Censorship and Propaganda

Google, drone murder and the military-intelligence-censorship complex

May 23, 2018 UNAC Editor Censorship and Propaganda, Corporatism

by Andre Damon, originally published on the World Socialist Website, May 19, 2018 The publication of this week’s open letter by leading academics protesting Google’s role in the military’s drone assassination program exposes the close partnership between the major technology giants and the US military/intelligence complex. The letter, now signed by nearly 1,000 academics, declares that “Google has moved into[…]

King’s Legacy Betrayed

April 5, 2018 UNAC Editor Censorship and Propaganda, Featured, Racism

by Margaret Kimberley, originally published on Consortium News, March 4, 2018 Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. was the preeminent leader of the black liberation movement in the 1950s and 1960s. Millions of people engaged in the struggle against America’s shameful apartheid system but King was the most influential. His actions are remembered, his words are quoted by activists, politicians, and[…]

Double Standard in Israel-Palestine Reporting

February 17, 2018 UNAC Editor Censorship and Propaganda, Israel-Palestine

Associated Press is one of those news sources we expect to be objective and reliable. But when it comes to the subject of Israel-Palestine, things are not always as they seem. by Kathryn Shihadah and Alison Weir, originally published on If Americans Knew Blog More than half the world’s population reads Associated Press content every day. But a study of news reports[…]

Defend Prisoners’ Right to Read Critical Ideas

February 13, 2018 UNAC Editor Censorship and Propaganda, Prisoners

by Steve Xavier, originally published on Socialist Action, Feb 10, 2018 The Pennsylvania Department of Corrections is attempting to ban the Workers World (WW) newspaper for its coverage of the Florida prison strike. According to WW, “The immediate reason given in the DOC’s Jan. 29 letter is that ‘information contained on pages 1 and 6 calls for action that may[…]

NYT Failed to Note Op-Ed Authors’ Funder Has $2 Billion Motive for Attacking Argentina

December 24, 2017 UNAC Editor Censorship and Propaganda

by Eli Clifton, originally posted on LobeLog, 12/13/17 Mark Dubowitz and Toby Dershowitz, two executives at the hawkish Foundation for Defense of Democracies (FDD), took to the op-ed pages of the New York Times (12/11/17) to celebrate last week’s announcement that Argentina’s former president, Cristina Fernández de Kirchner, would face treason charges for her alleged role in covering up Iran’s alleged[…]

Cambodia Perverts It’s Own History for Cash

December 7, 2017 UNAC Editor Abuses of Empire, Censorship and Propaganda

Text and photos by Andre Vltchek, Originally published in New Eastern Outlook I have already written a lot about Cambodia, but each time I return to this ancient and scarred country, I get so outraged by the cynicism that confronts me there, at every corner, that I have to start writing again, re-addressing the same essential issues that I have[…]

Those Magical, Fantastical Russians Vs. U.S. Empire

November 8, 2017 UNAC Editor Censorship and Propaganda

Reprinted from Black Agenda Report. “This induced ‘state of emergency’ is designed to prepare the American public, politically and psychologically, to maintain the momentum of the U.S. imperial offensive in the world.” The only people that can make Russiagate fade away are the ones that invented it in the first place: the spooks, Wall Street Democrats and institutional servants of[…]

Social Media Fake News Campaigns Suffocate Public Discourse

August 23, 2017 Judith Bello Censorship and Propaganda

By Judith Bello of DeconstructedGlobe.com People do need to understand how challenging the current environment is for everyone. I was talking yesterday to a friend about how the background information is becoming more and more difficult to access. Even alternative news sites have a cycle of sorts related to what information they focus on. Drone information in particular has been[…]