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Progressive Commentary Hour 12.04.19
Abby Martin and Chris Hedges discuss the bipartisan road from neoliberalism to fascism. Also, Catherine Austin Fitts on the missing trillions and what we can do to reclaim it.
The Jimmy Dore Show 12.03.19
Project Censored 12.03.19
Mickey Huff and guests examine how Facebook, Twitter and Google are working to hide,
“deplatform” or otherwise undermine news and opinions critical of US government policies, and thus reestablish the dominance of establishment-friendly corporate media
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Death of Free Speech leads to Fascism
By Dmitry Orlov Source: Club Orlov Freedom of speech is rather important. If people do not feel free to express their thoughts, then all they can do is endlessly repeat what has been said before, creating an echo chamber which … Continue reading
Posted in Authoritarianism, censorship, civil liberties, consciousness, Corporate Crime, corporate news, culture, elites, freedom of speech, Geopolitics, internet freedom, media, Media Literacy, news, police state, propaganda, Psy-ops, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, Sociology, State Crime, surveillance state, Technology
Tagged censorship, community standards, deplatforming, Dictatorship, Facebook, Fact, fascism, free speech, freedom of speech, geopolitics, Opinion, Patreon, PayPal, RussiaGate, Russophobia, Twitter
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ThinkProgress Censored By Facebook After Cheerleading Facebook Censorship
By Caitlin Johnstone Source: CaitlinJohnstone.com In an article last month titled “Facebook announces that fake accounts are now coming not just from Russia”, fauxgressive establishment apologia firm ThinkProgress falsely reported that I have been writing for an outlet that is alleged to be part of … Continue reading
Posted in Authoritarianism, censorship, civil liberties, Corporate Crime, corporate news, culture, Dystopia, Empire, Geopolitics, imperialism, internet freedom, media, Media Literacy, news, propaganda, Psy-ops, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, Technology
Tagged Alex Jones, Atlantic Council, Bill Kristol, Casey Michel, censorship, Facebook, freedom of speech, geopolitics, Internet Freedom, Mark Zuckerberg, NATO, propaganda, Russia, Social Media, technology, ThinkProgress, Twitter, Weekly Standard
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THE 10 PRIMARY DIRECTIVES OF MAINSTREAM MEDIA
By Sigmund Fraud Source: Waking Times The circus never stops, and no matter who cries fake news against whom, the fact remains that we have entered the post-truth, post-credibility, post-sanity, post-free speech world. While censorship is coming out into the open, the major corporate news … Continue reading
Posted in Authoritarianism, censorship, civil liberties, conditioning, Corporate Crime, corporate news, culture, freedom of speech, media, Media Literacy, news, propaganda, Psy-ops, Psychology, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, Sociology, State Crime
Tagged censorship, civil liberties, Corporate Censorship, corporate news, freedom of speech, Government Censorship, Mainstream Media, propaganda, Scripted Narratives
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Uncle Sam, the Human Rights Hypocrite
By Paul Street Source: TruthDig This year marks the 70th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Signed by the United States and adopted by the United Nations General Assembly on Dec. 10, 1948, the document was a great … Continue reading
Posted in Authoritarianism, censorship, civil liberties, Corporate Crime, culture, Dystopia, Economics, Empire, Environment, Financial Crisis, Geopolitics, History, imperialism, Inequality, Mass Incarceration, police state, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, State Crime, war
Tagged censorship, civil liberties, economic inequality, Elections, empire, freedom of speech, geopolitics, Human Rights, imperialism, Mass Incarceration, National Defense Authorization Act, NDAA, police state, Police Violence, Poverty, racism, surveillance state, Torture, United Nations, Universal Declaration of Human Rights, US Foreign Policy
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Untying PropOrNot: Who They Are … and a Look at 2017’s Biggest Fake News Story
By George Eliason, an American journalist living in Ukraine. Source: Washington’s Blog Preface by Washington’s Blog: A leading cybersecurity expert has publicly said that Mr. Eliason’s research as presented in this article does not violate the law. Washington’s Blog does not … Continue reading
Posted in black ops, censorship, civil liberties, conditioning, Conspiracy, corporate news, culture, Deep State, Dirty Politics, Dystopia, freedom of speech, Geopolitics, History, media, Media Literacy, Neocons, Neoliberalism, news, NGOs, propaganda, Psy-ops, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, State Crime
Tagged Anne Applebaum, Aric Toler, BBG, Bellingcat, Broadcasting Board of Governors, Catherine A. Fitzpatrick, censorship, CNN, Crowdstrike, Daily Beast, Dataminr Inc., Dimitry Alperovich, Dirty Politics, Donald Trump, Eliot Higgins, EurasiaNet.org, Fake News, foreign policy, freedom of speech, Hillary Clinton, InterpreterMag.com, Irena Chalupa, James Miller, Left Foot Forward, Michael Weiss, Pierre Vaux, propaganda, ProporNot, psy-op, RFE/RL, Robert Parry, Russia, Steele Dossier, StopFake, Syria, The Atlantic Council, Ukraine
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I’ve Been Banned From Facebook For Sharing An Article About False Flags
By Caitlin Johnstone Source: OpEdNews.com My personal Facebook account, which has the maximum 5,000 friends and an additional 5,000+ followers, has been blocked from posting for three days. My page hasn’t been blocked yet, but we’ll see; I shared the article … Continue reading
Posted in Activism, Authoritarianism, censorship, civil liberties, Conspiracy, corporate news, culture, Dystopia, freedom of speech, internet freedom, media, Media Literacy, news, police state, propaganda, Psy-ops, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, Sociology, surveillance state
Tagged censorship, civil liberties, conspiracy, corporatocracy, Facebook, False Flags, fascism, freedom of speech, Information War, Internet Freedom, Mark Zuckerberg, Oligarchy, Plutocracy, police state, propaganda, surveillance state, Totalitarianism, World Socialist Web Site
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RT America Torched In Witch Hunt ’17
By Chris Hedges Source: Popular Resistance In one of the most horrendous blows to press freedom since the anti-communist witch hunts of the 1950s, the U.S. Department of Justice has forced the news broadcaster RT America to file under the Foreign Agents Registration Act (FARA). The … Continue reading
Posted in Authoritarianism, censorship, civil liberties, conditioning, corporate news, culture, divide and conquer, Dystopia, freedom of speech, media, Neoliberalism, news, police state, propaganda, Psy-ops, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, State Crime
Tagged Abby Martin, Black List, censorship, civil liberties, Coroporate News, corporate media, Corporate Propaganda, Director of National Intelligence, DNI, FARA, Foreign Agents Registration Act, freedom of speech, Mainstream News, Neoliberalism, police state, propaganda, Red Scare, RT, RT America, Russia Today, surveillance state, The World Socialist Web Site, Totalitarianism, Truthdig, U.S. Department of Justice
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The Second Phase of the propaganda Fake News War: Economic Strangulation. What Comes Next?
Frustrated and outraged at how reality has turned out, the ruling class denizens of Hillary Clinton’s failed presidential tent are lashing out at truth-tellers. “Fake news” is whatever contradicts their lies, and Russia is their all-purpose boogeyman. “Google and Facebook … Continue reading
Posted in Authoritarianism, black ops, Conspiracy, corporate news, culture, Dystopia, Election Fraud, Hackers, hacktivism, History, internet freedom, media, news, propaganda, Psy-ops, Social Control, Social Engineering, society
Tagged alternative media, Black Agenda Report, Blacklist, civil liberties, Cold War, corporate media, Facebook, Fake News, freedom of speech, Google, Hackers, hacktivism, Hillary Clinton, independant news, Julian Assange, Mainstream News, MEdia Gatekeepers, press freedom, propaganda, Psy-ops, Red Baiting, Red Scare, social control, WikiLeaks
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