Highlighting Independent and Solidarity News

Online filters, automated takedowns and algorithms allegedly introduced to stop the spread of terrorist and fake content have led to the removal or blocking of several human rights groups, news organisations, videos, and accounts covering alter-globalisation, environmentalist, anti-war, refugees' rights, Palestinian and pro-Afrin content, according to articles and testimonies from the groups involved. Yesterday, the page of the website "Insurrection News" was removed from Facebook without explanation. After the website created a new Facebook page, this page was also removed within only a few hours. Insurrection News has been one of the most prominent English-language sources for news related to Turkey's invasion of Afrin, and has also provided essential coverage of police brutality, international protests, and solidarity actions with refugees. According to the independent news website Gatorna, Facebook has also been involved in the repression of other Kurdish-r...

#NonALaSelection: 20,000 French Students, Plus Unions and Pensioners, Protest Against Macron Amid Corporate Media Sneers The Ethnic Cleansing in #Afrin: Erdogan's Death Squads Shell The City #Germany: Antiwar Group Torches Vehicles at NATO Site in Solidarity With Afrin Cops Attack Refugees With Teargas and Flash Grenades in Greece, Injuries Reported #Spain: Riots After Refugee Confronted by Cops Found Dead Tories and Pro-War Blairites Tear Into Corbyn As He Questions UK RussiaGate Warmongering Sleazy SPLC Smear Against Anti-Imperialist Left in US Retracted "Green Scare" Trial Against #Hambi4: Over 30 People Blockade Court Doors In Solidarity #WSF2018: LIVEBLOG Updates from Rosa Luxemburg Foundation With Mike Pompeo, Trump Is Heading Into Dangerous Waters Anti-DPRK McMaster Soon to Exit- American Corporate Media Gas on the Fire: RussiaGate and the NATO-TTIP Push Towards Nuclear War BusinessEurope Corporate Lobby Meets Wit...

EU Calls for RETURN to Infamous #TTIP Also Supported by US Commerce Minister Ross Demand "Rules-Based" Trade Built on Corporate Courts & Harmonisation Nordic Green Left Passes Dead Letter "Gender Equality" Requirement for Trade Deals TTIP, Fracking, and Local Renewables: 2-Hour Video Discussion #FSM2018: Thousands March for Global South Justice & #BindingTreaty in Brazil From Seattle to Today: Reviving the Connection Between the Black Bloc and Alterglobalisation Remembering Carlo Giuliani 17 Years After #G8 Israel Jails Pro-Ahed Tamimi Activist Amid Worldwide Outrage Saudis Spend Millions on Washington Lobby for #Aramco and BlackRock Latest European Actions in #Fight4Afrin as Turkish-German Tanks Roll into Rojava Pro-Hillary Neoliberal Troll Factory Run by Democratic Party Exposed by HuffPo German Marshall Fund Employees Swarm US State Media to Push Hamilton68 Propaganda The Skripal Poisoning and the US 2001 Anthrax At...

#WSF2018 MOBILISATION SCHEDULE For Another World Released Bayer-Monsanto Merger Slammed by 93.7% of Ordinary Farmers Worldwide For Potential Attacks on Independent Agriculture The People of Israel vs. Ahed Tamimi: A New Documentary by Max Blumenthal and Anya Parampil YPG: Turkish Intelligence Agency MIT Planning Terror Attacks in Europe in Order to Blame Afrin Sympathisers #Germany: Anti-NATO Militarism Anarchists Burn Army Vehicles for #Afrin #Hamburg #UnitedWeStand: Grey Wolves-Backed Supermarket Attacked (Communique) French 'Anarchist Cell' Associated With Invisible Committee Goes on Trial for Alleged TGV Sabotage Repression and Confinement of #Hambi4 Intensified by German State Incoming CSU Interior and "Homeland" Minister Announces Police State Measures and Massive Deportation of Refugees, Holding Camps for Migrants Greek Police Torture Female Evicted Squat Residents by Slamming Them in the Head Rania & Ben Discuss Racist S...

Call To Our Friends in Paris And Around the World: For A May 2018! Massive Repression and Evictions of Squats in Europe Begins in France, Germany, Greece #Nantes, #France: University Squat for Refugees Evicted Ahead of March 15 Student Manifestations #Athens: Update from Matrozou 45 Eviction Nantes: New Occupation Created in Empty Retirement Home... World Social Forum 2018: March 13-15 to Discuss Global South, Trade, Agriculture Tillerson's "Energy Dominance:" Another Frackin' Plot to Crush Third World Solidarity #Fight4Afrin: Grey Wolves Club Molotoved In Solidarity With YPG & Feminism, Against NATO Arms Exports #Germany: Commerzbank Involved in Exploitation and Export of Arms to Afrin Smashed & Painted With Solidarity Graffiti Turkey, Kurdistan, NATO, and the International European Drug Trade New Analysis of US Government Report Linking Russian Influence to Fracking Protests Exposes Gaping Holes, Fraudulent Data Pipe...

The Trump Administration's recent attempts to achieve "energy dominance" via fracking and gas exports has been rightly met with serious concerns by environmentalists throughout Europe and the wider world as a move that will put the environment in peril and hold Europeans hostage to US exports. What has received less attention, although it is equally significant, is fracking's potential to forever undermine the chances for Third World sovereignty, Palestinian activism, and a global redistribution of wealth under a regime of degrowth. In July 2017, the Trump administration unveiled the term "energy dominance" to describe a key plank in the American plan for global economic and strategic hegemony. But although the State Department under former Exxon CEO Rex Tillerson has pushed the policy into the limelight, it has long been an aim of the US, especially under President Obama, whose TTIP and TPP trade deals would have greatly aided American companies, l...