The neoliberal university doesn’t need overt censorship, writes Samyuktha Kannan. It’s perfected the art of silent control. It’s not that one is explicitly told what can’t be written — it’s that over time, one simply learns what is too dangerous…
Elite universities cowering before Trump’s crackdown on free speech continue their history of supporting plutocracy, delivering us into the arms of fascism.
“My arrest was a direct consequence of exercising my right to free speech,” Mahmoud Khalil writes in his letter from ICE detention.
Ralph Nader says that when you shut out the civic community, you shut down democracy. He places responsibility for that happening, first and foremost, on the mass media.
A U.S. federal judge has set a deadline of Thursday for the U.S. Government and NewsGuard to respond to an executive order banning government involvement in censorship.
Britain’s prime minister called an “emergency” summit in London following the Oval Office Fiasco to try to convince the world it will not be Europe’s fault, but America’s (Read: Donald Trump’s) when Ukraine collapses, writes Joe Lauria.
Alan MacLeod on the global influence of the U.S. agency that has been hit by a funding pause.
These political attacks have a chilling effect upon the entirety of public thought and discourse, writes Andrea Brower.
On Monday, The Electronic Intifada announced that its Palestinian-American co-founder, Ali Abunimah, who had gone to Switzerland for a speaking event, was being deported after spending two nights in jail.
There’s a long history of the Zionist lobby pressuring, bullying and cajoling critics of Israel and they’re now upping their tactics, writes Kellie Tranter.