Twitter’s been a free speech paradise compared to Facebook or YouTube because it doesn’t tend to participate in large-scale algorithmic suppression of unauthorized perspectives, writes Caity Johnstone.
The activist, blogger and former British ambassador to Uzbekistan, who was imprisoned for his journalism, walked free from Saughton Prison in Edinburgh, Scotland on Tuesday.
At no point is it permissible to question if these nations might be reacting defensively to western aggressions and discuss the possibility of working toward detente, writes Caity Johnstone.
There was an inevitable conflict in the roles of the Arab television network that inexorably led to its decline, writes As’ad AbuKhalil.
Bruce T. Boccardy says the economic model is gradually shredding the lives of working people.
The editorial board may editorialize about social justice, but Norman Solomon and Jeff Cohen say it objects to any structural changes or policies to support that posture.
The precedent the U.S. government is trying to set with its persecution of Assange will, if successful, cast a chilling effect over journalism which scrutinizes the U.S. war machine, writes Caity Johnstone.
Consortium News turns 26-years old today, still going strong in the tradition of Bob Parry, who founded it on this day in 1995.
Jonathan Cook examines how intellectual and cultural life gets captured by the billionaire class.
