A minor player, NewsGuard, "partners" with the State Department and Pentagon to tag websites that deviate from the establishment line.
Facebook relies on PropOrNot's Atlantic Council to combat reporting contrary to the US government line. Facebook later announced it would further fight "fake news" by partnering with two propaganda organizations sponsored by the US government: the National Democratic Institute (NDI) and the International Republican Institute (IRI). The NDI was chaired by former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright, while Senator John McCain was the longtime IRI chair.
Just as The Mighty Wurlitzer, The Cultural Cold War, and Bernstein's The CIA and the Media showed with the big business print media, we are witnessing an integration of social media companies into the national security state.
Who have been censored by this corporate media and social media integration with the national security state?
Like with any censored book list, national security-state targets provide a Who's Who of what we should be reading and watching: The Grayzone, TeleSur, Venezuelanalysis, Lee Camp, By Any Means Necessary, Caleb Maupin, Syria Solidarity Movement, Consortium News, Mint Press News, Abby Martin, Chris Hedges, CGTN and other Chinese media, George Galloway, Pepe Escobar, Scott Ritter, ASB Military News, RT America, Strategic Culture Foundation, One World Press, SouthFront, Gonzalo Lira, Oriental Review, Revolutionary Black Network, Sputnik News, Ron Paul's Liberty Report. Youtube warns us of watching Oliver Stone's Ukraine on Fire. Journalists who have collaborated with a Russian media outlet are now dubbed "affiliated with the Russian government."
The FBI directly shut down American Herald Tribune and Iran's Press TV. RT and Sputnik are already shut down in Europe. PropOrNot listing of 200 media sites catalogs for us what the national security state doesn't want us to read, listen to, know, or think.
Since the beginning of the first Cold War, there has been a continuous CIA-national-security state operation to neutralize, marginalize, and create disunity among its opponents, often with the collaboration of the left that consider the Democratic Party a lesser evil. This strategy includes extensive foundation financing of leftist outlets and NGOs in order to tame them.
Therefore, it is mistaken to fault the US left for its weakness. The CIA and the foundations have been key players in covertly manipulating opposition to US imperial rule, in part by strengthening the left soft on the Democrats to undermine any working-class or anti-US-empire challenge. To date, this national security-state mission has also shown considerable success.
The problems of building a working-class left wing partly results from the US rulers' decades long campaign to disrupt the movement. This involves not just imprisoning and killing activists, such as Martin Luther King, Malcolm X, or the Black Panthers, but also big-business media marketing disinformation as news, their funding of a compatible left, and the present social media and internet censorship of anti-imperialist voices. Rebuilding an anti-war and working class left wing requires us to directly address and navigate through this maze ruling-class sabotage has created.
Facebook relies on PropOrNot's Atlantic Council to combat reporting contrary to the US government line. Facebook later announced it would further fight "fake news" by partnering with two propaganda organizations sponsored by the US government: the National Democratic Institute (NDI) and the International Republican Institute (IRI). The NDI was chaired by former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright, while Senator John McCain was the longtime IRI chair.
Just as The Mighty Wurlitzer, The Cultural Cold War, and Bernstein's The CIA and the Media showed with the big business print media, we are witnessing an integration of social media companies into the national security state.
Who have been censored by this corporate media and social media integration with the national security state?
The FBI directly shut down American Herald Tribune and Iran's Press TV. RT and Sputnik are already shut down in Europe. PropOrNot listing of 200 media sites catalogs for us what the national security state doesn't want us to read, listen to, know, or think.
Since the beginning of the first Cold War, there has been a continuous CIA-national-security state operation to neutralize, marginalize, and create disunity among its opponents, often with the collaboration of the left that consider the Democratic Party a lesser evil. This strategy includes extensive foundation financing of leftist outlets and NGOs in order to tame them.
Therefore, it is mistaken to fault the US left for its weakness. The CIA and the foundations have been key players in covertly manipulating opposition to US imperial rule, in part by strengthening the left soft on the Democrats to undermine any working-class or anti-US-empire challenge. To date, this national security-state mission has also shown considerable success.
The problems of building a working-class left wing partly results from the US rulers' decades long campaign to disrupt the movement. This involves not just imprisoning and killing activists, such as Martin Luther King, Malcolm X, or the Black Panthers, but also big-business media marketing disinformation as news, their funding of a compatible left, and the present social media and internet censorship of anti-imperialist voices. Rebuilding an anti-war and working class left wing requires us to directly address and navigate through this maze ruling-class sabotage has created.
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