In a single day, two members of the American press asking for clarification and evidence from the Biden administration were painted as sympathizers of Russia and ISIS.Efforts by US media to establish objective truth – rather than acting as stenographers for the government and its official narratives – is now...
Most pollsters believe that Emmanuel Macron will be re-elected president of France in April. Although he has not yet officially declared his candidacy, saying that he will leave it until “the last quarter of an hour” before deciding, the likelihood of his re-election grows with every passing month.Macron’s opponents are...
The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) describes itself as “the most trusted broadcaster in the world.” That's quite a confident assertion to make about oneself. At first glance, such a label may seem appropriate to some. The BBC is, at least objectively speaking, a pioneering institution that shaped the world of...
If you are, like me, vaccinated against Covid-19 and do not want to catch this nasty virus, you may find it counterintuitive that some people are deliberately infecting themselves with it. But that is what is happening, especially in places with strict rules placing limits on what unvaccinated people can...
In a recent press conference held on the occasion of a visit to Moscow by Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban, Russian President Vladimir Putin spoke about continued NATO expansion, and the potential consequences if Ukraine was to join the trans-Atlantic alliance.“Their main task is to contain the development of Russia,” Putin...
Earlier this week, Amnesty International released a report branding Israel an “apartheid state” and accusing it of a “crime against humanity” in its treatment of Palestinians. Despite the gravity of these findings, and the report’s wide circulation on social media, the political and media response to it was, predictably, muted.Indeed,...
The latest report by the Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse in Britain is not good reading, telling us that both the police and council social services do not deal with it properly. It alleges these failings are often to avoid bad publicity.Since the Rotherham child sexual exploitation scandals around 20...
Billionaire George Soros, the founder of the Open Society Foundations, gave a speech this week to the conservative Hoover Institution in which he compared China under President Xi Jinping to Nazi Germany and called for regime change in Beijing. Soros said in his speech, “Xi Jinping has done his best to...
At this point in history, it seems most of the mundane activities that many Americans once happily took for granted are actually evidence of racism lurking in the hearts of white people. From taking the dog for a walk around the neighborhood, to practicing yoga, and even to suggesting that...
Spotify is in turbulent waters. Its market capitalisation dropped some $2.1 billion within three days after rock legends Neil Young and Joni Mitchell demanded it remove its most popular podcast, ‘The Joe Rogan Experience’, from the platform because of the alleged spreading of fake pandemic information. After Rogan issued an apology...
