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Tag Archives: Truthdig
Thought Police for the 21st Century
By Chris Hedges Source: TruthDig The abolition of net neutrality and the use of algorithms by Facebook, Google, YouTube and Twitter to divert readers and viewers from progressive, left-wing and anti-war sites, along with demonizing as foreign agents the journalists … Continue reading
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Tagged Alternet, bernie sanders, censorship, Consortium News, counterspeech, David North, Detroit, eric schmidt, Facebook, Global Research, Google, Government, Hillary Clinton, Julian Assange, media, Money, monika bickert, Newspeak, politics, propaganda, Psy-ops, ramzan kadyrov, senate committee on commerce, Social Media, trotskyism, Truthdig, Twitter, USA, WikiLeaks, World Socialist Web Site, youtube
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Governments and corporations escalate Internet censorship and attacks on free speech
By Andre Damon Source: WSWS.org The year 2018 has opened with an international campaign to censor the Internet. Throughout the world, technology giants are responding to the political demands of governments by cracking down on freedom of speech, which is … Continue reading
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Tagged ACLU, alternative media, Alternet, big data, censorship, Chris Hedges, civil liberties, corporate media, David North, Facebook, Fake News, free speech, Global Research, Google, Instagram, Internet Freedom, Social Media, Truthdig, World Socialist Website, WSWS
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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
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Tagged Abby Martin, Black List, censorship, civil liberties, 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 Last Gasp of American Democracy
Chris Hedges’ regular columns for Truthdig.com are consistently informative and provocative, but his latest piece offers a particularly critical analysis of the current political moment in the United States. In the following excerpt he ruminates on a number of recent … Continue reading
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Tagged Chris Hedges, Corporate Fascism, Corporate Oligarchy, Corporate Personhood, Corporate State, Corporate Totalitarianism, Inverted Totalitarianism, Security State, surveillance state, The Last Gasp of American Democracy, Truthdig, Truthdig.com
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