Beyond McCarthyism: Cancel Culture Cancels Culture – ‘Ban All Things Russian’
21WIRE | Suddenly, the Western world is triggered by all things Russian, but is this now becoming a globalized form of bigotry?
Red Scare
The Einstein File Exposes the FBI as an Enemy of All the People
Most people living in the United States know little about Albert Einstein. What people do know of Einstein is usually confined to his many achievements in the realm of science. Fred Jerome’s updated version of The Einstein File: The FBI’s Secret War Against the World’s Most Famous Scientist analyzes the enormous FBI file compiled on the world-renowned scientist.
OPINION: ‘Why I Stand With Julian Assange’
Support of Julian Assange outside the Ecuadorian Embassy (Hans Crescent, Knightsbridge, London). Marshall24 /Flickr
WAR ON WORDS: Facebook Censorship Widens, Website to Curate ‘Favored’ News
21st Century Wire says…
The US media’s neoMcCarthy-like witch hunt continues as social media giant Facebook creates a newly designed feature that allows the website to curate ‘favored news’ in its News Feed section.
The CIA and Hollywood episode 9 Good Night and Good Luck
We welcome Ed Opperman to the series and discuss the 2005 docudrama Good Night, and Good Luck which retells the story of the 1954 confrontation between senator Joe McCarthy and television journalist Ed Murrow of CBS. McCarthy was pursuing Communists within the State Department and other government agencies and innocent people were getting caught in the crossfire, creating a climate of suspicion, mistrust and hostility.
