A dangerous profession:  73 Journalists Killed in 2015 All countries and their agencies appear to be at it!  The MSM's job is as much to protect the public from  the truth, as to inform it. http://www.readingthepictures.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/05-david-gilkey-remembered.ngsversion.1465234183849.adapt_.1900. 1-600x400.jpg Award-winning photographer David Gilkey captured the harsh realities of disaster and war around the  world. He was killed June 5th 2016 in an attack in Helmand province in Afghanistan, along with NPR  interpreter Zabihullah Tamanna and an Afghan soldier. He was 50. http://www.ndtv.com/india-news/senior-journalist-shot-dead-in-bihar-at-point-blank-range-1406014? browserpush=true https://cpj.org/killed/2015/ Top Ten most dangerous countries Syria: 14 France: 9 Iraq: 6 Brazil: 6 Yemen: 5 Bangladesh: 5 South Sudan: 5 Mexico: 4 Somalia: 3 Turkey: 3 From: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_journalists_killed_in_Russia List of journalists killed in Russia From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia "The dangers to journalists in Russia have been well known since the early 1990s but concern at the number of unsolved killings soared after Anna Politkovskaya's murder in Moscow on 7 October 2006. While international monitors spoke of several dozen deaths, some sources within Russia talked of over two hundred fatalities.[1] The evidence has since been examined and documented in two reports, published in Russian and English, by international organizations. These revealed a basic confusion in terminology that explained the seemingly enormous numerical discrepancy: statistics of premature death among journalists (from work accidents, crossfire incidents, and purely criminal or domestic cases of manslaughter) were repeatedly equated with the much smaller number of targeted (contract) killings or work-related murders. The Remembrance Day of Journalists Killed in the Line of Duty in Russia is observed on 15 December every year." Who's killing the messengers?

Daily Pickings is a blog on issues and events related to the work of the Critical Thinking project and invariably references  videos, articles, books and academic papers. Accumulation of these materials adds to the "Critical Thinking reference library". We welcome comments and interaction on Daily Pickings via Comments for which you need to be logged in as a User.  Critical Thinking is a collaborative, educational project relying on contributions from diverse sources. Hi Tim, While accusations and recriminations continue to reverberate in the aftermath of the failed coup attempt in  Turkey and fingers are pointing at possible/probable US/CIA involvement (there is a long history of the  Anglo-American elite fomenting regime change), we should not lose sight of the repressive,  duplicitous nature of President Recep Tayyip Erdogan's rule. One cannot exclude the possibility that the coup  was encouraged/facilitated to flush out opposition to Ergodan's regime; the subsequent detentions give  credence to this interpretation of events. Furthermore, in multilevel geopolitical chess, this version of events  doesn't exclude the possibility of US/Israeli involvement. Prior to the coup attempt, a number of journalists have died in suspicious circumstances in Turkey with little  outrage or reporting in Western media, even when they were British or American citizens. Ex-BBC journalist Jacky Sutton found hanged in airport ‘feared ISIS would kill her’"Unless I see evidence beyond reasonable doubt that #JackySutton committed suicide, I am convinced that  she has been killed. RIP" “I’m not into conspiracies, but if the Turks say a security camera at Istanbul-Ataturk was malfunctioning then  Jacky Sutton was murdered,” Who killed Jacky Sutton? Colleagues of ex-BBC journalist head to Istanbul for answers to inexplicable death  by Tom Porter A colleague of former BBC journalist Jacky Sutton, who was found hanged in a toilet cubicle in Istanbul  airport, said claims she committed suicide "go against everything we understood about Jacky". The 50-year-old acting Iraq director for the London-based Institute for War and Peace Reporting was found  dead in Istanbul's Ataturk Airport. The Foreign Office confirmed the death of a British national in Istanbul on  18 October and said it was "providing consular assistance to the family at this time". A year before Jackie Sutton's mysterious death, Serena Shim died in Syria and Turkish intelligence services  were implicated. The Killing of Serena Shim & the ‘Suicide’ of Former BBC Journalist Jackie Sutton… by The Burning Blogger  of Bedlam Exactly a year ago – on October 19th, 2014 – the journalist Serena Shim was killed after reporting from  Kobani in Syria as a war correspondent. Her death was almost certainly the work of the Turkish intelligence  community.Meanwhile the killing of journalists and activists, either as tragic consequences of reporting from  danger zones or by deliberate, targeted assassination, is an ongoing crime all over the world.  The highly suspicious death of Jacky Sutton in a Turkish airport, just announced this evening, demonstrates  that Serena Shim wasn’t the first and won’t be the last journalist to lose their life in the field, and that she is  part of a long line of journalists who’ve been killed for various reasons over the years, including the likes of  Max Hastings, Hunter S. Thompson, Garry Webb, Daniel Pearl, Maya Nasser and many others. According to the International Press Institute, 64 journalists have been killed so far in 2015. Turkey is by no means the only country which eliminates those who may expose the crimes of the ruling  classes; the body count across the US and UK probably runs into hundreds or even thousands. Some of  the more prominent in the UK are Diana Spencer, Robin Cook, David Kelly and Jill Dando. In the US, the  Clintons' likely victims run into dozens, the latest being Seth Rich. DNC Data Director Seth Rich was likely assassinated by the Clintons The Clintons have known the Kleebs since at least 2008. Scott Kleeb started a business the Clinton Global  Initiative was found fraudulently supporting. Seth Rich was deeply entrenched with the Kleebs from their  Nebraska Democratic work. Seth Rich was hired onto a position in the DNC out of a job from a data  consulting firm which had previously worked with President Clinton, which was opened up because the  Clintons pushed for the Voter Expansion project so that 2008 didn't happen to Hillary in 2016. Seth Rich  has at least 2 connections to the Clintons. Jane Kleeb is a voracious environmentalist/Sanders supporter  who might've prompted Seth Rich to leak the emails, especially after their business was one month earlier  revealed for fraudulency. The best way to cover their tracks would be to make this seem like another  right-wing conspiracy. His murder was deemed a robbery, but nothing was missing from his person. There are few brave enough to go on record to expose the Clintons' criminality - statistically, the odds of  survival are poor. The best help we can give is to make sure these stories aren't swept under the carpet  along with all the other criminality of the ruling classes. -------------------------------- To find out more about the Critical Thinking project go to freecriticalthinking.org If you want to Comment on today's Daily Pickings go to: http://freecriticalthinking.org/daily-pickings Raise awareness of issues ignored by the mainstream media and share information by forwarding this email to a friend, colleague or family member who can subscribe to the Critical Thinking mailing list to receive Daily Pickings: http://www.freecriticalthinking.org/subscribe