The Consortium Imposing the Growing Censorship Regime
Glenn Greenwald is launching a new live, one-hour, prime-time news broadcast. Armed with cable-sized budgets, it will be part of a network that Russell Brand has already debuted.
Banned in the USA: Banned Books Week Celebrates Its 40th Anniversary
It’s time to unequivocally condemn censorship.
Scott Ritter: Chuck Schumer’s War on Free Speech
The Senate majority leader pushed through a funding bill that now supports a structure under which U.S. citizens and politicians — including a challenger for his own seat — are…
Court Rejects Google’s Attempt to Dismiss Rumble’s Antitrust Lawsuit, Ensuring Vast Discovery
An unusual and significant court ruling entitles YouTube's main competitor, Rumble, to obtain long-hidden internal documents on Google's search engine manipulations.
YouTube Host Demonetized for Challenging U.S. Government on Ukraine
Jackson Hinkle is Big Tech's latest target in the establishment's pursuit to censor dissenting voices.
Elon Musk Bails Out of Twitter Deal
"It feels like the end of the movie, where the characters are bloodied and bedraggled with a Michael Bay explosion behind them," said one Twitter employee. "We could see this…
Free Assange? Yes, But That’s Not Nearly Enough
By Thomas Knapp / CounterPunch On June 17, UK Home Secretary Priti Patel approved the extradition of Julian Assange to the United States to face 18 criminal charges: One count…
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…
Glenn Greenwald: The UK’s Decision to Extradite Assange Shows Why The US/UK’s Freedom Lectures Are a Farce
The Assange persecution is the greatest threat to Western press freedoms in years. It is also a shining monument to the fraud of American and British self-depictions.
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.
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.
Scott Ritter: Twitter Wars—My Personal Experience in Twitter’s Ongoing Assault on Free Speech
At some point, the U.S. people, and those they elect to higher office need to bring Twitter in line with the ideals and values Americans collectively espouse when it comes…
Matt Taibbi: World’s Dullest Editorial Launches Panic
In an inane sequel to the Harper's Letter fiasco, a New York Times editorial ignites a fury proving its anodyne thesis