The People's Podcast: A New Kind of Social Media w/Suzie Dawson & Sean O'Brien
EMMA | peoplesparty.org | 2021-05-29
Eynelys and Nick talk with activist, whistleblower, and founder of Panquake Suzie Dawson, and Sean O'Brien of Yale Privacy Lab & Express VPN who has joined the Panquake team. Together they discuss the problems with the current state of social media, the censorship & corruption that we face from Big Tech, and how Panquake looks to change the space as we know it. | The People's Podcast is also available on streaming platforms such as Spotify and Anchor.fm.
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A People's Guide to the War Industry -3: Bribery & Propaganda
_____ | popularresistance.org | 2021-05-29
When war is your business, peace is your enemy, writes Christian Sorensen. Third in a five-part series on the military-industrial-congressional complex.
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Saudi-led Coalition Thwarted Another Houthi Attack, Destroyed Two Booby-Trapped Boats
Anonymous669 | southfront.org | 2021-05-29
Illustrative image.Captureÿ®Ÿä.jpg | On May 28, the Saudi-led coalition announced that it had foiled an attempt by the Houthis (Ansar Allah) to launch an attack with booby-trapped boats. | In a statement, the coalition said that its forces destroyed two remotely-controlled water-borne Improvised Explosive Devices (WBIED) off the shores of the town of al-Salif on Yemen's western coast before the Houthis could launch the attack. | "The Houthi militia continues to threaten shipping a…
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Unregulated Cryptocurrency Bubble Could Send the Economy Into a Tailspin
Staff | truthout.org | 2021-05-29
Bank regulators are rushing to come up with cryptocurrency rules, according to the Federal Reserve official overseeing financial regulation, but many fear the rule-making comes too late, and the unregulated bonanza may already be on the cusp of crashing and causing a broader recession that would hurt the poor most intensely. | Fed Vice Chair of Supervision Randal Quarles said on May 25 that his agency and two others — the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) and the Federal Depos…
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Birds of a Fascist Feather: Why Israel Is Aiding Colombia's Crackdown on Protesters
Alan Macleod | mintpressnews.com | 2021-05-28
Photos circulating on social media show Colombian government forces using Israeli weapons against protestors and Israeli-made Sand Cat armored vehicles patrolling the streets of Colombian cities. Alan Macleod investigates the growing ties between the unlikely allies.
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Colombia Turns on Media Amid Barrage of Lies and Propaganda
Editor2 | orinocotribune.com | 2021-05-28
By Adriaan Alsema — May 26, 2021 | Public support for Colombia's mass media has plummeted as they persistently contradict citizen reporting, a poll confirmed. | According to pollster Invamer, public approval of the news media dropped from 41% to 31% since ongoing anti-government protests began on April 28. | The approval of "the media" in Colombia has been dropping for a decade, but plummeted in May after a wave of social media reports on police brutality was blatantly contradicted by mass media. | Media approval | Colombians become their own reporters | While citizens reported extreme violence by the sec…
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Colombia Turns on Media Amid Barrage of Lies and Propaganda
Editor2 | orinocotribune.com | 2021-05-28
By Adriaan Alsema — May 26, 2021 | Public support for Colombia's mass media has plummeted as they persistently contradict citizen reporting, a poll confirmed. | According to pollster Invamer, public approval of the news media dropped from 41% to 31% since ongoing anti-government protests began on April 28. | The approval of "the media" in Colombia has been dropping for a decade, but plummeted in May after a wave of social media reports on police brutality was blatantly contradicted by mass media. | Media approval | Colombians become their own reporters | While citizens reported extreme violence by the sec…
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How America Does Regime-Change Propaganda
Anonymous103 | southfront.org | 2021-05-28
Illustrative image | Written by Eric Zuesse. | In the case of Saddam Hussein, it was by lying about "WMD" and about Saddam's being behind Al Qaeda. | In the case of Muammar Qaddafi, it was by lying about Qaddafi's being hated (instead of supported) by most Libyans. | In the case of Bashar al-Assad, it was by lying about Assad's being hated (instead of supported) by most Syrians. | In the case of Xi Jinping, it is by lying about Xi's being a dictator. | In the case of Vladimir Putin, it is by lying about Putin's being…
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Vijay Prashad on India, Covid and Modi
Fairness & Accuracy In Reporting | fair.org | 2021-05-28
New York Times ( 5/25/21) | This week on CounterSpin: A May 25 New York Times story reports that India's leading Bharatiya Janata Party is pressuring Twitter to censor and sanction anyone posting critically about prime minister Narendra Modi. An after-dusk visit by "officers from India's elite antiterrorism police unit" to Twitter's New Delhi offices wasn't so much legally binding as symbolic, the Times explained, sending a "a clear message that…
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Bizarre propaganda offensive begins against New Zealand
Editorial Team | challenge-magazine.org | 2021-05-28
The Five Eyes is an "intelligence alliance" compromising of Canada, the US, UK, Australia and New Zealand that began as a World War 2 tool but for most of its existence been a weapon against socialist states. | Its primary function currently is to compile resources for propaganda attacks on China and supposedly validate a whole range of hyperbolic claims about Beijing. | With the population of New Zealand being only about 2% that of the United States' alone, many would correctly assume that Wellington's contribution to this arrangement isn't substantial. A paper from the small country's government estimated th…
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"Xinjiang in My Eyes": Debunking the Lies and Anti-China Propaganda Focusing on China's Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region
Peter Koenig | globalresearch.ca | 2021-05-28
This article is …
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What corporate media got wrong about this brutal arrest caught on bodycam
Staff | therealnews.com | 2021-05-28
The differences between how PAR and local media covered the arrest and tasering of a cab driver in Toledo, Ohio, are striking. We explore this discrepancy as an example of the ways mainstream media propagates official law enforcement narratives and runs cover for police overreach.
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Many Members of the Republican Party Are Not Conservatives, They're Extremists
John Feffer | commondreams.org | 2021-05-28
"By mislabelling the radical members of the Republican Party 'conservative,' the mainstream media gives them a veneer of respectability." | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files… …
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They're Not Conservatives, They're Extremists
John Feffer | zcomm.org | 2021-05-28
By mislabelling the radical members of the Republican Party "conservative," the mainstream media gives them a veneer of respectability…
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