Rhoda Wilson (2024-01-24). How fact-checkers and anti-disinformation campaigns restrict freedom of speech in the "Global Boiling Era" expose-news.com Historically, freedom of speech has been restricted through direct coercion. But today, this is being done in more subtle ways: "fact-checkers," governments pressurising social media companies to censor, anti-disinformation campaigns and "hate …
Democracy Now! (2024-01-23). Democracy Now! 2024-01-23 Tuesday. democracynow.org Headlines for January 23, 2024; From Freezing Cold to Housing Insecurity, Migrants Face Crisis in NYC, Chicago & Beyond; "Many of My Shows Have Been Canceled": Chinese Artist Ai Weiwei on Israel, Gaza & Censorship; Marianne Williamson on Running for President, Challenging Biden & Calling for a Gaza Ceasefire | Headlines for January 23, 2024; From Freezing Cold to Housing Insecurity, Migrants Face Crisis in NYC, Chicago & Beyond; "Many of My Shows Have Been Canceled": Chinese Artist Ai Weiwei on Israel, Gaza & Censorship; Marianne Williamson on Running for President, Challenging Biden & Calli…
Staff (2024-01-23). "Many of My Shows Have Been Canceled": Chinese Artist Ai Weiwei on Israel, Gaza & Censorship. democracynow.org 
We speak with acclaimed Chinese artist Ai Weiwei, who recently had an exhibition in London canceled after he publicly criticized Israel's assault on Gaza. "We are gradually losing the ground of democracy or personal freedom," says Ai, whose show in London was indefinitely postponed after he posted a controversial tweet about Israel in November. He joins Democracy Now! to discuss his longtime support of Palestine and Western hypocrisy over human rights and free speech. Ai Weiwei also describes his new graphic novel Zodiac, about his experiences as a Chinese dissident.
Kate Horgan (2024-01-23). Warnings: the Holocaust, US Global Relations, and our Endangered Democracy. projectcensored.org Mickey's guests for the hour are philosophers Leonard Grob and John K. Roth, coauthors of the 2023 book, Warnings: The Holocaust, Ukraine, and Endangered American Democracy. They outline what is…
Editor (2024-01-23). How Corporate Media Outlets Failed Their Readers in 2023. scheerpost.com 
By Robin Andersen / CounterPunch The great failure of the press to carry out the bare minimum of its journalistic mandate—to hold political figures accountable in a representative democracy, and to at least question such obvious electoral fabrications, such as the kind George Santos perpetrated—are prime examples of what Peter Phillips, director of Project Censored …
Project Censored (2024-01-23). The Project Censored Newsletter—January 2024. projectcensored.org State of the Free Press 2024 in the News Independent newsweeklies—from the North Bay Bohemian and Random Lengths News in California, to the Santa Fe Reporter (New Mexico), and the…
Greg Godels (2024-01-23). The Willful Destruction of a People. dissidentvoice.org The US corporate media has maintained a near unanimous support for the Israeli destruction of Gaza — the home of 2.2 million Palestinians. While pundits engage in parlor games over what degree of violence is "justified" by the Hamas attack upon Israel, while public intellectuals fall in line with the gutless unconditional support of Israeli …
Prof Michel Chossudovsky (2024-01-23). The Covid "Killer Vaccine". People Are Dying All Over the World. It's A Criminal Undertaking. globalresearch.ca First published on November 26, 2022 | *** | We are being accused of "spreading disinformation" regarding the Covid-19 vaccine. | The Reuters and AP media "trackers" and "fact checkers" will be out to smear the testimonies of parents who have lost their …
Rhoda Wilson (2024-01-23). Drinking Tap Water Could Kill You (or Worse). expose-news.com There has been a flurry of articles on the internet, and in the mainstream press, sneering at people who drink bottled spring water, rather than tap water. These critics claim that bottled …
WSWS (2024-01-23). Fascistic Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis suspends presidential campaign, endorses Trump. wsws.org Despite enormous support from sections of the financial oligarchy and mainstream press, the more DeSantis articulated his version of Trump's fascistic "MAGA" program, the more he plummeted in the polls.
WSWS (2024-01-24). Columbia University victim-blames students hospitalized after Zionist chemical attack. wsws.org The attempt by the university to victim blame pro-Palestinian students is part of the broader state-led propaganda campaign aimed at falsely equating all opposition to the ongoing genocide in Gaza as "antisemitic."
WSWS (2024-01-23). The mass mobilisation against the far-right Alternative for Germany and the fight against fascism. wsws.org The mass protests against the fascist Alternative for Germany (AfD) are part of an international movement against the right-wing politics of the ruling class and show the enormous opposition to anti-refugee propaganda, war and inequality. It is important to develop this into a conscious movement of the working class against the government and capitalism.
Dr. Gary G. Kohls (2024-01-23). The First Casualty of War Is Truth. And Propaganda is the First Weapon Used in Times of War. globalresearch.ca
Dr. Gary G. Kohls (2024-01-23). The First Casualty of War Is Truth. The Role of Propaganda. globalresearch.ca
Andy Tamas (2024-01-24). Cracks in the Culture of Silence. indybay.org One of the more tragic elements of the culture of silence is that the dominated often internalize the oppressor — they become their own dominators, and behave toward themselves and each other much as the oppressor behaves toward them. This internalization is often created and maintained by the education system that is controlled by the elite.
WSWS (2024-01-24). Kiev kills 27 civilians in artillery attack in East Ukraine as it plots geographic expansion of war into Russia. wsws.org The Zelensky government is doubling down its increasing attacks on civilians in Russian-controlled territories as it embraces a far-right ideology as state policy.
Andy Tamas (2024-01-23). Cracks in the Culture of Silence. indybay.org One of the more tragic elements of the culture of silence is that the dominated often internalize the oppressor — they become their own dominators, and behave toward themselves and each other much as the oppressor behaves toward them. This internalization is often created and maintained by the education system that is controlled by the elite.
Rhoda Wilson (2024-01-23). Jeffrey Epstein's links to the development of Bitcoin and CBDCs. expose-news.com Central bank digital currencies are potentially powerful tools for monitoring and controlling human behaviour. Aaron Day has been investigating who is behind the CBDC pilot programmes in the USA. "Americans should be …
Listen to a reading of this article (reading by Tim Foley): | The entire western liberal worldview is currently balanced on the ability to psychologically compartmentalize away from the mass atrocities in Gaza and what western governments are doing to perpetuate them. | Everything that mainstream liberals claim to oppose is on full display in Israel's actions in Gaza. Racism. Fascism. Tyranny. Injustice. Genocide. Yet they must necessarily avoid throwing themselves into opposing these things there at all cost, because it would mean acknowledging that their own political allegiances are inseparably interwoven w…