In a rush to comply with new sanctions, US companies have gone overboard i.e. @PayPal began blocking certain donations to indie media website @TheGrayzoneNews, illustrating exactly how US sanctions are now being weaponized to censor media and free speech. thegrayzone.com/2020/01/09/pay…
On Friday, Silicon Valley giant @Facebook announced it's deleting all positive posts about the #SoleimaniAssassination on its platform and its subsidiary Instagram, which will have profound ramifications for freedom of speech and access to information. edition.cnn.com/2020/01/10/tec…
That Facebook’s actions appear to be coordinated with the U.S. government is not a coincidence. Since 2018 it has partially outsourced its editorial control over news and content to the Atlantic Council, the think tank of NATO.
The Council’s board is a who’s who of high government officials and effectively the “deep state” is controlling what we read, creating something close to a global state-controlled media apparatus. atlanticcouncil.org/about/board-of…
Weaponizing sanctions as a means to censor speech and media is a dangerously slippery slope that could end w social media users, publishers, and journalists arrested and charged for simply posting alternative sides of the Western imperialistic narrative.
🧵After October 7th, 2023, Israel accelerated its war against Islam, specifically by targeting institutions such as mosques and cemeteries in an attempt to subdue the Palestinian people not only in Gaza but across occupied Palestine. However, whether it be the targeting of mosques or restricting Palestinians from praying, none of these actions are new.
In these latest sets of slides, MintPress explores how over the years the Israeli occupation attacked Islamic holy sites.
Israel has destroyed at least 800 mosques and 60 cemeteries since October 7, 2023.
🧵The American Historical Association, the oldest learned society in the United States, has overwhelmingly passed a resolution opposing what it labels a “scholasticide” in Gaza, condemning Israel’s “intentional effort to comprehensively destroy the Palestinian education system.”
MintPress takes you through Israel’s war on education, by the numbers.
85% of Gazan schools have been destroyed or damaged by Israeli bombing.
This includes United Nations schools, where thousands have fled to, seeking shelter.
🧵From annulling elections to banning political parties, Europe is in a state of deep political malaise.
In this series, MintPress highlights six signs that democracy in Europe is beginning to crumble, citing examples from Romania, Germany, France, and the United Kingdom.
Romania’s top court has annulled the results of last month’s election, that saw anti-NATO outsider Călin Georgescu score a shock victory.
Since Georgescu’s shock win, Romania has rushed through emergency legislation that allows for its armed forces to be placed under foreign (NATO) command at any time.
🧵Israel’s role in the Syrian war to secure its own interests
The Israeli military has been involved in backing at least a dozen Syrian opposition groups, including the Al-Qaeda offshoot in Syria, Jabhat Al-Nusra, which would later change its name to Hayat Tahrir Al-Sham.
Israel steals Syrian resources from Golan Heights
Israel provided salaries for Syrian opposition fighters
🧵The CIA exists to carry out clandestine operations at the behest of the U.S. government. Over the decades, that has included political assassinations.
In this series, MintPress details nine well-known political figures the CIA is widely accused of attempting (and, in some cases, succeeding) to assassinate.
🧵A new MintPress News study has unearthed a network of former agents of Israeli spying agency, Unit 8200 working at TikTok, a company charged with supposedly being a Chinese-owned hub of anti-Semitic content.
Amid claims it is an anti-Semitic platform, TikTok has actually hired numerous agents from Israeli spying agency, Unit 8200.
Reut Medalion, head of TikTok’s head of its cybersecurity operations team, is a former Unit 8200 commander.