Patrick Maynard connects U.S. and U.K. influence to the indifference of the West’s top anti-corruption NGO toward the imprisoned WikiLeaks founder.
State Dept-Funded Transparency International Silent on Jailed Transparency Activist Julian Assange
Category: Censorship
COVID-19: ‘Putin Hacked Our Vaccine’ Is Dumbest Story Yet
‘Cancel Culture’ Letter Really About Stifling Free Speech
Most of the signers are simply pleading for a return to the status quo, writes Jonathan Cook.
In an Insane World, Madness Looks Moderate & Sanity Looks Radical
Caitlin Johnstone targets status quo bias, arguing that this psychological glitch reinforces the U.S.-centralized empire and blocks the way to necessary change.
The Greatest Show on Earth
The odd feature of this singular situation is that we’ve come to accept as (more or less) normal persons and actions that would have struck everyone as patho-normal just a few decades ago, writes Michael Brenner.
UPRISING: Unicorn Riot’s Protest Coverage Recalls Long History of Grassroots Video Production
Errol Salamon looks back at the unfiltered documentaries produced by groups such as Videofreex in the late 1960s.
Facebook Singles Out State Media of US Adversaries for a Warning
Ignoring state-owned media in nations allied with the U.S., Facebook is attaching a warning label to state media from countries the U.S. doesn’t like.
COVID-19: US Pulls Plug on Global Ceasefire Resolution
Dali ten Hove reports on political in-fighting among members of the Security Council during the pandemic.
Anatomy of Media Lies About the Death of Kim Jong-un
Ben Norton says we just saw another example of how Washington-backed South Korean outlets conduct information warfare against the government in the north.
LEE CAMP: While Pandemic Destroys So Many Lives, The Surveillance State Celebrates
If they’re able to track “violators” who follow within a flying spit particle of someone else, then it stands to reason they could choose to track pretty much any other type of behavior.