Propaganda

The cultish Chinese spiritual movement Falun Gong isn’t just speaking out against the Chinese government; it’s increasingly weaving that narrative into American politics, using it against Democrats and the Biden administration, through a growing media empire that’s pushing conspiracy theories and disinformation.  On this episode of VICE News Reports, we…

Book review Seasoned industry watchers will welcome Your Computer Is on Fire as a thorough and unflinching debunking of Big Tech's outlandish self-mythologising. They might even hope that governments, business, and the media organisations who buy into the barrage of propaganda start to ask a few important questions. But there…

There’s more than one way the media can be biased. Obviously, the bias can come through in their reporting, but it can also be seen at the editorial level, meaning what they choose to cover and what they choose to omit. Somehow someone got CNN’s ear and told them about…

The 2,072-page text of the bipartisan infrastructure bill was released late Sunday night. From a climate perspective, it’s peanuts. The $1.2 trillion package contains $550 billion of new spending to be dispensed over a decade, which amounts to roughly $55 billion of new money per year. Some of that will…

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”I’ve just lost a few people in my weekly routine who have refused or did not disclose…it was unfortunate,“ she says @JenniferAniston (Instagram) If you’re one of her “Friends,” Jennifer Aniston will be there for you – but only if you’re vaccinated. The actress is speaking out about cutting ties…

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The first witnesses in the House select committee's investigation of the Jan. 6 Capitol attack last week were clear about what its goals ought to be. Officer Harry Dunn put it most bluntly: "Get to the bottom of what happened. "If a hit man is hired and he kills somebody,…

EDB announces cessation of working relations with PTU *****************************************************      The Education Bureau (EDB) announced today (July 31) that the EDB will cease all working relations with the Hong Kong Professional Teachers’ Union (PTU).             A spokesman for EDB said that PTU has claimed itself as a professional education organisation. In the past decades, EDB has been allowing it…