The FBI’s Account Of The Death Of A Boston Bomber Acquaintance Keeps Getting Shadier

If the photographs shown by the father of a recently-killed Florida resident are real, the FBI may find it difficult to talk its way out of this.

by Frederick Reese

FBI Shoots, Kills Friend Of Boston Bombing Suspect After Questioning Him

Ibragim Todashev, 27, reportedly was connected to Tamerlan Tsarnaev through the mixed martial arts community.

ORLANDO, Fla. — A man being questioned by authorities in the Boston bombing probe was fatally shot when he initiated a violent confrontation, FBI officials said Wednesday. The shooting early Wednesday took place in Orlando, Fla., where an FBI agent along with other law enforcement personnel were interviewing the man, identified as 27-year-old

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Anatomy Of A Blame Game: Boston Bombing Suspect’s Friends Charged

As the media obsesses over charges against a group of 19-year-olds, some wonder what the societal function of finger-pointing is, or isn’t.

One month after the detonation of two improvised explosive devices at the 2013 Boston Marathon left three people dead and more than 200 wounded, the network of individuals thought to be involved in the attack continues to expand. Three friends of bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev have been accused of obstructing justice.

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Frederick Reese

Frederick Reese

Frederick Reese is lead staff writer for Mint Press specializing in race, poverty, congressional oversight and technology. An award winning data journalist and creative writer for over 15 years, Frederick has written about and worked for social advocacy projects and personal awareness efforts. Frederick is a jack-of-all-trades, with work experience as a teacher, a pastry chef and a story writer. Frederick has publication credits with Yahoo!, B. Couleur, and more. A native New Yorker, Frederick graduated from Colgate University in 1999 and Johnson & Wales University in 2003. Frederick started his journalistic career writing for his university’s newspaper, “The Colgate Maroon-News,” before starting and heading his own magazine, “The Idealist.” Most recently, Frederick received a data journalism award from the International Center for Journalists for his minimum wage coverage for MintPress. Follow Frederick on Twitter: @frederickreese

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Altruism In The Wake Of Human Destruction: A Message Of Hope

In the aftermath of the Boston Bombing tragedy, examples of human altruism that emerged perhaps showcase the best of humanity, and a glimmer of hope.

“Real love is not based on attachment, but on altruism."

The Dalai Lama stated this recently at a talk he gave at the Taj Mahal in Delhi.

“Thus, the practice of compassion and wisdom is useful to all, especially to those responsible for running national affairs, in whose hands lie the power and

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US Gun Violence Epidemic Overshadowed By Rare Acts Of ‘Terrorism’

As one million people across the greater Boston area sat in lockdown while police searched for Boston bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev earlier this month, 11 Americans were killed elsewhere in acts of gun violence. The majority of those killed remain faceless victims, part of the 10,000 killed each year in homicides involving firearms. The Boston […]

As one million people across the greater Boston area sat in lockdown while police searched for Boston bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev earlier this month, 11 Americans were killed elsewhere in acts of gun violence. The majority of those killed remain

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Journalism Could Be Vehicle For Peace and Justice — Boston Bombing Coverage Proves Otherwise

Carissa Wyant If it’s not confirmed, don’t report it. It’s one of the very first rules that aspiring journalists learn to live by. So if this is one of the cardinal rules of journalism, why in recent tragedies such as the Boston Marathon bombing, has the media gotten so many details wrong in reporting on […]

Carissa Wyant

If it’s not confirmed, don’t report it. It’s one of the very first rules that aspiring journalists learn to live by.

So if this is one of the cardinal rules of journalism, why in recent tragedies such as the Boston Marathon bombing, has the media gotten so many details wrong in reporting on the event?

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Filling the Empty Battlefield

Tom Engelhardt Chalmers Johnson’s book Blowback: The Costs and Consequences of American Empire was published in March 2000 — and just about no one noticed.  Until then, blowback had been an obscure term of CIA tradecraft, which Johnson defined as “the unintended consequences of policies that were kept secret from the American people.”  In his prologue, […]

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Chalmers Johnson’s book Blowback: The Costs and Consequences of American Empire was published in March 2000 — and just about no one noticed.  Until then, blowback had been an obscure term of CIA tradecraft, which

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Tom Engelhardt created and runs the Tomdispatch.com website, a project of The Nation Institute where he is a Fellow. He is the author of a highly praised history of American triumphalism in the Cold War, The End of Victory Culture, and of a novel, The Last Days of Publishing, as well as a collection of his Tomdispatch interviews, Mission Unaccomplished. Each spring he is a Teaching Fellow at the Graduate School of Journalism at the University of California, Berkeley.

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