October 2, 2025
Big Boy Rules by Steve Fainaru is a shocking expose of the parallel mercenary army on the ground in Iraq. The OPC Book Night will take place on Monday, December 1, and begin with a Reception at 6 p.m. and the Talk at 6:30 p.m.
More than 120 people registered to attend the sold out reception and
panel discussion at the Overseas Press Club celebrating the U.S. launch
of quarterly dispatches with its second edition, “beyond Iraq,” a
magazine that puts much needed context back in to foreign
correspondence.
We welcomed Judge Yevgeny Zubov’s decision to allow the public to witness the trial in Moscow of the three men accused of complicity in the murder of Anna Politkovskaya. But then the judge reversed himself, but he was right the first time: Only complete transparency can dispel suspicions that the Russia government is concealing crucial facts in this case.
UPDATE: 19 Nov. — Hugh Mulligan, who has reported from around the world during 49 years with AP as one of its most famous writers, was found all but comatose at 5 a.m. on November 13 by his wife Brigid.
It is rare that the OPC finds it necessary to speak out for freedom of the press in the United States. But the case of Chauncey Bailey, murdered editor of the Oakland Post, demands that we join the voices of so many others in calling for a fresh investigation of his murder.
Helen Thomas, senior White House correspondent and an OPC member, was back on the White House beat in November after a long illness that started in May and recuperation.
We write to urge an immediate and transparent investigation into the death of journalist, Qari Muhammad Shoaib, who was shot dead on November 8 at the wheel of his car by soldiers in Mingora in the Swat Valley.
We write to protest the secret sentencing of our colleague, Daniel Kibrom, to five years of hard labor, and to express our revulsion at the vile conditions of the Ala Bazit prison camp where he is being held.
We write to condemn the arrest of Emmanuel Emeka Asiwe, editor of the on-line publication, www.huhuonline.com. A United States national, Asiwe was detained at the Muritala Muhammed International Airport on his arrival from the United States on 28 October. He is the second blogger to be arrested in Nigeria within a week.
OPC member Peter J. Gardner is the son of the late Ralph Gardner, who decades ago started writing a column in the Bulletin about the doings of members and foreign correspondents, a column now titled “People.”
