As US-Chinese tensions grow and as it becomes increasingly clear the US is unable to compete with China head-to-head in terms of development, trade, and investment, especially in regions along China’s periphery, the US is resorting increasingly to asymmetrical measures including political coercion, subversion, and even violence.
Why the West is Whitewashing Terrorism in Vietnam and Myanmar
Video (Odysee) via The New Atlas
The National Union of Journalists (NUJ) in Britain has withdrawn its initial defence of The Grayzone news site journalist Kit Klarenberg.
UK National Union of Journalists withdraws its defence of Kit Klarenberg
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NUJ expresses concern over detention of journalist Kit Klarenberg (now, 404’d)
Deeply disturbed by the accounting of American deceit in Vietnam, he approached The New York Times. The disclosures that followed rocked the nation.
Daniel Ellsberg, Who Leaked the Pentagon Papers, Is Dead at 92
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The Berlin State Prosecutor has launched a criminal investigation of me for tweeting the image on the cover of my book, The Rise of the New Normal Reich.
Political Satirist (me) Under Criminal Investigation in Berlin
An editor at Radio New Zealand has been suspended and is under investigation for the time-honored practices of providing balanced and factual reporting, writes Tony Kevin.
Suspended for Provided Balanced News on Ukraine
The FBI aided a Ukrainian intelligence effort to ban Twitter users and collect their data, new leaks show. Twitter declined to censor journalists targeted by Ukraine, including The Grayzone’s Aaron Maté.
Leaks reveal FBI helps Ukraine censor Twitter users and obtain their info
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How The FBI Helps Ukrainian Intelligence Hunt ‘Disinformation’ On Social Media
INTERVIEW: I don’t know if my son is alive or whether he has been tortured, says Gonzalo Lira Sr. Zelensky claims Ukraine’s fight is about freedom. Well he’s not showing it to the rest of the world.
INTERVIEW: All I know is that Gonzalo was detained on May 1 via George Galloway
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Father of Gonzalo Lira, American jailed in Ukraine, speaks out against “political imprisonment”
US citizen Gonzalo Lira faces a long prison term in Ukraine for criticizing the country’s government. Shunned by the US government, his father is fighting to stop the “slow death of a son.”
Father of Gonzalo Lira, American jailed in Ukraine, speaks out against “political imprisonment”
FIRE lawyer Zach Greenberg reacts to a student-selected speaker who criticized Israel, the university, capitalism, and more in her May 12 law school commencement speech.
Link to full commencement speech.
This commencement speech shocked listeners via Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression
The Google Play Store suspended an app that combines a web browser with a file manager after a Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) complaint pointed out that the app is capable of loading a piracy website—even though that same pirate website can be loaded on any standard browser, including Google Chrome.
Google bans Downloader app after [Israeli] TV firms complain it can load a pirate website
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