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by Will Griffin
Writer, Dandelion Salad
February 14, 2023
GNspace4peace on Dec 19, 2022
Where does the security state end and social media begin?
Will Griffin: Cyberspace Social Media Information War
Social Media
Ralph Nader: Workplace Surveillance + The Luddite Club
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with Ralph Nader
Ralph Nader Radio Hour on Feb 4, 2023
Ralph welcomes professor Karen Levy, who talks to us about how regulations aimed at making trucking safer have been turned into a tool of corporate surveillance as chronicled in her book Data Driven: Truckers, Technology, and the New Workplace Surveillance.
Ralph Nader: How to Fix Democracy
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With Ralph Nader
Bertelsmann Foundation on Oct 25, 2019
Consumer advocate, lawyer, and former U.S. presidential candidate Ralph Nader believes that democracy is about civic organization, not just public opinion.
The New Corporate Dictators – Super-Rich and Super-Immune, by Ralph Nader
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by Ralph Nader
The Nader Page, May 13, 2022
May 14, 2022
Ever since the heads of East India Trading Company (1600) and Hudson Bay Company (1670), were incorporated by English Royal charters, there have been corporate dictators. Their range and actions, have varied widely however. Today’s new corporate dictators shatter past restraints.
Chris Hedges: The Steady Decay That Is Not Going To End Well For Any Of Us
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with Chris Hedges
The Jimmy Dore Show on Mar 31, 2022
Award-winning journalist and bestselling author Chris Hedges has been effectively silenced by YouTube, with six years’ worth of Hedges’ show, ”On Contact,” deleted from the platform simply because the program appeared on the Russian-affiliated network RT [America]. As a result, hundreds of episodes featuring interviews with a wide range of guests, the vast majority of which had nothing to do with Russia, have been removed from public view.
Abby Martin: How the Media Manufactures “Bloodlust” for War
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with Abby Martin
TheRealNews on Mar 8, 2022
From the moment Russian troops invaded Ukraine the entire corporate media apparatus in the US moved to 24-7 coverage, filling airwaves with talking heads relentlessly beating the drums of war.
Censorship, the Myth of Free Data, and the False Solutions on the Table, by Kenn Orphan
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by Kenn Orphan
Writer, Dandelion Salad
Halifax, Nova Scotia
December 5, 2021
There is a line I keep seeing repeated on social media. It goes something like this: “They are allowed to decide what is acceptable to post and what is not. It’s free, after all.” Things like that may make snappy and snarky comebacks to people complaining about internet censorship. Only it isn’t true. Not by a long shot.
Chris Hedges: The Fight to Free Knowledge
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with Chris Hedges
Originally on RT America on Aug 5, 2021
The Chris Hedges YouTube Channel on Jul 1, 2022
On the show this week, Chris Hedges discusses censorship and new digital media with Peter B. Kaufman, author and Program Manager at MIT Learning Center.
Destabilizing Cuba: Sanctions, Pandemic Hardship and Social Media Onslaught, by Finian Cunningham
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by Finian Cunningham
Writer, Dandelion Salad
Ireland
Crossposted from Strategic Culture Foundation, July 15, 2021
July 17, 2021
Uncle Sam is not going to like Moscow and Beijing making inroads into his self-declared “backyard”. But Uncle Sam has lost all moral authority to make serious objections.
Navigating the Digital Commons on Our Own Terms, by Kenn Orphan
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by Kenn Orphan
Writer, Dandelion Salad
Halifax, Nova Scotia
June 18, 2021
The other day I made a Facebook post that referred to the arbitrary and, yet, purposefully designed algorithms of social media and how they are effectively silencing and censoring people, especially those on the left. I have noticed it myself. I get far less traffic to my page than in prior years. This makes the social media “experience” less desirable (I will go into the reason why a bit later), and so I said I would likely be spending less time here as a result.
Chris Hedges: Cancel Culture
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with Chris Hedges
RT America on Apr 24, 2021
On the show this week, Chris Hedges discusses cancel culture with Dan Kovalik, author and Associate Professor of Law at the University of Pittsburgh.
The Ruling Class Wants Us To Accept War As Never-ending, by Rainer Shea
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by Rainer Shea
Writer, Dandelion Salad
Rainer Shea: Anti-Imperialist Journalist
February 28, 2021
The ruling class of the U.S./NATO empire justifies the heinous actions of its military forces, the brutality of its internal police states, and the cruelty towards the poor of its neoliberal economic deprivation by claiming that everything it does is necessary to combat some grand evil. Whether this evil is Islam, or communism, or the very presence of opposition to Washington’s war narratives, the threat is portrayed as being so all-encompassing and enormous that it should solely occupy our political concerns.
Chris Hedges: How Republicans, Democrats, and the Media Have Weakened US Democracy
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with Chris Hedges
New Economic Thinking on Jan 19, 2021
Renowned journalist and author Chris Hedges talks about the many ways traditional media, digital media, and the two political parties have worked to prevent progressive movements and give rise to the growth of the extreme right. Continue reading
Chris Hedges: Biden Admin-Redux: Deep State, Empire and Censorship
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with Chris Hedges
RT America on Jan 16, 2021
On this show this week, Chris Hedges talks to Pulitzer prize-winning journalist Glenn Greenwald about the incoming Biden administration and what it will mean for a country in crisis, ravaged by a pandemic it cannot control, hostage to corporate power and bifurcated into warring factions.
Chris Hedges: America Has The Tinder To Ignite Social Uprising
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“The problem is not just Trump’s ineptitude and he was inept, the problem is the for-profit health care system. We don’t have an infrastructure that can cope with a national health crisis because our health care structure is designed only for one thing and that’s to make money.”
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