Europe is convulsing as its “centrist” authoritarians impose an unprecedented regime of suppression of speech, but the mainstream media in America is silent about it.
Patrick Lawrence: Free Speech & Its Enemies
Tag: Censorship
California Law Illegally Muzzles Students & Teachers
The new law conflates criticism of Zionism with antisemitism and punishes educators for teaching truthful information, reports Marjorie Cohn.
Parliament Blocks Declassified, Citing Gaza ‘Standpoint’
Parliament has been accused of an “outrageous abuse” that is “worthy of the Trump White House,” after blocking Declassified from holding a media pass, reports Martin Williams.
Send the Censors a Message: Support Consortium News
It’s no longer hyperbole to talk about America devolving into a 1984 dystopia. It’s real. It’s happening. And you can fight back.
Caitlin Johnstone: Freedom & Democracy Via Censorship
You’d think a free society would have no objection to people trying to learn about the other side of a war in which NATO powers very plainly had a hand in starting.
Chris Hedges: The Ruling Elite’s War on Truth
American political leaders display a widening disconnect from reality intended to mask their complicity in the seizure of power by global corporations and billionaires.
PATRICK LAWRENCE: Iranian Tankers & the Age of Interdiction
Two forms of interdiction — the steady expansion of U.S. sanctions and our stunning drift toward unmasked censorship — have begun to intersect.
New York Times Admits it Sent Story to Government for Approval
The American paper of record just provided a major example of the symbiotic relationship between U.S. corporate media and the government, Ben Norton writes for Grayzone.
What the Latest Secret Government File Says About UK Middle East Policy
Mark Curtis details why a 1941 document might still be so sensitive in 2019 that the British government is refusing to release it.
How Russia-gate Rationalized Censorship
From the Archives: Russia-gate mania spread beyond a strategy for neutralizing Donald Trump or removing him from office into an excuse for stifling U.S. dissent that challenges the New Cold War, reported Joe Lauria on Dec. 4, 2017.