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The EU adopts a ‘Media Freedom’ law, where ‘freedom’ doesn’t mean what you think it does
The act, like most of the bloc’s virtue signaling, is the opposite of what its name ought to herald

The EU’s new Media Freedom Act has now been voted into law, with 464 votes for, 92 against, and 65 abstentions.

There are some news outlets whose coverage of the vote I’d like to see. Like RT’s, where you’re reading this right now. But anyone who’s viewing this from inside the European Union’s bastion of democracy and freedom is likely doing so via a VPN connection routed through somewhere outside the bloc, to circumvent its press censorship.

Nothing in this new law suggests that this will change, or that there will be increased access to information and analysis for the average person. Such improved freedoms might lead to people making up their own minds rather than having various flavors of a similar narrative served up for mass consumption. As has become par for the course in so-called Western democracies, inconvenient facts and analysis will still be dismissed as “disinformation”and criticism of the establishment still qualified as an effort to sow division – as though dissent itself wasn’t supposed to be proof of a healthy and vibrant democracy.

So, now that we’ve gotten out of the way any hope of lifting the EU’s top-down censorship in the absence of due process, exactly what kind of lip service does this new law pay to the lofty notion of media freedom?

No spying on journalists or pressing them to disclose their sources. Well, unless you’re one of the countries that lobbied to be able to keep doing this – like France, Italy, Malta, Greece, Cyprus, Sweden, and Finland – so basically, a quarter of EU countries. Oh, but they have to invoke national-security concerns in order to do so. Which, as we know, they’re very discerning about. Like, they didn’t at all implement a virtual police state and extend its powers under the guise of fighting a virus with which French President Emmanuel Macron kept saying they were “at war.” Nor did Amnesty International point out the sweeping “Orwellian” trend across Europe, at least as far back as 2017, of exploiting domestic terrorist attacks to permanently embed what were supposed to be extraordinary powers into criminal law, via measures like “overly broad definitions of terrorism.” So, no doubt they’ll be equally reasonable when slapping the “national security threat” label on a journalist whose work they want to peek at.

At least now, under this new law, they do have to fully inform any targeted journalist of the steps being taken against them.

Another thing that changes is that there’s to be a centralized database into which “all news and current affairs outlets regardless of their size will have to publish information about their owners,” according to an EU press release. May we propose a first candidate for that? The NGO Reporters Without Borders has praised this new law as a “major step forward for the right to information within the European Union.” The same NGO also just launched a “Svoboda” (Russian for “freedom”) satellite package eventually consisting “of up to 25 independent Russian language radio and television channels” aimed at Russia, Ukraine, and the Baltics. The launch took place at the EU parliament, in the presence of EU “values and transparency” commissioner (yes, that’s a real title), Vera Jourova, who has said in support of the new media law that “it is a threat to those who want to use the power of the state, also the financial one, to make the media dependent on them.” But she has also said about this new Russia-targeting initiative that the EU state needs to “use all possible means to ensure that their work, that facts and information can reach Russian-speaking people.” This is the same person who advocated in favor of banning Russia-linked media outlets in the EU.

Anyway, you first, guys. Show everyone else how it’s done. Also, does this mean that all financial interests in the form of advertising spending will also have to be declared by corporate media? Because state-backed media platforms are already transparent; it’s the much more discretionary interests underpinning the more commercial platforms that tend to be much less obvious to audiences. Audiences may not know or understand, for example, why a particular corporate media outlet might focus on a particular nation state with softball interviews, travel pieces, and fluffy documentaries, and treating it with kid gloves in news coverage, when in reality the same country is pumping a ton of ad revenues into the place.

In any case, Queen Ursula von der Leyen’s battalion of bureaucratic desk jockeys is set to grow in ranks now with a new “European Board for Media Services” coming online as a result of the new law. Because freedom isn’t going to police itself, pal.

The name itself Media Freedom Act really is the first clue that it’s probably not all that much about freedom. Kind of like how the “European Peace Facility” fund is used to buy weapons, or the “election” of the handpicked EU Commissioner is really just what any normal country would call a confirmation vote.

It’s a pretty safe bet that whenever the EU kicks the virtue-signaling into overdrive, using feel-good language to sell it, the reality is probably the opposite of what’s advertised.

https://www.rt.com/news/594355-eu-media-freedom-act/

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Eric Zuesse (blogs at https://theduran.com/author/eric-zuesse/)

On March 16th, I emailed to the editor at Strategic-Culture.org a message that when I tried to see their https://www.strategic-culture.org/news/2022/06/01/new-generation-of-us-trained-extremists-fighting-russia-are-we-prepared-for-blowback/, I got a notification that, “This site can’t be reached. Check if there is a typo in www.strategic-culture.org.” This sort of thing (and similar lies falsely ‘explaining’ why the given site can’t be accessed) commonly happen with Web-pages that the U.S. Government wants Americans not to be able to see; so, I entered that URL into web.archive.org and archive.is and ghostarchive.org, because these three free Web-archiving services often can and will successfully copy and display Web-pages that the U.S. Government hides from the public. Unfortunately, however, none of the three Web-archiving services would copy that Web-page, but web.archive.org had already previously recorded it “36 times between June 1, 2022 and June 6, 2023.” (But, actually, only 9 of those ’36’ were real; the other attempts had failed.) And, thus, I was able to read there that U.S.-and-allied samizdat or Governmentally prohibited-to-see information. 

Reading it makes clear why the U.S. regime hides it: that article documents and links to the evidence proving that the U.S. Government took up Hitler’s mantle of his Operation Barbarossa to conquer and absorb into its empire the world’s largest country, which then was the Soviet Union but starting in 1991 reduced itself down to only Russia, which still remains the world’s largest country — and which the U.S. Government secretly started instructing its ‘allies’ on 24 February 1990 that the U.S. side would secretly continue the Cold War against, even after the Soviet Union and its communism and its Warsaw Pact mirror to America’s NATO anti-Russian military alliance, all would soon end (in 1991). Continuing that war — continuing NATO — after Russia had already quit it, displays publicly the nazi-imperialist fundamental character of the U.S. Government (which that suppressed article documents).

Hitler’s Operation Barbarossa failed and so thoroughly destroyed the Nazi military machine as to win World War Two for The Allies (both FDR and Churchill acknowledged that Stalin and his forces had conquered Germany and thus saved the world from Nazism), but America’s anti-imperialist President Franklin Delano Roosevelt tragically died on 12 April 1945, and his Vice President Harry Truman (who had been forced upon FDR by the Democratic Party’s megadonors) became the new President; and, on 25 July 1945, Truman accepted the advice from his personal hero General Dwight Eisenhower, and from England’s Winston Churchill, for the U.S. Government to create its own new empire, and for it to take control ultimately over the entire world. (That sparked the 45+ coups and 130+ U.S. military invasions since then.) Eisenhower’s argument for this was that if the U.S. wouldn’t, then the Soviet Union would; and, so, on that date, 25 July 1945, the Cold War started. On that date, the dispute that Truman had with Stalin was about Truman’s demand for the U.S. Government to be granted veto power over anything that the Soviet Union would do within its newly acquired lands conquered from Hitler, such as Poland, Ukraine, and Czechoslovakia. Stalin rejected that demand, just like Truman would have rejected a similar demand if Stalin were to have demanded to be granted veto power over what Truman would do within France, Belgium, etc. — and Stalin made no such demand but Truman did. And that (that disagreement — Stalin’s refusal to become just another U.S. stooge ‘leader’) is what created the Cold War. Stalin rejectedTruman’s imperialistic demand. Right from that day on, the U.S. Government demanded rights in lands that the Soviet Union had conquered from Hitler, whereas the Soviet Union made no such demand over lands that America had conquered from Hitler. History records that the CIA and the U.S. Defense Department were created two years later, in 1947; but, actually, the key decision which was the foundation to all U.S. foreign policies after FDR’s death, was that one, on 25 July 1945 — for the U.S. to take control ultimately over the entire world. (Today, it’s called “neoconservatism.”) And that was what led to the creation in 1949 of America’s NATO military alliance against the Soviet Union, which the Soviet Union then responded to by forming in 1955 its own Warsaw Pact military alliance against NATO. The aggression was entirely by the U.S. regime against the Soviet Union; none was aggression by the Soviet Union against America, but the U.S. regime and its colonies lied to the exact contrary. They baldfacedly lie about history.

Yet another crucial article in order to understand today’s U.S.A. is Matthew Ehret’s 16 March 2024 blockbuster, “Finland and Sweden Revive a Fascist Tradition by Joining NATO”, which is loaded with shocking facts about not only the U.S. regime but also the ones in both Finland and Sweden — such as: Did you know that the aristocracies in both of those countries were strongly pro-Nazi when Hitler was in power, and that Finland’s Air Force didn’t remove the swastika as its official symbol until 2020? So: now both of those nations are no longer secretly, but instead publicly, allied with the U.S. regime and its racist-fascist-imperialistic — that is, nazi — military alliance NATO, in its Operation Barbarossa #2 campaign to conquer Russia. Russia sets down red lines to preserve its sovereignty over Russia, and the nazi nations go as close to them as possible short of absolutely forcing Russia into a nuclear war in order for Russia to protect its sovereignty over Russia. If Russia were to have done to Mexico what America did to Ukraine, then WW3 would already have happened, but the rulers of America, America’s billionaires, have the gall to do this to Russia (and to accuse Russia as being the aggressor — which America so clearly is), and Russia might not tolerate this for much longer.

If U.S.-and-allied publics knew the truth, there would be revolutions throughout The West. Maybe that’s why they don’t know about it. But, if they won’t know about it, then are we heading for a nuclear war between The West and Russia; or, maybe, between The West and China (which must protect its sovereignty over its province of Taiwan); or, maybe, between The West and both Russia and China? Perhaps a revolution or two within The West would stave off those far-bloodier outcomes, WW3. If nothing is done to terminate our Government’s being controlled by our billionaires, we’ll go over the cliff, into WW3, because that’s where we are clearly heading, and have been heading ever since 25 July 1945, with our billionaires controlling our Governments — the publics in these countries being merely passive and deceived subjects, not real citizens in a Government that they themselves actually control — not being citizens of an actual democracy. The destination will be either WW3 or else the termination and replacement of these aristocracies by authentic democracies. It will be either the one, or else the other. And we are, by now, near the cliff (as each of the two main articles that have been linked-to here have documented). (The second of those two, the article by Ehret, opens with a video interview of him, and I especially recommend 33:00 to 36:00 in that interview, where he succinctly summarizes the close relationship between the von Rosen aristocratic family in Sweden and both Goering and Hitler, and tells how a recent book in Sweden that revealed all of this, became outlawed in Sweden, so that all copies of it had to be destroyed. Yet it all is true. That’s a ‘democracy’? Well, now it is officially in NATO.)

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Investigative historian Eric Zuesse’s latest book, AMERICA’S EMPIRE OF EVIL: Hitler’s Posthumous Victory, and Why the Social Sciences Need to Change, is about how America took over the world after World War II in order to enslave it to U.S.-and-allied billionaires. Their cartels extract the world’s wealth by control of not only their ‘news’ media but the social ‘sciences’ — duping the public.

https://theduran.com/the-racist-fascist-imperialist-or-nazi-network-that-enforces-u-s-foreign-policies/

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Chrystia Freeland’s mission is to convince the already war-fatigued allies to appropriate Russian central bank assets, redirecting these funds to rebuild Ukraine. The plan, brimming with both legal and diplomatic entanglements, could easily serve as the plot for a satirical novel, highlighting the absurdity of modern-day Robin Hoods in suits. Or Robinesses.

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