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Many Americans applauded when Twitter suspended President Donald Trump’s Twitter account and the Pentagon fortified the nation’s capital ahead of the Inauguration, but others warned that domestic militarism, high tech censorship, and surveillance are increasing rapidly. COVID, Race, and Democracy spoke to Black Agenda Report Columnist Ajamu Baraka.
Audio of the complete conversation with Ajamu Baraka is on Pacifica’s SoundCloud page: https://soundcloud.com/pacificanetwork/ajamu-baraka-we-are-entering-a-new-totalitarian-era?fbclid=IwAR2UCjn8zk0eixkdYPsVZrzCOlBpqDZEFtIxfO9BDYnbR3P89ml8v0HUdyE
Max Blumenthal, founder and editor of The Grayzone, also spoke to COVID, Race, and Democracy about the merger of High Tech monopolies and the state.
Audio of the complete conversation with Max Blumenthal is on Pacifica’s SoundCloud page: https://soundcloud.com/pacificanetwork/max-blumenthal-on-the-jan-6-capitol-riot
Secret News Reporter George Carlin.
At the end of December, Glenn Greenwald spoke to the British YouTube Channel “Unherd” about how Big Tech is censoring debate about COVID-19.
During the 2017 Holberg Debate titled “Propaganda, Facts and Fake News,” Julian Assange argued that the news has always been fake.
Contact tracing to stop the spread of COVID-19 has stirred fears that it will lead to privacy violations. I asked Bay Area privacy activist and Media Alliance Executive Director Tracy Rosenberg to explain contact tracing and concerns about it.
A text version of the complete interview with Tracy Rosenberg is at Black Agenda Report: https://www.blackagendareport.com/will-covid-19-contact-tracing-expand-state-surveillance
Twit Wit Radio with cutting edge fake news and fake news analysis.
There is one voice that we ran out of time to include, but he’ll be on next week. His name is Malik Washington and he became a journalist while imprisoned in Texas. Now he’s moved to San Francisco to become the new editor of the San Francisco Bay View, National Black Newspaper. The Bay View has a website, sfbayview.com, but it also prints a real newspaper once a month and mails bundles of it to prisons all over the US. The paper is a lifeline to prisoners and it publishes prison voices. Malik Washington is on parole, living in a Geo Group re-entry facility which has had an outbreak of COVID-19, but he has not been granted early release, even though he has a job, a home to go to, and a weekly guest spot on KPFA’s Flashpoints Radio. For more on Malik, see the Bay View website, sfbayview.com, and tune in next week to hear him on “COVID, Race, and Democracy.”
This show was produced by Polina Vasiliev and Ann Garrison. Executive producers are Steve Zeltzer, Polina Vasiliev, and Akua Holt. Thanks for listening.
