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Is there a PP contact via phone or email we can complain to?
1-888-221-1161
I just closed my PP account and will donate twice as much monthly with my debit card. If it comes to it, I’ll send cash in an envelope.
Velcome to Amedika.
Thank you Doris.
Looks like they’re pulling out all the stops. Well, we’ll just have to work harder. I make tax-deductible contributions from my IRA to CN and other good 501(c)3 organizations, giving the US imperial war machine a few less tax dollars to wreck the world with.
I have a Paypal account but never use it. Time to just cancel. But YOU keep on!
PS: People should understand that contributions are tax-deductible only if (a) they have enough deductions to itemize on their 1040, or (b) they instruct their IRA company to make checks payable CN or other good 501(c)3 organizations . (The company holding my IRA mails the check(s) to me, then I mail them to CN or others. It takes a 57-cent postage stamp, but at this stage who’s counting!)
Please, if you agree, add Noam Chomsky’s Ukraine Russia 4/28/22 interview:
hxxps://youtu.be/QG2DkmutYTc
Finally, April 28th, 2022, he covers the history behind this catastrophe and includes much of what CN has tried so hard to share vs the delusions and hysteria of the MSM in a 1 our talk. He even critiques the mass hysteria.
The best way to view/listen to this video – because there’s a voice over in Russian(?) – is to turn off the sound, speed up the video to 2x and read the closed captions – so that you can read what Chomsky is saying in about 28 minutes instead of 56 minutes.
Chomsky confirms what most people on this website have been aware of certainly thanks to your articles going back to Robert Parry’s 2014-2017 revelations, perhaps Chomsky’s weight as a highly respected source will help cut through the hysteria that is behind PayPal’s hysterical reaction ….one can hope…..
Thanks!
I hope you sue them. And I will contribute more.
Outrageous that Paypal has shut down CN account. I have gone to Patreon.com
to support your excellent site.
Thank you!
Outrageous is correct and it propelled me immediately to send my $250.00 to consortium news as well as to reread
1984 by Orwell. I am so grateful that Consortium News is there for me.
I have your back, CC. I’ll start to donate more frequently.
I urge everyone to support the various alternatives that you read. Personally for me that is $15 a month divided up. Do what you can based on the free value you receive.
Thank you.
Closed my pay not so much pal account and I’ll send a little your way by CC
I cancelled my PayPal account when I read this.
Can CN identify which supporters’ donations were sequestered by PayPal and told that their donations have been sequestered? Can they demand the money be replaced into their credit card account so they can withdraw it and perhaps use Apple Pay or Google Pay or send a check instead?
Can they demand that their credit card company retrieve the funds. If there’s a fraudulent charge to one’s credit card, as you know, you can inform the CC company and they’ll reverse the charge after proving it was an imposter….does that method haven bearing in this case?
Of course you’d need to consult a qualified attorney so you can proceed in a way that doesn’t jeopardize your interests…
I’m not an attorney or knowledgeable about how to deal with such things…just wondering…
I wonder if there’s a class action suit by your donors in there somewhere?
Sounds like a great legal angle to me. They’ve outright stolen money from those who’ve donated to their chosen cause.
Very sad and even more outrageous.
This is insane. I’ll have to find a way to stop using Paypal now. Sickening.
Only a matter of time before the blood-soaked American financial sector
of its war industry attacks all truthful journalism, Julian Assange being the
first taste of blood.
I think you’ve hit the nail on the head.