🤑🚫 Billionaires-controlled ‘news’-media encourage censorship, so as to maintain their control over the Government. As long as that control continues, the dictatorship will continue.

Censorship is how they stay in power — censorship of the truth (not of the lies).

Most ‘democratic’ countries are democratic only in form but not in substance. They have a constitution, but there are infinite numbers of ways to get around it. Such ‘democracies’ have multiple candidates in ‘elections’, and have multiple Parties, but all of the Parties that succeed in becoming represented in the national legislature are funded by various billionaires, who collectively determine which candidates will be adequately funded, and which won’t. So: billionaires are the actual rulers there, because candidates who don’t serve any billionaire won’t stand any chance to become the nominee of any Party. Such candidates will be abandoned by the big money, and therefore would be merely a waste of money for any non-billionaire to donate to. Any such candidate can easily be overwhelmed by the money that’s going to his or her opponents who are backed by billionaires. No candidate who lacks the funds to get his/her message out to the voters stands any chance of winning, in such a ‘democracy’.

Winning public office thus becomes based upon propaganda: lying and censorship (so as to fool the public into thinking the candidate will serve the public instead of his/her top financial backers), which are done both by candidates’ campaigns and by the ‘news’-media that are controlled by the billionaires — the nation’s mainstream (i.e., well-funded) ‘news’-media. That propaganda is a lock-hold on accession to political power. And it is also a lock-hold on maintaining political power. And it is controlled by the billionaires, who are the ultimate political bosses in any such ‘democracy’.

Every recent national political campaign in any ‘democracy’ has been dominated by lying and censorship.

Here is how that — the key to control — is enabled to function effectively 👇

👤by Eric Zuesse

#censorship #MSM #democracy

🚨📢 Washington’s real objective is to criminalize critical journalism and indeed any form of critical dissent.

In an audacious attack on free speech, journalists and writers based in the United States have now been banned by the U.S. federal authorities from publishing articles with Strategic Culture Foundation.

🎙 We interview one of those authors affected by the ban, New York City-based journalist Daniel Lazare who shares his thoughts on the profound implications for free speech, independent journalism and political dissent.

Lazare is one of several U.S.-based writers who formerly published regular columns with Strategic Culture Foundation. Our online journal greatly appreciated their intelligent insights and analysis of U.S. and international politics. ⛔️ Sadly, we will no longer be able to publish their columns because of the threat levied on them by the U.S. federal authorities who accuse SCF of being an influence operation directed by the Kremlin. The allegations and threats are baseless and draconian.

If U.S.-based writers defy the ban, they have been threatened with astronomical financial penalties of over $300,000. The prohibition has only emerged in recent weeks. It follows earlier moves by the U.S. State Department and the Treasury Department accusing SCF of being an agent of Russian foreign intelligence. ‼️ No evidence has been presented by the U.S. authorities to support their provocative claims. The Editorial Board of SCF categorically dismisses the allegations. In a statement, the editors said: “We reject all such claims by the U.S. authorities that the journal is an alleged Russian intelligence operation. We have no connection with the Russian government. We provide an independent forum for international writers to debate and freely critique major topical issues of world importance.”

Strategic Culture Foundation’s editorial production is based in Russia and the journal has been publishing articles by international authors for over a decade. The online journal has gained respect and readership primarily in North America for its critical and diverse coverage of geopolitics.

❌ It seems that the official move to ban SCF by the U.S. government is really aimed at shutting down independent journalism and critical thinking under the cynical guise of combating a “foreign enemy”. This has baleful echoes with the Red Scare Cold War years in the U.S.

By banning American voices from the journal, Washington is attempting to bolster its smear against SCF as being a sinister intelligence agency. But the real objective is to criminalize critical journalism and indeed any form of critical dissent. Arguably, the draconian attack by the U.S. authorities has to be seen in the wider context of persecuting Julian Assange and other whistleblowers who have exposed Washington’s crimes and corruption.

👉 Daniel Lazare is a veteran newspaper journalist who specializes in U.S. constitutional law and rights. He formerly worked for Consortium News and Strategic Culture Foundation among other outlets. The New York City-based writer now publishes a regular column for The Weekly Worker, the paper of the Communist Party of Great Britain.

🔗 Read the interview here: https://www.strategic-culture.org/news/2021/11/18/us-blacklists-strategic-culture-foundation-in-attack-on-independent-journalism-and-political-dissent/

#Censorship #Journalism #Russiagate #UnitedStates

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📢🦅 Strategic Culture Foundation poses no threat to the United States but Neo-McCarthyism certainly does.

#freedomofspeech #censorship #Russiagate #society

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🗽🪆Why would Americans work for the Russians?

Because the culture of fear for some in the Soviet Union has shifted over to America, Tim Kirby @timkirbyhardcore writes.

https://www.strategic-culture.org/news/2022/01/10/why-would-americans-work-for-russians-the-curious-case-of-strategic-culture-foundation/

#censorship #UnitedStates

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🔕 Why is the Strategic Culture Foundation and journalistic freedom under attack?

#censorship #Russia #society #UnitedStates

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🤐 Western audiences, completely in the dark as to the true nature of the Ukrainian standoff, have no idea to the back story that led to the events of February 24, 2022.

Despite having at our disposal the most powerful communication technologies ever assembled, people around the world are arguably less knowledgeable about the true nature of current events than at any time in the past. How to explain such a paradox?

Read more by Robert Bridge: https://www.strategic-culture.org/news/2022/02/28/who-will-speak-for-the-oppressed-in-an-age-of-corporate-fact-blocking/

#Censorship #MassMedia #Propaganda #Ukraine

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🚫 The EU ban on RT and Sputnik is simply wrong and the thinking behind it draconian, Martin Jay writes.

https://www.strategic-culture.org/news/2022/03/02/eu-move-manipulate-media-coverage-ukraine-sign-of-weakness-despair-and-staggering-hypocrisy/

#Ukraine #Censorship #MassMedia #EU #RT

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🤐 The pathologization of dissent is not going away.

It will intensify as neoliberalism faces crisis after crisis and social polarization grows.

Those who claim to be liberals defending democracy will soon be only too ready to snuff it out.

https://www.strategic-culture.org/news/2022/04/10/liberals-are-adopting-an-old-soviet-tactic-painting-opponents-as-mentally-ill/

💬 By Johnathan Cook

#Censorship #Assange #Neoliberalism #Society

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🤐🦅 The US-centralized empire’s use of propaganda, censorship and Silicon Valley algorithm manipulation is the single most urgent issue of our time, because it’s what prevents attention from being drawn to all other issues. And all signs indicate it’s set to get much, much worse.

💬 By Caitlin Johnstone: https://www.strategic-culture.org/news/2022/05/03/western-civilization-is-being-organized-around-winning-us-infowars/

#BigTech #Censorship #Propaganda #SiliconValley #SocialMedia

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🔕 If you are over the age of reason, you should dispense with NATO’s human tinsel, who are perpetually pepper sprayed across our airwaves.

💬 Read more by Declan Hayes: https://www.strategic-culture.org/news/2022/05/11/censorship-is-bad-news/

#Censorship #Propaganda #Jolie #Ukraine

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🔦 Let’s take Kherson and FTX as two examples of NATO’s censorship of the hard and soft wars over Ukraine.

💬 By Declan Hayes

#Censorship #HumanRights #Propaganda #Terrorism #Ukraine #WarCrimes

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⛓ A Spanish journalist has been rotting in a Polish prison for the past year. And nobody knew or cared 😨, Stephen Karganovic writes.

#Censorship #EuropeanUnion #HumanRights #Serbia #Spain

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📢 Neither SCF columnist Sonja van den Ende @devendonline nor awakening wonder Russell Brand are members of MI6’s Trusted News Initiative, which MI6’s BBC informs us was set up by British Intelligence to fight their self declared fake news they say the likes of van den Ende and Brand personify worldwide.

As “The Trusted News Initiative is a partnership, founded by the BBC, that includes organisations from around the globe including; AP, AFP, BBC, CBC/Radio-Canada, European Broadcasting Union (EBU), Financial Times, Information Futures Lab, Google/YouTube, The Hindu, The Nation Media Group, Meta, Microsoft, Thomson Reuters, Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism, Twitter, The Washington Post, Kompas – Indonesia, Dawn – Pakistan, Indian Express, NDTV – India, ABC – Australia, SBS – Australia, NHK – Japan”, it dominates the global informational space but, sadly, van den Ende and Brand do not make the cut as they manufacture the real news these legions of BBC hacks are paid to discredit 💢

💬 Declan Hayes writes

#BBC #censorship #Israel #MassMedia #MI6 #propaganda #Ukraine

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