European Union governments want to be able to spy on reporters in the name of national security, even as lawmakers urge them to crack down on spyware.
EU capitals want media law carve-out to spy on reporters
Tag: Reporters Without Borders
Ukraine’s ‘Press Freedom’ Score Increases Despite Martial Law, Banned Media
France-based press watchdog Reporters Without Borders (Reporters Sans Frontières, or RSF) recently released its scores and rankings for international press freedom. In 2022, RSF gave Ukraine a score of 55.76 out of 100, placing it 106th out of 180 countries surveyed. In the most recent report, issued after over a year of war, Ukraine shot to 79th out of 180, with a new score of 61.19. This despite wartime measures that banned opposition parties, consolidated media under state control, and saw journalists’ speech chilled by unprecedented intimidation.
Ukraine’s ‘Press Freedom’ Score Increases Despite Martial Law, Banned Media
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Correction: Poland is trying to HIDE the truth in Ukraine with this move
Poland’s government is targeting journalists for revealing the truth about the war? Pablo Gonzales is a Spanish journalist who has been covering the Ukrainian refugees in Poland, and has been doing some excellent reporting. But telling the truth is a bridge too far and now he’s in solitary confinement.
Poland is trying to HIDE the truth in Ukraine with this move (Rumble) via Redacted
Sorry, he keeps changing it!
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Cambodia Jails US Agents as US-China Tensions Rise
Malaysia’s New Prime Minister: The Impact on US-China Tensions in Asia
Nov 30, 2022 – Malaysia’s new prime minister Anwar Ibrahim has spent decades in the service of US interests, chairing the IMF in the 1990s and working with the US National Endowment for Democracy ever since.
His opposition party, a street front he has helped lead, and media networks promoting him across Malaysia’s information space have all received funding from the US government through the NED.
What impact has Anwar Ibrahim already had on Malaysia’s sovereignty and development and what impact will his premiership have on Malaysia’s future?
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Malaysia’s New Prime Minister: The Impact on US-China Tensions in Asia (Odysee) via The New Atlas
Journalist [Bolot Temirov] In Moscow After UN Envoy, Rights Groups, Embassies Decry Kyrgyz Deportation Order
Journalist In Moscow After UN Envoy, Rights Groups, Embassies Decry Kyrgyz Deportation Order
[Bolot] Temirov and traditional bard singer Bolot Nazarov, who performed his anticorruption songs on the YouTube channel Temirov LIVE, were arrested in January for allegedly possessing illegal drugs, which the two men say were planted by police.
H/T: Jimmy Dore
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New U.S. Award Names Kyrgyz, Ukrainian Anti-Corruption Figures Among Its 12 Recipients
FactCheck and open-source investigative organization Bellingcat probed Raimbek Matraimov, the controversial former deputy chief of the Customs Service, and his relatives, who are at the center of an alleged corruption scandal involving the funneling of close to a billion dollars out of Kyrgyzstan.
Research on Factcheck.kg’s (Bolot Temirov):
Read More »Pakistan Suggests Killing Of Journalist In Kenya Was Targeted
Pakistan says evidence suggests the shooting of a prominent Pakistani journalist who was living in Kenya may have been an assassination as media watchdog Reporters Without Borders called for an independent United Nations probe into the incident.
Pakistan Suggests Killing Of Journalist In Kenya Was Targeted
H/T: Imran Khan
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This famous journalist’s suspicious death in Kenya by a sniper shot to the head, which came shortly after he announced the upcoming release of an anti-corruption documentary exposing his country’s US-backed post-modern coup regime, might prove to be a tipping point in Pakistan’s political crisis.
Was Arshad Sharif Assassinated By Pakistan’s US-Backed Post-Modern Coup Regime?
Reporters Without Borders launches campaign to censor Russian media
Reporters Without Borders launches campaign to censor Russian media
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Steve Sweeney Exposes RSF’s Call For Censorship of Russian Media As Ukraine Bombs Donbass Civilians via Eva K Bartlett
France’s Eutelsat must stop collaborating with Russia’s war propaganda machine
Reporters Without Borders to Russia: Stop crackdown on media (*Meduza)
The UK FCO projects were carried out covertly, and in partnership with purportedly independent, high-profile online media outfits including Bellingcat, *Meduza, and the Pussy Riot-founded Mediazona. Bellingcat’s participation apparently included a UK FCO intervention in North Macedonia’s 2019 elections on behalf of the pro-NATO candidate.
Reuters, BBC, and Bellingcat participated in covert UK Foreign Office-funded programs to “weaken Russia,” leaked docs reveal
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Joe Biden aims to strengthen anti-Palestine, anti-Iran alliance
by Ali Abunimah, Electronic Intifada, Jul 14 2022
What was the purpose of Joe Biden’s visit to Israel and Saudi Arabia?
Joe Biden aims to strengthen anti-Palestine, anti-Iran alliance
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UK Official Secrets Act Proposals Take Cues From US Espionage Act Cases
The United Kingdom’s right-wing dominated government is on course to greatly expand its ability to prosecute and jail whistleblowers and journalists through amendments to the country’s Official Secrets Acts.
UK Official Secrets Act Proposals Take Cues From US Espionage Act Cases
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