Silicon Valley billionaire Reid Hoffman not only funded the group that sabotaged the Iowa caucus, he bankrolled the notorious online “false flag operation” in Alabama’s 2017 senate campaign, reports Max Blumenthal.
Category: Media
The Primary Mechanism of Oppression is Not Hidden
Caitlin Johnstone says bought politicians and owned news outlets do more harm — out in the open — than government secrecy.
Buttigieg Backer Top Funder of Group Behind Iowa’s Disastrous Voting App
A dark money operation funded by billionaires is behind the app that delayed Iowa’s voting results, Max Blumenthal reports.
Anti-Trump-Themed DC Restaurant Owned by Lobbyists for Right-Wing Coup Leaders
Wealthy Latin American regime-change hitmen exploited immigrant rights, international food and a pliant media to rebrand themselves as social justice heroes, Alex Rubinstein reports.
Nobody Sets Out To Become A War Propagandist. It Just Sort Of Happens
Caitlin Johnstone confronts a UK editor’s concerted effort to de-platform a group of academics and independent journalists.
Part Three of ‘UkraineGate – Inconvenient Facts’
Part Three of a new documentary by Olivier Berruyer, editor of the website les-crises.fr, released in conjunction with Consortium News, continues the probe into the complicated scandal and Joe Biden’s part in it.
News of Turmoil in France Remains Missing in Canada
The disruption in France is so severe that Canada is issuing travel advisories, writes David Climenhaga. But it’s hard to find any coverage in the Canadian press.
Washington Protest at Brazilian Embassy over Greenwald
WATCH: Activists and journalists gathered in front of the Brazilian Embassy in DC on Thursday to sound the alarm about the threat to press freedom emanating from the attempt to charge Glenn Greenwald for practicing journalism.
American Ideals at Heart of Assange Extradition Case
The WikiLeaks publisher saw his free software project as a powerful tool for democracy, writes Nozomi Hayase.
Empire War on Oppositional Journalism Escalates
Caitlin Johnstone compares the Brazilian case against Glenn Greenwald with the U.S. persecution of Julian Assange.