| Anadolu Agency | (2022-12-25). FBI 'doorman to social media censorship, surveilance', reveal Twitter Files. tribune.com.pk The FBI acts "as doorman to a vast program of social media surveillance and censorship, encompassing agencies across the federal government," according to the latest Twitter Files release. | Mentioning that FBI did not refute the previous claims about how it benefited from the social media platform, which had basically asserted that the FBI moderates the Twitter, journalist Matt Taibbi said on Twitter that the bureau shared a statement on Wednesday, saying: "The men and women of the FBI work every day to protect the American public…" | Read Former employees create Twitter alternative called Spill | "It is un…

mforinoco (2022-12-25). Why Chinese 'Debt Trap Diplomacy' is a Lie. orinocotribune.com By Amanda Yee Dec 19, 2022 | U.S. politicians and corporate media often promote the narrative that China lures developing countries into predatory, high-interest loans to build infrastructure projects as part of its Belt and Road Initiative. As the story goes, China anticipates that the borrowing country will default on that loan, so that it can then seize that asset in order to extend its military or geostrategic influence — evidence of China's so-called colonizing of the Global South. | The concept of Chinese "debt trap diplomacy" finds its origins in a 2017 academic article published by a think tan…

_____ (2022-12-24). Gaining Power In The Struggle For A Better World. popularresistance.org Prolific academic Vijay Prashad is the Executive Director of Leftword books, a publishing house out of India. Recently he published a book with Noam Chomsky, "The Withdrawal: Iraq, Libya, Afghanistan, and the Fragility of U.S." Vijay collaborates with social movements on an international level, including with the leadership of many left-wing Latin American governments. | On the subject of censorship, the conversation naturally turns to the cancellation of RT, including shows hosted by Chris Hedges and Lee Camp himself. Vijay points out that many liberals who claim to champion free speech are making an argument ba…

Eleanor J. Bader (2022-12-24). School Librarians Are in the Crosshairs of Right-Wing Book Banners and Censors. truthout.org When right-wing activists got wind that a fall 2021 display of graphic novels at North Kingstown High School in Rhode Island included Maia Kobabe's award-winning Gender Queer: A Memoir, they quickly demanded that the book be removed, filing an official complaint with the local school board. Opponents of the book also submitted a second complaint to the police charging that school librarians were… |

Lee Camp (2022-12-23). Gaining Power in the Struggle for a Better World, with Vijay Prashad. mintpressnews.com Prolific academic Vijay Prashad joins "The Most Censored News With Lee Camp" to discuss empire, coups, censorship and his latest book co-written with Noam Chomsky, "The Withdrawal: Iraq, Libya, Afghanistan, and the Fragility of U.S."

_____ (2022-12-23). Will Korea send its shells to Ukraine, and more importantly, which Korea? journal-neo.org Over the past few days, the author has come across several fake news reports on Korean arms supplies to Ukraine. Both from the North and the South. On the one hand, there is ongoing speculation in the West that the DPRK is allegedly supplying or intends to supply Russia with munitions for use in Ukraine, …

Jeffrey Rudolph (2022-12-23). As NYT's Friedman Laments end of Israel-Palestine Two-State Solution, the Bantustan Alternative Looms. juancole.com Montreal (Special to Informed Comment) In a New York Times Dec. 18, 2022, opinion piece, Thomas L. Friedman, echoing many other mainstream commentators, bemoans that Israel's aggressive settlement policies and growing religious nationalism "could bury the two-state solution and the one-state solution in the same grave." However, what Mr. Friedman and other commentators fail to …

Prof Michel Chossudovsky (2022-12-23). War, Terrorism and the Global Economic Crisis. Ninety-nine Interrelated Concepts. globalresearch.ca Everything is interrelated: war, terrorism, the police state, the global economy, financial fraud, corrupt governments, poverty and social inequality, media disinformation, war propaganda, WMD, international law,…