Propaganda

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…

Ronald Reagan began laying the groundwork for his 1980 presidential run almost immediately after his defeat in his campaign for the 1976 Republican nomination. The work consisted primarily of hundreds of speeches in hotel ballrooms across the country. The most important addressed high-minded fora like the Foreign Policy Association in…

Public trust in the media has reached an all-time low, according to a poll of over 20,000 people released last week by Gallup and the Knight Foundation. “Americans have not only lost confidence in the ideal of an objective media, they believe news organizations actively support the partisan divide,” the…

Red flags outside the Great Hall of the People during the closing session of the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference in Beijing, China, March 13, 2019. (Reuters) The U.S. State Department could move as early as Thursday to announce that Chinese “Confucius institutes” will be required to register as foreign…

Even as his campaign stumbles through these bleak late-summer months, beset by a nationwide health and economic crisis that’s largely of his own making, President Donald Trump is blowing full-bore on his racist dog whistles. The president has, in recent weeks, accused his Democratic opponent, Vice President Joe Biden, of…

August is a month of memories for India with memorable dates redolent of history, freedom and politics. August 15, with that unforgettably evocative ‘Tryst with Destiny’ speech of first Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru, is, doubtless, the most important of the dates observed. Inextricably linked to that is August 8, on…

HIP-HOP 8/6/2020 by Alex Ritman Rowan Daly Tyga The concert is due to take place the night before the country's high-stakes presidential election that could end the 26-year rule of its authoritarian leader, Alexander Lukashenko. Rapper Tyga has been asked by the U.S.-based Human Rights Foundation to cancel his participation…

The government is pushing to punish anyone who sends propaganda leaflets to North Korea after the North blew up the inter-Korean liaison office in Kaesong in fury over the flyering campaign. The government also wants to ban loudspeakers or electronic display devices for propaganda purposes near the demilitarized zone, which…

Angela Lang/CNET The US Department of State unveiled on Wednesday the Clean Network program, calling it an effort to protect individual and corporate privacy, as well as sensitive information. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said the program will guard against "aggressive intrusions by malign actors, such as the Chinese Communist…