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The U.S. Is “Morphing” Into The U.S.S.A. – The United States of Soviet America
The U.S. Is “Morphing” Into The U.S.S.A. – The United States of Soviet America We are experiencing an ever-increasing level of surveillance over the citizenry, government censorship and closed-door policies, control and manipulation of the media, and a “hardline” shift of all institutions to the left. The institutions I’m referring to specifically are the educational […]
Russian Media Irritates French Government: Curbing Press Freedom
Russian Media Irritates French Government: Curbing Press Freedom The report titled Information Manipulation: a Challenge for Our Democracies prepared by two government-linked think tanks – the French Foreign Ministry’s Center for Analysis, Planning and Strategy (CAPS) and the Defense Ministry’s Institute for Strategic Studies (IRSEM) – saw light on Sept.4. The paper urges the French government to “name and isolate” outlets that act […]
How Democracies Turn Tyrannical
How Democracies Turn Tyrannical Both monarchs of the past and dictators more in the present have denied limits on their power to command and coerce those under their control. For most of the last three centuries, the ideas of liberty and democracy have been intertwined in the minds of both friends and foes of a […]
The War on Assange Is a War on Press Freedom
The War on Assange Is a War on Press Freedom Mr. Fish / Truthdig The failure on the part of establishment media to defend Julian Assange, who has been trapped in the Ecuadorean Embassy in London since 2012, has been denied communication with the outside world since March and appears to be facing imminent expulsion […]
The Official Fake News
The Official Fake News Emmanuel Macron, who was comfortably elected to the presidency with the support of almost the entire French media, has demanded that his parliamentary majority provide him with a law against ‘fake news’ during election campaigns. Perhaps he’s preparing for the next one. The draft legislation reveals both the blindness of those […]
Free Assange
Free Assange Last week, rallies in support of Julian Assange were held around the world. We participated in two #AssangeUnity events seeking to #FreeAssange in Washington, DC. This is the beginning of a new phase of the campaign to stop the persecution of Julian Assange and allow him to leave the Ecuadorian Embassy in London […]
Is the Mexican Government Spying on Journalists?
Is the Mexican Government Spying on Journalists? On the season finale of ‘CYBERWAR,’ Ben Makuch investigates why government spyware is cropping up on Mexican reporters’ smartphones. On Tuesday, VICELAND is airing the season finale of CYBERWAR, sending Ben Makuch to Mexico to investigate the government’s potentially fraught use of hacking tools. Mexican authorities purchased spyware […]
Media Capture in the Digital Age
Media Capture in the Digital Age NEW YORK – The last couple of years have not been good for freedom of expression. The governments of Poland, Hungary, and Turkey have become increasingly authoritarian and – like leaders in the Balkans, China, and Russia – increasingly eager to control public discourse. In the United States, too, […]
NYT’s Assault on Press Freedom
NYT’s Assault on Press Freedom Exclusive: The New York Times, which once postured as the champion of a free press, now is seeking crackdowns on news that the public gets from the Internet under the guise of combatting “Russian propaganda,” explains Daniel Lazare. Once upon a time the danger to a free press came from […]
ABC & Fake News
ABC & Fake News ABC News has indeed violated the principles of a Free Press and is the example why the old Fairness Doctrine should be restored. ABC News has come out and wrote: “Every American president has sparred with the press and fought back against stories unflattering or unfair. But no sitting president has in […]
Turkey bars entry to foreign journalists, gives no explanation
Turkey bars entry to foreign journalists, gives no explanation Ataturk International Airport in Istanbul © Murad Sezer / Reuters Turkey is refusing entry to foreign journalists without providing any explanation for its actions. In the past few days a Greek photojournalist on assignment from the German tabloid Bild and an American journalist have been sent […]
Affairs of State
Affairs of State Insulting Mr. Erdoğan Can Be Dangerous Most of our readers are probably aware by now that the German government finds itself in a rather awkward situation over its relations with Turkey’s government again – with which the EU has just struck a widely criticized and very expensive deal to help it stem the flood […]
Erdogan’s war on media: Sputnik Turkey chief banned from entering Istanbul, told to fly to Russia
Erdogan’s war on media: Sputnik Turkey chief banned from entering Istanbul, told to fly to Russia Russian news agency Sputnik’s Turkish bureau chief has been blacklisted by Ankara, who refused him entry to the country in an airport, and seized his residence permit and press credentials. “I landed in Istanbul at 0:40 today with Aeroflot’s […]
