Surveillance State

U.S. Gov’t Wants to Ban TikTok and Control Everything We See and Think

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In a rare show of bipartisan consensus, the House of Representatives voted overwhelmingly in favor of a law that makes TikTok one step closer to a total ban in the US. The bill claims that as long as TikTok is owned by Bytedance, a Chinese company, this represents a national...

Julian Assange’s Final Stand: Wikileaks Founder Battles Extradition for Exposing US War Crimes

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The House is set to review a bill to reauthorize Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA), the nation’s warrantless surveillance program exposed by Edward Snowden. Additionally, this week, imprisoned WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange will find out in a two-day appeal hearing if he will be extradited to...

History of NATO Destruction of Global South and CIA Infiltration of Third World Textbooks

Rania Khalek
To discuss the brutal history of NATO intervention in the Third World and CIA infiltration of education in targeted countries, Rania Khalek was joined by Essam Elkorghli, a Libyan PhD student at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, where he researches the impact of contemporary imperialism on education with a particular...

New Witch Hunt Demonizes Peace with China, with Vijay Prashad and Manolo de los Santos

Brian Becker
Seventy-five years ago, a witch hunt was launched in the United States against peace activists and leftists who opposed the growing danger of war with the Soviet Union. Today, as the United States has adopted major power conflict with China as its main military priority, and the danger of military...

Chinese ‘Foreign Agents’ and the New Era of McCarthyism, with Amanda Yee

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The Red Scare is back. This new era of McCarthyism depends on loose and selective interpretation and enforcement of existing legal measures with some racial profiling and guilt-by-association mixed in.  People are being accused of being foreign agents based on their political views. Chinese nationals have been chased out of...

How The US-Mexico Border Became One of the Most Militarized Places on Earth

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With the expiration of Title 42, the Trump administration’s pandemic-era rapid-expulsion border policy, the corporate media went into overdrive spewing racist and anti-immigrant rhetoric, emphasizing a “migrant surge” at the border. Todd Miller, an author and journalist specializing in border issues reveals that the true “border surge” is in the...

How Silicon Valley and Anti-China Cold Warriors Are Uniting to Attack TikTok

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On March 23, CEO of TikTok Shou Zi Chew testified before Congress, where he was grilled with ignorant and McCarthyite questions. The hearing served as the latest front in the New Cold War against China as Congress seeks to ban TikTok. Amanda Yee, an editor of Liberation News, explains how...

Guilty of Journalism: The Political Case Against Julian Assange | New Book by Kevin Gosztola

Rania Khalek
To discuss the war on whistleblowers, the U.S. government’s prosecution of Julian Assange and how the case against him poses a threat to journalism everywhere, Rania Khalek spoke to Kevin Gosztola, managing editor of Shadowproof, co-host of the Unauthorized Disclosure podcast and author of the newly published book “Guilty of...

Biden Wants to Renew the NSA Surveillance Program Exposed by Edward Snowden

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The Biden administration has formally urged Congress to reauthorize Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, the program exposed by Edward Snowden. Section 702 allows the NSA to conduct its unlawful mass surveillance program of Americans’ online communications, without requiring a warrant. Kevin Gosztola, managing editor of Shadowproof.com, curator...

Black Power Media: Latest Target of Big Tech Censorship with Dr. Jared Ball

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In a clear act of suppression, YouTube banned Black Power Media, an independent Black-radical media project, simply for discussing the flaws in the electoral college on their show, citing “election misrepresentation.” Jared Ball, Professor of communication studies at Morgan State University and the author of The Myth and Propaganda of...
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