Tag: US Propaganda

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Stop blaming ‘Russian trolls’ & ‘RT propaganda’: US democracy declining because Americans have lost faith in their elites – Moscow

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Growing disillusionment in American democracy can’t be blamed on a shadowy web of Russian influence, one of Moscow’s top diplomats has said, arguing Washington must face up to the lack of faith ordinary people have in politicians. … Read More >Stop blaming ‘Russian trolls’ & ‘RT propaganda’: US democracy declining because Americans have lost faith in their elites – Moscow

Categories Journalism & Mass media

How US is threatening China to turn Taiwan back into nuke-armed military base

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he US had a military base, armed with nuclear weapons, in Taiwan for decades, and threatened to nuke mainland China. Ben Norton discusses how Washington is provoking Beijing, risking war, to try to rebuild that base and have a Pacific foothold for the new cold war. … Read More >How US is threatening China to turn Taiwan back into nuke-armed military base

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US Democrats demand sanctions against 35 Russians, including prime minister & Putin’s spokesman, alleging ‘human rights abuses’

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A proposed amendment to the US Pentagon funding bill demands that the White House sanction 35 Russian citizens for alleged human rights abuses, including the prime minister, Moscow’s mayor and President Vladimir Putin’s spokesman. … Read More >US Democrats demand sanctions against 35 Russians, including prime minister & Putin’s spokesman, alleging ‘human rights abuses’

Categories World

Iran tells US to drop ‘addiction to sanctions’ after Iranians blacklisted over alleged kidnapping plot of journalist

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Iran’s Foreign Ministry has said the US is resorting to “Hollywood scenarios” in order to justify new sanctions against Tehran. Washington blacklisted Iranians accused of planning to kidnap a journalist in New York. … Read More >Iran tells US to drop ‘addiction to sanctions’ after Iranians blacklisted over alleged kidnapping plot of journalist

Categories Shows

On Contact: The age of manufactured ignorance

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On the show, Chris Hedges discusses the age of manufactured ignorance with the scholar Professor Henry A. Giroux. Education, Giroux writes, has increasingly become a tool of domination as right-wing pedagogical apparatuses controlled by the entrepreneurs of hate attack workers, the poor, people of color, refugees, immigrants from the south, and others considered disposable. … Read More >On Contact: The age of manufactured ignorance

Categories Asia & Pacific

China slams ‘fabricated’ US intelligence report on Covid-19 origins, says it’s a matter for scientists, not spies

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The US intelligence report on Covid-19 origins that didn’t rule out the possibility of it coming from a laboratory has nothing to do with science and is aimed at “scapegoating” Beijing, the Chinese Embassy in Washington has said. … Read More >China slams ‘fabricated’ US intelligence report on Covid-19 origins, says it’s a matter for scientists, not spies