Pacific News Service
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Pacific News Service (PNS) is a nonprofit media organization founded in 1969. It is an alternative news source.
Pacific News Service operates a news wire service, produces documentary films and television shows, and publishes Youth Outlook, a monthly newmagazine by and about young people. It was originally created to provide "news and analysis on the U.S. role in Vietnam." PNS is known for running stories written by or about those on the margins of society and thus, has been alternately accused of being too far left and too far to the right. Sandy Close, the organization's executive director, identifies as socially conservative and politically radical. In the 1990s she was recipient of the prestidegous MacArthur Genius Award for her work in giving "voice to the voiceless" through Pacific News Service.
Currently, PNS also serves as a clearinghouse for news and feature stories from and in America's ethnic media.
Some noted contributors include:
- Lucy Komisar, investigative journalist who wrote on Gladio (Italian branch of NATO "stay-behind" secret paramilitary organizations, which has been involved in terrorist "false flags" operations, starting with the 1969 Piazza Fontana bombing; and also on Clearstream scandal, one of the biggest financial scandal ever (based in Luxembourg, Clearstream is a "bank of bank", owned 100% by the German Stock Exchange, and allegedly a main operator of money-laundering in the world)
- Andrew Lam
- Lyn Duff
- Renée Montagne
- Richard Rodriguez, contributor to PBS Newshour
- Franz Schurmann, founder of PNS
- Jamal Dajani
