Watching the Shadows

Propaganda and the dystopia of social media

Bill Weinberg rants against the totalizing propaganda environment of social media, destroying our ability to think, analyze and access information outside a "confirmation bias" bubble.

Watching the Shadows

Judge orders halt to force-feeding at Gitmo

The US District Court for the District of Columbia ordered officials at Guantánamo Bay to temporarily suspend forced feedings of a detainee at the facility.

Watching the Shadows

Benghazigate and Internet freedom

The provocateur video that supposedly incited the Benghazi attack is at the center of a persistent news story—but we can't see it, because the Ninth Circuit ordered it suppressed.

Watching the Shadows

Net neutrality and the extinction of journalism

The end of "net neutrality," now broached by the FCC, portends an "enclosure" of the Internet—and the marginalization of all perspectives not officially approved.

Watching the Shadows

Lynne Stewart wins ‘compassionate release’

A federal judge granted the Bureau of Prisons' request for the compassionate release of Lynne Stewart, the imprisoned activist attorney now suffering from cancer.