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‘Mistaken’ PayPal Email Means CN Is Permanently Banned
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Caitlin Johnstone: If the US Wanted Peace in Ukraine
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Mexico Rebukes Biden on Invite List to Americas Summit
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Starbucks CEO: Wage Hikes for Non-Union Workers consortiumnews.com/2022/05/10/sta
Discussing benefits and wage hikes that would not automatically apply to organized workers is a common union-busting tactic, Jake Johnson reports.
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Chris Hedges: Jesus, Endless War & US Fascism consortiumnews.com/2022/05/09/chr
The Democratic Party is hoping to thwart an election rout by running against the expected Supreme Court decision on abortion. This is all that is left of its political capital.
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LISTEN: No Such Thing as Dissent in the Age of Big Tech
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‘Mistaken’ PayPal Email Means CN Is Permanently Banned
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$50.5 Billion & Counting: US Climate Inaction Ticker
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Caitlin Johnstone: Empire News Roundup consortiumnews.com/2022/05/06/cai
Recent developments touch on Latin American sovereignty, the narrative pivot on calling Ukraine a proxy war and U.S. investment in the reckless nuclear standoff.
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LISTEN: No Such Thing as Dissent in the Age of Big Tech
Robert Scheer interviews Joe Lauria about the quashing of non-mainstream coverage of Ukraine
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., & discuss PayPal's decision to permanently restrict , & individual journalists. has refused to state why the action was taken, but funds they initially seized are now released. No risk?
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LISTEN: No Such Thing as Dissent in the Age of Big Tech
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Paypal is engaging in outrageous censorship and the silence from most of the media is deafening.
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WATCH: UN Security Council Debates Ukraine
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“An agent from PayPal’s ‘escalation department’ then said she could not provide any information about why the account was blocked because Robert Parry, the CN founder whose name is on the account, is deceased”
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“Do you know who the greatest propagator of disinformation in the history of the world is? The US government!” ~ Rand Paul
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In 1997, Foreign Sec Robin Cook wrote to PM Tony Blair saying Russia's President Yelstin wanted to negotiate a joint doc w/ Nato "that would enable [Yeltsin] to claim that Nato had taken Russian security concerns fully into account before proceeding w/ enlargement." #DCUKarchives
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In May 1953, the US Ambassador's views on Iran's leader Mossadeq made PM Winston Churchill "blench".
The US Ambassador was "afraid of the Mossadeq mentality spreading throughout Middle East."
3 months later, a joint CIA-MI6 operation overthrew Mossadeq and Iranian democracy.
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WATCH: PayPal, Censorship & Democracy consortiumnews.com/2022/05/05/wat
Watch British rapper and activist LowKey, MintPress News Editor Mnar Adley and Consortium News Editor Joe Lauria discuss the state of Western democracy and a free press in light of PayPal’s bans on independent media.
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Can you please explain why you are censoring independent media/journalists? I use you for my business and will stop using your services if you are imposing censorship.
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Both and had the benefit of having already built followings that could muster an outcry and inspire reporting on their behalf. Imagine how many other voices out there are still unjustly suppressed and disconnected from a livelihood.
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Glad @Consortiumnews and @MintPressNews got their cash back. Unfortunately PayPal's unlikely to change its behavior. Been doing this kind of nonsense for a long time, including to WikiLeaks way back in 2010.
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Biden Vacillates as Venezuela’s Maduro Gains Ground consortiumnews.com/2022/05/05/bid
Now that Cold War II has set in, Steve Ellner says Caracas’ strategic alliance with Moscow has become a greater priority for Washington.
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Join our LIVESTREAM in 10 min to talk: Paypal sanctions & with myself, & . We'll talk Newsguard, Propornot & the permanent war state's witchhunt against dissenters
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‼️ the Editorial Board of The Harvard Crimson released an unequivocal statement of support for BDS & “A Free Palestine.” They also reflect on their past unwise positions on BDS within the article. This is only the beginning. Full statement here: thecrimson.com/article/2022/4
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Some thoughts about the recent PayPal ban and freezing of $ of some independent media outlets like and
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Craig Murray: Donziger — a Tale for Our Times
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Update: PayPal has restored a degree of access to both and due to strong pushback.
>> wsws.org/en/articles/20 <<
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