Propaganda

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…

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…