Obama, Biden, Mattis and Clapper Expressed Skepticism on Syria, so Why Is Gabbard Singled Out?
Ali A. Taj | mintpressnews.com | 2019-08-08
Why must Congresswoman Tulsi Gabbard be smeared and attacked for questioning the mainstream narrative on Syria when even Barack Obama has done the same?
mintpressnews.com/skepticism-syria-why-t…
Here's the astonishing amount of members Labour has after all those smears and mutinies
Ed Sykes | thecanary.co | 2019-08-08
On 8 August, the Guardian reported that Jeremy Corbyn's Labour Party still had over 500,000 members at the end of 2018.In other words, the endless smears from the right and its corporate media allies are failing to make a serious dent i…
thecanary.co/trending/2019/08/08/heres-the-astonishing-amount-of-members-labour-has-after-all-those-smears-and-mutinies/
The FBI's Alleged Conspiracy Theorist-Terrorist Connection Is Anti-American
Andrew Korybko | globalresearch.ca | 2019-08-08
The de-facto criminalization of free speech is an ongoing trend in American society that's already pressured a lot of people to self-censor their beliefs in public in order to avoid official scrutiny from the authorities or harassment by their political opponents,…
globalresearch.ca/fbi-alleged-conspiracy…
Trump mulling executive order against tech censorship… while demanding more tech censorship?
rt.com | 2019-08-08
The White House is poised to issue an executive order addressing Big Tech censorship against conservatives, insiders say, paying lip service to free speech even while insisting platforms filter online 'hate' and 'extremism'. | …
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A New App Allows Readers in China to Bypass Censorship of The Intercept
Ryan Gallagher | theintercept.com | 2019-08-08
Since June, people in China have been unable to read The Intercept, after the country's government apparently banned our website, along with those of several other media organizations. Today, we are happy to announce a workaround that will allow people in China to circumvent the restrictions, access our full site, and continue to read our award-winning journalism. | In partnership with Psiphon, an anti-censorship organization based in Canada, we are launching…
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Trump: Out of the Graveyard and into the Pyre?
John Feffer | commondreams.org | 2019-08-08
The president who claims to be saving the United States is out there patrolling the firebreak, but with lighter fluid in hand. (Photo: Pixabay) | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files… …
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The real threat to free speech
pip.hinman | greenleft.org.au | 2019-08-08
greenleft.org.au/content/real-threat-free-speech
Policing the borders of suffering
Eds. | mronline.org | 2019-08-07
Both mainstream Jewish institutions and non-Jewish liberal and conservative commentators took it upon themselves to censure Ocasio-Cortez's use of "concentration camps," with Rep. Liz Cheney accusing the freshman representative of "demean[ing]" the memory of those who died in the Holocaust. | Source…
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In the Face of McConnell's Inaction, Progressives Call for Gun Reform
Staff | truthout.org | 2019-08-07
| As the nation calls for gun control in the wake of two mass shootings in 14 hours over the weekend, Democrats and activists are taking aim at Republican Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell for refusing to take action on the continuing gun violence crisis. | McConnell has refused to move forward on a number of bills from the Democratic Party-controlled House that currently sit on his desk awaiting a Senate vote. | "This is actually, literally in the hands of one person in terms of this legisl…
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Truth against the rules? Twitter censors videos of protesters threatening to KILL Mitch McConnell
rt.com | 2019-08-07
After a mob of protesters surrounded Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell's Kentucky home screaming death threats at the Republican, Twitter punished those who shared videos and quotes of the incident. | …
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Corporate media enters realm of the absurd with claim that Venezuela is 'cocaine capital of the world'
John McEvoy | thecanary.co | 2019-08-07
The latest instalment of creative storytelling about Venezuela has come in the form of a Yahoo! Finance news video entitled How Venezuela became 'the cocaine capital of the world'. The report builds on years of dubious reports alleging major ties between the Venezuelan governmen…
thecanary.co/global/world-analysis/2019/08/07/corporate-media-enters-realm-of-the-absurd-with-claim-that-venezuela-is-cocaine-capital-of-the-world/
'FAKE NEWS': Trump slams NYT for changing headline to appease 'radical left Democrats'
rt.com | 2019-08-07
Donald Trump has castigated the "failing" New York Times for changing a headline that had been criticized for being too soft on the US president, describing the edit as proof of "fake news" targeting his administration. | …
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The Sun paid £30k to a Labour MP over a 'misleading' story, and he's using the cash brilliantly
Emily Apple | thecanary.co | 2019-08-07
As The Canary reported in February, the Sun was forced to pay £30,000 to Labour MP Richard Burgon in a libel case: The legal dispute was over a story the Sun ran in April 2017. It asserted that an image posted by the band Dream Troll mirro…
thecanary.co/uk/news/2019/08/07/the-sun-paid-30k-to-a-labour-mp-over-a-misleading-story-and-hes-using-the-cash-brilliantly/
The War on Syria: Lightning Flashes in the Dark Night of War Propaganda
Mark Taliano | globalresearch.ca | 2019-08-07
The war on Syria is a war against children, and men, and women. | It is a war against Christians, and Muslims, and civilization itself. | It is a war for terrorism and sectarianism and extremist ideologies. | It is a war for …
globalresearch.ca/lightning-flashes-dark…
NHS doctor takes down the UK media's pro-Johnson propaganda blitz on Sky News
James Wright | thecanary.co | 2019-08-06
On 5 August, NHS doctor Sonia Adesara took down the UK corporate media's pro-Boris Johnson propaganda blitz on Sky News. Asked about money being "pumped into the NHS", she responded: I think firstly we need to un-spin the headline behind this [and] put out the facts. So this 'new money' which I heard Matt Hancock say this morning on your channel, it's…
thecanary.co/trending/2019/08/06/nhs-doctor-takes-down-the-uk-medias-pro-johnson-propaganda-blitz-on-sky-news/
U.S. State Department Official Involved in White Nationalist Movement, Hatewatch Determines
Michael Edison Hayden | splcenter.org | 2019-08-06
A U.S. State Department official oversaw the Washington, D.C.-area chapter of a white nationalist organization, hosted white nationalists at his home and published white nationalist propaganda online, Hatewatch has determined.
splcenter.org/hatewatch/2019/08/07/us-st…
Labour-controlled Tower Hamlets council refused to host Palestinian charity event, citing "anti-Semitism" fears
wsws.org | 2019-08-06
The decision is a blatant attack on free speech and confirms that the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance definition of anti-Semitism provides a mechanism for censoring, silencing and even criminalising individuals and organisations that oppose Israel's brutal suppression of the Palestinians, while slandering the entire left as "anti-Semitic."
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2019/08/06/towe…
NPR Shreds Ethics Handbook to Normalize Regime Change in Venezuela
Lucas Koerner | fair.org | 2019-08-05
The Reagan administration in 1982 coerced National Public Radio (NPR) to cover more favorably the US terrorist war then being waged against Nicaragua. | As Greg Grandin writes, Otto Reich, head of the administration's Orwellian propaganda outfit known as the Office of Public Diplomacy, informed the public network that his office had contracted "a special consultant service [to listen] to all NPR programs" on Central America. Dependent on state funding, NPR promptly buckled under pressure, reassigning reporters viewed as "too easy on the Sandinistas," and…
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Bernie Sanders dominates as analyses of fundraising data show Vermont senator with widespread support across nation
Eds. | mronline.org | 2019-08-05
The data "contradicts both the mainstream narrative and some national polling data that suggest that only a centrist Democrat could succeed in this political environment." | Source…
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Inside the Submissive Void: Propaganda, Censorship, Power, and Control
Greg Maybury | dissidentvoice.org | 2019-08-02
Nothing appears more surprising to those who consider human affairs with a philosophical eye, than the easiness with which the many are governed by the few; and the implicit submission, with which men resign their own sentiments and passions to those of their rulers. — David Hume, "Of the First Principles of Government", 1768. Brief: The …
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Cornel West: Corporate Media's Superficial Coverage Helped Create "Fascist Frankenstein Trump"
Staff | democracynow.org | 2019-08-01
On Tuesday night, Senator Bernie Sanders openly criticized CNN's handling of the debates. He told CNN's Jake Tapper, "Your question is a Republican talking point. And by the way, the healthcare industry will be advertising tonight on this program." We speak with Cornel West and Dolores Huerta about the media coverage and the structure of the debate.
www.democracynow.org/2019/8/1/cornel_wes…
The Politics of Petulance, from Donald Trump to Boris Johnson
Sarah Jaffe | progressive.org | 2019-08-01
Four decades of relentless there-is-no-alternative propaganda has so many people believing that change is impossible, so you might as well stick your middle finger up at the world instead.
progressive.org/dispatches/politics-of-p…
Thanks Miranda Devine, but we will win abortion reform
pip.hinman | greenleft.org.au | 2019-08-01
Thank you Miranda Devine for your wild overreaction to the bill before NSW parliament to treat abortion as a health issue ("Vote Libs, get Greens", Daily Telegraph, July 31), as it will no doubt lose you and News.com support. | It must also surely rank as top fake news of the week. Far from being "one of the most dangerous radical abortion bills on the planet", the bill is modelled on existing Queensland and Victorian law. | Moreover, your view that Coalition MPs' support for basic health care for women is somehow a Labor-Green plot is equally bizarre. This bill is not about late-term abortions, as you suggest. I…
greenleft.org.au/content/thanks-miranda-devine-we-will-win-abortion-reform
Arkansas Wants to Make Sure You Know 'Almonds Don't Lactate'
aclu.org | 2019-07-22
An Arkansas law censoring plant-based products isn't just absurd and unnecessary, it's unconstitutional. | The state of Arkansas thinks you're confused about whether a veggie burger comes from a cow. In fact, it thinks you're so confused that it passed a law making it illegal for companies to use words like "meat," "roast," and "sausage" to describe products that are not made from animals. Under the law, it doesn't matter if those words are modified by "vegan…
aclu.org/blog/free-speech/arkansas-wants…
Venezuela: Trump Diverts Central America Aid to Guaido as EU Threatens More Sanctions
Ricardo Vaz | venezuelanalysis.com | 2019-07-18
Guaido's team is receiving over $40 million to fund salaries, travel, training, propaganda and technical assistance.
venezuelanalysis.com/news/14592