The Limits Of Dissent – Glenn Greenwald And The Guardian

Even a comparatively honest, Chomskyite journalist like Glenn Greenwald is either not willing or not able to tell the whole truth about a paper that has done enormous harm in promoting Perpetual War with endless nonsense about ‘our’ supposed ‘responsibility to protect’ civilians in oil-rich countries like Iraq and Libya.

Media Lens
By Media Lens
Glenn Greenwald | The Guardian

When we think of prisons, we tend to think of Alcatraz, Bang Kwang and Belmarsh with their guard towers, iron bars and concrete. But in his forthcoming book, '33 Myths of the System', Darren Allen invites us to imagine a prison with walls made entirely of vacuous guff: Censorship is unnecessary in a system in which everyone can speak, but only

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Alex Jones was an Easy Censorship Precedent – Predictably Other Dissent is Following

Our democracy is traveling down a slippery slope of censorship by private internet portals and the mainstream news media is saying nothing.

Ian Berman
By Ian Berman
Supporters of a right-wing group protest against censorship after their events, groups and profiles were blocked by Facebook in front of the Facebook Office in Warsaw, Poland, Nov. 5, 2016. (AP/Czarek Sokolowski)

FACEBOOK, THE PUBLIC COMMONS -- On August 11, Facebook suddenly took down the Facebook page of teleSUR English for allegedly failing to comply with Facebook’s Terms of Use. This unit is a part of Telesur, a left-wing news organization “sponsored primarily by the government of Venezuela, but also by Cuba, Nicaragua, Uruguay, and Bolivia.” After

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Saudi-Led Coalition Ministers of Information Meeting Probes Ways to Block Critical Coverage of Yemen War

Well-known Yemeni activist and journalist Rand Al-Adimi told MintPress that dozens of journalists and outlets have been blacklisted, adding that “the Saudi-led coalition blacklisted my name, adding it to a list of journalists who threaten their genocide.”

Ahmed Abdulkareem
By Ahmed Abdulkareem
Saudi-Led Coalition Ministers of Information Meeting Probes Ways to Block Critical Coverage of Yemen War

JEDDAH, SAUDI ARABIA -- “That was the last time I saw Hashem,” recounted Mohammed Al Humran, a local Yemeni journalist, as he told MintPress how his 21-year-old son Hashem was killed in a double-tap airstrike while filming Saudi bombing raids in Dahian, north of Sadaa. Hashem was one of the 180 journalists who have been killed in Yemen by

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Don’t Call It Fake News! Facebook to Fully Fund Streaming Mainstream News Shows

By betting on content that is easily found on cable or network television — or even YouTube — Facebook may be making a miscalculation. After all, Anderson Cooper or Shepard Smith are hardly likely to be remembered as Facebook’s equivalent to the Netflix original smash hits “Stranger Things” or “Narcos.”

Elliott Gabriel
By Elliott Gabriel
Anderson Cooper attends the Turner Network 2016 Upfronts in New York. Cooper will star in Facebook Watch's new news programming. Evan Agostin | Invision | AP

MENLO PARK, CALIFORNIA – Facebook is pressing its ongoing offensive against “fake news” with a novel idea: it will fully shoulder the costs of producing what it claims are “high quality” news shows by a handful of mainstream media outlets. In so doing, it hopes to kill three birds with one stone: please the traditional media giants; ward off

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Israel’s Latest Act Of War: Another Attempt To Stop A “Peace Offensive”

“One nation openly attacking another on the latter’s territory would create a crisis anywhere else in the world. Not in Gaza though.” Perhaps the bigger questions are was this necessary and why now?

Ian Berman
By Ian Berman
Relatives of Palestinian Muhammed al-Aqraa, who was killed in an explosion in a smuggling tunnel at the border between Gaza and Egypt, mourn over his body in his family house during his funeral, Thursday, Feb. 9, 2017. Palestinian officials say an Israeli pre-dawn airstrike has killed several Gaza residents and wounded five others in a smuggling tunnel along the border with Egypt. The bombing appears to be the first to target smuggling tunnels since the 2014 war between Israel and Gaza's Hamas rulers. (AP Photo/ Khalil Hamra)

GAZA (Analysis) -- On Monday, October 30, Israel fired five missiles at a tunnel under construction in Gazan territory east of Khan Younis. Seven Palestinians were killed and nine wounded during the attack. Israel asserts that the tunnel had reached the Israeli side of the perimeter wall it has built around Gaza, but it attacked the tunnel on the

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Why Is Google Hiring 1,000 Journalists To Flood Newsrooms Around America?

Google is ramping up its media presence with the announcement that the Google News Lab will be working with Report For America (RFA) to hire 1,000 journalists all around the country. 

ZeroHedge.com
By ZeroHedge.com
Mainstream Media

So what do you do when you fail to elect your chosen candidate and your former political allies and mainstream media turn against you by painting you not as the 'progressive', open-minded, friendly tech company that you used to be but as an evil, racist, Russian-colluding corporate villain intent upon destroying all that is sacred in the

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