Censorship

Yemen: The War That Isn’t Happening Even As It’s Happening

July 17, 2018 UNAC Editor Censorship and Propaganda, Yemen

by Luciana Bohne, originally published on CounterPunch The manipulation of news and the distortion of reality are the most powerful weapons in the hands of power. They can make a whole reality disappear. Yemen’s, for example. A child dies in Yemen every ten minutes from preventable causes, UNICEF reported in June. These deaths are only part of a humanitarian catastrophe,[…]

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[…]

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[…]

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[…]