____ (2022-05-02). An Intellectual No-Fly Zone: Online Censorship of Ukraine Dissent Is Becoming the New Norm. transcend.org 25 Apr 2022 – Google has sent a warning shot across the world, ominously informing media outlets, bloggers, and content creators that it will no longer tolerate certain opinions when it comes to Russia's invasion of Ukraine. Old Propaganda, New Cold War…

_____ (2022-05-02). The NATO To TikTok Pipeline. popularresistance.org Culver City, California — As the bloody conflict in Ukraine continues to escalate, so does the online propaganda war between Russia and the West. A prime example of this is the White House directly briefing influencers on popular social media app TikTok about the war and how to cover it. As the crisis spirals out of control, Americans have turned to TikTok to view real time videos and analysis of the invasion. With the app estimated to have around 70 million U.S. users, the White House is keenly aware of its impact. "We recognize this is a critically important avenue in the way the American public is findin…

Ann Brown (2022-05-02). Fact Check: Joe Biden Set Up A 'Ministry Of Truth' Within Department Of Homeland Security To Police Information Online. moguldom.com President Joe Biden wants to fight the spread of lies and he has approved a disinformation board group to operate within the Department of Homeland Security that will monitor information spread via the internet. The board has already been compared to George Orwell's "Ministry of Truth" — a fictional department in the dystopian novel "1984" in which …

Editor (2022-05-02). Everyone's anti-war until the war propaganda starts. mronline.org Nobody thinks of themselves as a warmonger, but then the spin machine gets going and before you know it they're spouting the slogans they've been programmed to spout and waving the flags the flags they've been programmed to wave and consenting to whatever the imperial war machine wants in that moment.

Alan MacLeod (2022-05-01). An Intellectual No-Fly Zone: Online Censorship of Ukraine Dissent Is Becoming the New Norm. orinocotribune.com By Alan Macleod — Apr 25, 2022 | "Censorship is the last resort of desperate and unpopular regimes. It magically appears to make a crisis go away. It comforts the powerful with the narrative they want to hear, one fed back to them by courtiers in the media, government agencies, think tanks, and academia." — Chris Hedges | MOUNTAIN VIEW, CALIFORNIA — Google has sent a warning shot across the world, ominously informing media outlets, bloggers, and content creators that it will no longer tolerate certain opinions when it comes to Russia's invasion of Ukraine. | Earlier this month, Google AdSense sen…

Anonymous103 (2022-05-01). Angelina Jolie Contributed To Ukrainian Propaganda (Videos). southfront.org _____ (2022-05-01). The Chris Hedges Report: Hip Hop, Censorship, And Palestinian Resistance. popularresistance.org Legendary UK-based hip-hop artist and activist Kareem Dennis, aka Lowkey, uses his considerable talents as a musician to pay homage to the voices and struggles of the oppressed, from the plight of migrants that have fled to Europe, to the suffering of Iraqis and Palestinians in the Middle East, to the victims of the Grenfell Tower fire in 2017. His work, including his single "Voices of The Voiceless" with Immortal Technique, and "Long Live Palestine" (also known as "Tears to Laughter"), are hip-hop classics. His song "Terrorist?", a searing condemnation of the hypocrisy of Washington and Western governments, was…

Ann Garrison (2022-05-01). Notes from Wartorn Ethiopia, Part III: Crimes of the Tigrayan People's Liberation Front. orinocotribune.com By Ann Garrison — Apr 27, 2022 | The discovery of mass graves and underground prisons in Ethiopia has exposed the crimes of the Tigray Peoples' Liberation Front or TPLF, the U.S. puppets who tyrannized Ethiopia for 27 years with divide-and-conquer ethnic politics from 1991 to 2018, when a popular uprising forced them from power. The TPLF then retreated to Tigray Region and, in November 2020, started the ongoing civil war by attacking the national army's Northern Command. | US officialdom and both state and corporate media in the US have since described the Ethiopian conflict as the government's persecution o…

Staff (2022-05-01). The Poor People's Campaign Pushes War Propaganda. davidswanson.org The madness of militarism is a collective madness. Nobody catches it from a single exposure. The repetition that makes anything else unthinkable makes the insane acceptable — and not just acceptable but righteous. The Poor People's Campaign sent around an email on Saturday with language that could have been churned out by anyone anywhere on …

Contributing Writers (2022-05-01). German journalist, Thomas Roper, on Western War Propaganda. marktaliano.net READ MORE:

Staff (2022-05-01). Blast heard in Kabul while Taliban denies it was an attack. en.mehrnews.com TEHRAN, May 01 (MNA) — Taliban security sources said a blast that was heard in the Khairkhaneh of Kabul was controlled.