On June 22nd (2021), the US federal government seized some 36 news outlets, 33 of which were based in Iran, citing “disinformation campaigns and malign influence operations” as justification in their official statement.

Of note among the news outlets censored was PressTV, an English-language news outlet owned by the Iranian state itself. PressTV has remained critical of US sanctions on Iran, as well as interventionism from the US and UK alike. PressTV has also posed itself as a staunch critic of Israel's continued occupation and oppression of the Palestinian people, and has posited that its support of Palestine may be the root of the US's effort to silence them. The news outlet also made note that many citizens within the US have takewithn to the streets in recent months to demonstrate solidarity with the Palestinian people. -- source

Just this week AT&T shut down the fastest growing and fourth largest cable news network, Newsmax TV, depriving 13 million viewers of access to its reporting. This attack on the First Amendment came on the heels of Twitter’s exposure of the way the FBI had put its platform on the federal payroll and dictated its censorship of tweets that could have changed the results of the last presidential election. The same fascistic arrangement was made with other tech social media giants like Facebook. -- source

Legacy media have for the most part shied away from reporting on Hersh’s Substack article, which detailed how US Navy divers placed C4 charges on four Nord Stream pipelines off Denmark’s island of Bornholm during a NATO exercise last summer.

Outlets that did cover Hersh’s report largely limited themselves to trying to smear him. Reuters ran a piece titled “White House says blog post on Nord Stream explosion ‘utterly false’” in an apparent bid to diminish the Pulitzer Prize winning reporter, who has over 50 years of investigative experience under his belt, by labeling his work a “blog post.” Business Insider ran an even more aggressive piece, titled “The claim by a discredited journalist that the US secretly blew up the Nord Stream pipeline is proving a gift to Putin.” Snopes, a “fact-checking” service known for attacking narratives that challenge the establishment line, dubbed Hersh’s report a “conspiracy,” and pointed out that his story “relies on [an] anonymous source” (but apparently that’s not a problem if The Washington Post or Politico does it). -- source

In a speech at the Munich Security Conference, U.S. Vice-President Kamala Harris told attendees "The United States has formally determined that Russia has committed crimes against humanity." It APPEARED to attendees that this will become the basis for actual war between the US and Russia. The saddest part: It is a deliberate fraud. -- source