The Free Speech Exception to Palestine

Steve Salaita The following is a reproduction, with slight modifications, of an article recently published in a special issue of Middle East Critique, “The Academic Question of Palestine,” edited by Walaa Alqaisiya and Nicola Perugini. Now that (even moderate) pro-Palestine sentiment has been effectively outlawed in both the public and private sectors, I hope we can say goodbye…

UK Steps Up War on Whistleblower Journalism with New National Security Act

Kit Klarenberg Under a repressive new act, British nationals could face prison for undermining London’s national security line. Intended to destroy WikiLeaks and others exposing war crimes, the law is a direct threat to critical national security journalism. It was the afternoon of May 17 2023 and I had just arrived at London’s Luton Airport. I was…

‘Beheaded Babies’ – How UK Media Reported Israel’s Fake News as Fact

Hamza Ali Shah Journalists watch Israel bomb Gaza. (Photo: Alexi J. Rosenfeld / Getty) Britain’s national press have been indispensable allies of Israel throughout its brutal war on Gaza. The assertion that during Hamas’ attack in southern Israel on 7 October babies were beheaded gained traction almost immediately. On the morning of 10 October, Israeli…

Palestinians in Europe and the US Fear for Safety as Crackdown on Speech Fosters Hate

Dalia Hatuqa Protesters face French military police as they gather at Place de la République for an unauthorized demonstration in support of Palestinians in Paris, on Oct. 12, 2023. Photo: Dimitar Dilkoff/AFP via Getty Images In Europe and the U.S., Palestinians say Western governments’ lockstep support for Israel opens up their communities to attacks. SINCE…

Press Freedom is Slipping Away in Canada

Marc Edge Our right to free expression is under assault from all sides—government, corporations and even academics Press freedom is increasingly under assault worldwide by governments that are finding the Internet much easier to control than the press ever was. While dictators everywhere suppress dissent by throttling the chokepoint of Internet access, Canada unfortunately leads…

The Battle for the Truth

Sergio Rodríguez Gelfenstein For my brother and comrade Orlando Bahamondes “Caballito” Who left this world a few days ago, taking away his nobility and his goodness, but leaving us infinite signs of his conviction, his passion and his fighting spirit for a better world. Always towards victory! “Our wine is bitter, but it is ours”…

International Uproar Following Mass Raids and Arrest of Indian Journalists

Peoples Dispatch Protests in New Delhi and New York City decrying the raid and detention of journalists in India. There has been an outpouring of solidarity following the raid and arrest of journalists in India, who have been targeted as a result of baseless accusations published in the New York Times In the hours following…

British Government Funded a Plan for International Censorship of Critiques of NATO

Jack Poulson A screenshot from the title page of a leaked 130-page Final Report of the Ukraine War Disinfo Working Group commissioned by the British Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office (FCDO) and the U.K.-based Zinc Network’s Open Information Partnership. Despite the studied 10 week period ending in April, the report was internally released earlier this month. The ten studied European regions…

Hyping Ukraine Counteroffensive, US Press Chose Propaganda Over Journalism

Bryce Greene It has been clear for some time that US corporate news media have explicitly taken a side on the Ukraine War. This role includes suppressing relevant history of the lead-up to the war (FAIR.org, 3/4/22), attacking people who bring up that history as “conspiracy theorists” (FAIR.org, 5/18/22), accepting official government pronouncements at face value (FAIR.org, 12/2/22)…

How US Department of Homeland Security Became Global ‘Thought Police’

Kit Klarenberg Major tech companies were overwhelmingly a highly receptive audience, and actively encouraged CISA to push further and further into unconstitutional territory. CISA’s “disinformation” busting activities served to systematically malign independent journalists and alternative media platforms, while reinforcing established news outlets as monopolies of truth. On June 26th, the US House Judiciary Committee published…

How US and UK Government Propaganda Specialists Collaborated with Nazis in Ukraine

David Miller A MintPress investigation has found that a host of Western government officials, intelligence agents and assets have been directly involved in intimate collaboration with Nazi groups and individuals since at least 2014. This has included involvement in creating and operating the Nazi-run kill list in Ukraine, which MintPress revealed recently. While Western media have belatedly been forced…

Disturbing Details of New Pentagon “Perception Management Office”

KIit Klarenberg Ken Klippenstein, an investigative journalist at The Intercept, has exposed how the Pentagon very quietly launched a new internal division, dubbed the “Influence and Perception Management Office” (IPMO), in March. Its existence is not strictly secret, although there has been no official announcement of its launch, let alone an explanation from Department of Defense (DoD)…

Review of Pisces Moon: The Dark Arts of Empire

Hugo Turner Doug Valentine’s new book “Pisces Moon: The Dark Arts of Empire” takes the reader on a voyage into the dark and hidden history of the world. It forces the reader to confront the horrors unleashed by the American empire. It is a memoir that reads like a great novel, you won’t be able…

Ukraine and the “Disinformation” Project: How Universities, NATO, and Intelligence Agencies Suppress Dissent

Tamara Lorincz  has a Masters in International Politics & Security Studies from the University of Bradford and a Law degree and MBA from Dalhousie University. She’s a member of the Canadian Voice of Women for Peace and the Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom-Canada. Tamara is also on the board of the Global Network…

Canadians Challenge Calls for a Foreign Influence Registry

Daniel Xie On April 14, 2023, Petition E-4395 became available for signature on the House of Commons website. This petition was drafted in response to plans for the implementation of a “Foreign Influence Transparency Registry” that is being considered by the Trudeau government; this being in response to baseless allegations being spread by CSIS and…

NATO’s Fabulators

Joshua Rathz ‘That reptile’, Brecht once wrote in his journal, referring to Thomas Mann, ‘cannot imagine anyone doing anything for Germany (and against Hitler) without orders from anywhere’. The Manns had been spreading rumours around Los Angeles that Brecht was Moscow’s pawn: ‘slurs . . . they know full well can do a great deal…

The Coming War

John Pilger Dec. 20, 2008: Protesters in Montreal threw shoes at a target poster of President George Bush outside the U.S. Consulate to show support for the Iraqi journalist Muntadar al-Zeizi , who threw his shoe at the real Bush. (Anirudh Koul, Flickr, CC BY-NC 2.0) Silences filled with a consensus of propaganda contaminate almost…

Cancelling Habermas

Stephan Sander-Faes On Feb. 15, 2023, left-liberal newspaper Die Zeit published an op-ed by Eva Illouz with the meaningful title ‘ Denouncing the Philosopher’s Calls for Negotiations, Intellectuals and Media Render Germany’s Reckoning with its Nazi Past a Farce I long for a total victory’ (orig. Ich wünsche mir einen totalen Sieg). Three days later, on Feb. 18,…