Daily Archives: August 22, 2018

2018-08-22: News Headlines

RT (2018-08-22). 'It can turn around': Trump would rather tolerate 'fake news' than accept 'censorship'. rt.com Despite being constantly at odds with liberal mainstream media — often calling them 'fake news' — Donald Trump has told his supporters that even having to tolerate CNN is a much better alternative to censorship.

Steve Gilmartin (2018-08-22). KPFA Management Abandoning The Station's Principles. indybay.org The KPFA of 2018, however, seems all-too aligned with national security state messaging, with its constant parroting of corporate media's evidence-free "Russia meddled" narrative and, with occasional exceptions, no recognition of the grotesque but almost completely unexamined and outsized influence of the state of Israel over US politics. | The unhealthy hierarchical structure of the station—well protected and benefited paid staff versus a majority of unprotected unpaid staff—also falls into the pattern of haves and have-nots in our society at large, and the negative consequence of such a structure is…

Steve Brown (2018-08-22). Station Manager Quincy McCoy Disgraces KPFA and Pacifica Radio With Unilateral Banning. indybay.org KPFA manager Quincy McCoy has unilaterally banned the longtime show Guns and Butter without any hearing or due process and censored all the past shows. This is from "Free Speech" radio. Quincy has a long history of deciding what should be on the air without any process of the staff and community who pay for the station.

DJ Mouse (2018-08-22). Philadelphia crime solicitation…8-21-18 Mouse Report. indybay.org can you swallow Russians behind our black box fracked 3/5 slave state electoral college voting system's 2016 selection?…more of the same Thursday in Chicago at the DNC…we look at the issues behind the distractions nationally and censorship 10 points down the dial from 104.1 FM Berkeley Liberation Radio..where the axing the station's best news show proves the station manager's service to the MIC's cannon fodder for the holy land project matches his service to big pharma… quashing news measles vaccine kills 100 times as many as the disease…in wake of draconian mandate…

RT (2018-08-22). Facebook, Twitter take down 'inauthentic Iran-linked' accounts… but Russia takes the heat. rt.com Facebook and Twitter have reported successes in battling alleged information manipulation by Iran-linked accounts. However, an overexcited mainstream media eager to expose 'Russian meddling' did not hesitate to blame Moscow.

Caitlin Johnstone (2018-08-21). Mainstream Media Concedes Defeat On Yemen: Ends Blackout Coverage. iranian.com Last month, an article by Fair.org went viral in republications by popular alternative media outlets ranging from Salon to Zero Hedge to Alternet to Truthdig, among many others. The article was initially titled "ACTION ALERT: It's Been Over a Year Since MSNBC Has Mentioned US War in Yemen", but many subsequent republications went with variations on the more attention-grabbing headline, "MSNBC has done 455 […]

Hezvo Mpunga (2018-08-21). Instagram: The Next Social Media Platform to Censor Political Content? therealnews.com Jesse Duquette, a political cartoonist who regularly criticizes President Trump, had one of his cartoons removed from Instagram with no explanation. Marc Steiner talks to him about his cartoons and what happened

Brandon Turbeville (2018-08-20). Journalist Exposes Western, Gulf Arming Terrorists in Syria. globalresearch.ca In August of 2017, Bulgarian reporter Dilyana Gaytandzhieva published a report in mainstream outlet Trud in her home country exposing the paper trail documenting the US, NATO, and Gulf countries were …

Howard Lisnoff (2018-08-20). The Mass Media's Outrage at Trump: Why the Surprise? counterpunch.org They're coming fast and furious! Here come 343 media outlets that are criticizing (Guardian, August 15, 2018—at least 350 at this writing) Il Duce for creating the frenzy of "fake news" among his followers and encouraging the violent among his ilk to attack counterprotesters and journalists at campaign events and "public" appearances. The Boston Globe took the lead position More

Global Research News (2018-08-19). Selected Articles: Turkey's Financial Crisis, Sanctions, Dollar Hegemony. globalresearch.ca For almost seventeen years, Global Research, together with partner independent media organizations, has sought Truth in Media with a view to eventually "disarming" the corporate media's disinformation crusade. | To reverse the …

RT (2018-08-19). US govt doesn't think people have intelligence to decipher news, hence censorship — Keiser. rt.com As Twitter and Facebook are criticized over censorship and constant finger-pointing at Russia, RT's Max Keiser speaks to the senior editor of the Grayzone Project, Max Blumenthal, who sums up the reality of the situation. |

RT (2018-08-19). Facebook 'censors' conservative education page, says it was a mistake, but few are convinced. rt.com Facebook says it had mistakenly deleted videos and limited the reach of US conservative educational organization PragerU. The content has now been restored, but PragerU supporters don't think it was an accident.

RT (2018-08-18). Trump: 'We won't let' discrimination of conservatives on social media happen. rt.com US President Donald Trump has spoken out about censorship against conservatives on social media, saying it is a "very dangerous thing" and calling for everyone to be allowed to participate in the online conversation.

Ryan Gallagher (2018-08-17). Google Executives Misled Staff in Meeting on China Censorship. Here Are 13 Questions They Must Answer. theintercept.com Co-founder Sergey Brin said he didn't know about the China plans, which CEO Sundar Pichai said are "in an exploration stage" — despite previous reports.

RT (2018-08-17). Pentagon hypes China threat amid renewed strategic competition. rt.com The Pentagon is raising an alarm about "rapidly" growing Chinese military capabilities, from long-range bombers to a blue-water navy, as mainstream media warn that Chinese pilots are "likely" training for strikes against the US.

Consortiumnews.com (2018-08-16). Trump-Media Logrolling. consortiumnews.com Hundreds of mainstream newspapers on Thursday have coordinated editorials against Trump's attacks on the press, but as Sam Husseini explains, the major media need to do some soul-searching itself. By Sam Husseini Today, hundreds of newspapers, at the initiative of The Boston… Read more →

Ryan Gallagher (2018-08-16). Google Staff Tell Bosses China Censorship Is "Moral and Ethical" Crisis. theintercept.com Google employees are demanding answers from the company's leadership amid growing internal protests over plans to launch a censored search engine in China. | Staff inside the internet giant's offices have agreed that the censorship project raises "urgent moral and ethical issues" and have circulated a letter saying so, calling on bosses to disclose more about the company's work in China, which they say is shrouded in too much secrecy, according to three sources with knowledge of the matter. | The internal furor began after The Intercept earlier this month revealed details about the censored search engine, which would remove content that China's authoritarian government views as sensitive, such as information about political dissidents, free speech, democracy, human rights, and peaceful protest. It would "blacklist sensitive queries" so that "no results will be shown" at all when people enter certain words or…

RT (2018-08-16). Fake news media is 'opposition party' & bad for America – Trump. rt.com US President Donald Trump has tweeted that the "fake news media" is the "opposition party," while calling it "very bad" for the US. In true Trump style, he followed that up by saying "we are winning" the fight.

RT (2018-08-16). 'Full of itself': Facebook using Russia as excuse to censor information online, says Steve Malzberg. rt.com Facebook is using false claims against Russia and its supposed "bots" and "trolls" as justification to shut down pages of news outlets it doesn't agree with, conservative commentator Steve Malzberg told RT's "Watching the Hawks."

Democracy Now! (2018-08-14). How Monsanto Plants Stories, Suppresses Science & Silences Dissent to Sell a Cancer-Linked Chemical. democracynow.org As Monsanto comes under scrutiny for allegedly hiding the dangers of its weed killer Roundup, we talk to a reporter who says the company attempted to censor and discredit her when she published stories on their product that contradicted their business interests. Carey Gillam is a veteran investigative journalist and author of "Whitewash: The Story of a Weed Killer, Cancer, and the Corruption of Science."

2018-08-22: Social Media Postees

Station Manager Quincy McCoy Disgraces KPFA and Pacifica Radio With Unilateral Banning
Steve Brown | indybay.org | 2018-08-22
KPFA manager Quincy McCoy has unilaterally banned the longtime show Guns and Butter without any hearing or due process and censored all the past shows. This is from "Free Speech" radio. Quincy has a long history of deciding what should be on the air without any process of the staff and community who pay for the station.
indybay.org/newsitems/2018/08/19/1881697…

'It can turn around': Trump would rather tolerate 'fake news' than accept 'censorship'
RT | rt.com | 2018-08-22
Despite being constantly at odds with liberal mainstream media — often calling them 'fake news' — Donald Trump has told his supporters that even having to tolerate CNN is a much better alternative to censorship.
rt.com/usa/436537-trump-fake-news-censor…

KPFA Management Abandoning The Station's Principles
Steve Gilmartin | indybay.org | 2018-08-22
The KPFA of 2018, however, seems all-too aligned with national security state messaging, with its constant parroting of corporate media's evidence-free "Russia meddled" narrative and, with occasional exceptions, no recognition of the grotesque but almost completely unexamined and outsized influence of the state of Israel over US politics. | The unhealthy hierarchical structure of the station–well protected and benefited paid staff versus a majority of unprotected unpaid staff–also falls into the pattern of haves and have-nots in our society at large, and the negative consequence of such a structure is…
indybay.org/newsitems/2018/08/20/1881701…

Facebook, Twitter take down 'inauthentic Iran-linked' accounts… but Russia takes the heat
RT | rt.com | 2018-08-22
Facebook and Twitter have reported successes in battling alleged information manipulation by Iran-linked accounts. However, an overexcited mainstream media eager to expose 'Russian meddling' did not hesitate to blame Moscow.
rt.com/usa/436532-facebook-twitter-iran-…

Philadelphia crime solicitation…8-21-18 Mouse Report
DJ Mouse | indybay.org | 2018-08-22
can you swallow Russians behind our black box fracked 3/5 slave state electoral college voting system's 2016 selection?…more of the same Thursday in Chicago at the DNC…we look at the issues behind the distractions nationally and censorship 10 points down the dial from 104.1 FM Berkeley Liberation Radio..where the axing the station's best news show proves the station manager's service to the MIC's cannon fodder for the holy land project matches his service to big pharma… quashing news measles vaccine kills 100 times as many as the disease…in wake of draconian mandate…
indybay.org/newsitems/2018/08/21/1881702…

Journalist Exposes Western, Gulf Arming Terrorists in Syria
Brandon Turbeville | globalresearch.ca | 2018-08-20
In August of 2017, Bulgarian reporter Dilyana Gaytandzhieva published a report in mainstream outlet Trud in her home country exposing the paper trail documenting the US, NATO, and Gulf countries were …
globalresearch.ca/journalist-exposes-wes…

The Mass Media's Outrage at Trump: Why the Surprise?
Howard Lisnoff | counterpunch.org | 2018-08-20
They're coming fast and furious! Here come 343 media outlets that are criticizing (Guardian, August 15, 2018–at least 350 at this writing) Il Duce for creating the frenzy of "fake news" among his followers and encouraging the violent among his ilk to attack counterprotesters and journalists at campaign events and "public" appearances. The Boston Globe took the lead position…
counterpunch.org/2018/08/20/the-mass-med…

Selected Articles: Turkey's Financial Crisis, Sanctions, Dollar Hegemony
Global Research News | globalresearch.ca | 2018-08-19
For almost seventeen years, Global Research, together with partner independent media organizations, has sought Truth in Media with a view to eventually "disarming" the corporate media's disinformation crusade. | To reverse the …
globalresearch.ca/selected-articles-turk…

Facebook 'censors' conservative education page, says it was a mistake, but few are convinced
RT | rt.com | 2018-08-19
Facebook says it had mistakenly deleted videos and limited the reach of US conservative educational organization PragerU. The content has now been restored, but PragerU supporters don't think it was an accident.
rt.com/usa/436300-prageru-facebook-censo…

US govt doesn't think people have intelligence to decipher news, hence censorship — Keiser
RT | rt.com | 2018-08-19
As Twitter and Facebook are criticized over censorship and constant finger-pointing at Russia, RT's Max Keiser speaks to the senior editor of the Grayzone Project, Max Blumenthal, who sums up the reality of the situation.
rt.com/usa/436326-us-government-social-m…

Trump: 'We won't let' discrimination of conservatives on social media happen
RT | rt.com | 2018-08-18
US President Donald Trump has spoken out about censorship against conservatives on social media, saying it is a "very dangerous thing" and calling for everyone to be allowed to participate in the online conversation.
rt.com/usa/436282-trump-censorship-socia…

Google Executives Misled Staff in Meeting on China Censorship. Here Are 13 Questions They Must Answer
Ryan Gallagher | theintercept.com | 2018-08-17
Co-founder Sergey Brin said he didn't know about the China plans, which CEO Sundar Pichai said are "in an exploration stage" — despite previous reports. | The post Google Executives Misled Staff in Meeting on China Censorship. Here Are 13 Questions They Must Answer. appeared first on The Intercept.
theintercept.com/2018/08/17/internal-mee…

Pentagon hypes China threat amid renewed strategic competition
RT | rt.com | 2018-08-17
The Pentagon is raising an alarm about "rapidly" growing Chinese military capabilities, from long-range bombers to a blue-water navy, as mainstream media warn that Chinese pilots are "likely" training for strikes against the US.
rt.com/usa/436240-pentagon-china-pilots-…

Trump-Media Logrolling
Consortiumnews.com | consortiumnews.com | 2018-08-16
Hundreds of mainstream newspapers on Thursday have coordinated editorials against Trump's attacks on the press, but as Sam Husseini explains, the major media need to do some soul-searching itself. By Sam Husseini Today, hundreds of newspapers, at the initiative of The Boston… Read more ?…
consortiumnews.com/2018/08/16/trump-medi…

Google Staff Tell Bosses China Censorship Is "Moral and Ethical" Crisis
Ryan Gallagher | theintercept.com | 2018-08-16
Google employees are demanding answers from the company's leadership amid growing internal protests over plans to launch a censored search engine in China. | Staff inside the internet giant's offices have agreed that the censorship project raises "urgent moral and ethical issues" and have circulated a letter saying so, calling on bosses to disclose more about the company's work in China, which they say is shrouded in too much secrecy, according to three sources with knowledge of the matter. | The internal furor began after The Intercept earlier this month revealed details about the censored search engine, which would remove content that China's authoritarian government views as sensitive, such as information about political dissidents, free speech, democracy, human rights, and peaceful protest. It would "blacklist sensitive queries" so that "no results will be shown" at all when people enter certain words or…
theintercept.com/2018/08/16/google-china…

'Full of itself': Facebook using Russia as excuse to censor information online, says Steve Malzberg
RT | rt.com | 2018-08-16
Facebook is using false claims against Russia and its supposed "bots" and "trolls" as justification to shut down pages of news outlets it doesn't agree with, conservative commentator Steve Malzberg told RT's "Watching the Hawks."
rt.com/usa/436128-malzberg-facebook-cens…

Fake news media is 'opposition party' & bad for America – Trump
RT | rt.com | 2018-08-16
US President Donald Trump has tweeted that the "fake news media" is the "opposition party," while calling it "very bad" for the US. In true Trump style, he followed that up by saying "we are winning" the fight.
rt.com/usa/436115-fake-news-media-is-opp…

How Monsanto Plants Stories, Suppresses Science & Silences Dissent to Sell a Cancer-Linked Chemical
Democracy Now! | democracynow.org | 2018-08-14
As Monsanto comes under scrutiny for allegedly hiding the dangers of its weed killer Roundup, we talk to a reporter who says the company attempted to censor and discredit her when she published stories on their product that contradicted their business interests. Carey Gillam is a veteran investigative journalist and author of "Whitewash: The Story of a Weed Killer, Cancer, and the Corruption of Science."
www.democracynow.org/2018/8/14/how_monsa…