Propaganda

The Russian embassy took note of the article “Russia-Ukraine war a threat to Africa’s economy” (Mail & Guardian, 20 May 2022). Let’s try to figure out whether Russia’s special military operation in Ukraine is really a threat to the economy of African countries. There’s clearly a certain interest to blame…

Thousands march in protest against Russia in Riga, Latvia, on May 20.Gints Ivuskans/The Globe and Mail Almost every independent Russian journalist had a breaking point this year. For the dwindling band of Russia-based writers at the online newspaper Meduza, it was a new law threatening a 15-year jail sentence for…

Justin Sullivan / Getty Images A conservative group behind the recent push to ban books on LGBTQ+ topics from public libraries has recently entered the next phase of their mission: pushing public school libraries across the country to accept book donations from conservative publishing companies that promote white supremacist, homophobic,…

Venezuelan propaganda has made the world believe that the economic and humanitarian crises in the country are due to American sanctions. That claim is a blatant lie. I wake up at 8 a.m. My wife tells me we’re out of diapers, so I go to a mini-market only a two-minute…

WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden said in a guest essay Tuesday evening in The New York Times that he’s decided to provide the Ukrainians with more advanced rocket systems and munitions that will enable them to more precisely strike key targets on the battlefield. The expectation is that Ukraine could…

Genocide scholars and rights advocates are calling for the resignation of a top United Nations human rights official after her visit to Xinjiang ended with her repeating, rather than denouncing, Chinese government propaganda about an ongoing genocide there. Why it matters: The visit illustrates how the UN is caught between…

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Last Updated: May 30, 2022, 23:12 IST Taliban government’s foreign minister Amir Khan Muttaqi has blamed the West for projecting a negative image of Afghanistan on the global stage. (Reuters/File) In an exclusive interview to News18, Afghanistan’s new foreign minister Amir Khan Muttaqi blames the West for “propaganda” and says…

By Jack Goodman, Maria Korenyuk, Lucy Swinnen and Andrey Zakharov World Service Disinformation team Image source, Southern Front Image caption, The ID card of the Moroccan man we spoke to was displayed in the video report. The port city of Berdyansk had been occupied by Russian troops for less than…

In “Top Gun: Maverick,” the enemy is an unnamed country that threatens our freedoms with a NATO-adjacent nuclear plant and state-of-the-art fighter jets and helicopters. The hero, of course, is Tom Cruise, or possibly the defense contractor Lockheed Martin. While technically an update to the iconic 1980s original, this “Top…