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The Death of Andre Vltchek, A Passionate Warrior for Truth
By Edward Curtin Source: Behind the Curtin “If the world is upside down the way it is now, wouldn’t we have to turn it over to get it to stand up straight?” – Eduardo Galeano, Upside Down, 1998 For decades, Andre … Continue reading
Posted in Activism, Art, culture, Empire, Geopolitics, imperialism, media, Philosophy, society, Spirituality
Tagged activism, alternative media, Andre Vltchek, empire, geopolitics, imperialism, independent news, Journalism
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Project Venezuela: Right-wing activists push Wikipedia to blacklist MintPress, other alternative media
A group of right-wing Venezuelans has managed to ban the use of a range of alternative media outlets covering Venezuela, including MintPress News. By Alan MacLeod Source: Intrepid Report Still unable to convince a sufficient number of their countryfolk to … Continue reading
Posted in Authoritarianism, censorship, CIA, civil liberties, conditioning, corporate news, culture, Deep State, Empire, Geopolitics, imperialism, media, Media Literacy, news, propaganda, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, Sociology, Technocracy
Tagged alternative media, CIA, civil liberties, empire, free speech, geopolitics, Grayzone, imperialism, independent news, Israel, MintPress News, The Guardian, venezuela, Wikipedia
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The Future of the Spectacle
…or How the West Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Reality Police By CJ Hopkins Source: Off-Guardian If you want a vision of the future, don’t imagine “a boot stamping on a human face — for ever,” as Orwell … Continue reading
Posted in Authoritarianism, black ops, censorship, civil liberties, conditioning, consciousness, Conspiracy, corporate news, culture, Deep State, divide and conquer, Dystopia, elites, Empire, freedom of speech, Inequality, internet freedom, media, Media Literacy, news, Oligarchy, police state, propaganda, Psy-ops, Psychology, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, Sociology, State Crime, surveillance state, Technocracy, Technology
Tagged alternative media, censorship, corporate media, DARPA, Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, Dystopia, elites, Fake News, independent news, Internet Freedom, Mainstream Media, MSM, Oligarchy, Plutocracy, police state, propaganda, RussiaGate, surveillance state, Technocracy, technology
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Information is power, Julian Assange and the public’s right to know
By Carla Binion Source: Intrepid Report I’ve been writing political commentary for decades. Starting in the late 80s and through around the time of George W. Bush’s Iraq War and for a few years beyond I wrote many articles that … Continue reading
Posted in censorship, civil liberties, corporate news, culture, Empire, freedom of speech, Geopolitics, imperialism, media, Media Literacy, news, propaganda, Psy-ops, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, State Crime, war, Whistleblowers
Tagged alternative media, corporate news, Democracy, empire, geopolitics, Governments, independent news, Information War, iraq, Julian Assange, Mainstream Media, media, Media Literacy, MSM, press freedom, war, Whistle-blowers
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The Trust Project: Big Media and Silicon Valley’s Weaponized Algorithms Silence Dissent
Given the Trust Project’s rich-get-richer impact on the online news landscape, it is not surprising to find that it is funded by a confluence of tech oligarchs and powerful forces with a clear stake in controlling the flow of news. … Continue reading
Posted in Authoritarianism, censorship, conditioning, Corporate Crime, corporate news, culture, Deep State, Dystopia, elites, Empire, freedom of speech, Geopolitics, imperialism, internet freedom, media, Media Literacy, Neocons, Oligarchy, propaganda, Psy-ops, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, State Crime, surveillance state, Technology
Tagged ADL, alternative media, big data, Bill Kristol, censorship, corporate news, Craig Newmark, Democracy, elites, Facebook, fascism, geopolitics, Google, independent media, independent news, Internet Freedom, Journalism, Knight Foundation, Mainstream Media, media, Media Literacy, Microsoft, MSM, Neocons, NewsGuard, Oligarchy, Pierre Omidyar, Plutocracy, press freedom, Sally Lehrman, Social Media, Technocracy, The Markkula Foundation, The Trust Project, The Democracy Fund, Vivian Schiller
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How You Can Be Certain That The US Charge Against Assange Is Fraudulent
By Caitlin Johnstone Source: CaitlinJohnstone.com Julian Assange sits in a jail cell today after being betrayed by the Ecuadorian government and his home country of Australia. A British judge named Michael Snow has found the WikiLeaks founder guilty of violating bail conditions, … Continue reading
Posted in civil liberties, culture, Deep State, Dystopia, Geopolitics, internet freedom, media, Media Literacy, news, police state, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, State Crime, surveillance state, war, Whistleblowers
Tagged alternative media, Chelsea Manning, Dystopia, Edward Snowden, Eric Holder, fascism, geopolitics, Glenn Greenwald, independent news, Internet Freedom, Journalism, Julian Assange, Michael Snow, NSA, Obama, police state, press freedom, State Crime, Trump, war
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Sick of Facebook? Read This
By Eleanor Goldfield Source: Anti-Media “I didn’t realize you were still doing your show!” “Why can’t I see your posts anymore?” “I’ve had to re-follow you several times on Facebook.” These are but a few of the various comments and … Continue reading
Posted in Activism, Authoritarianism, censorship, consciousness, corporate news, culture, Dystopia, freedom of speech, internet freedom, media, Media Literacy, news, propaganda, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, Sociology, surveillance state, Technology
Tagged #MindShift, activism, alternative media, censorship, corporate news, Dystopia, Facebook, independent news, Information War, Internet Freedom, Mainstream Media, mind control, propaganda, Social Media, surveillance state
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The Utility of the RussiaGate Conspiracy
New McCarthyism allows corporate media to tighten grip, Democrats to ignore their own failings By Alan MacLeod Source: FAIR To the shock of many, Donald Trump won the 2016 presidential elections, becoming the 45th president of the United States. Not … Continue reading
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Tagged alternative media, censorship, Cold War, corporate news, Deep State, Democrats, Donald Trump, Election 2016, elites, Hillary Clinton, independent news, Jeremy Corbyn, Mainstream Media, Media Literacy, new McCarthyism, propaganda, ProporNot, Russia, RussiaGate, Sergei Skripal, Social Media
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