Category Archives: censorship
New York Times stokes anti-Russia campaign to promote Facebook, Twitter censorship
By Bill Van Auken Source: WSWS.org The New York Times has mounted a concerted campaign promoting a crackdown on political expression on social media on the basis of unsubstantiated allegations of Russian government interference in the 2016 US presidential election. … Continue reading
Google Censors Block Access to CounterPunch and Other Progressive Sites
By Eric Sommer Source: CounterPunch The U.S. government, and the information technology companies which collaborate with it, is moving fully into the camp of governments which relentlessly utilize the internet to collect users online data, monitor their activities, and control … Continue reading
U.S. War Justification Is in the Eye of the Beholder
By David Swanson Source: Let’s Try Democracy The idea that the United States has a problem with war propaganda is typically scratched in a bad-apples manner with a story that the U.S. has set up a new propaganda agency, such … Continue reading
Google ‘News’ is hideous
By Wayne Madsen Source: Intrepid Report Even before its recent “redesign,” which was claimed to provide an “uncluttered” look, Google News was one of the worst news aggregator sites on the Internet. Many longtime Google News users have complained about … Continue reading
America’s Real Red Scare
The Slow-Motion Collapse of the American Empire By William J. Astore Source: TomDispatch.com Jump into your time machine and let me transport you back to another age. It’s May 2001 and the Atlantic Monthly has just arrived in the mail. … Continue reading
The West’s War on Free Speech
By Tony Cartalucci Source: Land Destroyer With a name like the “National Democratic Institute” (NDI) one might expect the US State Department-funded, corporate-financier chaired front to be the premier proponent of freedom and democracy worldwide. And although it poses as … Continue reading
Forbidden Questions? 24 Key Issues That Neither the Washington Elite Nor the Media Consider Worth Their Bother
By Andrew J. Bacevich Source: TomDispatch.com Donald Trump’s election has elicited impassioned affirmations of a renewed commitment to unvarnished truth-telling from the prestige media. The common theme: you know you can’t trust him, but trust us to keep dogging him … Continue reading
Saturday Matinee: Shadows of Liberty
Synopsis from ShadowsofLiberty.org: Shadows Of Liberty reveals the extraordinary money and power behind the news media dictating censorship, cover‐ups and corporate control. Filmmaker Jean‐Philippe Tremblay takes an intrepid journey through the dark corridors of the American media landscape where global … Continue reading
