On Thursday morning our Facebook page was arbitrarily “unpublished” by Facebook with no warning or explanation, apart from a standard message informing us that we had allegedly violated the company’s terms and conditions. The timing of such a move is concerning for several reasons. Firstly, there is the international context, in which Facebook appears to be targeting independent or leftwing sites in the wake of Russiagate. However, in terms of our own coverage, in the days leading up to our removal, we had published important pieces which challenge the corporate mainstream media narrative on Venezuela. Specifically, we published an article giving details on the assassination attempt against Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro, as well as a very popular analysis criticising the mainstream media’s coverage of the attack. In addition, Venezuelanalysis has also been covering the growing international campaign to End US and Canadian Sanctions against Venezuela which are unilateral, coercive economic measures that are illegal under the Organization of American States as well as United Nations charters. The campaign recently released a Call to Action for individual and organizational sign-ons condemning this act of economic strangulation, and has organised International Days of Action on August 14th 2018 to mark the one year anniversary when the Trump administration heightened economic sanctions and referenced military intervention as a possibility in Venezuela.
Venezuelanalysis.com is the only independent English language website covering news and analysis on Venezuela from a progressive perspective, and which platforms leftist grassroots voices from within Venezuela. It is run by committed journalists, authors and academics, & praised by renowned journalists and intellectuals such as Noam Chomsky, John Pilger, Marta Harnecker, Oliver Stone, and so on. We cannot help but feel that the removal of our page is related to an attempt to stifle the alternative and progressive perspectives that we feature on Venezuela. Though our page was suddenly reinstated on Thursday evening, following our official appeal, as well as people expressing their support for us on Twitter, media interviews and an article on the issue in Sputnik International, Facebook has still not responded with any explanation for what happened, nor to inform us which terms and conditions we allegedly violated. The whole thing is extremely mysterious, to say the least.
The VA Collective
These sorts of psywar actions by facebook and co. show how these are an intimate part of the zpc/nwo population manipulation machine.
well, now that FB has done that – I will look at their site everyday- they must be great –
Poor Ann. God bless you.
Saker,
It is more likely about Freedom vs. Globalism.
The tech firms are striking out at anyone who doesn’t obey their left-wing liberal, establishment dogma. For example:
https://www.breitbart.com/london/2018/08/07/ukip-defend-free-speech-after-social-media-purge/
“The powerfull will do whatever they want. The weak will suffer whatever they must.”
Thucydides, 4th c. BC
the zio-con/lib is the new Church:Inquisition is everywhere & digital burning pyres for the “heretics”.
Facebook conducts these cancelations on all poltically oriented pages to guage reaction, then reinstates those which are covertly or effectively controlled opposition. Afterward controlled opposition figures, for example Oliver Stone, chime in to reinforce the perception that said page is ‘legitimate’ and you can continue to conduct your political activities on CIA/NSA Spybook because it has been reinstated without explanation.
There was no assasination attempt against Nicolas Maduro, just like there were no assasination attempts against Fidel Castro. Both Venezuela and Cuba are test beds for the Transnational Zionist, Finance and Intelligence Elite. Crypto-currencies and scientific socialism, like Facebook, are projects of these same people, existing in a tradition going back to the founding of Greater Sparta by bankers from Delphi, and repeated when modern Zionists created Israel. Colonialism is inseperable from Imperialism and Zionism, so opponents to any of these must be identified and corralled as the first order of Business.
If on the other hand you do effectively oppose the Zionist Shadow Elite, for example Hugo Chavez, you will be dispatched without delay. The technology available today ensures anyone Globalists want dead will be dead within a fortnight or so.
Then if your image is still potentially useful the Transnational Elite they will use it for their own purposes, as they have used and continue to use Che Guevara and JFK.
I had a Facebook account for one day of my life before realizing what it was and cancelling it. What faith would I put in anyone who is incapable of making the same realization and further insists they have a ‘right’ to be on Facebook, lol.
facebook is a fabulous tool, as is the internet and youtube – they need to become public utilites –
They are public, as in CIA’s public data-mining from the silly public daft enough to use these social media.
Western drivel
Void and trivial
Bourgeois ideology comes close to mental illness, as the Soviets realized.
Uncle Sam is the indispensable cum dumpster for the Transnational Zionist Elite/Wall Street Scamsters.
http://www.unz.com/mhudson/the-next-financial-crisis-and-public-banking-as-the-response/
TPTB are panicking…they realize that the populace has been empowered and now possess the tools to educate and to inform themselves of just how evil the plutocratic agenda really is. Knowledge for the masses is power and sooner or later they will dismember and destroy the stranglehold that the elite has on humanity.
Ross Ashcroft said it perhaps as well as anyone…
“Dedicating oneself to a great cause, taking responsibility and gaining self-knowledge is the essence of being human. A predatory capitalist truest enemy and humanities greatest ally is the self-educated individual, who has read, understood, delay’s their gratification and walks around with their eyes wide open.”
Leonard Cohen stated it beautifully too, in his song ‘Anthem’…
“I can’t run no more
With that lawless crowd
While the killers in high places
Say their prayers out loud
But they’ve summoned, they’ve summoned up
A thundercloud
And they’re going to hear from me”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6wRYjtvIYK0
The thundercloud is the internet…it is here and it’s not going away.
Cheers
Col
I have a sense that the US Deep State is terrified that the tactics it uses to destroy nations to the point where Yemen is today will become everyday knowledge as the US becomes more openly a genocidal nation led not by their elected President but by the unelected US CIA and M16 of UK. Venezuela is set up to be killed the same way Yemen is. So is Russia. Everyone should read “Indonesia Archipelago of Fear” by Andre Vltchek forward by Noam Chomsky. WW11 was planned by Hitler with leaders of US Corporations. During these plannings it was accepted Germany would win, the wide spread Nazi troops, especially over Russia and would share some of her loot with the US to pay her back for loaning enough dollars to begin that war. Hitler came to Detroit Michigan to beg for enough to start the war, he, bankrupt. He got it immediately. At the end of WW11, the US took thousands of Nazy generals, specialists, from the Holocaust Prisons gave them permanent homes and pay for life, ordering them to continue the work they’d been doing. The Interactive brain chip was one. Later finished by the US, made interactive, today being placed in the soft new skulls of newborns across the globe, approved by the first head of the EU Commission. Manuel Barrosso. Now ‘retired’ in USA a millionaire.
Oh, dear! Haven’t they heard about the “Streisand Effect”?
In our day and time, trying to actively squash news only generates more publicity.
Indeed, until now, I did not even know there was such a website; thanks to Facebook, now I do!
“until now, I did not even know there was such a website; thanks to Facebook, now I do!”
exactly, now you are ready to willingly receive your
daily programming, two fake-news stories for each
half-fake-news story.
the matrix (facebook) has you! enjoy your steak
Huh? Don’t you think you are jumping to conclusions prematurely?
If you re-read my post, I never stated that I follow either site.
I merely stated that (thanks to the hullabaloo known as Streisand’s effect) I now know the site’s existence.
Belissarios – it was exactly what I thought too – problem of course being that the Internet is going to be policed like FB some day (soon) –
But Russia is making a new internet – but as Saker states too – the Russians (gov) aren’t into freedom the same way as the Americans have been.
Its an iron web we’re caught in – I hope humanity – the ones worthy of the name – can figure out how to take down the web –
”But Russia is making a new internet – but as Saker states too – the Russians (gov) aren’t into freedom the same way as the Americans have been.”
An all-new, Russian Internet — good.
Russia’s government not being into freedom the same way as the Americans have been — excellent !
American freedom boils down to violent parasitism and unrestrained self-love. Exceptional, indispensable nation of utter trash.
Facebook will do what Facebook feels it needs to do for the most mercenary of reasons. They owe you nothing. You have no expectations of anything on Facebook, or on any other of the so-called ‘social’ media. You get a ‘free’ service, and they harvest your data – that’s really all there is to it. They are not a ‘public square’, where something like free speech might obtain.
If you are serious, you get a website. It’s not really all that difficult or expensive. Complaining about being ‘censored’ by Farcebook is absurd. They are a private corporation looking to make pots of money, that’s all.
“Firstly, there is the international context, in which Facebook appears to be targeting independent or leftwing sites in the wake of Russiagate”
Nothing to do with leftwing vs rightwing — it is truth vs lies, right vs wrong…it is a whole moral thing ;) Sweet fa to do with fake MSM political divide and conquer nonsense.
I abhor Facebook for its censorship.
On the other hand, Facebook’s impact is vastly overstated. I don’t go to Facebook for news. I know that it is run by corporatists and I don’t care about their “spin of the day.” I actually go there since it helps me connect up with old friends and family spread far and wide. I can find out who got married, who had a child, who is on vacation to Europe, etc. That is Facebook’s only purpose for me.
I am sure that I am not the only one who uses Facebook in this fashion.
Accordingly, the people running Facebook can propagandize all they want. They can sleep soundly each night in the supposed knowledge that their “approved narrative” is the only thing people can access.
However, it is just not true. The internet let the cat out of the bag. You can find the “cat” on the Saker and a lot of other places. Those places are taking the place of the former “mainstream media.” The only thing that Facebook censorship is accomplishing is convincing people that the “game is rigged” and has been for a long, long time.
I’ve long since dropped Fakebook, and Google-eyes. This angst will pass. More and more peeps are coming to understand that these two behemoths are really nothing more than government agents. They will eventually die on the vine. You cannot keep putting the screws to people and expect them to buy your ‘product’.
People are learning. That’s a good thing. Fakebook and Google-eyes are losing their customer base bit, by little bit. I am heartened to learn that people aren’t the “dumb fucks” (Zuckerberg quote) that he – Zuckerberg – thought we were.
Nothin is mysterious other than right down Evil. I have always knew that face book is controlled by the chosen.
When Facebook came after InfoWars i did not complain, i do not watch InfoWars….
https://www.greanvillepost.com/2018/08/18/telesur-page-takedown-facebook-becoming-us-govts-censorship-vehicle/
Funny they censored teleSur after them published this story
https://telesurtv.net/english/news/Facebook-Deletes-Venezuelanalysis-Page-20180809-0018.html