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[audio mp3="http://www.corbettreport.com/mp3/2020-02-05%20James%20Corbett.mp3"][/audio]via 911FreeFall.com: Host Andy Steele is joined by James Corbett of The Corbett Report to discuss the steps that YouTube has taken in recent years to diminish the presence of alternative information and voices on its platform.

Belgium claims to support human rights but engages in lethal arms trade with Israel.

German press council throws out anti-Semitism complaint against investigative report on Israel lobby influence.

Are you subscribed to The Corbett Report on GooTube? Are you sure? Today on #PropagandaWatch we tackle the concept of shadowbanning on social media and the insidious nature of the intelligent manipulation of the organized habits of the masses.

Israel must grant Palestinians same rights as its citizens, says Human Rights Watch.

Sexual assault in the U.S. military is on the rise. Internal documents reveal the Pentagon’s entertainment liaison offices have spent...

Belgium’s Wallonia region cools ties with Israel over violations of international law.

Just like many federal agencies the Los Angeles Police Department have a dedicated entertainment liaison office for dealing with Hollywood....

Yesterday, NPR’s podcast Marketplace released a new episode titled How Chinese censorship changed “Top Gun” (and the rest of Hollywood)....

Social media firm appears to be caving in to political pressure.

A recent report in Newsweek’s NewsGeek section has drawn attention to how video games, just like other forms of entertainment, can carry political messages.

Over the last few weeks a storm has been brewing about the Chines

Today's entertainment news features an absolute gem of political hypocrisy: Vietnam's one party 'Communist' state has banned the animated kids' movie Abominable, and the Western media are heralding the decision, claiming that Vietnam are standing up to China's censorious one party 'Communist' state.  This is perhaps the dumbest employmen

Former head of MI6 and Iraq War criminal Sir Richard Dearlove continued his recent speight of complaining about everything by claiming that he was never told that the producers of several Bond films had been granted permission to film the MI6 headquarters at Vauxhall

Recently, Martha Bayles of The Atlantic published a hilariously misleading essay calling for Hollywood to produce more pro-American propaganda, in the face of the Chinese government’s increased role in the entertainment industry.

Mayor has ignored requests for dialogue with Palestine solidarity activists.

Censorship of Palestinian rights accelerates in countries that claim to support free speech.

Canada’s Liberals drop candidate after Israel lobby smears.

Lone Survivor is a piece of absolute militaristic schlock, starring the whiny-voiced Marky Mark Wahlberg as Navy SEAL Marcus Luttrell - the only survivor of Operation Red Wings, a 2005 special forces joint operation in the summer of 2005.  Over 100 pages of Navy documents show their heavy involvement in the film and how they covered

GI Jane is a crude, clumsy attempt to show a 'woman's perspective' on being in the military, that ruined Demi Moore's career as a leading lady.  Little known until now is how the Pentagon negotiated with Ridley Scott to rewrite the script, and even though the film didn't qualify for military support some of the scr

One issue that comes up repeatedly in the script changes enforced by the Pentagon is war crimes, and other violations of the Geneva Conventions.  As is so often the case I'm left thinking 'if only the DOD applied the same rules to real life wars as they do to the depiction of wars i

In the second part of our discussion (following Combat Obscura), Henri, Keagan and I talked about the 1989 Oliver Stone classic Born on the 4th of July.  Based on the real life experiences of Ron Kovic, we charted the film's development in the late 70s and into the 80

In the immediate aftermath of the 9/11 attacks, President Bush’s chief spin doctor and senior advisor Karl Rove enlisted Hollywood’s help in selling the War on Terror.

Sometimes the US military's rewriting of scripts is very specific - take out this joke about the US losing in Vietnam, swap this bottle of beer for an energy drink, remove this scene where soldiers set fire to a village and rape all

Why does no one seem to understand the bigger picture of search algorithm manipulation. This isn't about being able to work around search blacklists to find certain information, it's about how we are being steered toward a future where we will not have control over search results at all. We will ask our computer oracles a question and we will get one pre-approved answer. This is the nightmare future we are stumbling into, and (almost) no one seems to get it.

James Corbett, Ricky Varandas and Sam Tripoli team up for another roundtable swapcast. This time, they discuss online censorship, where it's going and what it means for the web.

[audio mp3="http://www.corbettreport.com/mp3/2019-07-29%20Ripple%20Effect.mp3"][/audio]James Corbett, Ricky Varandas and Sam Tripoli team up for another roundtable swapcast. This time, they discuss online censorship, where it's going and what it means for the web.

The relationship between government liaison offices and the entertainment industry usually works well, resulting in added production value for the industry’s products and the furtherance of the government’s agendas. But sometimes things go wrong.

[audio mp3="https://www.corbettreport.com/mp3/episode360-lq.mp3"][/audio]What is "intellectual property," exactly? Where does this pernicious idea come from? And how does this philosophical wrong turn lead us not just into the heart of absurdity, but toward the censorship of the internet and the control of your genome? Find out in this jam-packed edition of The Corbett Report . . .

A story doing the rounds in the last few days claims that the producers of Top Gun: Maverick changed the decals on the back of his leather jacket in order to 'appease Communist Chin

[audio mp3="http://www.corbettreport.com/mp3/2019-07-25%20James%20Corbett.mp3"][/audio]James joins Ernest Hancock of Declare Your Independence for their regular interview on all the latest news. This week they discuss the EU copyright directive, gaslighting, color revolutions and modeling real discourse.

[audio mp3="http://www.corbettreport.com/mp3/2019-07-23%20Glyn%20Moody.mp3"][/audio]Writer and journalist Glyn Moody joins us today to discuss his recent TechDirt article, EU Looking To Regulate Everything Online, And To Make Sites Proactively Remove Material. We discuss the recently-passed EU copyright directive, including the imposition of upload filters, and the recently-leaked working paper on the EU Digital Services Act.

For over a decade the CBS action drama NCIS has enjoyed a very close working relationship with the US military, which allows the entertainment liaison offices to review every script, even for episodes where they provide no

[audio mp3="http://www.corbettreport.com/mp3/2019-07-13%20James%20Corbett.mp3"][/audio]Defending Utah interviews one of the leading voices in exposing what's underneath the news and focusing on what the mainstream would like to distract us from, James Corbett from The Corbett Report.

[audio mp3="http://www.corbettreport.com/mp3/2019-07-05%20Black%20Op%20Radio.mp3"][/audio]James Corbett joins Len Osanic of Black Op Radio to discuss the history and future of internet censorship.

Sweeping ban on political activity deemed necessary to protect German-Israeli relations.

The US Army's regulations on Public Affairs activities are over 100 pages of rules and restriction governing how the Army interacts with news media, entertainment media and other public events.  It outlines which activities require prior approval from Army Public Affairs chiefs (i.e.

Democratic presidential hopeful Cory Booker states his support of far-right Republican bill to crush BDS activism in US states.

[audio mp3="http://www.corbettreport.com/mp3/2019-06-13%20James%20Corbett.mp3"][/audio]In a previous interview entitled The Social Media Regulation Psyop, (link in the show notes) James Corbett and I discussed the orchestrated suppression and censorship of independent voices online, the reaction we all saw that followed, and the potentially pre-planned government "solution" to this manufactured problem; and if correct, what that would mean for the future of social media, independent news, and just freedom of speech &