YouTube Censors Robert F. Kennedy Jr. by Jonathan Turley

Rather than allow experts and others to debate that question, Google and YouTube will not allow the debate to occur. It is consistent with calls from Democratic leaders for dissenting voices to be removed on subjects ranging from Covid to gender identity to climate control.

The censorship of Kennedy is a national disgrace.

War Made Easy: Norman Solomon on How Mainstream Media Helped Pave Way for War

How Finland Fights Disinformation by Susan A. Nolan, Ph.D., and Michael Kimball SOURCE Psychology Today

"The report described Finland and other high-scoring countries as “best equipped to withstand the impact of fake news due to the quality of education, free media, and high trust among people.” This early media education is an essential part of Finland’s success."

The Popular Press in 1918 was Garbage Too by Tim Miller

The liberal bourgeois mind is proud of the abolition of censorship, the last restraint, while the dictator of the press—Northcliffe!—keeps the slave-gang of his readers under the whip of his leading articles, telegrams, and pictures. Democracy has by its newspaper completely expelled the hook from the mental life of the people. The book-world, with its profusion of standpoints that compelled thought to select and criticize, is now a real possession only for a few. The people reads the one paper, “its” paper, which forces itself through the front doors by millions daily, spellbinds the intellect from morning to night, drives the book into oblivion by its more engaging layout, and if one or another specimen of a book does emerge into visibility, forestalls and eliminates its possible effects by “reviewing” it.--– 

Oswald Spengler, The Decline of the West, volume 2, tr. Charles Francis Atkinson, 460, 461-463

Today’s Cache | Netflix bleeds John Xavier SOURCE: The Hindu

"The company also projected that it will lose another two million customers in the current quarter. This is a massive setback for a company that has been adding roughly about 2.5 million users every month."

The Zuckerberg Model Of Private Election Funding by Jeff Landry SOURCE: Town Hall

 Source: AP Photo/Andrew Harnik

‘Shameful’: Mexican president decries alleged NSO spying FROM Al Jazeera

"Some 15,000 Mexican cellphones appeared on the leaked list of surveillance, at least 50 people close to president."

New Proof Emerges of the Biden Family Emails: a Definitive Account of the CIA/Media/BigTech Fraud by Glenn Greenwald FROM Substack

 "An axis of the CIA, Big Tech and the DNC-allied wing of the corporate media spread an absolute lie in the weeks before the 2020 election. We now have definitive proof."

Chinese Culture and the Red Line of Morality by Aaron Sarin FROM Quillette

Governments Used Spyware to Surveil Journalists and Activists. Here’s Why Revelations About Pegasus Are Shaking Up the World By Billy Perrigo FROM Time

“Every Journalist’s Worst Nightmare”: CNN’s Myanmar Misadventure by Aye Min Thant FROM New Naratif

"It is also a reflection of the orientalism pervasive in the field of journalism that, time after time, it is white people who are chosen to speak for and about Asia and Asians."

Permanent suspension of @realDonaldTrump FROM Twitter

 

On January 8, 2021, President Donald J. Trump Tweeted:

“The 75,000,000 great American Patriots who voted for me, AMERICA FIRST, and MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN, will have a GIANT VOICE long into the future. They will not be disrespected or treated unfairly in any way, shape or form!!!”

Shortly thereafter, the President Tweeted:

“To all of those who have asked, I will not be going to the Inauguration on January 20th.”

Cable news profits from its obsession with Trump. Viewers are the only victims by By Musa al-Gharbi FROM Columbia Journalism Review

Article on Joe and Hunter Biden Censored By The Intercept by Glenn Greenwald

 Warning: it is long

Patriot Act: Fans of Hasan Minhaj's show urge Netflix to reconsider FROM BBC

A Letter on Justice and Open Debate: An Open Letter in Harper's Magazine signed by over 150 intellectuals/thinkers/artists/writers/activists

"The Spirit of 43" Disney War Propaganda - Donald Duck Tells You To Pay Your Taxes (1943)

Think your taxes are wasted? Think again. Donald Duck will set you right.

Memories of Stasi color Germans’ view of U.S. surveillance programs By Matthew Schofield FROM McClatchy

When the Government Lies: The Committee on Public Information by Don Keko FROM The Examiner (2010)

How the US Media Covers the News FROM Public Radio International

I can't even change anything in my own neighborhood so I'm no longer sure of the benefits of following international news. Since all politics is local, perhaps all news should be local too.

http://www.pri.org/files.php?file=skewed_map.jpg