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.
🧵The U.S. Supreme Court ruled 7-2 that chemical giant Bayer cannot be sued for its failure to warn the public that its weedkiller Roundup causes several types of cancer.
A host of studies have found that gylophosate, the key component of Bayer/Monsanto’s Roundup weedkiller, causes cancers in humans.
Bayer’s share price jumped nearly 16% following the ruling, as investors were expecting the company to have to pay billions in compensation.
🧵The Pentagon announces the bloodthirsty & Orwellian "Operation Total Extermination" against Latin American countries to dominate the region.
MintPress explains its plan...
Trump has started a joint military project with right-wing billionaire Ecuadorian president Daniel Noboa that sees troops battle “terrorist organizations” and “drugs cartels”.
Operation Total Extermination will see a permanent FBI presence set up in Ecuador.
🧵A wide range of anonymous X (Twitter) users have reported that their real names are suddenly being Googled in Israel shortly after they began criticizing the country for its actions in Palestine. Some connected the phenomenon to Au10tix, the software X requires users (even anonymous ones) to use in order to verify their real identities.
A MintPress News investigation from @AlanRMacLeod explores this disturbing phenomenon.
Anonymous X users are noting their real identities are being Googled in Israel
Some have linked it to identity verification software Au10Tix, which users must give their names and ID’s to in order to join X’s premium service