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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, MAx Blumenthal, 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
Posted in Authoritarianism, black ops, censorship, civil liberties, culture, Deep State, Dystopia, elites, Empire, FBI, Geopolitics, imperialism, internet freedom, media, Media Literacy, news, Oligarchy, propaganda, Psy-ops, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, State Crime
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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When the Journalists Ganged Up on Assange They Ganged Up on Themselves
By Paul Craig Roberts Source: PaulCraigRoberts.org Journalists did not appreciate the implications for themselves of the contrived and false indictment of Julian Assange by a corrupt US government. It was obvious to a few of us that the indictment by … Continue reading
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Tagged Annika Smethurst, Authoritarianism, Bryan Carmody, censorship, civil liberties, Dystopia, empire, fascism, First Amendment, free speech, geopolitics, Google, imperialism, Julian Assange, News Corp Australia j, police state, press freedom, Social Media, Twitter, tyranny, Yellow Vest Movement, youtube
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