Despite promoting itself as an “independent” and open-source investigation site, Bellingcat has received a significant portion of its funding from Google, which is also one of the most powerful U.S. military contractors and whose rise to prominence was directly aided by the CIA. NEW YORK — The Intercept, along with its parent company First Look Media, Read More…
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Palantir: The PayPal-offshoot Becomes A Weapon In The War Against Whistleblowers And WikiLeaks
The Palantir document notes that most well-known journalistic professionals “with a liberal bent . . .if pushed will choose professional preservation over cause, such is the mentality of most business professionals.” WikiLeaks, the transparency organization known for publishing leaked documents that threaten the powerful, finds itself under pressure like never before, as does its editor-in-chief, Read More…
FBI Whistleblower On Pierre Omidyar And His Campaign To Neuter WikiLeaks
FBI whistleblower Sibel Edmonds asserts Pierre Omidyar decided to create The Intercept not only to take ownership of the Snowden leaks but to also continue his blockade against WikiLeaks and to create a “honey trap” for whistleblowers. Mid-November, 2017 – The Daily Beast ran an exclusive report detailing how the Freedom of the Press Foundation (FPF) was set Read More…
Has the American Hacktivist Movement Been Compromised?
In the Alternative News community, it has always been a foundational understanding that the Mainstream Media is a propaganda matrix of information, with an agenda that is backed up by the dollar of corporate America. More and more people in the past few years have woken up to this notion, and stations like FOX, CNN, Read More…
Why the “War on Terror” Will Always Violate the Constitution
Since the birth of the Information Age, largely being ushered into America and the West with September 11th, many have been ranting and raving about the erosion of civil liberties through mass surveillance. In terms of data sets, one can draw interesting conclusions from what this “terrorist” attack has brought to the home-front through war Read More…