Tag: Censorship
The Segal State – the public office Australia never voted for
Jillian Segal holds power over what Australians may say, teach, report and believe. No election gave it to her. No Parliament ratified it. Nothing...
Gagged NZ editor’s ‘free speech’ case adjourned as judge warns Daily...
Pacific Media Watch
Daily Blog editor and publisher Martyn “Bomber” Bradbury’s gagging case has been adjourned until next week, with the judge warning today that...
Why I am willing to go to prison tomorrow for Free...
EDITORIAL: By The Daily Blog editor and publisher Martyn Bradbury
Daily Blog editor and publisher Martyn "Bomber" Bradbury yesterday declared he has been served "legal...
Sinister ‘Free Speech Union’ attacks investigative journalist for being investigative
POLITICAL BYTES: By Ian Powell
On June 6, I published a Political Bytes post criticising the mis-named "Free Speech Union" (FSU) for opposing the exercise...
Meta censoring Palestinian content – and here’s proof of ‘platformicide’
COMMENTARY: By +972 podcast presenter Alaa Salama
As +972 Magazine’s audience engagement manager, social media is a huge part of my job. I use it...
Caitlin Johnstone: I hope the US loses and the empire collapses
COMMENTARY: By Caitlin Johnstone
I don’t mind admitting that I hope the US and Israel suffer a crushing, devastating defeat in Iran.
I hope this war...
How the US, Israel and Iran are controlling their media narratives
COMMENTARY: By Majdoline Al-Shammouri in Beirut
In the ongoing United States and Israel war on Iran, it appears that all the countries agree on "controlling"...
China’s growing grip on the fragile Solomon Islands media sector
SPECIAL REPORT: Reporters Without Borders
Since the Solomon Islands established diplomatic relations with China in 2019, the Pacific country has become a strategic arena for...
How Israel is censoring damage reporting about the war on Iran
SPECIAL REPORT: By Oren Ziv of +972 Magazine
Since the start of the war with Iran, the Israeli military has imposed strict censorship regulations on...
War on Iran: ‘It’s abominable, the lies that the American mainstream...
Democracy Now!
AMY GOODMAN: The US-Israeli war on Iran has entered its 11th day. Its impact is being increasingly felt across the globe. Al Jazeera...
Maher Nazzal: The Epstein Files – the real scandal is the...
COMMENTARY: By Maher Nazzal
The Epstein Files were never just about one man.
Jeffrey Epstein didn’t operate in a vacuum. His crimes were grotesque, systematic, and,...
UpScrolled – the pro-Palestine platform shaking up social media
By Agnese Boffano in London
As Meta, TikTok, Instagram and X continue to dominate online social spaces, a new platform called UpScrolled has entered the...
One year into Trump’s second term – repressive US president on...
Reporters Without Borders
After winning re-election in 2024, Donald Trump promised to be a dictator “on day one”.
When it comes to press freedom, he has...
Censorship crusade: Israel targets platforms and online archives to ‘rewrite Gaza’
SPECIAL REPORT: By Robert Inlakesh
Israelis are determined to erase the evidence of Israel’s genocide in Gaza, through the use of paid and instructed propagandists...
RSF expresses ‘regret’ over new Israeli Supreme Court delay on Gaza...
Pacific Media Watch
The Paris-based global media freedom watchdog Reporters Without Borders (RSF) says it "regrets" the Israeli Supreme Court's decision to grant the Tel...
Australia’s National Press Club blocks Hedges’ Gaza media talk, lines up...
One Path Network
The National Press Club of Australia has abruptly cancelled a scheduled address by renowned journalist and Pulitzer Prize–winning author Chris Hedges, who...
Chris Hedges: The betrayal of Palestinian journalists
Western reporters are full partners in the genocide. They amplify Israeli lies, which they know are lies, betraying Palestinian colleagues who are slandered, targeted...
Greenpeace flagship Rainbow Warrior to return for 40th anniversary of French...
By Russel Norman
The iconic Greenpeace flagship Rainbow Warrior will return to Aotearoa this year to mark the 40th anniversary of the bombing of the...
Trump’s racist, corrupt agenda – like a bank robbery in broad...
EDITORIAL: By Giff Johnson, editor of the Marshall Islands Journal
US President Donald Trump and his team is pursuing a white man’s racist agenda that...
Trump silences Voice of America – end of a propaganda machine...
ANALYSIS: By Valerie A. Cooper, Te Herenga Waka — Victoria University of Wellington
Of all the contradictions and ironies of Donald Trump’s second presidency so...
In the quest to appease Israel, the media undermine our basic...
In its eagerness to appease supporters of Israel, the media is happy to ride roughshod over due process and basic rights. It’s damaging Australia's...
Trump’s ‘Riviera’ plan for Gaza heralds an age of naked fascism
COMMENTARY: By Sawsan Madina
I watched US President Donald Trump’s joint press conference with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu last week in utter disbelief. Not...
























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