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Lula Is Giving a Lesson in How to Respond to Right-Wing...
On January 8, far-right supporters of former Brazilian president Jair Bolsonaro stormed the seat of Brazil’s government in a scene reminiscent of the US...
Brazil – The Internet connection
Watchdog Says Social Media Giants 'Directly Aided' Fascist Insurrection in Brazil
By Jake Johnson
Jan 10, 2023
The fascist attack on Brazil's main government complex was...
An Epidemic of Loneliness and the Dark World of Far-Right Conspiracy...
What I found in the deepest reaches of the Internet and the lost art—and political potency—of true human connection.
By Andy Kroll
Dec 27, 2022
We all...
Elon Musk’s Twitter mass bans tech reporters
By Kevin Reed
16 December 2022
In an act of blatant retaliation Thursday evening, Twitter suspended the accounts of leading tech journalists who have been reporting...
The Media Celebrated Julian Assange and is Now Too Afraid to...
by Patrick Cockburn *
June 27, 2022
It has become easier over the last month for governments to kill or imprison journalists whom they want to...
Assange was stripped and placed in “suicide watch” isolation cell after...
By Oscar Grenfell
23 June 2022
Immediately after British Home Secretary Priti Patel announced on Friday last week that she had approved Julian Assange’s extradition to...
Assange’s extradiction: A Crime against our most fundamental rights
A ‘dark day for press freedom,’ campaigners declare as Home Office agrees to extradite Assange to US
CAMPAIGNERS, politicians and academics condemned today Home Secretary...
We Cannot Rely on Billionaires to Create Necessary Guardrails on Social...
Nothing makes the case for public ownership of online public spaces like a billionaire proposing to buy one.
By Katrina vanden Heuvel*
May 3, 2022
“The most...
PayPal shuts accounts of anti-war publications Consortium News and MintPress News
By Kevin Reed
4 May 2022
Over the past week, the online payments company PayPal has launched a censorship campaign against independent and left-wing publishers who...
New McCarthyism in the West
White House makes “strategic decision” to wage war on unflattering words about NATO
By Rick Rozoff
January 29, 2022
n all seriousness, the U.S. government may not...