Ian Williams

Me as FPA President Editorial for FPA Newsletter.

New Visa Requirements threaten Our Members

The Foreign Press Association was born in New York at the end of the First World War, and

also stuck around for the Second. Its members have chronicled epidemics, depressions and

recessions, witnessed the birth of radio, TV - and the Internet. However now there is an

impending "Perfect Storm," putting in doubt our raison d’ être. If the foreign press are not

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=awwK5O5mpLU

https://www.wrmea.org/north-america/wannabe-secretary-generals-tiptoe-th...

https://www.reuters.com/legal/government/british-far-right-commentator-milo-yiannopoulos-detained-by-ice-2026-08-28/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=twitter

To keep dancing a jig on the grave of Mladic, I must add to Twain's alleged comment that he wished no man dead, but he often read obituaries with great pleasure, Hell, this one gave me rigor mortis of the dimples.

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/27/world/europe/ratko-mladic-dead.html

I am opposed to the death penalty on principle... but if I would not bother joining abolitionists in a vigil to preserve Mladic. In fact even diehard abolitionists might will give this one a pass. Good riddance! What kept you, Death?

It is really deja vu all over again. Larry Beinhart's Wag the Dog.

 Albania ((unheard when the film was made )- a war, a Presidential Peace Prize for a war that he invented, a gullible press led by the nose. The big difference is that this White House just stumbled serendipitously into a` swamp of Congressional and media fecklessness and  contrived  and constructed voter indifference. 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1v4ZLwevXAI

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z0B4vfT8Au0

Manx, Sami, Welsh and Scouse :)

 August 19, 2026 

RE: DHS final rule establishing a fixed time period of admission for representatives of foreign media organizations and journalists (July 17, 2026) 

Dear Members of Congress, 

We are a coalition of nonprofit journalist associations and press freedom advocacy organizations writing in opposition to the U.S. Department of Homeland Security’s (DHS) new restrictive rule ending the decades-long practice of admitting foreign correspondents for as long as their assignments last.