Glenn Greenwald addresses more attempts to control independent voices on the internet that are not part of the closed propaganda system, this time on Rumble. https://youtu.be/CzIDVjduO5E?si=cfQef8ihMb99rSz6 Editor's note: Such attempts were made in England before when the poet William Blake was charged with sedition in 1803 for saying "Damn the King. The soldiers More
Saint Zelensky Suspends Election & Steals $400 Million in US Aid. by David Mulinix / Original to Rise Up Times / Source links below. To get the US public to support the US Empire's Proxy War in Ukraine, the Biden regime's pro-war propaganda paints a picture of Zelensky as a saint fighting for democracy. More
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Greenwald makes the connections: the mainsream corporate media, green-washing by billionairies with their yachts, the pro-state (instead of pro-truth) mainstream corporate meida, the climate crisis and the carbon footprint...and more
On the 4th anniversary of Assange's arrest and years spent in the high security prison in England called Belmarsh, this video is a clip of a longer Glenn Greenwald video on his show System Update. To Twin Citians: The film Ithaka featuring John Shipton, father of Julian Assange, will be shown at St. Joan of More
The fourth estate is supposed to be a conduit to the people and a check on power. Instead, we have a bunch of geographically isolated, introspection-free, cozy-with-power, egomaniacal journalists thirsty for elite approval.
We’re going to try and do our best to examine what is actually a challenging and an interesting question: faced with a very small group of corporate giants who have used anti-competitive practices to make themselves virtually unchallengeable and inescapable, how can one shrewdly subvert their power without sacrificing one's integrity, or, worse, cynically exploiting the sincere anger of the public toward Big Tech for one's own personal aggrandizement?
The U.S. was determined to do everything possible to drag Assange back to U.S. soil despite his not being a U.S. citizen and never having spent more than a few days on U.S. soil...
One problem which emerges with this censorship regime is the question of how “disinformation” is determined or, more aptly, who determines it? This new Disinformation Board is intended to place that immense power in the hands of the U.S. Security State, such that it can now place an official “disinformation” designation over any idea or view it wishes to discredit.
"It is extremely difficult, if not impossible, to find any despot in history who does not weaponize accusations of “treason” against dissidents as a central instrument for control. That U.S. discourse has now descended completely to that level is barely debatable."
Chris Hedges, Veterans for Peace, Abby Martin with Brian Becker, Robert Parry on Nuland, Ralph Nader, Jeff Cohen, Medea Benjamin
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