(2021-07-03). US Censorship Is Increasingly Official. popularresistance.org The attempts to muzzle the press did not start with Trump, however. President Obama oversaw a war on whistleblowers like Edward Snowden, and ensured that Julian Assange has spent the best part of a decade in hiding or in prison. Assange's most notable journalistic action was to release the Iraq War Logs and the Collateral Murder video, which showed US pilots massacring civilians—including two Reuters journalists—in cold blood.
(2021-07-03). Corporate media blacks out admission that witness against Assange lied for US indictment. wsws.org A Google News search indicates that not a single English-language corporate publication has reported the confession of a key US witness against Assange that his allegations were false.
(2021-07-03). US censorship is increasingly official. nationofchange.org While corporate media like to highlight the many press freedom shortcomings of hostile foreign nations, the censorship worries start much closer to home.
(2021-07-03). Saudi-led Coalition Destroyed Houthi Booby-Trapped Boats Off Yemen's Western Coast. southfront.org 
Illustrative image. | On May 28, the Saudi-led coalition announced that it had foiled an attempt by the Houthis (Ansar Allah) to launch an attack with booby-trapped boats. | In a statement, the coalition said that it destroyed two remotely-controlled water-borne improvised explosive devices (WBIED) off the shores of the town of al-Salif in the western Yemeni province of al-Hudaydah while Houthi fighters were preparing them for an attack. | "The Houthi militia continues to threaten shipping and intern…
(2021-07-03). Olympics Chiefs Relax Protest Rules For Tokyo Games. popularresistance.org The decision came amid calls to relax rule 50.2 of the Olympic Charter, which states: "No kind of demonstration or political, religious or racial propaganda is permitted in any Olympic sites, venues or other areas." The International Olympic Committee (IOC) had promised to review the rule after the Black Lives Matter movement gained global support.
(2021-07-02). A Remarkable Silence: Media Blackout After Key Witness Against Assange Admits Lying. dissidentvoice.org 
As we have pointed out since Media Lens began in 2001, a fundamental feature of corporate media is propaganda by omission. Over the past week, a stunning example has highlighted this core property once again. A major witness in the US case against Julian Assange has just admitted fabricat ≠ing key accusati ≠ons in the indictment against …
(2021-07-02). Media Blackout After Key Witness Against Assange Admits Lying. popularresistance.org As we have pointed out since Media Lens began in 2001, a fundamental feature of corporate media is propaganda by omission. Over the past week, a stunning example has highlighted this core property once again. | A major witness in the US case against Julian Assange has just admitted fabricat ≠ing key accusati ≠ons in the indictment against the Wikileaks founder. These dramatic revelations emerged in an extensive article published on 26 June in Stundin, an Icelandic newspaper. The paper interviewed the witness, Sigurdur Ingi Thordarson, a former WikiLeaks volunteer, who admitted that he had made false allegat…
(2021-07-02). US Censorship Is Increasingly Official. globalresearch.ca
(2021-07-02). Oriental Despotism Versus Freedom: Which 4IR? strategic-culture.org 
There is no running from the 4th Industrial Revolution, but the IMF's version of it can be stopped, Joaquin Flores writes. | On June 29th, the World Economic Forum announced its 'Global Coalition for Digital Safety' and its furthering commitment to censorship and the rising technocratic despotism in a press release titled, '
(2021-07-02). 24 House Dems Say Infrastructure Bill Must Not Be Used to 'Throw More Money at the Pentagon'. commondreams.org "In this video, the social justice, human rights, and civil liberties harms of overzealous copyright enforcement could not be more glaring: copyright censorship enables other forms of censorship."
(2021-07-02). Pressed for answers on Syria cover-up, OPCW chief offers new lies and excuses. thegrayzone.com Facing growing outcry, OPCW Director General Fernando Arias went before the UN and told new falsehoods about his organization's Syria cover-up scandal — along with more disingenuous excuses to avoid addressing it. Part one of two In the two years since the censorship of a Syria chemical weapons investigation was exposed, the head of the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW), Fernando Arias, has vigorously resisted accountability. Arias has refused to investigate or explain the extensive manipulation of …
(2021-07-02). Mainstream Democrats Try to Crush Left Frontrunners in Buffalo and Cleveland. truthout.org 
The two biggest cities on the shores of Lake Erie are now centers of political upheaval. For decades, Buffalo and Cleveland have suffered from widespread poverty and despair in the midst of urban decay. Today, the second-largest cities in New York and Ohio are battlegrounds between activists fighting for progressive change and establishment forces determined to prevent it. | For Buffalo's entrenched leaders, a shocking crisis arrived out of the blue on June 22 when socialist India Walton won…
(2021-07-02). US Corporate Media Fixin for a Cold War Fight With China. commondreams.org Will the Democratic president reverse the vicious anti-union trend sparked by Ronald Reagan 40 years ago?
(2021-07-02). US Corporate Media Fixin for a Cold War Fight With China. commondreams.org Our planet hasn't seen temperatures this hot in fifteen million years, when the sea level was forty meters higher than it is today.
(2021-07-02). Longshore Labor's Real SF Worker-Intellectual. counterpunch.org In the 1950s and 60s, the best-known member of the left-led International Longshore & Warehouse Union (ILWU) was, oddly enough, a conservative writer named Eric Hoffer, whose fans included Ronald Reagan. Hailed in the mainstream media as the work of a "labor philosopher," Hoffer's first book, The True Believer, became a national best-seller and widely-assigned