2018-10-28: Social Media Postees

Facebook Censorship of Alternative Media 'Just the Beginning
Max Blumenthal | zcomm.org | 2018-10-28
At a Berlin security conference, hardline neocon Jamie Fly appeared to claim some credit for the recent coordinated purge of alternative media…
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Julian Assange Should Be Thanked – Not Smeared – for Wikileaks' Service to Journalism
Mark Curtis | globalresearch.ca | 2018-10-27
Twelve years ago this month, WikiLeaks began publishing government secrets that the world public might otherwise never have known. What it has revealed about state duplicity, human rights abuses and corruption goes beyond anything published in the world's "mainstream" media. … | The post Julian Assange Should Be Thanked – Not Smeared – for Wikileaks' Service to Journalism appeared first on G…
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How the Media Encourages Political Warfare
The Conversation | theantimedia.com | 2018-10-27
(CONVERSATION Opinion) — Since his inauguration, President Donald Trump has been waging war against the American press by dismissing unfavorable reports as "fake news" and calling the media "the enemy of the American people." As a countermeasure, The Washington Post has publicly fact-checked every claim Trump has labeled as fake. In August, The Boston Globe coordinated editorials from newspapers across the nation to …

How the Media Encourages Political Warfare

Media used pipe bomb scare to score political points, Trump says
RT | rt.com | 2018-10-27
US President Donald Trump has slammed the mainstream media for using the recent "sinister" string of anti-Democrat bomb mailings to blame him for inciting political violence. He said he would do all in his power to stop it. | …
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"The US Immigration System Is Inherently Abusive, Violent and Racist"
Shared by Anton Woronczuk | truthout.org | 2018-10-27
Janine Jackson: In a typical corporate media story on the family separations and deportations and asylum denials that define immigration policy under Donald Trump, the images and sometimes voices of immigrants are essentially illustrative. They add "color" and specificity, but they, their actions, don't generally set the frame of the story. The objects of policy, immigrants still somehow are not the central subjects, the main drivers, of the story of their lives. | Centering immigrants and their agency changes the fabric of reporting and shifts the static understanding of the situation, opening ways forward beyon…
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'Trump controlled by Jews' & other anti-Semitic conspiracies of synagogue shooter
RT | rt.com | 2018-10-27
The gunman behind the Pittsburgh synagogue shooting, Robert Bowers, was active and outspoken on social media, publishing bizarre posts in which he slammed Jews, diversity, and Donald Trump. | …
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European Union steps up Internet censorship in the name of opposing "disinformation"
wsws | wsws.org | 2018-10-26
The EU summit threatened with sanctions and penalties any party that diverges from the prescribed political line in the 2019 European election campaign.
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Two Stories from the Propaganda War
Philip M. Giraldi | mintpressnews.com | 2018-10-25
Two recent stories about Russians have demonstrated how the news is selected and manipulated in the United States. The first is about Maria Butina, who apparently sought to overthrow American democracy, such as it is, by obtaining a life membership in the National Rifle Association. Maria, a graduate student at American University, is now in detention in a federal prison, having been charged with collusion and failure to register as an agent of the Russian Federation. She has been in prison since July, for most of the time in solitary confinement, and has not been granted bail because, as a Russian citizen, she i…
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Facebook Censorship of Alternative Media 'Just the Beginning,' Warns Top Neocon Insider
Consortiumnews | consortiumnews.com | 2018-10-24
At a Berlin security conference, hardline neocon Jamie Fly appeared to claim some credit for the recent coordinated purge of alternative media, report Max Blumenthal and Jeb Sprague. By Max Blumenthal and Jeb Sprague Gray Zone Project This October, Facebook… Read more ?…
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Facebook Censorship of Alternative Media "Just the Beginning," Says Top Neocon Insider
Max Blumenthal | grayzoneproject.com | 2018-10-23
At a Berlin security conference, hardline neocon Jamie Fly appeared to claim some credit for the recent coordinated purge of… | The post Facebook Censorship of Alternative Media "Just the Beginning," Says Top Neocon Insider appeared first on Grayzone Project.
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Imperial-Hipster Bible VICE Did Paid Propaganda for Saudi Arabia
Ben Norton | grayzoneproject.com | 2018-10-21
Hipster media giant VICE worked with Saudi Arabia's regime mouthpiece SRMG to create a video promoting tourism and a camel… | The post Imperial-Hipster Bible VICE Did Paid Propaganda for Saudi Arabia appeared first on Grayzone Project.
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Five Questions For: Author Suzanne Gordon on the VA as a 'Model for American Health Care'
Alexandra Tempus | progressive.org | 2018-10-14
"Many liberals and progressives who don't buy the propaganda about climate, or about education, buy the propaganda about the VA."
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After Chemnitz: Germany's Extreme Right Exploits Government Passivity and Public Resentment to Enter the Mainstream
Denijal Jegić | grayzoneproject.com | 2018-10-02
While the AfD party emerges as a leading voice of political opposition, the government downplays its danger and even co-opts… | The post After Chemnitz: Germany's Extreme Right Exploits Government Passivity and Public Resentment to Enter the Mainstream appeared first on Grayzone Project.
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