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House Democrats, Targeting Right-Wing Cable Outlets, Are Assaulting Core Press Freedoms
House Democrats, Targeting Right-Wing Cable Outlets, Are Assaulting Core Press Freedoms Democrats’ justification for silencing their adversaries online and in media — “they are spreading fake news and inciting extremism” — is what despots everywhere say. Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) (C) with other House Democrats at the U.S. Capitol January 15, 2020 […]
Congress Escalates Pressure on Tech Giants to Censor More, Threatening the First Amendment
Congress Escalates Pressure on Tech Giants to Censor More, Threatening the First Amendment In their zeal for control over online speech, House Democrats are getting closer and closer to the constitutional line, if they have not already crossed it. CEO of Twitter Jack Dorsey (R) and Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg (L) are sworn in to […]
The Journalistic Tattletale and Censorship Industry Suffers Several Well-Deserved Blows
The Journalistic Tattletale and Censorship Industry Suffers Several Well-Deserved Blows The NYT’s Taylor Lorenz falsely accuses a tech investor of using a slur after spending months trying to infiltrate and monitor a new app that allows free conversation. New York Times reporter Taylor Lorenz and Silicon Valley investor Marc Andreessen A new and rapidly growing journalistic […]
How Silicon Valley, in a Show of Monopolistic Force, Destroyed Parler
How Silicon Valley, in a Show of Monopolistic Force, Destroyed Parler In the last three months, tech giants have censored political speech and journalism to manipulate U.S. politics, while liberals, with virtual unanimity, have cheered. Users of the social media platform Parler encountered this error message as of Jan. 11, 2021, after Apple, Google and […]
The Kafkaesque Imprisonment of Julian Assange Exposes U.S. Myths About Freedom and Tyranny
The Kafkaesque Imprisonment of Julian Assange Exposes U.S. Myths About Freedom and Tyranny The real measure of how free is a society is not how its mainstream, well-behaved ruling class servants are treated, but the fate of its actual dissidents. A billboard van calling for an end to extradition proceedings against WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange […]
The Threat of Authoritarianism in the U.S. is Very Real, and Has Nothing To Do With Trump
The Threat of Authoritarianism in the U.S. is Very Real, and Has Nothing To Do With Trump The COVID-driven centralization of economic power and information control in the hands of a few corporate monopolies poses enduring threats to political freedom. (L-R): Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg, Google CEO Sundar Pichai, Apple CEO Tim Cook and Amazon […]
Glenn Greenwald’s Call Same as Bob Parry’s in 1995
Glenn Greenwald’s Call Same as Bob Parry’s in 1995 After resigning from The Intercept when it suppressed one of his stories, Greenwald is calling for a new news outlet whose aim is the same as what the creator of this website established in November 1995. Robert Parry receiving the 2017 Martha Gellhorn Prize for Journalism in London […]
Instagram is Using False “Fact-Checking” to Protect Joe Biden’s Crime Record From Criticisms
Instagram is Using False “Fact-Checking” to Protect Joe Biden’s Crime Record From Criticisms The Facebook-owned platform’s denunciation of a well-established view of Biden shows the dangers of internet censorship and the fraudulent use of “fact-checking.” Presidential candidates former vice president Joe Biden, Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), and Sen. Kamala Harris (D-Calif.) during the Democratic presidential […]
The Case For a Pardon of Edward Snowden by President Trump
The Case For a Pardon of Edward Snowden by President Trump The real criminals are those he exposed: the security state officials who illegally and unconstitutionally spied on innocent people by the millions, and who still do so. Edward Snowden speaks via video link at a news conference for the launch of a campaign calling […]
Demanding Silicon Valley Suppress “Hyper-Partisan Sites” in Favor of “Mainstream News” (The NYT) is a Fraud
Demanding Silicon Valley Suppress “Hyper-Partisan Sites” in Favor of “Mainstream News” (The NYT) is a Fraud The corporate news organizations masquerading as reliable and non-partisan are, in fact, as hyper-partisan as any sites on the internet, and spread as much misinformation. The most prolific activism demanding more Silicon Valley censorship is found in the nation’s largest […]
The New Ruling Coalition: Opposition to Afghanistan Withdrawal Shows Its Key Factions
The New Ruling Coalition: Opposition to Afghanistan Withdrawal Shows Its Key Factions An unholy union of the National Security State and the neocon-backed and corporate-funded Democratic Party are about to assume power: with media-supported internet censorship a key weapon. The Trump era has engendered numerous fractures, one might say realignments, in the political order. Long-time ideological […]
Greenwald: MSM Journalists Hate Assange Because He’s Broken More Blockbuster Stories Than All Combined
Greenwald: MSM Journalists Hate Assange Because He’s Broken More Blockbuster Stories Than All Combined “Nonsense!” — Julian Assange shouted as during the second day of his resumed extradition hearing US federal government attorney James Lewis told a witness that the WikiLeaks founder is facing extradition over the publication of informants’ names and not for merely handling leaked documents. […]
Seriously, Get The Hell Out Of Afghanistan
Seriously, Get The Hell Out Of Afghanistan With overwhelming bipartisan support, the House Armed Services Committee has added a Liz Cheney-spearheaded amendment to the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) which throws severe roadblocks in the Trump administration’s proposed scale-down of US military presence in Afghanistan and Germany. As The Intercept‘s Glenn Greenwald notes, both parties advancing the amendment cited in […]
The Empire’s War On Oppositional Journalism Continues To Escalate
The Empire’s War On Oppositional Journalism Continues To Escalate Journalist Glenn Greenwald has been charged by the Bolsonaro government in Brazil with the same prosecutorial angle used by the US to target WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange. Per The New York Times: Citing intercepted messages between Mr. Greenwald and the hackers, prosecutors say the journalist played a “clear […]
