Press Freedom

Spanish Police Probe Extortion Scheme Involving Surveillance on Assange

April 15, 2019 UNAC Editor Government Corruption, Political Prisoners, Whistleblowers

UPDATED: Suspects are being investigated in Spain for having tried to extort €3 million from WikiLeaks in exchange for a huge cache of documents and surveillance videos of Assange inside Ecuador’s London embassy, including with his doctors and lawyers. By Joe Lauria, Special to Consortium News, April 10, 2019 A Spanish judge is investigating an alleged extortion scheme in which[…]

Chelsea Manning jailed — again

March 15, 2019 UNAC Editor Censorship and Propaganda, Whistleblowers

by Barry Sheppard, Published on Socialist Action, March 14, 2019 Chelsea Manning, a transgender U.S. soldier who blew the whistle on U.S. war crimes and spent 2013 to 2017 in an army stockade as a result, is back in prison again. This time, it is because she refuses to join a bipartisan campaign against Wikileaks that seeks to bring Julian[…]

How a NeoCon-Backed “Fact Checker” Plans to Wage War on Independent Media

January 14, 2019 UNAC Editor Censorship and Propaganda

Image above: Screenshot from Newsguard website with editor comment overlayed. by Whitney Web, from MintPress News, January 9, 2019 MINNEAPOLIS — Soon after the social media “purge” of independent media sites and pages this past October, a top neoconservative insider — Jamie Fly — was caught stating that the mass deletion of anti-establishment and anti-war pages on Facebook and Twitter[…]

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[…]

The West is Failing Julian Assange

November 8, 2018 UNAC Editor Whistleblowers

by Stefania Maurizi, for Consortium News, November 6, 2018 October Let’s start with the cat. You never would have thought one of these beloved felines would play a crucial role in the Julian Assange case, would you? And yet look at the latest press coverage. The mainstream media’s headlines weren’t about a man who has been confined to a tiny building in[…]

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[…]

Even In “Revolutionary Countries” Mass Media Is Still In The Hands Of The Right

October 10, 2018 UNAC Editor Censorship and Propaganda, Imperialism

by Andre Vltchek, from Countercurrents Blog, October 7, 2018 How could a country win her fight against Western imperialism, how could it become truly independent, if its people are fully conditioned, through the mass media and education, by the North American and European doctrines and world view? Wherever I work and struggle in this world, I am always amazed, even[…]