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“It is through this sort of unholy connection of technology and sort of an unusual interpretation of contract law that these institutions have been able to transform this greatest virtue of humanity—which is this desire to interact and to connect and to cooperate and to share—to transform all of that into a weakness.
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Part 1: Facebook Purge of Alternative Media Is ‘Just the Beginning,’ Boasts DC Neocon Operative
TheRealNews on Oct 26, 2018
As Facebook and Twitter are purging alternative media outlets, a neoconservative operative at a US government-funded think tank says more censorship is on its way. Max Blumenthal and Jeb Sprague discuss how scaremongering over Russia and China is being exploited to silence dissent on social media.
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Part 1: Facebook Erases Hundreds of Alternative Media Pages in Mass Purge
TheRealNews on Oct 18, 2018
Facebook is erasing popular alternative media pages that had millions of likes and suspending anti-war and anti-police brutality accounts, in coordination with Twitter. Journalist Max Blumenthal says this is part of a larger political crackdown; EFF’s David Greene says the implications are dangerous.
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with Chris Hedges
Part 1: Reporter Tells Truth About War & Gets Fired By NYTimes w/Chris Hedges
The Jimmy Dore Show on Oct 15, 2018
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with Chris Hedges
RT America on Sep 1, 2018
Historian, David Van Reybrouck, in his new book Against Elections, identifies modern day examples of Aristotle’s “drawing lots” underway in Iceland, Ireland and Australia marking innovation in democracies. He thinks democracy only can survive if innovation occurs.
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TheRealNews on Aug 28, 2018
Rolling Stone’s Matt Taibbi joins us to examine the dangerous juncture our freedom finds itself in when Facebook, Twitter, and Google work with the government and its intelligence services to control what we see and hear.
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Updated: Aug. 15, 2018
Facebook Taps Militarist Think Tank Atlantic Council to Police its Content (Pt 1/2)
TheRealNews on Aug 11, 2018
From Alex Jones to alleged Russian trolls, major internet companies are increasingly policing content on their platforms. Max Blumenthal of the Grayzone Project says the partnership between Facebook and the Atlantic Council highlights “the merger of the national security state and Silicon Valley.”
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by William Bowles
Writer, Dandelion Salad
Investigating Imperialism
London, England
May 23, 2018
Why should it be that in a climate that’s shifted so far to the right, that out of the morass that is contemporary Britain, there should emerge a politician who was shaped by and effectively still lives, in a world that no longer exists? It’s bizarre to say the least but how to explain it?
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by Lo
Dandelion Salad, editor
March 1, 2018
“You’re temporarily restricted from joining and posting to groups that you do not manage until Sunday, March 4, 2018 at 11:55am.” That’s the message I received from Facebook today.
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by William Bowles
Writer, Dandelion Salad
Investigating Imperialism
London, England
January 7, 2018
At the end of the 1970s, when I first started using and investigating digital media, it quickly became apparent to me, that what became the World Wide Web, was very much a double-edged sword. On the one hand, it afforded independent journalists and investigators, a vehicle for reaching a public outside the control of corporate/state media and whose only parallel lay back in the 17th century, with the invention of the printing press and moveable type, broadsheets and later the so-called Penny Dreadfuls. Sold on street corners and in coffee houses, and produced in literally hundreds of small printing shops, they challenged the status quo in ways previously impossible. Often banned and their writers/publishers thrown in jail under the then new sedition laws, they heralded the arrival of modern capitalism.
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by William Blum
Writer, Dandelion Salad
Killing Hope
October 23, 2017
Capturing the wisdom and the beauty of Donald J. Trump in just one statement escaping from his charming mouth:
“Our military has never been stronger. Each day, new equipment is delivered; new and beautiful equipment, the best in the world – the best anywhere in the world, by far.”1
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with Noam Chomsky, Glenn Greenwald and Edward Snowden
acTVism Munich on Jun 6, 2016
On the 25th of March 2016 the University of Arizona hosted an event with Glenn Greenwald, Edward Snowden and Noam Chomsky about Privacy. Below you will see Part I of the event. You can find the full video on “The Intercept”.
by Guadamour
Featured Writer
Dandelion Salad
June 2, 2011
The simple plain-looking unadorned book, Raising Hell by Jamie Court (Chelsea Green Publishing Company 2010), comes as a must read for anyone interested in a guideline and toolkit for winning “Grassroots” campaigns, getting citizen ballot initiatives turned into law and for making one’s vote count and voice heard over that of the corporate lobbyist, though this reviewer has reservations about certain points raised in the book.
