely in Mumbai – The Times,
8 Nov 2009
Plans to sacrifice more than 500,000 animals during a two-day religious festival in Nepal this month have met with the wrath of animal rights activists, who have called for the 300-year-old ritual to be banned. Every five years the tiny village of Bariyapur near Nepal’s southern border with India is swamped with blood as hundreds […]
→ read full articleTAMIL DEATH TOLL ‘1,400 A WEEK’ AT MANIK FARM CAMP IN SRI LANKA
Rhys Blakely in Mumbai,
11 Jul 2009
About 1,400 people are dying every week at the giant Manik Farm internment camp set up in Sri Lanka to detain Tamil refugees from the nation’s bloody civil war, senior international aid sources have told The Times. The death toll will add to concerns that the Sri Lankan Government has failed to halt a humanitarian […]
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