Before breaking down the latest round of “election interference” accusations, let’s look at what Russia’s “sinister” actions amounted to in 2016 and 2020.
JOHN KIRIAKOU: ‘Russian Interference’ 3.0
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Patrick Lawrence: The Sound of Enforced Silence
Our censors, as the record shows again and again, have no special concern about acting in a serious manner. Power has no such obligation.
JOHN KIRIAKOU: The Slide Into Authoritarianism
The loss of civil liberties is almost always incremental. On a flight home from Greece, the author recently ran into an increasingly familiar and menacing problem.
CN Condemns FBI Raid on CN Columnist’s Home
Consortium News strongly condemns the raid on the home of its columnist Scott Ritter by the F.B.l. on Thursday as a serious threat to press freedom.
Caitlin Johnstone: Twitter IS ‘State-Affiliated Media’
Twitter has been working in steadily increasing intimacy with the U.S. government since it began pressuring Silicon Valley platforms to regulate content in support of the establishment following the 2016 election.
Chris Hedges: On Being Disappeared
YouTube has removed the entire six-year archive of the author’s show “On Contact.” This censorship, he says, is about supporting what I.F Stone reminded us is what governments always do — lie.
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.
Ban on Russian Cats
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.
Edward R. Murrow’s Timeless Warnings
As the Russia-gate hysteria expands, it is coming to resemble the McCarthyism of the 1950s, except this time liberals and progressives are promoting the insidious “guilt by association,” as Michael Milillo describes.