We will never be given any solid evidence for these U.S. spy claims, writes Caitlin Johnstone. Yet U.S. foreign policy officials and mainstream news coverage of them will act as though we have.
Category: Election 2020
PATRICK LAWRENCE: Enforcing Orthodoxy
To censor is an act of deprivation, a taking away. To enforce an intolerant orthodoxy is an act of imposition. The two cannot be understood separately from one another.
What Mourning the Fragility of US Democracy Gets Wrong
Despite the tradition of presenting itself as exceptional, the country looks a lot like the other struggling democracies, writes Alasdair S. Roberts.
There Were No Calls for Censorship Against Democrats for Their False Claims About the 2016 Election
Democrats have pressured social media to take down posts that question the 2020 election, but no such pressure was exerted on Democrats who questioned the 2016 election, writes Joe Lauria.
YouTube Rejects Consortium News Appeal
The social media company says it carefully reviewed the content of the banned CN Live! episode; says it won’t be restored and that a strike will remain against CN—an impossible decision if the entire video was indeed carefully reviewed.
YouTube Removes a CN Live! Episode
It appears just reporting claims that the 2020 election was stolen, without supporting those claims, is enough for YouTube to ban a video.
Tearing Down the Edifice of American Democracy
The joists & beams that hold U.S. democracy are not as flexible as they appear, writes Scott Ritter. They are the byproduct of societal passion of two political parties and are on the brink of failure.
JOHN KIRIAKOU: A Terrible Take on the Capitol Storming
What does a CIA-style counterinsurgency campaign inside the U.S. look like? Just use Iraq and Afghanistan as a model.
Press Freedom Groups Urge Biden DOJ to Drop ‘Disastrous’ Charges Against Assange
The coalition says Trump abused U.S. prosecutorial powers and that Biden should back away from a dangerous precedent.
Chris Hedges: Papering Over the Rot
The staggering concentration of wealth at the top has deformed our governing institutions. New window dressing will not end oligarchy.