Link to an article by Paul Le Blanc:
Tag: War
Andre Damon – Evidence of Google Blacklisting of Left and Progressive Sites Continues to Mount
Link to an article by Andre Damon:
“Evidence of Google Blacklisting of Left and Progressive Sites Continues to Mount”
Bonus links: “Google’s new search engine bias is no accident” and “Social Media Giants Choking Independent News Site Traffic to a Trickle” and “Google Suppressing World Socialist Web Site Content in its Search Results for the New York Times’ 1619 Project” and “Facebook Security Officer: Not All Speech Is ‘Created Equal’” and “Facebook’s power is to sort what people see and to screen information. That’s basically what Google does, too” and “Facebook Wants You to Know if You’re Getting Your News From the Wrong Government” and “Tulsi Gabbard vs Google Goliath” and “‘We Are Moving Into a New, Controlled Society Worse Than Old Totalitarianism’ – Zizek on Google Leak” and “Monopoly Media Manipulation” and “What Google and Facebook Are Hiding” and “Hawkish, Gov’t Funded Think Tank Behind Twitter Decision to Delete Thousands of Chinese Accounts” and “Twitter’s Ban on Political Advertisement: A New Move to Censor the Internet” (“The underlying assumption is that the determination of what is truth and what are ‘crazy lies’ is a purely objective process, unrelated to class or social interests.”) and “Liar, Liar” (“Capitalism is not inevitable nor is it some kind of natural law. Its a fact that Google and Facebook censor socialist sites. Why would they do that if they were not afraid? The authority structure, the proprietor class, they want you asleep. That’s the idea.”)
Bonus quote:
“Even when we don’t believe what the media say, we are still hearing or reading their viewpoints rather than some other. They are still setting the agenda.”
Michael Parenti, Inventing Reality: The Politics of the News Media (1986)
El Lissitzky – Beat the Whites With the Red Wedge
Honest Accounts 2017: How the World Profits from Africa’s Wealth
Link to a report by Global Justice Now:
“Honest Accounts 2017: How the World Profits from Africa’s Wealth”
Jailed Reporter Barrett Brown on Press Freedom, FBI Crimes & Why He Wouldn’t Do Anything Differently
Link to an interview of Barrett Brown:
Bonus link: “First They Came for Assange”
Lars T. Lih – From February to October
Link to an article by Lars T. Lih:
Berîtan Sarya – We Also Fight for a Mental and Intellectual Liberation
Link to an article by Berîtan Sarya:
“YPJ Spokeswoman: We Also Fight for a Mental and Intellectual Liberation”
Howling Wolf – At the Sand Creek Massacre
The Conet Project – Recordings of Shortwave Numbers Stations
Link to an archive of shortwave audio field recordings:
The Conet Project – Recordings of Shortwave Numbers Stations
More information: Numbers Stations
Michael Hudson – Review of Welcome to the Poisoned Chalice
Link to a review by Michael Hudson of James K Galbraith‘s book Welcome to the Poisoned Chalice: The Destruction of Greece and the Future of Europe (2016):
“Review of James Galbraith, Welcome to the Poisoned Chalice (2016)”
Select quote:
“At first glance the repeated ‘failure’ of austerity prescriptions to ‘help economies recover’ seems to be insanity – defined as doing the same thing again and again, hoping that the result may be different. But what if the financial planners are not insane? What if they simply seek professional success by rationalizing politics favored by the vested interests that employ them, headed by the IMF, central bankers and the policy think tanks and business schools they sponsor? The effects of pro-creditor policies have become so constant over so many decades that it now must be seen as deliberate, not a mistake that can be fixed by pointing out a more realistic body of economics (which already was available in the 1920s).”
This is reminiscent of a quote frequently attributed to Donald Berwick (among others): “Every system is perfectly designed to get the results it gets.” In the economic context, this notion is also explored further in Economists and the Powerful (2012).