Daily Archives: September 8, 2015

Meet the new boss, same as the old boss

Posted on September 8, 2015 by a1skeptic

Last week, three Al Jazeera English-language journalists — Mohamed Fahmy, Baher Mohamed and Peter Greste — were sentenced to up to 3 years and 6 months in prison in Egypt. Even those these three were clearly journalists working for the … Continue reading →

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