Censorship

Right Wing Media Attack Undermines Alliance for Global Justice Sponsorship for 140 Organizations

February 26, 2023 UNAC Editor Attacks on the Movement, Censorship and Propaganda, Sanctions and Economic Warfare

AFGJ is UNAC’s fiscal sponsor! [jb] This is an emergency! Alliance for Global Justice and our fiscally-sponsored projects are under attack by right-wing media. They’re doing their best to intimidate and silence us in order to neutralize our effectiveness in growing and supporting movements for liberation and justice worldwide. They have convinced the company that handles our credit card donations[…]

Strong Message on Ukraine From a Blog Reader

October 31, 2022 UNAC Editor Hybrid Warfare, Neo-Nazis, Russia, U.S. Aggression, Ukraine

by David O., published on Bruce Gagnon’s Organizing Notes, October 30, 2022 Just want to relay how much I appreciate and rely on reading “Organizing Notes.” Especially enjoyed your thoughts in the post, October 16, 2022, entitled: Seasons Change and So Did I. Your call for clear-headed analysis and incisive expression in this crucial moment we find ourselves in —[…]

The Latest Phase of their Long-Term Strategy to Divide and Control the Left

June 28, 2022 UNAC Editor Censorship and Propaganda, Cold War

by Stansfield Smith, published on the Orinoco Tribune, June 24, 2022 The US rulers use many tools to disrupt and disorganize the anti-war and anti-imperialist left. Three discussed here include: one, corporate control of the news media gives them free reign to spread disinformation and fake news against foreign and domestic targets. Two, they use government and corporate foundation resources[…]

Musk, Twitter, Google: Censorship and the National Security State

May 14, 2022 UNAC Editor Censorship and Propaganda, Imperialism

by Barry Shepard, published on Socialist Action, May 8, 2022 The world’s richest man, Elon Musk, is buying the social media company Twitter for $44 billion. If he was in Russia, Western propaganda would call him an “oligarch” but since he in in the United States he is referred to as a very successful businessman, a euphemism for a capitalist[…]

In Praise of “Whataboutism”

March 13, 2022 UNAC Editor American Exceptionalism, Anti-Imperialism, Anti-War

by Margaret Kimberley, published on Black Agenda Report, March 9, 2022 The word “whataboutism” is used to silence and insult opponents of U.S. imperialism. It should be embraced as a means of revealing what is too often kept hidden. Anyone who speaks out against imperialism, capitalism, or racism with concrete examples of the terrible harm they do, can expect to be[…]

No Coup, No Nazis in Ukraine?

March 9, 2022 UNAC Editor Censorship and Propaganda, Ukraine

by Bruce Gagnon, published on Organizing Notes, March 6, 2022 Much to my astonishment I am getting emails from long respected ‘peaceniks’ passing on information that says there was no coup d’etat in 2014 (which was orchestrated by the Obama administration). The emails often suggest that there are also no Nazis in Ukraine. How is this possible that otherwise experienced[…]

The Western Allied Nations Bully the World While Warning of Threats From China and Russia

February 20, 2022 UNAC Editor NATO, Russia, Ukraine

by Vijay Prashad, published by Globetrotter, February 17, 2022 On January 21, 2022, Vice Admiral Kay-Achim Schönbach attended a talk in New Delhi, India, organized by the Manohar Parrikar Institute for Defense Studies and Analyses. Schönbach was speaking as the chief of Germany’s navy during his visit to the institute. “What he really wants is respect,” Schönbach said, referring to[…]

Are Nicaraguan Migrants Escaping ‘Repression’—or Economic Sanctions?

November 5, 2021 UNAC Editor Censorship and Propaganda, Nicaragua, Propaganda, Weaponized Information

by John Perry, published on Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting, November 3, 2021 “Record numbers” of migrants are coming into the United States from Nicaragua, according to Newsweek (7/29/21), which blames the increase on “arbitrary arrests and human rights abuses” by the Nicaraguan government. Former Sandinista leader Sergio Ramírez, writing for El Salvador’s El Faro (8/20/21), claims that “repression” by[…]

What’s behind Zionist Cancel Culture? Turning ‘Racism’ Upside Down

December 19, 2020 UNAC Editor Censorship and Propaganda, Israel-Palestine

by Tim Anderson, published on the American Herald Tribune, December 15, 2020 In recent times western left-liberalism has been criticised for its ‘cancel culture’, because of an obsession with language and individual identity politics. Yet reactionary cancel culture has been around much longer, with its McCarthyist purges. To this reactionary camp we should add ‘zionist cancel culture’ (ZCC), where those[…]