Anti-imperialist commentator Richard Medhurst reports that Instagram has deleted some 20 images from his account and given him a warning that he could face a permanent ban if he continues making similar posts. The posts in question are screenshots from a Twitter thread Medhurst made to commemorate the two-year anniversary of the Trump administration's assassination of renowned Iranian military leader Qasem Soleimani.

Go ahead and read the thread; here's the hyperlink again. There's nothing in there that comes anywhere remotely close to violating Instagram's terms of service as they are written; Medhurst condemns the assassination and the bogus justifications provided for it, and discusses Soleimani's crucial role in the fight against ISIS and Al Qaeda. The reason for Instagram's censorship of Medhurst's political speech is that Instagram's parent company Meta (then called Facebook) determined after Soleimani's assassination that anything which seems supportive of him constitutes a violation of US sanctions and must therefore be removed.

In 2019 the Trump administration designated Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) as a Foreign Terrorist Organization, which was as hypocritical and arbitrary as any other government designating any other branch of another government's military a terrorist organization. Despite this completely baseless designation, both the Meta-owned social media platforms Facebook and Instagram have been actively censoring political speech about Soleimani, who was the commander of the IRGC's Quds force when he was assassinated. Medhurst reports that he has been censored on Instagram under the same justification for posting about Hamas as well.

Reading by Tim Foley.

Medhurst thread:https://twitter.com/richimedhurst/status/1477991667189919750

Meta Censors Anti - Imperialist Speech In Obedience To The US Government

The Joe Rogan/Spotify controversy is still going on and has only gotten more vitriolic and intense. Claims that Spotify must walk away from its $200 million contract with the world's most popular podcaster for promoting vaccine misinformation have sparked a lot of debates about freedom of speech, online censorship, what exactly those terms mean, and whether they can be correctly applied to the practice of Silicon Valley deplatforming.

Reading by Tim Foley.

Let's Back Up A Sec And Ask Why Free Speech Actually Matters

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The onus is not on anyone else to prove that the US and UK governments are lying when they make these claims, the onus is on the US and UK governments to prove that they are telling the truth. At some point after Donald Trump's election it became a mainstream liberal doctrine that you can say whatever you want about Russia no matter how outrageous and suffer no professional consequences if it proved completely false, and nobody's really been pushing back on that. So many people built entire careers out of suggesting for years on end that the entire Trump family was going to be dragged out of the White House in chains for Kremlin collusion, and when this failed to prove true everyone just acted like it was fine and continued on with their careers.

But it's not fine. It's not okay that this bizarre cold war hysteria environment has melted everyone's brain over the last five years. It's not okay that the most basic standards of logic and evidence have been flushed down the toilet. It's not okay that we now have MI6 spooks and CIA mouthpieces openly acknowledging that the government is using the western press to wage an information war geared at undermining Russia when both the government and the press are supposed to be simply telling us the truth.

Reading by Tim Foley.

The Burden Of Proof Is Always On The Ones Making The Claim (Even If It's About Russia)

Putin has launched a full-scale invasion of Ukraine, the goal of which he claims is not to occupy the country but to “demilitarize” and “de-Nazify” it. We've no reason to put blind faith in any of those claims. Only time will tell.

As of this writing dozens have reportedly been killed so far. All war is horrific. We can only hope that this one winds up being the least horrific a war can be.

Reading by Tim Foley.

Twelve Thoughts On Ukraine

If the Kremlin wanted to kill large numbers of people it should have done so with starvation sanctions and proxy militias like a civilized government.

Fashion has moved on since the early 2000s, you savages.

Reading by Tim Foley.

Civilized Nations Kill With Sanctions And Proxy Armies

While claiming to fight a "war on drugs," US intelligence agencies have used drug trafficking to fund their dirty covert operations. Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) agents were caught taking massive bribes to give sensitive information to Colombian cartels.

VIDEO: https://youtube.com/watch?v=6XCDGCgvPYo

US drug war is a farce: DEA agents exposed helping Colombian cartels

Mission Daily Report June 13,2022
1. อัปเดตตัวเลขผู้ที่ได้รับการฉีดวัคซีน Covid-19 ในประเทศไทย
2. ราคาดัชนีตลาดหลักทรัพย์ / ราคาหุ้นต่างประเทศ / ราคาน้ำมันดิบ / ราคาทองคำ / ราคา Cryptocurrency
3. ระดับน้ำทะเลที่ขยับเพิ่มสูงขึ้น
4. ระดับอุณหภูมิเฉลี่ยของโลก
5. การคืนสินค้าจากการซื้อของออนไลน์
6. คาดการณ์เงินเฟ้อของแต่ละประเทศ
7. สงครามส่งผลต่อเศรษฐกิจแค่ไหน
8. ประเทศที่ใช้ภาษาอังกฤษเป็นหลักสามารถทำคอร์สออนไลน์ได้ดีกว่า
9. หนังสือที่ถูกห้ามขายในสหรัฐฯ
10. สหรัฐฯ ประกาศตัวเลข CPI เมืองวันศุกร์ที่ผ่านมา
11. ผู้คนกังวล FED ขึ้นอัตราดอกเบี้ย
12. ไบเดนออกแถลงสถานการณ์เงินเฟ้อ
13. CNBC เผยราคาข้าวที่กำลังจะสูงขึ้น
14. นักวิจัยทดลองให้ยา “มะเร็งลำไส้” รักษาผู้ป่วยกลุ่มตัวอย่างหาย 100%
15. THE 10-10-10 RULE
16. อาจารย์วิศวะจุฬาพัฒนาโปรแกรมแปลเอกสารรูปภาพและวิดีโอให้เป็นข้อความ
17. EIC คาด กนง. จะปรับขึ้นอัตราดอกเบี้ยนโยบายมาอยู่ที่ 0.75% ในไตรมาสที่ 3 ปีนี้
18. การแก้ปัญหาคนขาดของบริษัททำความสะอาดตึกสูงในญี่ปุ่น
19. รัฐมนตรีกลาโหมของจีนและสหรัฐฯ พบกันที่สิงคโปร์

สถิติใหม่เงินเฟ้อสหรัฐพุ่ง 8.6% สูงสุดรอบ 40 ปี | Mission Daily Report 13 มิถุนายน 2022

Ghost Structures

Transformateur destiné à utiliser les petites énergies gaspillées

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On today's episode Walter Smolarek and Prof. Richard Wolff discuss how demonization of China has gone into overdrive as the country chooses its new leadership, and how a key component of this has been increasingly strident advocacy for so-called “economic decoupling” from China. And in fact, just ahead of China’s Communist Party congress, the U.S. government unveiled a harsh blow to a critical sector of trade.

Professor Richard Wolff is an author & co-founder of the organization Democracy at Work. You can find his work at rdwolff.com.

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U.S. steps up high-tech economic war with China

Readings of all Caitlin Johnstone's articles, usually by her co-writer Tim Foley.