Propaganda

Donald Trump has signed an order to strip back the federally funded news organisation, Voice of America, accusing it of being “anti-Trump” and “radical”. A White House statement said the order would “ensure taxpayers are no longer on the hook for radical propaganda”, and included quotes from politicians and rightwing…

Voice of America staff were locked out of their offices on Saturday—unable to complete planned reporting—after President Donald Trump signed an executive order gutting the government-run news agency that the White House has referred to as “radical propaganda.” VOA was founded in 1942 in part to counter Nazi propaganda. The…

Ahead of a Wednesday hearing at which lawyers for a Palestinian activist who is a legal permanent U.S. resident will challenge his planned deportation, the State Department and the White House pointed to a provision that allows green card holders to be removed from the country if they present “potentially…

A picture of poster taken last March 4, 2025, against the Bayan Muna party-list is circulated in Cotabato City with similar logo and brand name, except it said “Bayad Muna” (“payment” first). —Photo from Neri Colmenares MANILA, Philippines — The opposition Bayan Muna party list group has called on the…

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Politics has become the soap opera of 2025. Do any of you remember being entertained by politics this much in any other period of time before? Sure, the Clinton situation was everywhere (we wonder if he has figured out what the definition of IS is), but if it's not one…

In 2009, Tony Blair visited Masafer Yatta, a collection of hamlets in the Palestinian West Bank. He had come to see a school that had gained attention for having been rebuilt in defiance of Israeli attempts to tear down the village. After he returned home, Israel cancelled the demolition order…

Advertisement SKIP ADVERTISEMENT You have a preview view of this article while we are checking your access. When we have confirmed access, the full article content will load. As President Trump begins to side with Russia, the Kremlin propaganda machine has changed its tune. President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia…

Mohammad Yunus, who heads the caretaker government in Bangladesh, has played down concerns over deteriorating ties with India, asserting that the Southeast Asian neighbours were victim to some "propaganda" but that there were attempts to overcome it. The two nations are "highly interdependent", so their ties cannot be bad, he…

Saturday Night Live opened with a satirical take on the Friday Oval Office meeting between President Donald Trump, Vice President JD Vance, and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky. The episode also delivered a surprise cameo from Mike Myers, who portrayed Trump's billionaire backer Elon Musk, as the sketch show also mocked…