Propaganda

Some of the most prominent journalists at Voice of America have accused its new Trump-appointed chief executive of McCarthyism and putting reporters at risk by purging staff and suggesting that being a journalist is “a great cover for a spy”.Michael Pack, a political ally of the rightwing ideologue Steve Bannon,…

by William D'Angelo , posted on 28 August 2020 / 471 ViewsDestructive Creations announced the World War II real-time tactics game, War Mongrels, will launch for the Xbox Series X, PlayStation 5, PlayStation 4, Xbox One, and PC via Steam in 2021. It will support English, French, Italian, German, Spanish, Japanese, and…

Nestled in the heart of Indianapolis is the national headquarters of the American Legion, the largest and most influential veterans’ service organization in the world. Indianapolis is second only to Washington in its number of war memorials; some of the monuments here stand on Legion grounds. The most prominent—a granite…

Critics slammed President Donald Trump’s use of the White House for a political stunt on Thursday as both unethical and illegal. Trump spoke to a crowd on the South Lawn as he accepted his party’s nomination at the Republican National Convention, one of several purely political events done on government…

In a Republican convention defined, in many ways, by the sheer number and vast array of Trumps that have been cleared to speak, it was remarkable that the least-regarded of their genetic contingent got to deliver the convention’s core message. “If you’re watching tonight and wrestling with your vote on…

The Texas branch of the Republican party has denied taking its new slogan — "We Are The Storm" — from the far-right QAnon movement. QAnon is a far-right movement whose supporters believe, groundlessly, that the day is imminent when President Trump will expose a cabal of Democrats running child abuse rings.They…

BEIJING — In Shanghai, restaurants and bars in many neighbourhoods are teeming with crowds. In Beijing, thousands of students are heading back to campus for the fall semester. In Wuhan, where the coronavirus emerged eight months ago, water parks and night markets are packed elbow to elbow, buzzing like before.…

Aurangabad: Quashing the FIRs filed against several foreign nationals in connection with the Tablighi Jamat congregation in Delhi's Nizamuddin area, the Aurangabad bench of Bombay High Court has said that there is a probability that these foreigners were chosen to be made scapegoats in the matter. "In view of the…

A video appears to show a team of medics rushing on a plane to help Alexei Navalny, a prominent critic of Russian President Vladimir Putin, after a suspected poisoning.Navalny's spokeswoman Kira Yarmish tweeted that the Kremlin critic fell ill on a flight on Thursday. "We assume that Alexei was poisoned…

The Confucius Institute U.S. Center (CIUS), an organization which helps administer Chinese culture courses, has said it is a victim of "international sabre rattling" after the State Department designated it a foreign mission of China's government.Secretary of State Mike Pompeo described the Washington-based CIUS, which facilitates Chinese language and cultural…