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Tag Archives: whistleblowers
Assange Is Doing His Most Important Work Yet
By Caitlin Johnstone Source: CaitlinJohnstone.com British Home Secretary Priti Patel has authorized the extradition of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange to the United States to be tried under the Espionage Act in a case which seeks to set a legal precedent for the prosecution of … Continue reading
Posted in Authoritarianism, CIA, civil liberties, culture, Deep State, Dystopia, Empire, freedom of speech, Geopolitics, imperialism, internet freedom, media, Media Literacy, news, propaganda, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, State Crime, Technocracy, war, Whistleblowers
Tagged Antony Blinken, CIA, disinformation, Dystopia, empire, fascism, Free Press, freespeech, Gabriel Shipton, geopolitics, Human Rights, imperialism, Julian Assange, media, Priti Patel, propaganda, tyranny, US Foreign Policy, war, war crimes, whistleblowers
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On Censorship and Disinformation
By W.J. Astore Source: Bracing Views The best way to combat disinformation is with more and better information. Censorship isn’t the answer. The Biden administration has reached a different conclusion, creating a “Disinformation Governance Board” under the Department of Homeland Security. … Continue reading
Posted in Authoritarianism, censorship, civil liberties, Corporate Crime, corporate news, culture, Deep State, Dystopia, freedom of speech, internet freedom, media, Media Literacy, police state, propaganda, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, Sociology, State Crime, Technocracy, war, Whistleblowers
Tagged Big Tech, censorship, civil liberties, Daniel Ellsberg, disinformation, Disinformation Governance Board, Donald Trump, free speech, Government, I.F. Stone, Internet Freedom, Jimmy Dore, Jow Biden, Julian Assange, Ministry of Truth, Nina Jankowicz, police state, propaganda, Psyops, surveillance state, Technocracy, whistleblowers, WikiLeaks
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Resolution for 2022: Dare to Build Your Own Opinions and Then Defend Them!
By Alfred De Zayas Source: CounterPunch – Sapere aude!, Horace Anyone who has followed the political culture in the US, Canada, UK, EU over the past twenty years must have realized that a war on epistemology, on truth, on semantics is … Continue reading
Posted in Authoritarianism, censorship, civil disobedience, Corporate Crime, corporate news, culture, Deep State, Dystopia, Empire, freedom of speech, Geopolitics, imperialism, media, Media Literacy, Militarization, news, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, Sociology, State Crime, surveillance state, Technocracy, war
Tagged 1984, 2022, censorship, corporate news, Democracy, Dystopia, Freedom, geopolitics, George Orwell, Human Rights, iraq, Julian Assange, lawfare, Libya, mainstream meida, military-industrial-financial complex, NATO, New Normal, Newspeak, patriotism, Peace, propaganda, war, weaponization, whistleblowers
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Why We Must Defend Julian Assange
By Margaret Kimberley Source: Black Agenda Report Julian Assange is one of the political prisoners that the US claims not to have. The UK is again the good vassal, keeping him locked up until the Biden administration finds an opportune … Continue reading
Posted in Authoritarianism, corporate news, Corruption, culture, Dystopia, Empire, Geopolitics, imperialism, news, police state, Psy-ops, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, State Crime, surveillance state, Technocracy, war, Whistleblowers
Tagged Collateral Murder, corporate media, Department of Justice, DNC, empire, Espionage Act, geopolitics, imperialism, Julian Assange, US Foreign Policy, War Criminals, whistleblowers, WikiLeaks
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Hedges: The Execution of Julian Assange
He committed empire’s greatest sin. He exposed it as a criminal enterprise. He documented its lies, callous disregard for human life, rampant corruption and innumerable war crimes. And empires always kill those who inflict deep and serious wounds. By Chris … Continue reading
Posted in Activism, Authoritarianism, black ops, censorship, CIA, civil liberties, Corruption, culture, Deep State, Dystopia, Empire, Geopolitics, imperialism, Law, Militarization, news, police state, Psy-ops, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, State Crime, surveillance state, Technocracy, war, Whistleblowers
Tagged ADX, Afghanistan, Belmarsh, censorship, CIA, Dean Yates, Deep State, Department of Justice, empire, fascism, geopolitics, imperialism, iraq, Jow Biden, Julian Assange, ny Blinken, Special Administrative Measures, The Espionage Act, Torture, UC Global, US Foreign Policy, warcrimes, whistleblowers
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Don’t Give Up on the Blessings of Freedom
By John W. Whitehead & Nisha Whitehead Source: The Rutherford Institute “All we are saying is give peace a chance.”—John Lennon How do you give thanks for freedoms that are constantly being eroded? How do you express gratitude for one’s … Continue reading
Posted in Activism, Art, Authoritarianism, civil disobedience, civil liberties, culture, Empire, Militarization, news, Oligarchy, Philosophy, police state, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, Sociology, surveillance state, Technocracy, war
Tagged activism, civil liberties, culture, empire, Freedom, Government, John Lennon, Peace, Philosophy, police state, society, Technocracy, Thanksgiving, whistleblowers
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Drone warfare whistleblower sentenced to 45 months in prison for telling the American people the truth.
Drone warfare whistleblower sentenced to 45 months in prison for telling the American people the truth. By Chris Hedges Source: ScheerPost.com Daniel Hale, a former intelligence analyst in the drone program for the Air Force who as a private contractor in … Continue reading
Posted in culture, Deep State, Empire, Geopolitics, imperialism, Law, society, State Crime, war, war on terror
Tagged Afghanistan, Collateral Damage, Daniel Hale, Drone Bombing, Espionage Act, geopolitics, imperialism, law, Liam O’Grady, State Terror, war, war crimes, war on terror, whistleblowers
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The Assange Case Isn’t About National Security, It’s About Narrative Control
By Caitlin Johnstone Source: CaitlinJohnstone.com Julian Assange once said, “The overwhelming majority of information is classified to protect political security, not national security.” As someone whose life’s work before his imprisonment was combing through documents of an often classified nature, he’d … Continue reading
Posted in Activism, Authoritarianism, civil liberties, culture, Deep State, Dystopia, elites, Empire, Geopolitics, imperialism, media, Media Literacy, news, police state, propaganda, Psy-ops, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, State Crime, surveillance state
Tagged censorship, civil liberties, culture, empire, Espionage Act, geopolitics, imperialism, Julian Assange, media, police state, propaganda, society, State Terror, surveillance state, Technocracy, war, war crimes, whistleblowers, WikiLeaks
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