How UK’s Intelligence Services Target Dissident Academics
Dissident antiwar UK academics Piers Robinson and David Miller tell Max Blumenthal how they were targeted by the British intelligence services and its media proxies.
Steve Wasserman: Turn of the Screw
Imprisoned Latin Grammy winner: "For this, we made a revolution?"
The Federal Bureau of Tweets: Twitter is Hiring an Alarming Number of FBI Agents
By Alan MacLeod / MintPress News SAN FRANCISCO – Twitter has been on a recruitment drive of late, hiring a host of former feds and spies. Studying a number of…
Paul Von Blum: A Personal Legacy of Dissent
Paul Von Blum writes about dissent as a personal legacy, how it has defined his life and how it has influenced some of the 40,000 or more students he has…
Why Did Twitter Cancel This Veteran Journalist?
Social media censorship is threatening our press freedoms, the First Amendment, and at the horizon what remains of our democratic polity.
Taibbi: Democrats and Republicans Have One Thing in Common — Both Suck on Free Speech
It's great that FIRE is expanding, and speech has a national champion again. It's depressing as hell that the Democrats have joined Republicans in abandoning free expression.
U.S. State-Affiliated NewsGuard Targets Consortium News
The Pentagon and State Dept.-linked outfit, with an ex-N.S.A. and C.I.A. director on its board, is accusing Consortium News of publishing “false content” on Ukraine, reports Joe Lauria.
Kiriakou: Guarding Democracy From News
As Orwellian as the Disinformation Governance Board may be, it’s not even the most immediate threat to our freedom of speech, writes John Kiriakou.
Nuland-Pyatt Video Restored to YouTube
The video, with more than 181,000 views, in which top U.S. officials in 2014 discuss changing the Ukrainian government, had been removed from YouTube after more than 8 years.
Nuland-Pyatt Tape Removed From YouTube After 8 Years
The most watched version, with subtitles, suddenly was made unavailable on Wednesday. The tape provides the smoking gun of U.S. involvement in 2014 Kiev coup. (Read the transcript).
Katrina vanden Heuvel: We Need a Real Debate About the Ukraine War
Bringing the war in Ukraine to an end will demand new thinking and challenges to the orthodoxies of this time.
We Need a Functional FCC
Right now, the agency is deadlocked — which is just peachy for the corporations it regulates. Here’s how to unblock.
DHS ‘Disinformation’ Board Put on ‘Pause’ After Backlash
Nina Jankowicz has resigned from her role as head of the board
John Kiriakou: Biden’s Orwellian ‘Disinformation Governance Board’ and Other Assaults on Free Press
From the announcement of the Biden Administration's new “Disinformation Governance Board" to NewsGuard's "Disinformation Fingerprints" project, free speech is under attack in the U.S.
Matt Taibbi: PayPal’s IndyMedia Wipeout
A series of moves against media outlets by PayPal shows the next step in speech control: confiscation. Why won't the company answer questions?