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‘Rules-Based International Order’ Means Washington-Based International Order
By Caitlin Johnstone Source: CaitlinJohnstone.com The US government has shut down multiple news media websites based in the Middle East, including Iran’s state-owned Press TV, and al-Masirah TV which is owned by the Houthi group Ansarullah in Yemen. The Department of Justice said … Continue reading
Posted in Authoritarianism, censorship, civil liberties, culture, Deep State, Empire, freedom of speech, Geopolitics, imperialism, internet freedom, media, Media Literacy, news, police state, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, State Crime, Technocracy
Tagged al-Masirah TV, Alternative news, censorship, civil liberties, empire, fascism, geopolitics, imperialism, Internet Freedom, iron, Joe Biden, media, news, press freedom, Press TV, rules-based order, Technocracy, The Biden administration has been bleating “rules-based order” so frequently and with such obvious meaninglessness that even The New York Times voiced some criticism of the way that vapid, Totalitarianism, US Foreign Policy, Yemen
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Assange Rips the Matrix
By Finian Cunningham Source: Information Clearing House The persecution of Julian Assange is one of those breakthrough moments when suddenly people realise that almost everything they have been told to believe is not true. This week the Australian-born journalist and … Continue reading
Posted in Authoritarianism, censorship, civil liberties, corporate news, culture, Deep State, Empire, Geopolitics, imperialism, Law, media, Media Literacy, news, Oligarchy, police state, propaganda, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, State Crime, war
Tagged Authoritarianism, Britain, censorship, corporate media, empire, extradition, Freedom, freer speech, geopolitics, Idlib, imperialism, Journalism, Julian Assange, Mainstream Media, MSM, NATO, press freedom, Syria, Truth, tyranny, U.S., US government, war, war crimes, Western allies
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US government drops case against Max Blumenthal after jailing journalist on false charges
As the mysterious disappearance of Secret Service records and complete absence of evidence supporting its case came to light, the US government dropped its bogus charges against journalist Max Blumenthal. By Ben Norton Source: Grayzone The US government has dropped … Continue reading
Posted in Activism, Authoritarianism, censorship, civil disobedience, civil liberties, corporate news, Corruption, culture, Empire, freedom of speech, Geopolitics, imperialism, media, Media Literacy, news, Oligarchy, police state, propaganda, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, State Crime
Tagged Bellingcat, Benjamin Rubinstein, Carlos Vecchio, censorship, civil liberties, CodePink, DC police, Debbie Wasserman Schultz, Diliana Bustillos, Elliot Higgins, James Palmer, Juan Guaidó, Marissa Lang, Medea Benjamin, Naylet Pacheco, Partnership for Civil Justice Fund, Policae State, press freedom, propaganda, Secret Service, US Department of Justice, US government, venezuela
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Facebook and YouTube remove posts naming CIA impeachment whistleblower
By Kevin Reed Source: WSWS.org Multiple media sources reported on Friday that the social media platforms Facebook and YouTube were removing posts that identified by name the CIA whistleblower behind the Congressional impeachment inquiry of President Donald Trump. In an … Continue reading
Posted in Authoritarianism, censorship, CIA, civil liberties, corporate news, culture, Deep State, elites, freedom of speech, media, Media Literacy, news, police state, propaganda, Psy-ops, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, State Crime, surveillance state, Technocracy, Technology
Tagged censorship, CIA, civil liberties, CNN, Deep State, Donald Trump, Eric Ciaramella, Facebook, Fred Fleitz, free speech, geopolitics, H.R. McMaster, Hillary Clinton, Mainstream Media, MSM, National Security State, New York Times, press freedom, Real Clear Politics, Social Media, Susan Rice, Ukraine, UkraineGate, Volodymyr Zelensky, washington post, youtube
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The Just World Fallacy: Why People Bash Assange And Defend Power
By Caitlin Johnstone Source: CaitlinJohnstone.com I write a lot about how important it is for political dissidents to research and understand cognitive biases, the large number of well-documented logical glitches in the way human brains process information. I do this because the science of … Continue reading
Posted in conditioning, consciousness, corporate news, culture, elites, Empire, imperialism, media, propaganda, Psy-ops, Psychology, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, Sociology, State Crime
Tagged confirmation bias, corporate media, culture, empire, imperialism, Julian Assange, just world fallacy, Melvin Lerner, press freedom, propaganda, psychology, society, Sociology
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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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Propaganda Is The Root Of All Our Problems
By Caitlin Johnstone Source: CaitlinJohnstone.com A new article by Forbes reports that the CEO of Crowdstrike, the extremely shady cybersecurity corporation which was foundational in the construction of the official CIA/CNN Russian hacking narrative, is now a billionaire. George Kurtz ascended to the … Continue reading
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Tagged Atlantic Council, corporate media, Crowdstrike, Democracy, DNC, Dystopia, empire, FBI, Freedom, geopolitics, George Kurtz, Hillary Clinton, imperialism, Julian Assange, Mainstream Media, MSM, Narrative, NATO, nils melzer, OPCW, politics, press freedom, propaganda, Psyops, Robert Mueller, Russia, RussiaGate, The Trust Project, US State Department
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