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A Danish Journalist Arrived to Cover the TMX Pipeline. The Guard at YVR Decided to Deport Him
A Danish Journalist Arrived to Cover the TMX Pipeline. The Guard at YVR Decided to Deport Him Kristian Lindhardt says Canada’s laws stifle press freedom afforded ‘during every crisis.’ Danish documentary-maker Kristian Lindhardt works with his country’s version of the CBC and has visited BC many times working on his documentary about the the Tsleil […]
Establishment Journalists Call For Big Tech to Censor Everyone Else
ESTABLISHMENT JOURNALISTS CALL FOR BIG TECH TO CENSOR EVERYONE ELSE In a major threat to what’s left of press freedom, establishment journalists are calling for Big Tech to censor those who won’t parrot the government-approved official narrative. Journalist Sulome Anderson has publically called for censorship of a site because it’s an independent news source. Anderson […]
Grayzone Editor Max Blumenthal Arrested Months After Reporting on Venezuelan Opposition Violence
Grayzone Editor Max Blumenthal Arrested Months After Reporting on Venezuelan Opposition Violence Blumenthal has been arrested on false charges after reporting on Venezuelan opposition violence outside the D.C. embassy. He describes the manufactured case as part of a wider campaign of political persecution, reports Ben Norton. Max Blumenthal, the editor of the news site The Grayzone, […]
The Forgotten Media Purges of the Great Depression
The Forgotten Media Purges of the Great Depression Republican Hoover built the federal broadcasting shield in 1927. Roosevelt fashioned it into a weapon in 1934 and Democrats have never put it down since. One might consider the elaborate FCC speech barriers: A Poll Tax on Public Debate One of the more enduring myths accepted as reality […]
Freedom of the Press? Not in the U.S.
Freedom of the Press? Not in the U.S. The United States ranks 48th among nations for press freedom, according to Reporters Without Borders. Since few other countries have the equivalent of our First Amendment, learning that we rank below Botswana and Slovenia may come as a surprise. Mostly the organization pins this dismal state of […]
The CIA’s “Intelligence Authorization Act” Would Criminalize Whistleblowers and Reporters
The CIA’s “Intelligence Authorization Act” Would Criminalize Whistleblowers and Reporters (Starts at approx. 5:00)A CIA written Bill called the Intelligence Authorization Act (SB 3153) would criminalize whistleblowers and reporters. Section 733 Sense of Congress on WikiLeaks: “It is the sense of Congress that WikiLeaks and the senior leadership of WikiLeaks resemble a nonstate hostile intelligence service often […]
Government That Tortures Journalists Bans RT From Media Conference
Government That Tortures Journalists Bans RT From Media Conference The British Foreign Office has banned Russian outlets RT and Sputnik from attending the upcoming Global Conference on Media Freedom in London, citing their predilection for “disinformation”. “We have not accredited RT or Sputnik because of their active role in spreading disinformation,” said a Foreign Office spokeswoman. “It takes a […]
Professional Assange Smearers Finally Realize His Fate Is Tied To Theirs
Professional Assange Smearers Finally Realize His Fate Is Tied To Theirs Rachel Maddow has aired a segment condemning the new indictment against Julian Assange for 17 alleged violations of the Espionage Act. Yes, that Rachel Maddow. MSNBC’s top host began the segment after it was introduced by Chris Hayes, agreeing with her colleague that it’s surprising that more news outlets aren’t giving this […]
The Legal Narrative Funnel That’s Being Used To Extradite Assange
The Legal Narrative Funnel That’s Being Used To Extradite Assange Isn’t it interesting how an Ecuadorian “asylum conditions” technicality, a UK bail technicality, and a US whistleblowing technicality all just so happened to converge in a way that just so happens to look exactly the same as imprisoning a journalist for telling the truth? Following […]
“Assange Is Not A Journalist!” Yes He Is, Idiot.
“Assange Is Not A Journalist!” Yes He Is, Idiot. As we discussed yesterday, whenever Assange is in the news and people are defending him you always see a bunch of hyper-emotional empire loyalists running around online trying to manage the narrative about him. One of the most common talking points which comes up is that Assange is […]
Trump Derangement International
Trump Derangement International Diego Velázquez The Spinners 1655-60 Dirk Kurbjuweit, deputy editor-in-chief of Germany’s Der Spiegel magazine for the past 4 years, unwittingly put his foot a mile deep in his mouth this week when he reacted to a letter written by US Ambassador to Berlin Richard Grenell. His reaction presents perhaps the most […]
America Is One Of The World’s Deadliest Countries For Journalists
America Is One Of The World’s Deadliest Countries For Journalists Media group Reporters Without Borders said Tuesday it has observed a terrifying trend in the number of journalists killed and imprisoned worldwide, in 2018. For the first time, the US is one of the world’s deadliest countries for journalists after six were killed. The Paris-based group, also known as […]
The “Resistance” Struggles To Justify Support For Trump’s Prosecution Of Assange
The “Resistance” Struggles To Justify Support For Trump’s Prosecution Of Assange Ever since suspicions were confirmed that the Trump administration is indeed working to prosecute and imprison WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange for publishing authentic documents, the so-called “Resistance” has been struggling to explain exactly why it is so enthusiastically supportive of that agenda. And when I […]
As the Obama DOJ Concluded, Prosecution of Julian Assange for Publishing Documents Poses Grave Threats to Press Freedom
As the Obama DOJ Concluded, Prosecution of Julian Assange for Publishing Documents Poses Grave Threats to Press Freedom THE TRUMP JUSTICE DEPARTMENT inadvertently revealedin a court filing that it has charged Julian Assange in a sealed indictment. The disclosure occurred through a remarkably amateurish cutting-and-pasting error in which prosecutors unintentionally used secret language from Assange’s […]
Lynching Journalists
Lynching Journalists Washington Post Global Opinions correspondent, Jamal Khashoggi, who is Saudi, entered his country’s consulate in Istanbul Tuesday of last week and hasn’t been seen since. Worse, Turkish officials say that Khashoggi was killed inside the consulate, his body dismembered, and then sneaked out of the building—lynched, you might say, and then disappeared, instead of […]
