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What this means is that YouTube content creators who’ve built their entire livelihoods around the platform are going to need a backup option in the event that they end up being terminated. One such option is Brighteon.com, which you can sign up for here. [free] It also means that YouTube has created for itself yet another legal loophole to continue targeting channels that disseminate politically incorrect content, which YouTube has been trying to silence from its platform for at least the...

Majorities think their personal data is less secure now, that data collection poses more risks than benefits, and believe it is not possible to go through daily life without being tracked. Maybe the prevalent business model on the Internet is about to change? Into what though?Pew Research CenterAmericans and Privacy: Concerned, Confused and Feeling Lack of Control Over Their Personal Information

Debt on an "unsustainable path?" What does that even mean?

Strategic Culture Foundation Bolivia: More Lessons From a Noble Experiment Gone Awry Stephen Karganovic | President of the Srebrenica Historical ProjectSputnik InternationalMorales Calls on UN to Mediate Bolivian Crisis, Brands US as ‘Great Conspirator’ Behind the Coup Strategic Culture FoundationWestern Media Whitewash US-Backed Coup in Bolivia EditorialThe Greanville PostA Gangster for Capitalism: Next Up, Bolivia Kathleen Wallace The Vineyard of the SakerMilitarization of South...

Way more than just Hunter Biden and his dad.Anti-WarThe Ukrainian Influence Peddling Rings – A Microcosm of How Imperial Washington Rolls David Stockman

This week Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov said that Russia recognizes the acting president of Bolivia, Senator Janine Agnes as head of state, but only until an election is organized. This decision was made due to the fact that it was she who was to take the place of the interim head of the republic in accordance with the law after the resignation of the leadership. At the same time, the events preceding the change of power in the country, the Russian side regards as a coup....

Trump should be impeached for using his office for corrupt purposes. Not for challenging the national security consensus. In the US, the president sets foreign policy, not the Blob or the Borg (Deep State).The NationThe Foreign Policy Establishment Is Hijacking Impeachment Jeet HeerSee alsoJohn Solomon ReportsThe 15 essential questions for Marie Yovanovitch, America’s former ambassador to Ukraine John Roberts

Backgrounder.Council on Hemispheric AffairsBehind the Racist Coup in Bolivia Danny Shaw, lecturer of Latin American and Caribbean Studies and Race, Ethnicity, Class and Gender courses at the City University of New YorkSee alsoMore background.TricontinentalBolivia Does Not Exist Vijay Prashad, historianSee also CounterpunchBolivia and the Loud Silence Clark T. Scott

When the dust settles in a month or two, the House of Representatives will have impeached President Donald Trump with a one-sided partisan vote and then the Senate will have exonerated Donald Trump with a similarly one-sided partisan vote. But at the end of the day, the United States will have acquired a new strategic ally in Central Europe: Ukraine. The very first day of the impeachment hearings in November has been responsible for an important national security decision that had no input...

On November 7, 2019, for the 28th year in a row, the entire United Nations General Assembly, gathered in one room, voted overwhelmingly against “the Economic, Commercial, and Financial Embargo Imposed on Cuba by the United States.” The final tally was 187 in favor, 3 opposed (Brazil, Israel, US), 2 abstentions (Colombia, Ukraine), 1 not voting (Moldova).... Dissident VoiceThe 2019 UN Vote Against the US Blockade of Cuba Ike Nahem