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The management of KPFA has been telling the listeners that Voice of American is "independent" media. This defense of the US controlled and sponsored propaganda are is nothing new. KPFA's managers with the support of the KPFA Local Station Board majority at the same time have refused to defend journalists Mumia Abu-Jamal, Julian Assange, Frank Sterling and Palestinian journalists who have been targeted and murdered. This fits a pattern of putting on pro-imperialist programmers and Democratic P...

On 2025 World Press Freedom Day a solidarity rally was held at San Francisco Harry Bridges plaza to demand an end of the arrests, torture and murders of Palestinian journalists and their families....

A Los Angeles lawyer Jan Goodman who sued Pacifica in court lost the suit and then through the "New Day" group manipulated to change the court ruling that affirmed the votes of Pacifica staff. The KPFA and Pacifica management are now announcing the new bylaws before the court has agreed with their manipulated "settlement"...

TWENTY YEARS OF REVOLUTION AND COUNTERREVOLUTION AT PACIFICA RADIO -- at KPFA in Berkeley, CA., and affecting the Five Station Network And, will the Pacifica Bylaws Change mean significant Programming changes?...

After World War One, the United States and others stopped protectionism. They had already gained their economic advantage over other countries, and wanted to pull up the ladder, and prevent other countries from doing what it had done — public investment, raising living standards, the economy of high wages to increase labor productivity....

The secretary of the Unity Party Andrew Giusto will be interviewed on the Long Live Alternative Parties Podcast...

China has two advantages: 1) it leads in automation, accounting for 70% of all industrial robots installed, which boosts productivity and thus per capita incomes; 2) it has a huge potential market thanks to the Belt and Road Initiative, which involves Central Asia, West Asia, the Middle East and North Africa in its development process....

A list of sites, predominantly anarchist, providing counterinfo—updates on action & information against oppression censored by the mainstream. Organized by language. From the francophone blog dingueries....

The German ambassador explicitly points out that the sanctions against the Russian energy industry were tightened by former President Joe Biden just a few days before the change of government in the US. In other words, when it comes to the powerful energy industry, “America First” applies to Biden as much as Trump....

The journalist, human rights defender and founder of the media platform “Electronic Intifada” was violently and forcibly taken by two individuals in civilian dress, who claimed to be police, but refused to identify themselves, when he was walking on the streets of Zurich this afternoon. They refused to disclose alleged grounds for sequestring him and where they would take him. Abunimah was scheduled to speak this afternoon at a teach-in on the history of Palestine, organised by local groups. ...