Propaganda

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…

The nightmare scenario for liberals across America—what if a defeated Donald Trump refuses to leave office?—reared its head last week when the president floated the idea of delaying the election. “With Universal Mail-In Voting (not Absentee Voting, which is good), 2020 will be the most INACCURATE & FRAUDULENT Election in…

King had no idea of the subject of the interview and said he was just doing it as a favor for a guy he liked. Larry King (photo credit: REUTERS) Famed broadcaster Larry King unknowingly filmed a Chinese propaganda infomercial in an interview with a Russian journalist last year, as…

Iran reveals secret operation against “US-backed terror group," but Tehran may be seeking a scapegoat or propaganda operation to embarrass Washington. Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei wears a protective face mask, during a virtual meeting with lawmakers in Tehran (photo credit: REUTERS) Iran said on Saturday that it had…

After the controversial 1936 Berlin Games, it was important to believers in the Olympics that the first games after World War II be held without political and racial propaganda.Who better to host them then than the British, sticklers for fair play and ‘amateurism?’ Besides, the British said they were owed…

Teens love TikTok, but the Trump administration fears it. Earlier this week, treasury secretary Steve Mnuchin confirmed that the social app was subject to a national security review into whether it could be a conduit for interference by China. Friday, Bloomberg reported that Trump will “sign an order” directing TikTok’s…

Secretary of State Mike Pompeo testifies before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, July 25, 2018. (Lucas Jackson/Reuters) Charles “Chas” Freeman, a veteran U.S. diplomat who served in East Asia and as ambassador to Saudi Arabia, slammed a speech by Secretary of State Mike Pompeo as a “psychotic rant” in an…

MOSCOW—The videos were certainly not what Russians have come to expect from their country’s secret warriors abroad: powerful men in unmarked uniforms imposing Russian influence on Syria, Ukraine, and Africa. These men were caught on camera by Belarusian security officers totally unprepared. Some were naked except for underwear, with documents,…