Propaganda

Image copyright AFP Image caption Some 1.1 million people were killed by the Nazis at Auschwitz Several Jewish groups have criticised Amazon for fictitious depictions of the Holocaust in its new series Hunters.The online retail giant has also been denounced for allowing the sale of anti-Semitic propaganda books.Amazon did respond…

Image copyright AFP Image caption Voter turnout was slightly more than 25% in Tehran Iran has seen the lowest turnout in a parliamentary election since the 1979 revolution, with 42.6% of eligible voters casting their ballots.Officials had banned thousands of contenders, many of them reformers. Hardliners are set for big…

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Donald Trump on Sunday accused Representative Adam Schiff of leaking classified information on Russian interference in the 2020 U.S. election to hurt Democratic presidential front-runner Bernie Sanders. Speaking to reporters as he left the White House for a trip to India, Trump said he had not…

Democratic presidential hopeful Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders addresses a rally at Valley High School in Santa Ana, California, February 21, 2020.Photo: Ringo Chiu (GettySen. Bernie Sanders on Friday responded to a report in the Washington Post stating U.S. officials had warned the Vermont senator that Russia was attempting to aid…

In 2017, big telecom lobbyists convinced Congress to eliminate broadband privacy protections that could have reined in the wireless industry’s abuse of consumer location data. Later that same year, telecom lobbyists convinced the Trump administration to not only eliminate popular net neutrality rules—but much of the FCC’s consumer protection authority.…

There is probably no better way to make a bunch of people mad than to suggest that technology is going to render them entirely obsolete. But on a recent episode of Mindscape, a podcast by theoretical physicist Sean M. Carroll, the artist known as Grimes ended up doing just that,…

The video is jarring. It shows a team of female medics in China having their heads shaved in preparation for going to the epicenter of the coronavirus outbreak Hubei province. Some women are seen crying. It was posted Saturday to the Twitter-like Chinese social media platform Weibo by Gansu Daily—one…

Image copyright EPA Image caption The scene at one of the bars targeted by the gunman in Hanau The shooting dead of nine people in shisha bars in Hanau is being treated by German investigators as an act of far-right terrorism. The attack has shocked Germany and added to fears…

By Jonathan LandayWASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Trump administration said on Tuesday said it will begin treating five major Chinese state-run media entities with U.S. operations the same as foreign embassies, requiring them to register their employees and U.S. properties with the State Department.Two senior state department officials said the decision…

Since the rise of veganism, normally reasonable people can be found muttering mutinously about “propaganda” and being “dictated to” whenever the words “plant-based” appear. The Argentine author Agustina Bazterrica, whose homeland is synonymous with steak, wonders in this prizewinning novel how far committed carnivores would be willing to go for…