DAVID W PEAR—Western governments, particularly in the English-speaking countries, have cowed freedom of the press. According to a ranking of press freedom, “based on an evaluation of pluralism, independence of the media, quality of legislative framework and safety of journalists” by Reporters Without Borders, the five eyes countries are ranked as follows for press freedom: New Zealand (8), Canada (18), Australia (19), United Kingdom (40), United States (45). These rankings are a disgrace to countries that claim to be democratic, free and exceptional.
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John Pilger: ‘Real journalists act as agents of people, not power’
JOHN PILGER—Liberal forces are often to blame for the conditions that have given rise to the far-right. They have enabled the divisiveness. In the US, the Democratic Party has long betrayed ordinary people, whom Hillary Clinton abused as “deplorables”.
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Lee Camp: Truth Revealed About Cuban Sonic Attacks, U.S. Forever At War, Democracy Collapse
Lee Camp with cutting edge stories that need amplification and more debate: the Cuban embassy “mysterious” sound waves that weren’t; the US, which touts itself as the best democracy in the world, classified as #25—behind Estonia and Chile—in the World Democracy Index 2018, and so on.
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Yellow Vests, Class Struggle and Spontaneous Revolution
GAITHER STEWART—Do rabid protesters-hooligans undermine their own movements by devastating shops and burning cars? Or do undercover agents do the dirty work to sully the name of the protest movement? For secret services of the world know how to use the “strategy of tension” and false flag operations: secret agents burn ten cars and blame it on protesters and then crack down on the whole movement. Secret agents were at work in Berlin in 1933: “Burn the Reichstag in Berlin, blame it on a Communist and establish the Nazi dictatorship.”
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