SAN FRANCISCO – Twitter has been on a recruitment drive of late, hiring a host of former feds and spies. Studying a number of employment and recruitment websites, MintPress has ascertained that the social media giant has, in recent years, recruited dozens of individuals from the national security state to work in the fields of security, trust, safety and content. Chief … [Read more...] about The Federal Bureau of Tweets: Twitter Is Hiring an Alarming Number of FBI Agents
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Nazis and The Beast: The Arrest of Gonzalo Lira
Are American journalists collaborating with Nazi terrorists to silence dissent? There is another war going on in Ukraine. A war of repression is being waged on journalists, political dissidents and anyone who dares to speak against the Kyiv regime. It has been going on uninterrupted since the Maidan coup of 2014. It is not being fought on the battlefield, but rather in the … [Read more...] about Nazis and The Beast: The Arrest of Gonzalo Lira
The NATO to TikTok Pipeline: Why is TikTok Employing So Many National Security Agents?
CULVER CITY, CALIFORNIA – As the bloody conflict in Ukraine continues to escalate, so does the online propaganda war between Russia and the West. A prime example of this is the White House directly briefing influencers on popular social media app TikTok about the war and how to cover it. As the crisis spirals out of control, Americans have turned to TikTok to view real time … [Read more...] about The NATO to TikTok Pipeline: Why is TikTok Employing So Many National Security Agents?
Documents Reveal US Gov’t Spent $22M Promoting Anti-Russia Narrative in Ukraine and Abroad
KIEV, UKRAINE – Amid soaring tensions with Russia, the United States is spending a fortune on foreign interference campaigns in Ukraine. Washington’s regime-change arm, the National Endowment for Democracy (NED), has spent $22.4 million on operations inside the country since 2014, when democratically-elected President Viktor Yanukovych was overthrown and replaced by a successor … [Read more...] about Documents Reveal US Gov’t Spent $22M Promoting Anti-Russia Narrative in Ukraine and Abroad
How the U.S. Uses the NED to Export Obedience, with Matt Kennard
Kennard is deeply concerned about the presupposition that U.S. actions inside Britain are benevolent. By LOWKEY Today, Watchdog host Lowkey is joined by investigative journalist Matt Kennard to discuss how the National Endowment for Democracy (NED) has infiltrated foreign media in an attempt to export obedience to the United States government and promote Washington’s … [Read more...] about How the U.S. Uses the NED to Export Obedience, with Matt Kennard
Just 8 men own same wealth as half the world
Book Review: Giants – The Global Power Elite. Peter Phillips. Seven Stories Press, New York, 2018. Abby Martin’s interview with Peter Phillips (see video below) was the instigator for reading Peter Phillips’ now slightly outdated but highly valuable work, “Giants – The Global Power Elite.” The interview is valuable unto itself and like all Abby Martin’s work is concise and … [Read more...] about Just 8 men own same wealth as half the world
Closer Scrutiny Reveals How Close To State Power Sacha Baron Cohen Really Is
MINNEAPOLIS – Sacha Baron Cohen is widely hailed as a comedic genius, using his sheer audacity to mock the absurdity of his targets. The creator of Ali G, Borat and Brüno has become one of Hollywood’s hottest commodities. Yet his outrageous stunts often belie his agenda and his own proximity to state power. Baron Cohen is often reluctant to make direct political statements. … [Read more...] about Closer Scrutiny Reveals How Close To State Power Sacha Baron Cohen Really Is
John K. Kennedy’s April 1961: “President and the Press” Address to the American Newspaper Publishers Association
JFK’s April 1961 message the America’s Media is of utmost relevance to the global crisis which we are currently living, namely the role of the mainstream media in obfuscating the truth, spreading lies, not to mention the relentless threats, smear campaigns and acts of censorship taken against the voices of independent media. When the Lie becomes the Truth, there is no Moving … [Read more...] about John K. Kennedy’s April 1961: “President and the Press” Address to the American Newspaper Publishers Association
Open Technology Fund (OTF) – The “Independent” Internet Freedom Organization That Makes All Your Favorite Privacy Apps – is Staffed Full of Spies
WASHINGTON – The Open Technology Fund (OTF) is one of the most influential and celebrated organizations in the hacking and internet freedom communities. Well over two billion people globally use OTF-produced software, including communications app Signal and web browser Tor, services that are specifically marketed to privacy-conscious consumers looking to circumvent government … [Read more...] about Open Technology Fund (OTF) – The “Independent” Internet Freedom Organization That Makes All Your Favorite Privacy Apps – is Staffed Full of Spies
How Gates Is Bankrolling the Media
STORY AT-A-GLANCE Via more than 30,000 grants, Gates has contributed at least $319 million to the media Examples of the Gates Foundations grants include $24,663,066 to NPR and $12,951,391 to The Guardian From press and journalism associations to journalistic training, Gates is an overarching keeper of the press, which makes true objective reporting pertaining to … [Read more...] about How Gates Is Bankrolling the Media
Revealed: Documents Show Bill Gates Has Given $319 Million to Media Outlets
SEATTLE — Up until his recent messy divorce, Bill Gates enjoyed something of a free pass in corporate media. Generally presented as a kindly nerd who wants to save the world, the Microsoft co-founder was even unironically christened “Saint Bill” by The Guardian. While other billionaires’ media empires are relatively well known, the extent to which Gates’s cash underwrites … [Read more...] about Revealed: Documents Show Bill Gates Has Given $319 Million to Media Outlets
Peru: Castillo Struggles to Implement Promised Change
A controversial cabinet reshuffle this week has served to show just how difficult it can be to implement radical and redistributive change. President Pedro Castillo won Peru’s June 6th elections in the second round. His flagship policies were; a new constitution and the nationalization of natural resources. The expulsion of US forces (military bases, USAID, DEA) was also part … [Read more...] about Peru: Castillo Struggles to Implement Promised Change
How the Pentagon Leaned on Hollywood to Sell the War in Afghanistan
HOLLYWOOD, CALIFORNIA — The (official) 20-year U.S. occupation of Afghanistan has come to a close, with the military beating a hasty and ignominious retreat. The puppet Afghan government NATO installed lasted fewer than two weeks on its own, with President Ashraf Ghani fleeing for the UAE, allegedly with around $169 million in cash. If the occupation was so unpopular and … [Read more...] about How the Pentagon Leaned on Hollywood to Sell the War in Afghanistan
Cuba: The Island at the Center of the Conspiracy – Interview with Ramón Labañino
Ramón Labañino, who has a degree in Economics from the University of Havana, is one of the five heroes who in the late 80s and early 90s infiltrated anti-Cuban organizations in the United States to detect and prevent terrorist attacks against Cuba and the Revolution. The five were captured by the FBI and sentenced in illegal trials to different penalties; in the case of Ramón … [Read more...] about Cuba: The Island at the Center of the Conspiracy – Interview with Ramón Labañino
A Day in the Death of British Justice
I sat in Court 4 in the Royal Courts of Justice in London yesterday with Stella Moris, Julian Assange’s partner. I have known Stella for as long as I have known Julian. She, too, is a voice of freedom, coming from a family that fought the fascism of Apartheid. Today, her name was uttered in court by a barrister and a judge, forgettable people were it not for the power of their … [Read more...] about A Day in the Death of British Justice
White House ‘Influencer’ Recruitment Letter Allegedly Leaked
The White House's recruitment letter sent to popular "influencers" on TikTok, Twitch, YouTube and Instagram asking them to shill Big Pharma's experimental injections to their child audiences has allegedly leaked. From RT: According to a "confidential" email sent from the White House to social media influencers, the Biden administration is seeking TikTok stars for "intimate" … [Read more...] about White House ‘Influencer’ Recruitment Letter Allegedly Leaked
Video: US Government-Funded Media in Malaysia: “Malaysiakini”
A recent video post on The New Atlas discussing US-backed protests in Malaysia exposed Malaysia-based media organization, “Malaysiakini,” as funded by the US government and convicted financial criminal George Soros’ Open Society Foundation. Viewers responded with surprise that Malaysiakini was funded by the US government, apparently unaware of the media platform’s foreign … [Read more...] about Video: US Government-Funded Media in Malaysia: “Malaysiakini”
Sanitizing Censorship: The Twitter-AP-Reuters News Partnership
This week, Twitter was keen to share the news about its new arrangement with The Associated Press and Reuters “to expand our efforts to identify and elevate credible information” on its platform. The company reiterates its commitment that people using its service are able to “easily find reliable information” hoping to “expand the scale and increase the speed of our efforts to … [Read more...] about Sanitizing Censorship: The Twitter-AP-Reuters News Partnership
REVEALED: Chinese Communists Subsidized Trips For Western Journalists for Over 25 Years – CNN, NPR, WaPo, NYT, Reuters, ABC, NBC & More.
Several Chinese Communist Party-linked groups – including the regime’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs – have subsidized trips to China for American journalists in an effort to “enhance” their understanding of U.S.-China relations since the 1990’s, The National Pulse can reveal from recovered webpages deleted by program sponsors. Among the outlets sending journalists to … [Read more...] about REVEALED: Chinese Communists Subsidized Trips For Western Journalists for Over 25 Years – CNN, NPR, WaPo, NYT, Reuters, ABC, NBC & More.
Media and the Permanent War State: Top National Security Reporters Linked to US Government
Imagine a country where there’s no separation between the government, the military, and the media. A lot of Americans would think of China, Russia or North Korea, but it’s a perfect description of the United States today. And here in Washington, the think tank inside this nondescript building – Center For A New American Security (CNAS) – is the clearest example of just … [Read more...] about Media and the Permanent War State: Top National Security Reporters Linked to US Government
Editor-in-Chief of Germany’s Top Newspaper Apologizes For Fear Driven COVID Media Coverage
The editor-in-chief of Germany’s top newspaper Bild has apologized for the news outlet’s fear-driven coverage of COVID, specifically to children who were told “that they were going to murder their grandma.” In a speech delivered to camera, Julian Reichelt said sorry for Bild’s coverage which was “like poison” and “made you feel like you were a mortal danger to … [Read more...] about Editor-in-Chief of Germany’s Top Newspaper Apologizes For Fear Driven COVID Media Coverage
Fearmongering Has Done More Damage Than the Virus
STORY AT-A-GLANCE John Tierney, a contributing science columnist for The New York Times, looks back over the pandemic, providing a timeline of the media-induced viral panic that led to censorship and suppression of scientific research on an unprecedented scale Experts who spoke out against the official narrative were attacked and accused of endangering lives by … [Read more...] about Fearmongering Has Done More Damage Than the Virus
Ecuador Tells Julian Assange His Citizenship Has Been Revoked
Julian Assange’s long, contentious relationship with Ecuador is officially over: According to Associated Press, the nation has chosen to revoke his citizenship effective immediately. The WikiLeaks founder famously took refuge in the Ecuadorian embassy in London in 2012 after Swedish prosecutors issued an international arrest warrant (later dropped) on counts of rape and sexual … [Read more...] about Ecuador Tells Julian Assange His Citizenship Has Been Revoked
Senate Bill Would Strip Facebook, Twitter of Immunity for Spreading Vaccine ‘Misinformation’
A provision that protects social media platforms from being sued for content shared by its users is under attack by both the left and right — but for different reasons. Section 230, passed as part of the 1996 Communications Decency Act, gives legal immunity to internet giants such as Facebook and Twitter for content hosted on their platforms. Democrats say Section 230 is … [Read more...] about Senate Bill Would Strip Facebook, Twitter of Immunity for Spreading Vaccine ‘Misinformation’
The burden of proof is on Big Pharma to prove that covid “science” is legitimate rather than fraudulent
(Natural News) An article recently published in the British Medical Journal (BMJ) asks the pertinent question, “Is it time to assume that health research is fraudulent until proven otherwise?” The answer, of course, is yes. The reason is that the quality of “medical science” today has declined to the point of becoming an almost parody of itself, destroying the credibility of … [Read more...] about The burden of proof is on Big Pharma to prove that covid “science” is legitimate rather than fraudulent
“Whoever Controls the Media, Controls the Mind”
Conn Hallinan, a columnist with Foreign Policy in Focus, a project of the Washington, D.C.–based Institute for Policy Studies, tells me that when Ben Bagdikian published his book The New Media Monopoly in 2004, there were 100 corporations controlling media outlets in the U.S. As of September 2020, six corporations control 90 per cent of media outlets in the U.S.: AT&T, CBS, … [Read more...] about “Whoever Controls the Media, Controls the Mind”
Wikipedia’s co-founder says he no longer trusts the site he helped create
(Natural News) Anyone who has ever looked something up online has probably come across the collaboratively modified encyclopedia Wikipedia. After all, it is the world’s fifth biggest website. While some people may consider it authoritative simply because it is so vast, attracting an estimated 6.1 billion visitors each month and making up the most-read work of reference in … [Read more...] about Wikipedia’s co-founder says he no longer trusts the site he helped create
Sanitized Propaganda: The Fortress of Lies to Censor Truths about Covid-19
We continue to make efforts to remind people who are most concerned about the life and death issues regarding the SARS-2 pandemic that the ruling establishment keenly knows the average person’s weaknesses and the means to capitalize on those weaknesses to strengthen its control over the agenda. And control over the nation’s media is paramount for tightening its grip on our … [Read more...] about Sanitized Propaganda: The Fortress of Lies to Censor Truths about Covid-19
The Dangerous Truth About What We Aren’t Allowed to Know
With millions dead and a world economy shattered, the truth about COVID 19 isn’t getting closer, no, it’s getting further away, buried by politics, shrouded in lies. 99 percent of those who write about COVID, either medically or from a security standpoint, have no qualifications in either arena. Moreover, those few that are qualified either lie or, if “the truth is out … [Read more...] about The Dangerous Truth About What We Aren’t Allowed to Know
FactCheck.org is nothing but lies and fraud
(Natural News) A former director at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), a private corporation, is now in charge of the foundation that funds FactCheck.org’s “vaccine fact-checking” program. A flagrant conflict of interest, Richard E. Besser’s appointment as President and CEO of the Robert Wood Johnson (RWJ) Foundation following his tenure at the CDC just … [Read more...] about FactCheck.org is nothing but lies and fraud
Just two investment firms – Vanguard and BlackRock – own nearly the entire mainstream media and most of Big Pharma, too
(Natural News) The War is in full swing right now, make no mistake about it. We are in the trenches, defending our rights as natural health advocates, to not be jabbed with dangerous, highly experimental vaccines against our will. We are at a crux, and the psychological warfare “game,” should you lose it, has real consequences, including blood clotting and early death. Guess … [Read more...] about Just two investment firms – Vanguard and BlackRock – own nearly the entire mainstream media and most of Big Pharma, too
Facebook Hires NATO Press Officer Ben Nimmo as Intelligence Chief
It is now difficult to distinguish where the deep state ends and the fourth estate begins and Ben Nimmo's move from NATO to NATO-aligned think tank to Facebook is just another example of this phenomemon. Ben Nimmo, a former NATO press officer and current senior fellow at the Atlantic Council, has announced Facebook has hired him to “lead global threat intelligence strategy … [Read more...] about Facebook Hires NATO Press Officer Ben Nimmo as Intelligence Chief
CIA Partners with Google, Amazon and IBM in Latest Big Tech Procurement Drive
By Raul Diego The military industrial complex is returning to its roots as the CIA turns to big tech to maintain control and rebuild the war economy. The vaunted “17 intelligence agencies” that comprise the U.S. intel community will be sharing a network of private-sector cloud computing service providers which includes Microsoft, Google, Oracle, IBM, and Amazon Web … [Read more...] about CIA Partners with Google, Amazon and IBM in Latest Big Tech Procurement Drive
The Problem with Wikipedia and the Digital Revolution
Yesterday (April 10, 2019) a reader alerted me to the fact that I am being smeared on Wikipedia as a “vocal supporter of the current Russian government and its policies.” The reader also reports that an article in the Daily Beast calls me a “Putin worshiper.” The reader says that he tried to edit the Wikipedia entry without success, and he urged me to give it my attention. I … [Read more...] about The Problem with Wikipedia and the Digital Revolution
