Censorship and Propaganda – Stop the Wars at Home and Abroad!

The Movement to Suppress and Impoverish Critics of Israel is Racist

December 11, 2018 UNAC Editor Censorship and Propaganda, Israel-Palestine

Photo: Melbourne Protest, Zionist Criminals End the Holocaust in Palestine, John Englart, January 4, 2009 by Paul Larudee, from Dissident Voice,December 11, 2018 Marc Lamont Hill, Tim Anderson, Steven Salaita, Rabab Abdulhadi, Hatem Bazian, Ahlam Muhtasib, Norman Finkelstein and other academics have all been targets of the movement to silence their criticisms of Israel and their defense of Palestinians. This[…]

Ruling Class Criminals Get a Pass in the Public Discourse

December 11, 2018 UNAC Editor Censorship and Propaganda

Editor’s Note: What I remember most vividly was that during the 1st Iraq war, every time GHW Bush was interviewed, he was standing on the green at Kinnebunkport Golf Course with a golf club in his hand. I never understood the value in framing him in this way, commanding this terrible war from a golf course. by Caitlin Johnstone, from[…]

Misreporting Manafort: A Case Study in Journalistic Malpractice

December 5, 2018 UNAC Editor Censorship and Propaganda

Image: Screenshot, grabbed 12/5/18 from News Hollywood video on Youtube, posted 11/27/18 by Alan MacLeod, published on Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting, December 3, 2018 In what has been described as potentially the biggest story of the year, the Guardian’s Luke Harding (11/27/18) reported last week that Donald Trump’s former campaign manager, Paul Manafort, held a series of secret talks with[…]

UNAC Statement on the CNN Firing of Marc Lamont Hill

December 5, 2018 UNAC Editor Censorship and Propaganda, Featured, Palestine, Resistance

Temple University professor and CNN commentator Marc Lamont Hill was fired from CNN after giving a powerful speech at the United Nations in support of Palestinian rights. The Nov. 29, 2018, U.N. meeting was to commemorate the 70th year of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. The meeting also fell on the 70th anniversary of the Nakba, when 700,000 Palestinians[…]

Russiagate McCarthyism Led to Internet Censorship of the Anti-War and Social Justice Movement

November 30, 2018 UNAC Editor Censorship and Propaganda

by Stansfield Smith, from Alliance for Global Justice, November 30, 2018 The anti-Trump movement is not simply a progressive movement against a rightwing president, but also carries within it a rightwing current. Progressive minded people fight against Trump’s racist actions against Blacks, Latinos, Muslims, his crude sexism, his pro-corporate policies, his rejection of action on global warming, his massive tax[…]

Ending the War in Yemen- Congressional Resolution is Not Enough!

November 16, 2018 UNAC Editor Censorship and Propaganda, Drone Warfare, US Government Action

Image: A man walks past a graffiti, denouncing strikes by U.S. drones in Yemen, painted on a wall in Sanaa November 13, 2014. Yemeni authorities have paid out tens of thousands of dollars to victims of drone strikes using U.S.-supplied funds, a source close to Yemen’s presidency said, echoing accounts by legal sources and a family that lost two members[…]

Julian Assange Should Be Thanked – Not Smeared – for Wikileaks’ Service to Journalism

October 31, 2018 UNAC Editor Censorship and Propaganda, Whistleblowers

Photo: Free Assange protest at UK embassy in Washington, DC, June 19, 2018. ~Popular Resistance by Mark Curtis, published on Middle East Eye, October 21, 2018 Twelve years ago this month, WikiLeaks began publishing government secrets that the world public might otherwise never have known. What it has revealed about state duplicity, human rights abuses and corruption goes beyond anything[…]

Facebook is Not Your Friend

October 30, 2018 UNAC Editor Censorship and Propaganda

by Glen Ford, Published on Black Agenda Report, October 18, 2018 Facebook has become The Great Censor, ready to pull the pages of dissenters that seek to “stir up political debate” in ways that threaten the legitimacy of corporate rule. “Facebook is indispensable to maintaining the global corporate monopoly on truth — as is Google.” Facebook has declared war on[…]

Activists Resist Proposed Rules to Curtail Protest in the Parks and Streets of Washington DC

October 22, 2018 UNAC Editor Abuses of Empire, Censorship and Propaganda, Protest

Image: 1971 protest against the Vietnam War Popular Resistance submitted this articulate and detailed comment in opposition to proposed changes by the National Park Service intended to curtail public use of the parks in Washington DC for the purpose of protest actions and civilian gatherings to “petition the Government [notably located in Washington DC) for a redress of grievances”. by[…]

The Silence as Manipulation

October 18, 2018 UNAC Editor Censorship and Propaganda, Paths to Emancipation, Revolution

by Rosa Miriam Elizalde, from Resumen Latinoamericano, October 2, 2018 Readers and spectators, political parties, movements of various kinds, secret services, hackers, journalists and central animators of the Internet (Twitter, Facebook, youtube, Google, Instagram, etc.) make up a vast market of manipulation. This is not coming from “communist propaganda”, but scientists from prestigious universities and independent centers in Europe and the[…]