The Last Debt Rattle? — Raúl Ilargi Meijer

And did I mention the Automatic Earth has been almost wholly demonetized by Ad Sense? We’re going to need a lot more donations, the entire model for sites such as this one is rapidly changing. And I don’t want to also disappear behind a paywall, that defeats the purpose. More on that later as well. It’s not the direct reason behind halting the Debt Rattles, but it has crossed my mind. We can’t go on like this. Losing 85% of ad revenue is lethal at some point. Donations via Paypal and Patreon can be made at the top of the left and right sidebars.

The squeeze is on. Censorship by another name — economic warfare.

The Automatic Earth
The Last Debt Rattle?
Raúl Ilargi Meijer

Funny old world — Paul Robinson

Press freedom and narrative control.

Irrussianality
Funny old world
Paul Robinson | Professor, Graduate School of Public and International Affairs at the University of Ottawa

Whitney Webb — Newsguard Turns to EU to Push Controversial Ratings System on Tech Companies, Smears MintPress as “Secretly Supported” by Russia

Censorship watch. Narrative control in full swing. Again, "Putler did it." Haven't these people heard of the story of the boy that called wolf? Or have they forgotten it? It is one of Aesop's fables, after all.

Newsguard co-CEO Steven Brill in Brussels on Tuesday claimed that news sites that have recently criticized Newsguard’s motives — MintPress among them — are “secretly supported” by the Russian government, a claim for which he provided no evidence....

MintPress News
Newsguard Turns to EU to Push Controversial Ratings System on Tech Companies, Smears MintPress as “Secretly Supported” by Russia
Whitney Webb

Not only narrative control.

But "be afraid of Huawei."

Bloomberg
Major DNA Testing Company [Family Tree] Sharing Genetic Data With the FBI
Kristen V Brown

Anti-Media Strikes Back Against Censorship with LBRY Blockchain Technology for Publishing

Important if you are concerned about Internet censorship and how to fight it.

Anti-Media
Anti-Media Strikes Back Against Censorship with LBRY Blockchain Technology for Publishing

Anti-Media Press Release

RT — New Samizdat: RT brings you a new censorship buster

If the establishment media were truly balanced, social media’s purge of alternative news outlets would be a front-page splash. The fact it isn’t proves that those who shout loudest about “free speech” may be its greatest enemies.

Sadly, RT saw something like this coming. And for that reason, we have developed a new site to promote the free exchange of information and views. The fact it launches on the same weekend that US social media giants Facebook and Twitter clamped down on dissent is merely a coincidence.

New Samizdat is a news aggregator with a difference. The website will attempt to bring you the most important and interesting stories across the English-speaking web, which are either undervalued or ignored by legacy outlets.

Sources will vary, but inquiring minds who challenge groupthink will be favored. However, you’ll see the MSM often featured too, as one of its greatest tricks is to cover vital and radical news but bury it in the mainstream.

New Samizdat will post the most interesting links, across all spectrums, with the intention of stimulating debate and providing access to information. And we hope it can play a small part in fighting modern censorship by giving you a trusted page where the most interesting news and views can be found.

Visit New Samizdat !

Samizdat/Wikipedia

RT
New Samizdat: RT brings you a new censorship buster

On the Censorship of Michael Hoffman's Books by Amazon — The Saker interviews Michale Hoffman

More signs of the collapse of American liberalism.

The Unz Review
On the Censorship of Michael Hoffman's Books by Amazon

The Saker interviews Michale Hoffman

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When Europeans land on the U.S. No-Fly List, they have almost no chance to challenge it, as a German couple from Stuttgart recently found out the hard way. Their case casts light on an Orwellian lack of transparency in the war on terror.

Spiegel Online English
Orwellian Nightmare: A German Couple Winds Up on U.S. No-Fly List

Katrin Elger, Dietmar Hipp and Martin Knobbe

Ray McGovern — Will Mueller Opt For ’Non-existent’ Intelligence?

The phone was fully charged, and yet … Opps! During a radio interview on Sept. 6, Ray’s cellphone went mysteriously dead after ten minutes, precisely at minute 16:44, a second after he questioned whether Robert Mueller deserves the sainthood bestowed on him in Establishment media. The radio studio could find no technical reason to account for why the line dropped abruptly immediately after Ray words that Mueller’s “reputation for honesty does not withstand close scrutiny.”https://sputniknews.com/radio_the_critical_hour/201809071067821350-op-ed-reveals-trump-resistance/(Ray’s interview segment runs from minute 6:05 to its premature end at 16:44.)

Ray McGovern
Will Mueller Opt For ’Non-existent’ Intelligence?

Ray McGovern

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Sputnik International
Facebook Blocks Account of German MP Over Photo With Late DPR Head Zakharchenko

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Zero Hedge
Paul Joseph Watson Goes Nuclear On Twitter And MSM After Alex Jones Ban

Tyler Durden

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The Grenville Post
Review: The Einstein File Exposes the FBI as an Enemy of All the People

Danny Haiphong

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Zero Hedge
YouTube Shuts Down All Syrian State Channels As Idlib Assault Begins

Tyler Durden

Censorship (links)

Expect additions to this thread. This is a developing story.

“Social Media is totally discriminating against Republican/Conservative voices. Speaking loudly and clearly for the Trump Administration, we won’t let that happen. They are closing down the opinions of many people on the RIGHT, while at the same time doing nothing to others.......” the president tweeted. 

“.....Censorship is a very dangerous thing & absolutely impossible to police. If you are weeding out Fake News, there is nothing so Fake as CNN & MSNBC, & yet I do not ask that their sick behavior be removed. I get used to it and watch with a grain of salt, or don’t watch at all.”…

The president later added: “....Too many voices are being destroyed, some good & some bad, and that cannot be allowed to happen. Who is making the choices, because I can already tell you that too many mistakes are being made. Let everybody participate, good & bad, and we will all just have to figure it out!”...

Politico

'We won't let that happen:' Trump alleges social media censorship of conservatives

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This raises major questions, in their statement that the deleted data was ‘administered by Russia and Iran’. It also contradicts their own official rationale. Given that these countries with combined populations of over 220 million people, it is unclear therefore if the specific allegation, and subsequent action, was based on these pages, groups, and accounts being literally run by government offices of the governments in question. That much appears very much unlikely to be so.

Rather, this appears as a case of bias, discrimination, and national chauvinism – activists from Russia and Iran are apparently not allowed to administer Facebook pages and groups, is what we can deduce at this time, in the absence of evidence to corroborate Facebook’s claims.

FRN itself has long been the subject of Atlanticist attacks, Julian Assange noted that attacks identical to those made upon FRN by Facebook are coordinated by militarized vectors of Atlanticist power.

The criteria of a ‘coordinated network’ appears to contradict allegations of being ‘administered by Russia and Iran’. Are Facebook page administrations, who agree on a range of subjects, disallowed from sending each other inbox messages and ‘coordinating’ messages? Isn’t that what activists do?Fort Russ

FACEBOOK COMMITS MASS CENSORSHIP & DISCRIMINATION; removes 652 ‘inappropriate’ accounts ‘linked’ to Russia and Iran

Paul Antonopoulos

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But, seeing as we're getting towards September when the EU Parliament will again be voting on the big Copyright Directive proposal there, including Article 13, which will require mandatory filters or other automated tools for preventing copyright infringement, I thought it was important to do a separate post calling out one of the other pages taken down by Symphonic Distribution's out of control Topple Track. And that was that it got Google to de-index an article by Julia Reda, a member of the EU Parliament who has been leading the charge against the problematic provisions in the Copyright Directive proposal.

Specifically -- and it would be hard to make this up if we tried -- Topple Track's automated filter got Google to de-index this blog post by Reda, in which she details the problems in Article 13 and how it will create mandatory censorship machines, that would likely lead to massive internet censorship of perfectly legitimate content....

TechDirt — Free Speech
Automated Filter Removed Parliament Member's Article Warning About Censorship By Automated Filters

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The algorithms that drive the bizarre universe of these videos are used to “hack the brains of very small children in return for advertising revenue,” says Bridle. “At least that what I hope they’re doing it for.” Bridle soon bridges the machinery of kids’ YouTube with the adult version. “It’s impossible to know,” he says, who’s posting these millions of videos, “or what their motives might be…. Really it’s exactly the same mechanism that’s happening across most of our digital services, where it’s impossible to know where this information is coming from.” The children’s videos are “basically fake news for kids. We’re training them from birth to click on the very first link that comes along, regardless of what the source is.”

High school and college teachers already deal with the problem of students who cannot judge good information from bad—and who cannot really be blamed for it, since millions of adults seem unable to do so as well. In surveying YouTube children’s videos, Bridle finds himself asking the same questions that arise in response to so much online content: “Is this a bot? Is this a person? Is this a troll? What does it mean that we can’t tell the difference between these things anymore?” The language of online content is a hash of popular tags meant to be read by machine algorithms, not humans. But real people performing in an “algorithmically optimized system” seem forced to “act out these increasingly bizarre combinations of words.”

Within this culture, he says, “even if you’re human, you have to end up behaving like a machine just to survive.” What makes the scenario even darker is that machines replicate the worst aspects of human behavior, not because they’re evil but because that’s what they’re taught to do. To think that technology is neutral is a dangerously naïve view, Bridle argues. Humans encode their historical biases into the data, then entrust to A.I. such critical functions as not only children’s entertainment, but also predictive policing and recommending criminal sentences. As Bridle notes in the short video above, A.I. inherits the racism of its creators, rather than acting as a “leveling force."

As we’ve seen the CEOs of tech companies taken to task for the use of their platforms for propaganda, disinformation, hate speech, and wild conspiracy theories, we’ve also seen them respond to the problem by promising to solve it with more automated machine learning algorithms. In other words, to address the issues with the same technology that created them—technology that no one really seems to understand. Letting “unaccountable systems” driven almost solely by ads control global networks with ever-increasing influence over world affairs seems wildly irresponsible, and has already created a situation, Bridle argues in his book, in which imperialism has “moved up to infrastructure level” and conspiracy theories are the most “powerful narratives of our time,” as he says below....

Open Culture
This Is Your Kids’ Brains on Internet Algorithms: A Chilling Case Study Shows What’s Wrong with the Internet Today
Josh Jones

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Unfortunately, Facebook immediately used this new precedent to switch its sights on the left, temporarily shutting down the Occupy London page and deleting the anti-fascist No Unite the Right account (Tech Crunch, 8/1/18). Furthermore, on August 9, the independent, reader-supported news website Venezuelanalysis had its page suspended without warning.…

Facebook recently announced it had partnered with the Atlantic Council in an effort to combat “fake news” on its platform (FAIR.org, 5/21/18). An offshoot of NATO, the Council’s board of directors is a who’s who of neo-conservative hawks, including Condoleezza Rice, Colin Powell, Henry Kissinger and James Baker; CIA directors like Robert Gates, Leon Panetta and Michael Hayden; retired generals like Wesley Clark and David Petraeus; as well as senior tech executives.

Forty-five percent of Americans get their news from Facebook. When an organization like the Atlantic Council decides what news we see and do not see, that is tantamount to state censorship.

FAIR — Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting
That Facebook Will Turn to Censoring the Left Isn’t a Worry—It’s a Reality

Alan MacLeod

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Moon of Alabama
Facebook Kills "Inauthentic" Foreign News Accounts - U.S. Propaganda Stays Alive

Social media wars hotting up..

Social media wars hotting up..

Zero Hedge
Top Iran General 'Ready for Jihad'; Posts White House Explosion Pic On Instagram

Tyler Durden

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What Twitter views as abusive, Caitlin sees as telling truth to power.

Caitlin Johnstone — Rogue Journalist
Twitter Has Shut Down My Account For “Abusing” John McCain
Caitlin Johnstone

Pam and Russ Martens — Would Sen. Warner’s Ambitious Plan to Regulate Social Media Giants “Ruin” the Internet—Or Save it?

Need to regulate versus opportunity to control versus threat of ruining.

Wall Street On Parade
Would Sen. Warner’s Ambitious Plan to Regulate Social Media Giants “Ruin” the Internet—Or Save it?
Pam Martens and Russ Martens

Brian Kalgan — The Big Tech Companies are Just Contract Mercenaries for the U.S. Intelligence Agencies

... the current case in question is quite different than any past case study in a private entity’s constitutional requirements where freedom of speech are concerned. Firstly, just a handful of big tech companies control virtually all social media platforms, effectively operating an illegal, anti-free market monopoly. This is not a normal, or even legal form of private business in the United States. Secondly, these companies are banning individuals and groups in coordination with one another and at the behest of special interests groups, including current federal government legislators, the mass media, and former federal intelligence agency officials. This “usual suspects” line-up, representing what is now acknowledged as the Deep State, even by the mainstream media outlets that serve as its propaganda operation, are basically contracting a private company to do what they are legally prevented from doing so themselves. So, Facebook, Google, Twitter and YouTube are working as independent contractors to conduct the type of censorship of the internet that the federal government would like to conduct through agencies such as the FCC or even the CIA and the NSA, but is legally prohibited from doing so.

SouthFront
The Big Tech Companies are Just Contract Mercenaries for the U.S. Intelligence AgenciesBrian Kalgan, management professional in the marine transportation industry and an officer in the US Navy for eleven years

Asif Aziz — It’s Not a ‘Defense’ of Alex Jones to Argue That We’re On a Slippery Slope of Internet Censorship

When you hound the parents of dead children and promote the theory that inter-dimensional “lizard people” are secretly running the world, you relinquish the right to be taken seriously by a lot of people.

But this is not about Alex Jones or what he believes. It is about the fact that the Left has willfully decided that massive corporations, working hand-in-glove with government agencies, as we know they do, should be the arbiters of truth and should hold the power to decide what we see, hear, read and believe.

Left? Or corporate shills trying desperately to control the narrative? Certainly, many on the so-called left but actually center-right on world standards have been co-opted by the Democratic established going by the name New Democrats and Theory Way, but which is really the political machine working in the interests of the donors.

This neo-McCarthyism has been steadily creeping back into the mainstream for years, but gathered steam with the election of Donald Trump and the onset of Russiagate, which has gripped American political discourse now for the better part of two years. Once-skeptical “liberals”are suddenly in thrall to the benevolent “intelligence community” and are more than happy to brand as a traitor to America anyone who questions its power and innate goodness.

The qestion is, Who decides?

Those cheering Jones’ collective banning at the hands of all-powerful digital overlords should ask themselves a few questions.

Do you really want tech giants, working with governments, to be the ones deciding what constitutes “fake” news? Who gets to decide what a conspiracy theory is? Who gets to decide when something is “real”journalism or when it sows “radical discontent” and “division” and should be banned or labelled as dangerous and divisive hate speech?

To suggest that the “slippery slope” argument doesn’t hold water and that Alex Jones is a unique case is to be blind to reality.…

"First they came for Alex Jones.…"

Some on the progressive left have opposed this creeping censorship, cognizant of the fact that it leads to nowhere healthy, but others have cheered along, perhaps under the naive and totally false assumption that only the right-wing will feel the sting.

Well, they shouldn’t feel so comfortable. Google has already been accused of censoring left-wing and socialist websites. Sites like Alternet, Democracy Now and Counterpunch all experienced huge drops in trafficsince Google changed its algorithms to combat “fake news” online....

 Astute News — Opinion
It’s Not a ‘Defense’ of Alex Jones to Argue That We’re On a Slippery Slope of Internet Censorship

Asif Aziz

RT — First they came for Alex Jones… Now Facebook bans Venezuela news site

Days after the purge of Alex Jones from social media, Big Tech seems to have found another suitable target for apparent censorship. Facebook suspended the page of a prominent leftist news site writing about Venezuela.

Venezuelanalysis.com, a left-leaning news site that writes from a pro-Bolivarian revolution stance, has been around since 2003. Critics, including the US government, brand it as a propaganda outlet of the government in Caracas. The site says it is funded by donations and lists as its team Western-born journalists and filmmakers, as well as endorsements from dozens of Western intellectuals, including Noam Chomsky, Tariq Ali and Oliver Stone.

Can't challenge the narrative. Heaven forbid.

Shit storm in the forecast.

RT

First they came for Alex Jones… Now Facebook bans Venezuela news site

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CNBC — Tech Guide (4 April 2018)
How to delete everything Facebook knows about you

Todd Haselton

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This is censorship. There will of course be apologists for the corporate control of speech, on both the left and right, who will say, ‘It’s only censorship when the government does it!’. They are so wrong. When enormous companies that have arguably become the facilitators of public debate expel someone and his ideas because they find them morally repugnant, that is censorship. Powerful people have deprived an individual and his network of a key space in which they might propagate their beliefs. Aka censorship.

Spiked
Alex Jones and the Rise of Corporate Censorship

Brendan O'Neill | Editor

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Last year, representatives of Facebook, Twitter, and Google were instructed on the US Senate floor that it is their responsibility to “quell information rebellions” and adopt a “mission statement” expressing their commitment to “prevent the fomenting of discord.”

“Civil wars don’t start with gunshots, they start with words,” the representatives were told. “America’s war with itself has already begun. We all must act now on the social media battlefield to quell information rebellions that can quickly lead to violent confrontations and easily transform us into the Divided States of America.”...

In a corporatist system of government, wherein there is no meaningful separation between corporate power and state power, corporate censorship is state censorship. Because legalized bribery in the form of corporate lobbying and campaign donations has given wealthy Americans the ability to control the US government’s policy and behavior while ordinary Americans have no effective influence whatsoever, the US unquestionably has a corporatist system of government. Large, influential corporations are inseparable from the state, so their use of censorship is inseparable from state censorship.

Caitlin Johnstone — Rogue Journalist
In A Corporatist System Of Government, Corporate Censorship Is State Censorship
Caitlin Johnstone

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An all-out battle is raging against alternative views in the country that has positioned itself as the champion of the freedom of speech despite the fact that 90% of its media are controlled by just 6 companies. For comparison, in 1983, 90% of US media were controlled by 50 companies. Naturally, the trend negatively affects press freedom. According to the 2018 World Press Freedom Index compiled by Reporters Without Borders or RSF, the US dropped two positions compared to 2017, sliding to No. 45 overall. The role of competition has diminished while bias has become a norm. According to the 2017 Gallup/Knight Foundation Survey on Trust, Media and Democracy report, only 44 percent Americans say they can identify a news source that they believe reports the news objectively.

Strategic Culture Foundation

Alex Jones Purge: US Tech Giants Meddle into 2018 Midterm Elections 

Peter Korzun

Amazingly, the American ruling elite think that they can control the narrative by controlling the corporate media. Even the Soviet Union could not do this. See samizdat.

This assumption is moronic when over half the country is onto you.

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While the following article is highly relevant concerning the blowback from sanctioning Russia, and he doesn't even mention the obvious distrust of hold USD and US denominated assets involves, or the hit to soft power, the take away that is most relevant to this thread is the final sentence about the Atlantic Council, which is supervising Facebook censorship.

"Congress should focus on updating and enforcing these sanctions while incorporating new ideas from the Atlantic Council and others […]," the expert wrote.

Now "they" don't even bother about burying their tracks.

TASS

US expert warns new anti-Russian sanctions will damage American corporations

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The Duran
Facebook teams up with NATO to censor news (Video)

Alex Christoforou

See also this by Alex

Twitter suspends Ron Paul Institute and Antiwar Directors’ accounts (Video)

This is going dump more fuel on the incipient civil war in America, which has been "soft" so far, excepting a few incidents.

Reuters Facebook, Apple remove most of U.S. conspiracy theorist's content

"It can't happen here."

"Hate-speech" is different.

Note that this is a voluntary action taken by the private sector. So there is no violation of the First Amendment, which prohibits government censorship.

Reuters
Facebook, Apple remove most of U.S. conspiracy theorist's content
Rich McKay

Also at Reuters

This is kind of a big deal. Chinese state media is usually pretty moderate. This is an attack on POTUS and it represents ratcheting up.

Chinese state media slams Trump for 'extortion' in trade dispute
Andrew Galbraith, Michael Martina


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SFgate
YouTube, Pinterest Pull Alex Jones and InfoWars Channels Following Bans by Apple, Facebook

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Liberty Blitzkrieg
Stop Complaining and Just Delete Facebook
Michael Krieger

Paul Robinson — Cui bono?

The real reason behind the push for censorship of social media.

I’m not a great fan of Marxist philosophy, but one thing it has got right is the need to be sceptical when faced by what academics like to call ‘normative’ claims, and to be aware that such claims often hide a bid for power. When faced by such a claim, one should always ask ‘Cui bono?’ – who benefits?...

Not just Marxist philosophy. Anyone with a working crap detector knows this intuitively. It's just being street-smart.

Irrussianality
Cui bono?Paul Robinson | Professor, Graduate School of Public and International Affairs at the University of Ottawa

Craig Murray — The Massive Need for Infrastructure in the Emerging and Developed World

"Voluntary" censorship at Facebook and Twitter.

Craig Murray Blog
Blocked By Facebook and the Vulnerability of New MediaCraig Murray, formerly British ambassador to Uzbekistan and Rector of the University of Dundee

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The Duran
CENSORSHIP CAUGHT: Facebook tries to shut the door on The Duran

Seraphim Hanisch

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Since journalists, publishers and users would raise a hue and cry over their content being censored, Facebook simply carries out its censorship in secret. By blocking distribution on the Facebook news feed, the company’s actions have the same effect as simply deleting content, but without any legal proof that the company violated its users’ First Amendment rights.

While Facebook is the only technology company that has spelled out these actions with such directness, Google and Twitter have both admitted, via legal representatives in congressional testimony that they follow a similar policy to suppress “fake news”—i.e., oppositional viewpoints.

WSWS
Facebook codifies its censorship regime
Andre Damon

Moon of Alabama — The Media War On Truthful Reporting And Legitimate Opinions - A Documentary

Bringing down the curtain of censorship in US media.

Moon of Alabama
The Media War On Truthful Reporting And Legitimate Opinions - A Documentary

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Tony Blair redux? It worked the first time around.

Consortium News
Another Dodgy British Dossier: the Skripal Case
Gareth Porter

Craig Murray — Living in Goebbels Land

So a tiny independent radio station in Ireland managed to interview Robert Fisk on the ground in Douma, but none of the British mainstream broadcast media today has him on, despite the political fallout from our Syria bombing attacks being the main news story everywhere? Meantime MSM propagandists including Richard Hall (BBC), Dan Hodges (Mail) and Brian Whitaker (Guardian) and many more queue up to denounce Fisk on twitter from their cosy armchairs.

It bears repeating that the information on the alleged gas attacks – which raises great doubt but which Fisk himself does not claim as definitive – is not the most important part of Fisk’s article. The Hell of rule under the jihadists that we in the West are arming, funding, training, “military advising” and giving air support, alongside Saudi Arabia and Israel, is the indisputable and much more important element of Fisk’s report, as is the clear evidence he provides that the White Helmets are part of the jihadist factions.

Institutional censorship.

Under fascism, corporations and government are entangled. Nuremberg established that precedent, too.

The bastions of liberalism — the US, UK, and France — have fallen.

So much for "Western values." Trashed.

Craig Murray Blog

Living in Goebbels Land
Craig Murray, formerly British ambassador to Uzbekistan and Rector of the University of Dundee

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As James Madison once said "war powers is the surest way to tyranny" and tyranny will prevail if people remain apathetic says Col. Larry Wilkerson

TRNN
Col. Larry Wilkerson on Syria: War Powers is the "Surest Way to Tyranny"

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Sic Semper Tyrannis
Real Reporting on Syria
Publius Tacitus

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SouthFront (banned from FaceBook)
Video: Syrian Troops Found Underground Fortress Under Douma National Hospital

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Sputnik International
Russian Military Finds Chemical Weapons Warehouse in Syrian Douma - Reports

Addison dePitt — Presstitutes raise the temperature on social media giants to join the campaign to stamp out free speech and all political dissent

Zuckerberg’s auto-da-fé before the Congressional inquisition is designed to send a message to his tech industry colleagues, as well as provide official cover for the future enforcement of draconian rules against deviants from the official script. “Misuse of social media!” cry the new Inquisitors. But who decides what constitutes “misuse”? Isn’t that what the First Amendment is all about?….

The suppression of free speech in the US and the rest of the “capitalist democracies” (a glorious oxymoron) is a systemic bipartisan plot that long precedes Trump, the result of the establishment’s realisation —brought to a boil with the upset election of Trump—that they are losing control of the main narrative—the truth is getting through, so to speak— and the holes must be plugged. The gargantuan echo chamber dedicated to lies 24/7 that is the mainstream media and supporting institutions must be kept safe from further erosion and eventual dismantlement by that pesky little thing some people still quaintly call, “just the facts.”...

The Greanville Post

Presstitutes raise the temperature on social media giants to join the campaign to stamp out free speech and all political dissent

Addison dePitt

Elizabeth Vos — Facebook Cracks Down On Independent Media, Under Guise Of ‘Enhancing Relationships’

Corporate media initiates "self-censorship" since government censorship is illegal.  The result is the same and few believe that the move is self-initiated.

Disobedient Media
Facebook Cracks Down On Independent Media, Under Guise Of ‘Enhancing Relationships’
Elizabeth Vos