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The National Security State Is Killing Free Speech

Governments and institutions are using lawfare to shut down independent voices

Philip Giraldi •ï¿½August 30, 2024

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It is interesting to hear President Joe Biden claim that democracy is at stake in the upcoming national election when he and his Democratic Party colleagues have done so much to hinder the free discussion of issues that should be considered important by the electorate. Joe has operated by fiat in his opening of Americaâ€™s... Read More

The Reason Conservatives Are Ineffective Defenders of Liberty

Paul Craig Roberts •ï¿½June 26, 2024

•ï¿½500 Words

Occasionally I note that conservatives are ineffective defenders of liberty. The primary reason is that they confuse America with the government. The government is not America. As our Founding Fathers understood, government is our enemy. They attempted to restrain our enemy with the Constitution and the separation of its powers. In effect, America is the... Read More

What Were Romans Thinking as They Watched Rome Collapse?

Paul Craig Roberts •ï¿½December 11, 2023

•ï¿½300 Words

I have often wondered what Roman citizens thought as they watched the Roman Empire fall apart culturally, politically, morally, and militarily. Cicero, quaestor, praetor and Counsel of Rome, tried to save the Roman Republic. For his efforts he was chased down and murdered. As Cicero was, perhaps, the most famous Roman, his murder stopped efforts... Read More

In the Midst of the Wars Against Russia and Palestine, Donâ€™t Forget Washingtonâ€™s War Against Julian Assange and Donald...

Paul Craig Roberts •ï¿½October 16, 2023

•ï¿½500 Words

One war is not over and another bloody one has started. War is the history of the 21st century, and Washington is behind them allâ€“Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya, Syria, South Ossetia, Yeman, Ukraine, Palestine. All the while Washington proceeds with its murders of Julian Assange and Donald Trump. Assange has been imprisoned for a decade in... Read More

I Once Admired George Monbiot. But His Grim Trajectory Shows Us Where Politics Is Heading

Jonathan Cook •ï¿½March 10, 2023

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Whatâ€˜s been the most significant threat to journalism â€“ the lifeblood of a free society â€“ over the past decade? Maybe we can turn to George Monbiot, the doyen of the British liberal-left, for an answer. He has a weekly column at the Guardian newspaper in which he exposes the abuses of state and corporate... Read More

What Is Left of My Country?

Paul Craig Roberts •ï¿½November 4, 2022

•ï¿½900 Words

I write often of the Westâ€™s disapproval of itself and its remaking in a Woke image that rejects Western civilization and insists on the deracination of the white ethnicities that created the civilization. When a civilization loses its belief in itself, or that belief is intentionally destroyed by poisonous ideas, and its defining values are... Read More

The Rule of Power

Paul Craig Roberts •ï¿½October 11, 2022

•ï¿½800 Words

Last week PayPal, an online service for making and receiving payments, announced that at PayPalâ€™s â€œsole discretionâ€ $2,500 would be seized from accounts of those PayPal decided were guilty of spreading misinformation. â€œMisinformationâ€ is whatever some speech control office at PayPal doesnâ€™t like or dissent from official narratives. In other words, PayPal announced a policy... Read More

Liberals Are Adopting an Old Soviet Tactic: Painting Opponents as Mentally Ill

Jonathan Cook •ï¿½April 7, 2022

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After Trumpâ€™s shock success, centrists urgently need a narrative that leaves untouched the status quo and its claim to moral superiority Back in the dark days of the Soviet Union, dissidents risked being locked up â€“ but not, officially at least, on the grounds that they had committed a political crime. In the Soviet regimeâ€™s... Read More

Killing the First Amendment

How â€œthe Lawâ€ fails to deliver Justice

Philip Giraldi •ï¿½January 4, 2022

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When one travels nearly anywhere in Europe where Medieval government centers, including courts, remain, one will frequently see the personification of a sometimes blindfolded woman representing Justice holding a sword in one hand and a scale or a scroll in the other. As soon as human beings came together to form governments, one of the... Read More

American Pravda: Giants Silenced by Pygmies •ï¿½1h30m ▶

Media Suppression of Our Leading Journalists and Scholars

Ron Unz •ï¿½November 22, 2021

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During the height of the NSA disclosures a few years ago, Glenn Greenwald probably ranked as the world's most famous journalist, and his entire career had seemed something out of a left-liberal storybook. Becoming disenchanted with his corporate law career at a top firm, he co-founded a small practice specializing in First Amendment issues, then... Read More

Haugen Isnâ€™t Really a â€˜Facebook Whistleblowerâ€™ â€“ and Itâ€™s Dangerous to Imagine She Is

Jonathan Cook •ï¿½October 8, 2021

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The enthusiasm with which much of the media and political establishment have characterised Frances Haugen as a â€œFacebook whistleblowerâ€ requires that we pause to consider what exactly we think the term â€œwhistleblowerâ€ means. Haugen has brought to the surface a fuzziness in what many of us understand by the idea of whistleblowing. Even Russell Brand,... Read More

Washington Is the Center of Evil In the Universe

Paul Craig Roberts •ï¿½August 12, 2021

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Those of us who are aware that the entirety of the Western media is unreliable rely on RT and Sputnik for news, but often RT and Sputnik sound like the unreliable Western media. I have noticed this for a long time. Often I thought I should write to someone, but have always been too busy.... Read More

New FBI Documents Reveal Seth Rich May Have Been Assassinated In Murder for Hire Plot After All

Eric Striker •ï¿½April 26, 2021

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For years, officials in the US government have held that Democratic National Convention voter expansion data director Seth Rich was killed during a random robbery in July 2016. Nothing was taken and there are currently no suspects in the case. Julian Assange and others have suggested that Rich was in fact the source for the... Read More

Trump's Unpardonable Pardons

Another disgraceful performance from â€œIsraelâ€™s presidentâ€

Philip Giraldi •ï¿½January 26, 2021

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One keeps hearing that former President Donald Trump will be judged well by the history books because he was the only American head of state in recent memory who did not start any new wars. Well, the claim is itself questionable as Jimmy Carter, for all his faults, managed to avoid entering into any new... Read More

A Pardoning Time of Year

Will the president do the right thing?

Philip Giraldi •ï¿½December 29, 2020

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The resistance to the apparent election of Joe Biden as President of the United States is continuing to play out. Current President Donald Trump is continuing to fight against the presumed results of the November national election with his final card appearing to be a vote in Congress when it reconvenes on January 6th to... Read More

Trump's Latest Pardons: Jewish Gangsters and Murderous Mercenaries Win Out Over Prisoners of Conscience

Eric Striker •ï¿½December 26, 2020

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As the Trump administration winds down, the growing movement calling for a pardon of physically ill incarcerated Australian journalist Julian Assange has been snubbed once again in favor of thugs and fraudsters connected to the Chabad-Lubavitch sect. The latest clemency proposal granted to the Aleph Institute, which is controlled by members of Chabad-Lubavitch, is Philip... Read More

Flynn Just the Startâ€”Trump Can Hit Back At the Ruling Class By Pardoning Stockman, Snowden, and Assange

James Kirkpatrick •ï¿½December 4, 2020

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President Donald Trumpâ€™s pardon of General Michael Flynn was long overdue, but that should be just the beginning. Three other dissidents languish in prison for no other reason than the enmity of the Deep State: Congressman Steve Stockman, a conservative hero who was relentlessly prosecuted by the Obama Administration for revealing the Regimeâ€™s arbitrary attacks... Read More

Glenn Greenwald in 2014. Credit: Davis dos Dantos/Wikimedia Commons. CC BY 3.0

Glenn Greenwald Escapes His $100 Million Webzine

Ron Unz •ï¿½November 1, 2020

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Several years ago during the height of the Edward Snowden/NSA spying scandal, Glenn Greenwald was sometimes described as the world's most famous journalist. I think that characterization was probably correct, at least if we exclude Julian Assange from consideration. The American government has emphatically denied that Assange was ever a journalist, and is now working... Read More

Should We be Protesting About George Floyd or Julian Assange?

Paul Craig Roberts •ï¿½July 31, 2020

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Some Americans are so pathetic they donâ€™t even know what gender they are. A female with a vagina thinks she is a male. A male with testicles and a penis thinks he is a female. Those among us who are normal are supposed to be oh-so-concerned about these confused people that we stop using gender... Read More

Who Spied on Julian Assange?

There are many possible suspects

Philip Giraldi •ï¿½December 10, 2019

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The Julian Assange drama drags on. Though he continues to sit in a top security British prison awaiting developments in his expected extradition to the United States, the Spanish High Court has been given permission to interview him. Assange is claiming that the Spanish company contracted with by the Ecuadorean government to do embassy security... Read More

Assange in Court

Craig Murray •ï¿½October 22, 2019

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I was deeply shaken while witnessing yesterdayâ€™s events in Westminster Magistrates Court. Every decision was railroaded through over the scarcely heard arguments and objections of Assangeâ€™s legal team, by a magistrate who barely pretended to be listening. Before I get on to the blatant lack of fair process, the first thing I must note was... Read More

Freedom of the Press? Not in the US

Ted Rall •ï¿½August 31, 2019

•ï¿½900 Words •ï¿½10 Comments • Reply

The United States ranks 48th among nations for press freedom, according to Reporters Without Borders. Because few other countries have the equivalent of our First Amendment, learning that we rank below Botswana and Slovenia may come as a surprise. Mostly, the organization pins this dismal state of affairs on Trump's attacks on the news media.... Read More

The Lie Factoryâ€”CNNâ€”Is Collapsing. Thank God.

Paul Craig Roberts •ï¿½July 18, 2019

•ï¿½400 Words

CNN abandoned journalism and became a propaganda ministry for the Democratic National Committee and the corrupt upper echelons of the CIA and FBI. After three years of telling the most outrageous lies ever associated with an alleged news organization in an alleged democracy, CNNâ€™s viewership collapsed. CNN turned propaganda ministry saw its primetime viewers shrink... Read More

When the Journalists Ganged Up on Assange They Ganged Up on Themselves

Paul Craig Roberts •ï¿½June 7, 2019

•ï¿½700 Words

Journalists did not appreciate the implications for themselves of the contrived and false indictment of Julian Assange by a corrupt US government. It was obvious to a few of us that the indictment by the US government, a government constrained by the First Amendment, of a foreign national for publishing leaked material, an action never... Read More

The Fake Charge Against Julian Assange Proves That the US Government Has No Integrity

Paul Craig Roberts •ï¿½April 15, 2019

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Letâ€™s be sure that we understand that Assange is not charged with anything related to Russia or Russiagate or even with breaking a law. Assange is charged with being in a conspiracy with Manning â€œto commit computer intrusion.â€ The charge is not that Assange succeeded in hacking a government computer and obtaining classified information. It... Read More

Uncle Tom's Empire

C.J. Hopkins •ï¿½April 15, 2019

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I donâ€™t normally do this kind of thing, but, given the arrest of Julian Assange last week, and the awkward and cowardly responses thereto, I felt it necessary to abandon my customary literary standards and spew out a spineless, hypocritical â€œhot takeâ€ professing my concern about the dangerous precedent the U.S. government may be setting... Read More

The Day American Activism Died, or...

Why Julian Assange Sits in Stir!

Brett Redmayne-Titley •ï¿½March 13, 2019

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5:05 AM. February 4, 2012. Itâ€™s almost pitch dark. No one has slept this night. The only morning illumination comes from scores of dimly glowing dots of blues, greens, yellows, reds or orange inside a patchwork of hundreds of still standing tents. Most sit empty for the first time in months; a lamp left on... Read More

Manufacturing Truth

C.J. Hopkins •ï¿½December 3, 2018

•ï¿½1,700 Words •ï¿½158 Comments • Reply

If youâ€™re one of the millions of human beings who, despite a preponderance of evidence to the contrary, still believe there is such a thing as â€œthe truth,â€ you might not want to read this essay. Seriously, it can be extremely upsetting when you discover that there is no â€œtruthâ€ â€¦ or rather, that what... Read More

VIPS Plead for Humanitarian Asylum for Julian Assange

William Binney •ï¿½August 6, 2018

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Memorandum for: The US Embassies of Ecuador and the United Kingdom, and the U.S. State Department From: Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity Subject: Humanitarian Asylum for Julian Assange For six years, WikiLeaks editor Julian Assange has been effectively imprisoned without charges at Ecuadorâ€™s London embassy. In that time, two international courts and dozens of respected... Read More

The Persecution of Julian Assange Proves That Western Values No Longer Exist

Paul Craig Roberts •ï¿½June 23, 2018

•ï¿½500 Words

The Western world never ceases to speak of its â€œdemocratic values.â€ In Western political theory, the way democracy works is by free speech and a free press. By speaking out, citizens and media keep the government accountable. This liberal tradition means that there are no words or terms that cannot be used because some designated... Read More

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