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Have We All Been Silenced?
Have We All Been Silenced? Leonard Misonne Waterloo Place, London 1899 Let me start by saying I have nothing against the English newspaper The Guardian. They publish some good things, on a wide range of topics. But they also produce some real stinkers. And lately they seem to publish quite a few of those. On […]
I Am Julian Assange
I Am Julian Assange Carl Spitzweg The raven 1845 Julian Assange appears to be painfully close to being unceremoniously thrown out of the Ecuadorian embassy in London. If that happens, the consequences for journalism, for freedom of speech, and for press freedom, will resound around the world for a very long time. It is very […]
The Only Reason We’re Examining Facebook’s Sleazy Behavior Is Because Trump Won
The Only Reason We’re Examining Facebook’s Sleazy Behavior Is Because Trump Won Trust me, there’s nobody more thrilled to see Facebook’s unethical and abusive practices finally getting the attention they deserve from mass media and members of the public who simply didn’t want to hear about it previously. I’ve written multiple articles over the years […]
1984 Is Not The Future
1984 Is Not The Future Jacobello Alberegno The Beast of the Apocalypse 1360-90 The Guardian ran an article yesterday by one of its editors, David Shariatmadari, that both proves and disproves its own theme at the same time: “An Information Apocalypse Is Coming”. Now, I don’t fancy the term apocalypse in a setting like this, […]
Facebook Cracks Down On Independent Media, Under Guise Of ‘Enhancing Relationships’
Facebook Cracks Down On Independent Media, Under Guise Of ‘Enhancing Relationships’ January 30, 2018 Nothing could have more perfectly exemplified the establishment’s use of Orwellian Newspeak than Facebook’s latest move to censor independent thought under the pretense of caring about the emotional wellbeing of the masses. The media giant has been documented live-streaming murders, suicides, rapes, […]
How Facebook and Google threaten public health – and democracy
How Facebook and Google threaten public health – and democracy The sad truth is that Facebook and Google have behaved irresponsibly in the pursuit of massive profits. And this has come at a cost to our health ‘Substance cannot compete with sensation, which must be amplified constantly, lest consumers get distracted and move on.’ Photograph: Anadolu […]
The real strike price of offshore wind
The real strike price of offshore wind Hinkley still scores on reliability and low carbon ….. but the extent to which its costs are obscene is now plainer than ever. In Monday’s capacity auction, two big offshore wind farms came in at £57.50 per megawatt hour and a third at £74.75. These “strike prices” ….. […]
The Guardian view on censoring the internet: necessary, but not easy
The Guardian view on censoring the internet: necessary, but not easy Who should protect us online? And who will guard us from these guards? Personal abuse, when it is not accompanied by threats of violence or worse, should not be the domain of the government Photograph: Dominic Lipinski/PA Among the more absurd things ever said […]
Here’s How Facebook Decides What You Can And Can’t See
Here’s How Facebook Decides What You Can And Can’t See One of Facebook’s overwhelmed content moderators – who reportedly sometimes have just 10 seconds to decide whether or not a piece of content is appropriate for the site’s immense user base or not – appears to have leaked a slideshow outlining the company’s complex rules […]
On WikiLeaks, Journalism, and Privacy: Reporting on the Podesta Archive Is an Easy Call
On WikiLeaks, Journalism, and Privacy: Reporting on the Podesta Archive Is an Easy Call FOR YEARS, WIKILEAKS has been publishing massive troves of documents online — usually taken without authorization from powerful institutions and then given to the group to publish — while news outlets report on their relevant content. In some instances, these news outlets work in direct […]
European Union’s Imperial Overreach
European Union’s Imperial Overreach Exclusive: The European Union’s haughty and hasty expansion into low-wage Eastern Europe may be its undoing, as the Brexit vote shows popular resistance to the westward migration of workers that followed, writes Jonathan Marshall. While few analysts are putting it this way, the European Union suffers from a self-inflicted crisis of overexpansion […]
George Soros: “Brexit Makes EU Disintegration Irreversible”
George Soros: “Brexit Makes EU Disintegration Irreversible” Just four days ago, the “big guns” when George Soros wrote a Guardian op-ed titled “The Brexit crash will make all of you poorer – be warned” in which he said that “as opinion polls on the referendum result fluctuate, I want to offer a clear set of […]
Mafia Expert Calls Great Britain the “Most Corrupt Place on Earth”
Mafia Expert Calls Great Britain the “Most Corrupt Place on Earth” The City is a semi-offshore state, a bit like the UK’s crown dependencies and overseas territories, tax havens legitimized by the Privy Council. Britain’s financial secrecy undermines the tax base while providing a conduit into the legal economy for gangsters, kleptocrats and drug barons. Even the more […]
Washington Launches Its Attack Against BRICS
Washington Launches Its Attack Against BRICS Having removed the reformist President of Argentina, Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner, Washington is now disposing of the reformist President of Brazil, Dilma Rousseff. Washington used a federal judge to order Argentina to sacrifice its debt restructuring program in order to pay US vulture funds the full value of defaulted […]
‘Corruption’ as a Propaganda Weapon
‘Corruption’ as a Propaganda Weapon Exclusive: Mainstream U.S. journalism and propaganda are getting hard to tell apart, as with the flurry of “corruption” stories aimed at Russia’s Putin and other demonized foreign leaders, writes Robert Parry. Sadly, some important duties of journalism, such as applying evenhanded standards on human rights abuses and financial corruption, have been so corrupted […]
