Recent executive orders and presidential memorandums go beyond even the Patriot Act in facilitating nebulous and overreaching state surveillance.
Patrick Lawrence: Trump’s ‘End of History’ Moment
Category: Censorship
Support CN For Coverage of the Crisis of Free Speech
Consortium News’ reporting has stood out since the 2012 arbitrary detention and later imprisonment of Julian Assange; the U.S. using social media firms to curb speech after 2016; and the vast crackdown against criticism of Israel in Gaza.
The Richest Men in the World Are Media Moguls
Alan MacLeod on the capture of media systems by the planet’s mega-rich and the existential threat that poses to an open society and the free flow of information.
WATCH: 50 Yrs of Combatting Suppressed News
Project Censored marked its 50th anniversary Friday night in Washington with Ryan Grim, John Kiriakou, Lauren Harper, Joe Lauria, Mischa Geracoulis and Mickey Huff.
Project Censored Marks 50th Year
Project Censored celebrates 50 years at a D.C. event Friday with Ryan Grim, John Kiriakou, Lauren Harper, Joe Lauria, Mischa Geracoulis & Mickey Huff.
Canada Interrogates 95 Yr Old ex-UN Rapporteur on Palestine
Authorities detained the human rights expert Richard Falk and his wife, scholar Hilal Elver, as they entered Canada for a conference on that nation’s complicity with Israel’s genocide in Gaza.
Trump’s Attempt to Abridge Free Speech
Andrew P. Napolitano responds to a memo by Donald Trump calling antifa — which is an ideology — a domestic terrorism “organization” and directing federal law enforcement to disrupt its gatherings.
Secret Plans for Media Censorship
William Evans reports on efforts by Australia’s Department of Home Affairs to revive the four-decade dead D-Notice system.
WATCH: All Eyes on Gaza
As part of his Australia tour, Chris Hedges joined Antoinette Lattouf & Ahmed Alabadla in Sydney to discuss the media, genocide and Western complicity.
New Report Details Western Repression of Anti-Genocide Dissent
The Paris-based International Federation for Human Rights documents the crackdown on the Palestinian solidarity movement in France, Germany, the U.K. and U.S. since Oct. 7, 2023.