#media #propaganda #war #journalism #Iraq #Afghanistan #wikileaks #assange ">The War You Dont See : John Pilger : Internet Archive
#journalism
#Microsoft says listing the #Ottawa #Food Bank as a #tourist destination wasn’t the result of ‘unsupervised #AI’
A Microsoft #travel guide for Ottawa, #Canada, prominently recommended tourists visit the Ottawa Food Bank, as spotted by Paris Marx until it was removed after this article was originally published.
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#politics #usa #journalism #rightwing-policy #mccarthy #witchhunt #racism #antiwar-movement #anticommunism #freespeech #democracy
McCarthyism Is Back: Together We Can Stop It
We stand together against the rise of a new McCarthyism that is targeting peace activists, critics of US foreign policy, and Chinese Americans. Despite increased intimidation, we remain steadfast in our mission to foster peace and international solidarity, countering the narrative of militarism, hostility, and fear.
As the US government grapples with a major crisis of legitimacy, it has grown fearful of young people becoming conscious and organized to change the world. Influential media outlets like The New York Times have joined right-wing extremists in using intimidation tactics to silence these advocates for change, affecting not only the left but everyone who supports free speech and democratic rights.
The political and media establishments, both liberal and conservative, have initiated McCarthy-like attacks against individuals and organizations criticizing US foreign policy, labeling peace advocates as “Chinese or foreign agents.” This campaign uses innuendo and witch hunts, posing a threat to free speech and the right to dissent. We must oppose this trend.
Scientists, researchers, and service members of Chinese descent have been falsely accused of espionage and unregistered foreign agency, often with cases later collapsing due to insufficient evidence. Similar to the old “Red Scare” and McCarthy periods, when scores of organizations and leaders like W.E.B Du Bois, Eugene Debs, Emma Goldman, Paul Robeson and Martin Luther King Jr and others were attacked with fact-less accusations, today, prominent organizations and individuals, including CODEPINK, The People’s Forum, and Tricontinental Institute have been targeted, with smears and accusations propagated by outlets like The New York Times.
Their strategy paints a sinister image of a secret network funding the peace movement. However, there’s nothing illegal or fringe about opposing a New Cold War or a “major power conflict” with China, views shared by hundreds of millions globally. Receiving donations from US citizens who share these views is not illicit.
Media outlets have tried to scandalize funding sources of several organizations that are on the frontlines working with anti-racist, feminist, anti-war, abolitionist, climate justice, and other movements throughout the United States and globally. Meanwhile, when white neoliberal philanthropists flood the non-profit complex with significant funds to support their political agendas this is rarely scrutinized or made accountable to the communities they impact.
From The New York Times to Fox News, there’s a resurgence of the Red Scare that once shattered many lives and threatened movements for change and social justice. This attack isn’t only on the left but against everyone who exercises their free speech and democratic rights. We must firmly resist this racist, anti-communist witch hunt and remain committed to building an international peace movement. In the face of adversity, we say NO to xenophobic witch hunts and YES to peace.
Initial Signers:
- CODEPINK
- The People’s Forum
- Tricontinental Institute for Social Research
- ANSWER Coalition
- Anticapitalism for Artists
- Defend Democracy in Brazil
- Families for Freedom
- Mulheres de Resistencia do Exterior
- Nodutdol
- NYC Jericho Movement
- NYC Young Communist League
- Radical Elders
In the Beechmont neighborhood of Louisville, KY, an open-air market has lost its manager and perhaps its future existence after a Baptist pastor objected to how the marketer, a transfemme, was dressed. #trans #news #journalism #religion
I find the pastor offensive. Can we have the churches removed? The pastors that defend and protect rapists?
You can say what every you want, as long as you do not say too much negative about the establishment.
Someone dared to speak out his ideas about present times. Well, he pointed the finger in the wrong direction, got imprisoned, tortured, paraded in front of the media, released and put into prison again.
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#journalism #Gonzalo_Lira #GonzaloLira #Julian_Assange #JulianAssange and #others - selected #pressfreedom #selected #human-rights #hypocracy
Matt Taibbi: How the Left lost its mind
The maverick journalist talks Twitter Files, the end of the anti-government left, Donald Trump, and Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
Before Matt Taibbi was sparring with Democratic members of Congress on Capitol Hill earlier this year over the Twitter Files, he was a darling of the progressive left, appearing regularly on shows like Democracy Now! and others hosted by Bill Moyers and Rachel Maddow.
Though he was always a fierce critic of the Democratic establishment, the rise of Donald Trump suddenly meant that anyone nominally left of center—including progressive journalists like Taibbi—was expected to support Hillary Clinton unconditionally. So when he attacked her as a sellout, argued that the Russiagate narrative was mostly bullshit, and equated the manipulative tactics of right and left media personalities, progressives gave him the cold shoulder. Elected Democrats started treating him like a puppet of the right.
In 2020, Taibbi started publishing his work on Substack and quickly became one of the platform's most popular writers, earning far more than he ever did at Rolling Stone, where he had been chief political reporter. He became even more of a pariah by publishing exhaustive reports that documented how the government sought to control what was said on Twitter about COVID-19 and efforts by Russia to influence U.S. elections. Congressional Democrats unconvincingly pilloried him as a fake journalist, an apologist for Vladimir Putin, and a stooge for Elon Musk.
I caught up with Taibbi at FreedomFest, an annual gathering held this year in Memphis, to talk about the new challenges to free speech, why legacy media is dying, and how identity politics are poisoning political discourse.
Redditors #prank #AI - powered #news mill with “Glorbo” in World of #Warcraft
On Thursday, a Reddit user named kaefer_kriegerin posted a #fake #announcement on the World of Warcraft subreddit about the introduction of "Glorbo" to the game. #Glorbo isn't real, but the post successfully exposed a #website that scrapes Reddit for news in an automated fashion with little human oversight.
#fakenews #technology #journalism #press #web #game #gmaer #manipulation #fail #wtf #omg
A few surprises here, for me anyway. Would have pegged the Rogan show as more right-wing, but I also realize I don't really have much first-hand knowledge about it, so defer to the experts.
The Ad Fontes Media Bias Chart has grown more comprehensive over the years. Note how they differentiate between FOX News (web) and Fox Business (web), giving them very different scores.
I'm noticing that the AP, BBC, Reuters, and Pew Research Center have consistently high-quality fact reporting without overt bias. Even if I agree with the sentiment, highly biased articles are a turn-off, bringing only disappointment when their vision doesn't match reality.
I prefer reality!
Chris Hedges ~ Journalists Abandoned Julian Assange and Slit Their Own Throats
#chrishedges #julianassange #journalists #journalism #wikileaks #msm #media #us #politics #humanrights #censorship #cia #nsa #uk #showtrial #freepress #freespeech #freeassange #journalismisnotacrime
Proposed Espionage Act Reforms are Vital for Investigative Journalism
https://freedom.press/news/proposed-espionage-act-reforms-are-vital-for-investigative-journalism/
#Unconstitutional #prosecutions of #journalists and their sources under the #EspionageAct pose an #existential #threat to #pressfreedom in the #US. An #amendment to #reform the #100+ #year-old-law could finally change that.
#rashidatlaib #vital #investigative #journalism #freepress #freespeech #freeassange #whistleblowers #defendants #julianassange #danielellsberg #trump #biden
Censorship & Blacklists: The Death of Journalism
https://yewtu.be/watch?v=k4lgsyo-3SE
https://consortiumnews.com/2023/07/06/watch-the-death-of-journalism/
#mattkennard #stellaassange #chrishedges #censorship #blacklists #journalism-death #q-a #politics #freespeech #freepress #julianassange #wikileaks #journalism #freeassange #biden #britain
‘If you win the popular #imagination, you change the game’: why we need new stories on #climate
In order to do what the climate #crisis demands of us, we have to find stories of a livable #future, stories of popular power, stories that motivate people to do what it takes to make the #world we need.
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Our greatest power lies in our roles as citizens, not consumers, when we can band together to collectively change how our world works.
#news #story #journalism #press #environment #nature #emissions #co2 #earth
The New #Media Goliaths
The #internet has allowed independent creators to thrive, finding niche audiences for everything from nudes to salad recipes. But it’s also spawned silos that incentivize #propaganda.
Palestinian journalist wins wrongful termination appeal against DW https://thecradle.co/article-view/26535/palestinian-journalist-wins-wrongful-termination-appeal-against-dw
Western #media outlets and social media giants in recent years have doubled down on censoring #journalists who speak out against Israeli war crimes in Palestine
#DW #Israel #Palestine #journalism
#books #reading #titanic #journalism
First - I read this book when I was a teenager. It was in my high school library in New Jersey. Until that time I had no idea about this subject, but I loved history. I searched for books that had original photographs about the Titanic, and found them.
As an adult I also found the original 1958 Black and White film - 'A Night To Remember'. After reading the book, and seeing the film that was made from the book - when I saw the Hollywood romantic epic 'Titanic', I wasn't impressed. But at least some authentic history was introduced to present generations.
- Alexander Bell Filson Young (1876–1938) was a journalist, who published the first book about the sinking of the RMS Titanic, called Titanic, in 1912 only 37 days after the sinking. He was also an essayist, war correspondent in the Boer War and World War I, a programmes advisor to the BBC, and the author of two novels. Beside his literary work, he was an organist and composer, and a pioneer of motoring and aviation.
Alexander Bell Filson Young was born in Ireland in 1876, at Ballyeaston, County Antrim. He was the son of the Revd. William Young and Sarah Young (née Filson).
- In 1911 Young visited Belfast to see the RMS Titanic under construction; and when it sank in 1912 his book about the disaster appeared little over a month afterwards. -wikipedia
When Truth Becomes Silence: Glastonbury’s Cancelling Of A Powerful Film About Jeremy Corbyn
Media Lens
(...) In this country, as in other western ‘democracies’, important truths are effectively being silenced. As we have written on many occasions, antisemitism was used as a weapon to destroy the chances of Jeremy Corbyn becoming the British Prime Minister. Labour HQ staffers, and even Labour MPs, actively conspired against him. Al Jazeera’s powerful series, ‘The Labour Files’, which was blatantly blanked by the establishment media, has documented all this in considerable detail.
And now the Glastonbury Film Festival has succumbed to similar pressure and cancelled a screening of a new film, ‘Oh Jeremy Corbyn: The Big Lie’. (...)
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Jeremy Corbyn addressing Glastonbury in 2017
The makers of the film, first shown in London in February, describe the film thus:
‘Produced by award-winning radical film-maker Platform Films, with contributions from Jackie Walker, Ken Loach, Andrew Murray, Graham Bash and Moshe Machover, and narrated by Alexei Sayle, this feature-length documentary film explores a dark and murky story of political deceit and outrageous antisemitic smears. It also uncovers the critical role played by current Labour leader, Keir Starmer and asks if the movement which backed Corbyn could rise again.’
Reviewer Diane Datson wrote:
‘The real message conveyed in this film is that the Labour Party is no alternative to the Conservatives – it serves the ruling class and is led by someone every bit as devious as Boris Johnson, if not more so.’
She added:
‘However, I for one felt uplifted, as the film ended optimistically. Many of the interviewees think that all is not lost – those millions of people who were inspired and given hope by the Corbyn project haven’t gone away – they are to be found supporting the picket lines, protesting and fighting for many causes such as public ownership of the NHS and the right to strike and the establishment is STILL petrified.’ (...)
‘The Big Lie’ is, of course, right to address the important part played by the pro-Israel lobby. It includes clips from the Al Jazeera film, ‘The Lobby’, which exposed Israel’s determined attempts to interfere in Britain’s politics. (...)
‘The Big Lie’ also highlights the incessant establishment media attacks on Corbyn, particularly after the 2017 General Election which he came so close to winning. The ‘smear that stuck’ was the myth that antisemitism was supposedly rife in Labour under Corbyn. (...)
Avi Shlaim, an emeritus professor at Oxford University, observed in the foreword of a 2021 report on how the definition of antisemitism has been misrepresented:
‘[A] definition intended to protect Jews against antisemitism was twisted to protect the State of Israel against valid criticisms that have nothing to do with anti-Jewish racism.’ (...)
Naomi Wimborne-Idrissi, a founding member of Jewish Voice for Labour who was expelled from Starmer’s Labour Party for being the ‘wrong type of Jew’, [said] on Twitter:
‘Unbelievable that @glastonbury has bowed to demands from fans of Starmer’s @uklabour, banning a film exposing demonisation of @jeremycorbyn. The censors say the film conflates Zionists, Jews & Israel. No, actually, that’s what they do. See it & judge for yourself.’
US journalist Glenn Greenwald noted:
‘The @glastonbury Film Festival capitulated to pressure and cancelled the Corbyn documentary.
‘This illustrates the great crisis in the democratic world: an intense fixation on suppressing and silencing, rather than engaging, dissenting views. (...)
There was minimal reporting by the British state-corporate media and, crucially, no uproar about censorship and yet another step being taken towards suppression of free speech. (...)
The single significant piece refuting the specious, cynical charges was an article in the Independent reporting the reaction of Norman Thomas, the film’s producer. He said that the film’s cancellation had been caused by ‘vicious outside pressure’. He added:
‘An outside pressure group [BDBJ] has declared war on our film. They wrote to the festival’s sponsors… and whipped up huge storm of complaints about the film claiming, without any foundation whatsoever, that the film is antisemitic.’
He continued:
‘The claim that the film is antisemitic is a total smear.
‘The festival organisers even had a lawyer examine the film who pronounced it totally devoid of antisemitism. [Our emphasis]’ (...)
It is ironic indeed that Glenn Greenwald, a US journalist, is far more vocal in defending UK freedom of speech than British journalists. A great silence has fallen over the media in this country.
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