Monthly Archive: February 2014
Since mid-January farmers have been in the streets of Bangkok, protesting the government’s refusal to pay for rice held by millers. Now, as Ron Corben reports, these farmers are receiving financial backing from on-going...
Closing arguments begin Wednesday in the Florida trial of a white man accused of murder in the 2012 killing of an unarmed black youth during a dispute about loud music. Michael Dunn is charged...
History from the Archive examines how FSRN reported the news of the day, years ago. On February 12, 2003, reporter Jeremy Scahill covered a mass given in Baghdad’s Saint Joseph’s Cathedral by the then-Pope’s...
Civil liberties advocates around the world have dubbed Tuesday, February 11th, “The Day We Fight Back,” and are staging protests online and in the streets against mass surveillance by the government and corporations. More...
Eritreans fleeing human rights abuses in their homeland are routinely kidnapped by human traffickers as they cross into eastern Sudan, bound for Israel. In a new report out Tuesday, Human Rights Watch says the...
Last Fall, FSRN was forced to cease production of our daily newscast that aired on more than 100 public, community, and college radio stations around the United States. Since then, we’ve been working to...
A Pakistani freelance journalist and drone victim who was slated to travel to Europe this week to speak before three national parliaments is missing. Witnesses say armed men – some of them in police...
This is the first installment of what will become a regular segment looking at how FSRN reported this day in history. Today, we begin with how FSRN debuted as a newscast founded by reporters...