Defending Privacy in the Surveillance State and Fragmenting Internet
Governments and private entities are eroding privacy on the internet. Is it possible to safeguard both openness and security in cyberspace?
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New Palestine Protest/Free Speech Threat: House Oversight Committee Targets 20 Pro-Palestinian Organizations, Such as Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Demanding Treasury Produce Suspicious Activity Reports, Including on Employeees
A new salvo against designated enemies, aka Palestinian rights advocates, which fortunately is more bark than bite.
Read more...The US, Israel, and the ‘Anti-Semitism’ Fraud
Since it clearly needs to be said early and often, the campaign to demonize opponents of Israel’s genocide as anti-Semites is a complete crock.
Read more...Populism and State Power
A hard look at the use of the notion of populism in recent political discourse, starting with the curious lack of self-professed populists.
Read more...Remembering A Day the West Wants to Forget
Russia celebrates its victory over Nazism on May 9 while in the West decades of historical revisionism blaming the USSR for WWII has helped rehabilitate Nazis and lead us to the New Cold War crisis today.
Read more...Gaza Campus Protestors: Today’s “Have You No Sense of Decency?”
Michael Hudson looks at the ideological roots and power dynamics behind the anti-Gaza-genocide protests spreading across US campuses.
Read more...Free Speech on the Ropes: Legislation to Revoke Not-for-Profit Status of Organizations that Support Palestine Protests Passes in House
The officialdom has just wheeled out much heavier weaponry in the war against free speech, here targeting not-for-profits.
Read more...Google AI Censorship: Google Reverses Itself Fully on Demonetization Threat After Intervention by Matt Taibbi and Our Demonstration of Pervasive Errors
Hooray! Google fully reversed itself on its AI-generated censorship and demonetization threat. But don’t assume this sort of thing is over.
Read more...The Populist Dynamic: Experimental Evidence on the Effects of Countering Populism
Oh noes! Populism is gaining ground! A report on A/B testing of messaging in Italy to defang it.
Read more...‘Does the CIA Still Do That?’
A look at the CIA’s sorry history of propaganda, psyops and assassinations.
Read more...War Is Never the Answer to a Properly Posed Question
A discussion of four books about Palestine to facilitate better understanding of the war in Gaza.
Read more...Crackdowns on Pro-Palestine Occupations on Major Campuses Bringing Gaza Conflict a Bit Closer to Home
Mild campus protests, at least by 1960s standards, against the Gaza genocide, have produced panic in the officialdom and aggressive responses.
Read more...AI Chatbots Refuse to Produce ‘Controversial’ Output − Why That’s a Free Speech Problem
Quelle surprise! AI is being deployed to censor unwelcome ideas via omission.
Read more...Middle East Escalation: Financial Times’ Revealing Account of Israel Risk of Ukraine-Style Air Defense Attrition; Helmer on Possible Electrical Grid Campaign
US mixed messages continue: trying to check Israel’s suicidal conduct while providing military support. So what might happen next?
Read more...Yanis Varoufakis: My Berlin Speech on Palestine That German Police Entered the Venue to Ban
Germany sends the cops to shut down a conference on Palestine on trumped-up grounds. What next?
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