Censorship in America

Sunday is the 20th anniversary of Facebook’s* launch. In twenty years, the company has grown into a major tool for manipulation, social engineering and control by the deep state, big business and Western intel agencies. Sputnik reached out to an insider-turned whistleblower for info on the architecture of Facebook’s censorship industrial complex. Formally launched on February 4, 2004, Mark Zuckerberg’s...

Paul Dragu We are only one month into 2024, and are already on the verge of civil war.   For three years, since their first day in power, the radicals running the Biden administration have orchestrated a migrant invasion of unprecedented scale. Biden’s puppet masters opened the southern border, invited the world, and with every attempt by Texas to secure...

John Whitehead In a closed society where everybody’s guilty, the only crime is getting caught.—Hunter S. Thompson According to the FBI, you may be an anti-government extremist if you’ve: a) purchased a Bible or other religious materials, b) used terms like “MAGA” and “Trump,” c) shopped at Dick’s Sporting Goods, Cabela’s, or Bass Pro Shops, d) purchased tickets to travel...

John Whitehead No president from either party should have the sole power to shut down or take control of the internet or any other of our communication channels during an emergency. — Senator Rand Paul What’s to stop the U.S. government from throwing the kill switch and shutting down phone and internet communications in a time of so-called crisis? After...

RapidEye/iStock/Getty Images Plus Climate scientist Michael Mann, the creator of the widely discredited “hockey-stick” graph that featured so prominently in Al Gore’s film An Inconvenient Truth, is again in the news, as his trial claiming defamation by Canadian writer Mark Steyn and engineer Rand Simberg finally began in earnest this week in Washington, D.C. Mann alleges that Steyn and Simberg...

Bill Hahn At a time when property rights and standards of living are under attack due to environmental extremism, freedom-lovers all around the world are pushing back. From farmers and truckers in Germany and the Netherlands, to farmers here in the Midwest and Plains states, much concern is being raised about the United Nations Agenda 21 and Agenda 2030. Last...

Luis Miguel American politics is in a unique condition, embroiled in the kind of political landscape that has generally been rare for the United States: In America today, much of the discourse and debate revolves around one single man: Donald J. Trump. While there are many hot-button issues and Trump engages with the majority of them, Trump himself has essentially...

Ever since the 1960s, and even immediately following World War II, there has been a thorough profiling of surviving world economies. The goal is to learn more about which nation poses the biggest threat to the prevailing economic and military power of the day. Upon identification, CIA operatives are dispatched to sow the seeds of discord that would ultimately demolish...

AP Images Vladimir Putin With 2023 now in the rear-view mirror, it’s worth taking a look back to assess the state of global politics. Where does America stand now in contrast to other major powers, and who were the major winners and losers of the year? It’s arguable that, despite remaining embroiled in a costly and drawn-out war with Ukraine,...

The latest report issued by the UN Human Rights Committee demands that the United States crack down on free speech, change the Constitution, and allow more abortion. While praising the Biden administration for supposedly making progress bringing the United States into compliance with United Nations agreements by promoting abortion, gun control, and transgenderism, the UN “human rights” bureaucracy released a...

The social media platform X (formerly known as Twitter) is working with an Israeli tech firm to verify BlueTick subscribers, raising suspicions that personal data could fall into the hands of the Israeli government or private sector, both of whom have a long history of illegally stealing user data, including from X itself, and spying on both allies and adversaries. In August, app researcher Nima Owji...

A powerful United Nations agency has unveiled a plan to regulate social media and online communication while cracking down on what it describes as “false information” and “conspiracy theories,” sparking alarm among free-speech advocates and top U.S. lawmakers. In its 59-page report released this month, the U.N. Educational, Cultural, and Scientific Organization (UNESCO) outlined a series of “concrete measures which must be...

Bill Hahn President Joe Biden and China’s supreme ruler Xi Jinping recently met in San Francisco, along with leaders of about 21 countries caught in the entangling alliance of APEC, or the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation. While we know what the press reported about the meeting, it’s what is not reported that is most important. And the long-term ramifications of China’s...

cagkansayin / iStock / Getty Images Plus Democrats may not like Elon Musk’s X. But they can’t pry themselves away. In just one example of liberals’ reluctant dependence on the platform, Representatives. Dan Goldman (R-N.Y.) and Jamie Raskin (D-Md.) on Tuesday sent a letter to X that was co-signed by 25 other Democratic members of the House of Representatives. “We...

Joe Biden will go down in history as an accomplice to genocide. May the ghosts of the thousands of children he has participated in murdering haunt him for the rest of his life.  I am in the studio of Al Jazeera’s Arabic service watching a live feed from Gaza City. The Al Jazeera reporter in northern Gaza, because of the intense Israeli shelling, was forced to...

Jian Fan/iStock/Getty Images Plus Two scientists from the University of Algarve in Portugal have produced a document that brings into question several assumptions in the “greenhouse gas hypothesis,” which is integral to the climate cult’s claim that mankind’s emissions of greenhouse gasses from our use of fossil fuels is leading to out-of-control global warming. In their scientific editorial comment titled...

klevo/iStock/Getty Images Plus For some time, climate hysterics have been clamoring for censorship of any ideas that run counter to the narrative that anthropogenic climate change is real and dangerous, and can only be solved with the adoption of globalist and socialist policies. Evita Duffy-Alfonso, founder of the Chicago Thinker and a staff writer for The Federalist, recently shared her...

United Nations, UN Building in New York While the world is distracted — and understandably so — by wars and atrocities in the Middle East and Ukraine, the work of fastening the shackles of tyranny on all the world’s peoples has been continuing unabated in the halls of the United Nations.  The unelected would-be rulers who smugly strut through the...

New studies undercut the ‘scientifically empty’ warming narrative, says astrophysicist and aerospace engineer. Leading voices in the climate community are in an uproar as their warming hypothesis comes under fresh assault by new scientific papers. The authors of the papers are being attacked and say that “activist scientists” threatened by the new findings are “aggressively conducting an orchestrated disinformation campaign to discredit the...

John Whitehead When plunder becomes a way of life for a group of men in a society, over the course of time they create for themselves a legal system that authorizes it and a moral code that glorifies it. ― Frédéric Bastiat, French economist Pay no heed to the circus politics coming out of Washington, D.C. It’s just more of...