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Media propaganda and the Afghan debacle In the wake of the collapse of the US puppet government in Afghanistan, the media and political establishment have been consumed by the question: how they were so disastrously “caught off guard” by the extremely rapid collapse of the regime in Kabul?...
Posted: Tue, Aug 17, 2021 11:45pm PDT
NYT marks 50 years since Pentagon Papers, ignoring persecution of Julian Assange 
The New York Times marked the anniversary of its publication of documents exposing the government’s lies and criminality in the Vietnam War with a complicit silence on the imprisonment of Assange for doing the same in relation to Iraq and Afghanistan....
Posted: Wed, Jun 16, 2021 9:07am PDT
Why is the World Socialist Web Site still blacklisted on the Reddit forums? The World Socialist Web Site calls upon Reddit members to demand that the moderators of r/coronavirus and r/politics halt the McCarthyite blacklisting of content links....
Posted: Mon, Jun 14, 2021 9:58pm PDT
“Wuhan lab” theory proponent Nicholas Wade pushed racist pseudo-science in 2014 book The New York Times and Washington Post are citing a serial fabricator whose 2014 book was condemned by the biologists whose research he cited, together with more than 140 other scientists....
Posted: Mon, Jun 7, 2021 10:06am PDT
Facebook reverses censorship of WSWS article debunking “Wuhan Lab” conspiracy theory 
On Friday, Facebook notified users that it had wrongly censored them for posting a WSWS article debunking the false claim that COVID-19 was released from a Chinese lab....
Posted: Mon, May 3, 2021 2:47am PDT
Reporting from Around the World, Reese Erlich Was a Beacon of Independent Journalism He challenged "the basic assumptions of empire"...
Posted: Tue, Apr 27, 2021 10:11am PDT
May First joins call for Free Software Foundation Board resignation 
May First Movement Technology has joined free software organizations and activists in calling for the resignation of Richard Stallman and the rest of the Board of the Free Software Foundation....
Posted: Sat, Apr 3, 2021 7:01pm PDT
Dakota Access Pipeline attacks Water Protector Legal Collective led by Native Women 
Water Protector Legal Collective, formed at Standing Rock, is being attacked by Energy Transfer Partners and Dakota Access Pipeline, with a subpoena, aimed at seizing confidential records, and meant to intimidate. WPLC led by Native American Women is challenging this legal attack today....
Posted: Thu, Mar 18, 2021 12:56pm PDT
Pam Africa on Black Agenda Radio: Mumia thinks he has COVID 
The nation’s best known political prisoner told the publisher of The Jamal Journal “that he believes he has Covid. His breathing feels like an elephant sitting on his lungs,” said Pam Africa, who is also coordinator of International Concerned Family & Friends of Mumia Abu Jamal. The new issue of the Journal includes a petition demanding that Philadelphia DA Larry Krassner – a purported progressive – stop standing in the way of Mumia’s freedom....
Posted: Mon, Mar 1, 2021 4:00pm PST
Pam Africa's Message to the Movement: Sign Our Petition! 
“DA Krasner can no longer ignore what we are saying, and he can no longer claim that he has not been presented with our evidence of police, prosecutorial, and judicial misconduct,” says Pam Africa, the Coordinator of the uncompromising International Concerned Family and Friends of Mumia Abu-Jamal. (This article was published at BlackAgendaReport.com on Feb. 24, 2021. A flyer version of this article is included)...
Posted: Thu, Feb 25, 2021 1:03pm PST
The Jamal Journal issue #1 is now published online, Please help us print it! 
We are excited to release issue #1 of our newly restarted newspaper. The Jamal Journal was last published in the mid-1990s by the uncompromising International Concerned Family and Friends of Mumia Abu-Jamal (ICFFMAJ). The lead story is our petition demanding that Philadelphia District Attorney Larry Krasner stop defending Mumia Abu-Jamal’s conviction....
Posted: Sat, Feb 20, 2021 7:57pm PST
Rush Limbaugh dead at 70: A media blowhard for American capitalism 
An odious presence on American radio for more than three decades, Limbaugh specialized in bullying women, gays, blacks and other minorities, while glorifying American imperialism....
Posted: Sat, Feb 20, 2021 9:19am PST
Slamdance Premiere: End of the Line: The Women of Standing Rock 
Slamdance Film Festival online features "End of the Line: The Women of Standing Rock." The film chronicles the courage and resilience of Native women....
Posted: Mon, Feb 15, 2021 7:33pm PST
Facebook’s “depoliticization” aimed at censorship of left-wing and socialist organizations The recent announcement by Facebook that it would “reduce the amount of political content” on its platform is part of the drive by the US ruling establishment to block the spread of progressive, left-wing and socialist ideas on social media....
Posted: Wed, Feb 10, 2021 8:24am PST
Facebook escalates attack on socialist left Facebook is engaged in an escalating campaign of state-backed internet censorship targeting socialist organizations, including the International Youth and Students for Social Equality....
Posted: Mon, Jan 25, 2021 12:00am PST
Journalism reeks of betrayal of democracy A "new normality" has taken root in our society. A climate of fear and severe, permanent encroachments on fundamental rights are shaping politics and social life. From the beginning of the pandemic, the media and politics have created a reality that almost treats the principles of democracy with contempt. These three articles are translated from the German in nachdenkseiten.de and Graswurzel Revolution....
Posted: Fri, Dec 4, 2020 8:07am PST
Google admits to censoring the World Socialist Web Site 
In an extraordinary public admission, Google CEO Sundar Pichai stated during congressional testimony on October 28 that the online search giant has been censoring content from the World Socialist Web Site....
Posted: Wed, Nov 4, 2020 6:07am PST
Money and California Propositions (2020) 
Ten years ago, I made some plots for how much money was pumped into proposition campaigns in California.
I remade those plots for the November 2020 election.
As of Oct 16th, the total is ~$662 million, an 11 fold increase from the ~$58 million in 2010!...
Posted: Thu, Oct 29, 2020 3:39pm PDT
Facebook Suspends Hundreds of Accounts Over Online Event Targeting Coastal GasLink Pipeline 
Hundreds of individual accounts linked to Indigenous, environmental, and social justice organizations were suspended from Facebook because they were co-hosts of an online Facebook event targeting the Coastal GasLink pipeline majority funder....
Posted: Mon, Sep 21, 2020 1:54am PDT
U-C IMC is celebrating 20th Anniversary U-C IMC is celebrating 20th Anniversary
WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 30, 2020 AT 6 PM CDT – 7:30 PM CDT...
Posted: Sun, Sep 20, 2020 5:48pm PDT