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 …

Caitlin Johnstone (2024-01-25). Gaza Is Exposing Western Liberals For The Frauds They Are. caitlinjohnstone.com.au 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 cos…

Internationalist 360 ∞ (2024-01-25). How Yemen's 'Asabiyya' is Reshaping Geopolitics. libya360.wordpress.com Pepe Escobar The Arabic word Asabiyya, or 'moral strength,' is a soundbite in the west, but taken very seriously by the globe's new contenders China, Russia, and Iran. It is Yemen, however, that is mainstreaming the idea, by sacrificing everything for the world's collective morality in a bid to end the genocide in Gaza. When…

Thierry Meyssan (2024-01-25). Gaza Is Exposing Western Liberals For The Frauds They Are. thealtworld.com 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…

SAMIR (2024-01-25). Standing Together: Serving Apartheid Israel's Propaganda. bdsmovement.net

WSWS (2024-01-24). Columbia University blames student victims 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."

Robert S. Becker (2024-01-25). The worst treason by the Trump cult? The politics of secession, the violent refusal to share power. nationofchange.org Only deviant voters want nutcases like Stephen Miller as attorney general, Steve Bannon as sec'y of state, or Rudy Giuliani as press propaganda secretary.

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.

Max Blumenthal (2024-01-25). "Our goal is to stop the genocide": The Grayzone interviews Houthi spokesman. thegrayzone.com Mohammed Al-Bukhaiti, senior political officer and spokesman for Yemen's Ansarallah movement, explains the objectives behind his movement's naval blockade of the Red Sea in this interview with The Grayzone's Max Blumenthal. Al-Bukhaiti also responds to military threats from the Biden administration and allegations that Ansarallah is controlled by Iran's IRGC. Translation by Hekmat Aboukhater…

Internationalist 360 ∞ (2024-01-24). Houthi Spokesman: "Our Goal is to Stop the Genocide" libya360.wordpress.com The Grayzone Mohammed Al-Bukhaiti, senior political officer and spokesman for Yemen's Ansarallah movement, explains the objectives behind his movement's naval blockade of the Red Sea in this interview with The Grayzone's Max Blumenthal. Al-Bukhaiti also responds to military threats from the Biden administration and allegations that Ansarallah is controlled by Iran's IRGC. Translation by Hekmat…