In 1985, the U.K. backed apartheid South Africa and said the African National Congress were terrorists. Now they back apartheid Israel and say Hamas and Hezbollah are terrorists. The state can be wrong.
Craig Murray: Who Are the Terrorists?
Category: Censorship
Vijay Prashad: A World Without Context
Providing an excess of information that comes without proper, democratic analysis and is almost entirely controlled by a small oligarchy is its own form of censorship. And it eliminates knowledge and wisdom.
Police Escalate Britain’s War on Independent Journalism
The raid on investigative journalist Asa Winstanley isn’t about terrorism, writes Jonathan Cook – except that of the U.K. government. It is about scaring us into staying silent on Britain’s collusion in Israel’s genocide.
Who Cares What the Government Thinks?
Whatever one thinks of Elon Musk, the government has no business exercising the levers of power against him based on his political speech, writes Andrew P. Napolitano.
Chris Hedges: Burn the Planet & Lock Up the Dissidents
The imprisoned Roger Hallam believes that resistance is not, ultimately, about what we can or cannot achieve. It is about a “re-enchantment of the world,” he says. “It is about our spirit taking center stage.”
Caitlin Johnstone: Meta Steps Up Aggressive Censorship
Facebook and Instagram, when combined, have 5 billion users worldwide. It’s impossible to overstate how their regulation of speech in pro-U.S. direction can impact human communication.
Reporter Bullied for Question on Hezbollah
Mick Hall covers the latest skirmish as part of a push by politicians and media to amplify condemnations of the Palestinian resistance and ignore Israel’s escalating and genocidal violence in West Asia.
VP Debate Question on Mideast ‘Could Have Been Written by AIPAC’
The Council on American–Islamic Relations said the question was “reckless and biased” and “sounded like it could have been written by AIPAC, not CBS.”
A Brief History of Free Speech in America
When the feds claim that articulating views of the war in Ukraine from a Russian perspective is somehow criminal they ignore the core purpose of the First Amendment, writes Andrew P. Napolitano.
Media Complicit in the Crimes of Israel
The pro-Israel bias in Western reporting makes the media utterly complicit in Israel’s war crimes, writes Jonathan Cook, including when Israeli soldiers throw Palestinians off a roof.