Liberties
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New Threats to Julian Assange; Consortium News to Broadcast Emergency Meeting Live on Saturday
2 November 2018 — Consortium News New threats to the safety of Julian Assange, to be disclosed shortly by Consortium News, has prompted an emergency meeting of his supporters. https://consortiumnews.com/2018/11/02/new-threats-to-julian-assange-consortium-news-to-broadcast-emergency-meeting-live-on-saturday/ Continue reading
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European Union steps up Internet censorship in the name of opposing “disinformation” By Johannes Stern
The European Union (EU) summit on October 18 resolved to further tighten the censorship of the Internet. It also threatened with sanctions and penalties any party that diverges from the prescribed political line in the 2019 European election campaign. This is the response of European governments to growing opposition to militarism, social cuts and right-wing… Continue reading
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The “new cold war,” censorship, and the future of the Internet By Andre Damon
On Tuesday, the New York Times published a major editorial statement warning about the “breakup of the web” amid the rise of internet censorship and international geopolitical conflicts. “If things continue along this path,” the newspaper warns, “the next decade may see the internet relegated to little more than just another front on the new… Continue reading
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Boycott Facebook, Twitter, and Google. Here’s Why By Eric Zuesse
NATO — the neoconservatives, the marketeers for firms such as Lockheed Martin and BAE — has taken over the social-media giants and much of online international ‘news’-reporting, including that of virtually all independent news-sites and blogs. Continue reading
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Facebook carries out massive purge of oppositional pages By Andre Damon
On Thursday, Facebook removed some of the most popular oppositional pages and accounts on the world’s largest social media network, in a massive and unconstitutional assault on freedom of expression. Continue reading
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Pages purged by Facebook were on blacklist promoted by Washington Post By Andre Damon
Media outlets removed by Facebook on Thursday, in a massive purge of 800 accounts and pages, had previously been targeted in a blacklist of oppositional sites promoted by the Washington Post in November 2016. Continue reading
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Facebook Deleted 58 More Independent Media Pages Last Night
Facebook has essentially been removing pages of dissenting voices. Whether they are on the left or the right, it doesn’t seem to matter. If there is anything remotely extreme in their position, or it is sufficiently discordant with the mainstream voice, they appear to be getting targeted. The fact that Twitter goes along with it… Continue reading
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Food, Justice, Violence and Capitalism By Colin Todhunter
In 2015, India’s internal intelligence agency wrote a report that depicted various campaigners and groups as working against the national interest. The report singled out environmental activists and NGOs that had been protesting against state-corporate policies. Those largely undemocratic and unconstitutional policies were endangering rivers, forests and local ecologies, destroying and oppressing marginalised communities, entrenching… Continue reading
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The US military’s vision for state censorship By Andre Damon
In March, the United States Special Operations Command, the section of the Defense Department supervising the US Special Forces, held a conference on the theme of “Sovereignty in the information age.” The conference brought together Special Forces officers with domestic police forces, including officials from the New York police department, and representatives from technology companies… Continue reading
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“Five Eyes” summit in Australia ramps up internet censorship By Mike Head
Despite the high-profile character of the 5 EYES gathering, the event received almost no publicity. Australian Home Affairs Minister Peter Dutton hosted the summit. Leading the other delegations were US Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen and UK Home Secretary Sajid Javid, along with Canada’s Public Safety Minister Ralph Goodale and New Zealand Justice Minister Andrew… Continue reading
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Slavoj Zizek: Who has the right to bring the public bad news?
When WikiLeaks exploded onto the scene a decade ago, it briefly seemed like the internet could create a truly open society. Since then, Big Brother has fought back. Continue reading
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Banning Absurd Racist Alex Jones Threatens Us All
Digital media owners are silencing the left; now it’s Alex Jones’ turn to be silenced. How do we define the public commons when it’s all privately owned? Continue reading
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Fight back against internet censorship! By Andre Damon
In July 2017, the World Socialist Web Site published an exposure of the fact that changes to Google’s search algorithms had massively slashed traffic to left-wing, anti-war and socialist publications. Over the course of dozens of articles, we established that Google, together with the other technology monopolies, was engaged in a campaign of censorship of… Continue reading
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British and Ecuadorian authorities in talks to evict Julian Assange from London embassy By Oscar Grenfell
The London-based Times newspaper reported yesterday that the British and Ecuadorian governments have been holding secret discussions on plans to evict WikiLeaks editor Julian Assange from Ecuador’s London embassy, where he sought political asylum six years ago. Continue reading
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Banned from looking at the neighbours: PSPOs Strike Again!
29 June 2018 — Manifesto Club Banned from looking at the neighbours; abortion clinic buffer zones; jailed for being homeless; victory for dog walker in court; Help us save the Campaign Against PSPOs!… Continue reading
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THE URGENCY OF BRINGING JULIAN ASSANGE HOME
This is an abridged version of an address by John Pilger to a rally in Sydney, Australia, to mark Julian Assange’s six years’ confinement in the Ecuadorean embassy in London. Continue reading
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Immigrant children tied down, hooded, beaten, stripped and drugged By Patrick Martin
Court documents made public in Virginia and Texas give a glimpse of the systematic brutality being meted out to immigrant children in both public and private jails. Children are strapped down, hooded and beaten, or drugged by force, as part of the everyday procedure in what can only be called the American Gulag. Continue reading
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Your favourite websites CENSORED!
URGENT: The European Union is just weeks from passing a law that would destroy the best things about the Internet as we know it. As a result of lobbying by big corporate publishers, the European Commission is proposing to force websites to pay a tax to link to news content and use censorship machines to… Continue reading
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Stand up against censoring copyright laws!
The message is clear: The Copyright in the Digital Single Market Directive is a broken disastrous proposal. It contains a plan for licensing fees for sharing news links which would result in weakening the foundation of the Web, a loss of media diversity and harm acess to information across Europe. Continue reading
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Urge Ecuador to Protect WikiLeaks from Persecution by Team Trump
Please let Ecuador’s leaders know that you support their courageous stand in protecting press freedom, as well as their right to grant political asylum and resist United States/United Kingdom intimidation. Continue reading
The New Dark Age 