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USA

‘Dumbed-down, less balanced CNN’: Ousted Voice of America director airs trouble with US propaganda service

Posted on February 7, 2021February 7, 2021By Editor

Voice of America is a dysfunctional outlet where navel-gazing and partisan activism get in the way of its mission, says a former director replaced by the Biden administration, revealing turmoil at the bastion of US propaganda. … Read More >‘Dumbed-down, less balanced CNN’: Ousted Voice of America director airs trouble with US propaganda service

Journalism & Mass media

NY Times’ pseudo-expert accusing China of genocide worked for far-right cult Falun Gong’s publicity arm

Posted on January 31, 2021January 31, 2021By Editor

The New York Times recycled flimsy claims by a right-wing apocalyptic extremist to accuse China of “genocide,” in an op-ed by an American with 1/8th Uighur heritage who worked for Epoch Times, a far-right, pro-Trump outlet backed by cult Falun Gong. … Read More >NY Times’ pseudo-expert accusing China of genocide worked for far-right cult Falun Gong’s publicity arm

USA

China’s treatment of Uighur Muslims in labor camps amounts to ‘genocide’ and ‘crimes against humanity,’ Pompeo says

Posted on January 20, 2021January 20, 2021By Editor

Outgoing US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo has used his last full day in office to accuse China of genocide and crimes against humanity over its alleged abuses of Uighur Muslims in its northwestern Xinjiang region. … Read More >China’s treatment of Uighur Muslims in labor camps amounts to ‘genocide’ and ‘crimes against humanity,’ Pompeo says

Russia

US media continues to try to link Trump to Kremlin, but in reality American Republicans have more in common with Putin’s opponents

Posted on January 16, 2021January 16, 2021By Editor

American elites don’t understand that Russian ‘liberals’ are more similar to Republicans than Democrats. What’s more, Joe Biden, and other US centre-leftists, are politically closer to Vladimir Putin than the Moscow opposition. … Read More >US media continues to try to link Trump to Kremlin, but in reality American Republicans have more in common with Putin’s opponents

‘Warmongering lies’: Tehran hits back after Pompeo claims Al-Qaeda terrorists set up new base in Iran

Posted on January 14, 2021January 14, 2021By Editor

America’s “declassifications” of information about Iran are “fictitious,” Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif has tweeted. It followed US State Secretary Mike Pompeo accusing Iran, without proof, of harboring Al-Qaeda’s base. … Read More >‘Warmongering lies’: Tehran hits back after Pompeo claims Al-Qaeda terrorists set up new base in Iran

Russia

Capitol Hill violence was not a ‘victory’ for Putin: In reality, Russia fears consequences of ongoing US political instability

Posted on January 11, 2021January 11, 2021By Editor

Despite the fact that neither Vladimir Putin nor any other senior Moscow official has ever publicly stated such a goal, it is nowadays almost a given in Western discourse that Russia is hell-bent on creating chaos in the world. … Read More >Capitol Hill violence was not a ‘victory’ for Putin: In reality, Russia fears consequences of ongoing US political instability

Russia

Is Russia really in decline? Western pundits still insist country on brink despite repeated predictions of apocalypse falling flat

Posted on January 10, 2021January 10, 2021By Editor

The chorus of doom mongering Western experts and media commentators has failed to send Russians scrambling to buy tinned goods or trading cash for precious metals, as their gloomy predictions again failed to come to pass in 2020. … Read More >Is Russia really in decline? Western pundits still insist country on brink despite repeated predictions of apocalypse falling flat

USA

Russiagate Democrats blame PUTIN for crowd that stormed US Capitol protesting ‘stolen’ US election

Posted on January 8, 2021By Editor

Having spent four years insisting Russia ‘hacked’ the US election for President Donald Trump, some prominent Democrats are now blaming Moscow for Americans who stormed the US Capitol protesting the 2020 results. … Read More >Russiagate Democrats blame PUTIN for crowd that stormed US Capitol protesting ‘stolen’ US election

USA

Taliban bounties 3: The China menace. Claim of payments for attacks on US troops in Afghanistan now stars Beijing

Posted on January 1, 2021January 1, 2021By Editor

With all the originality of a Hollywood remake, the story about some state paying militants in Afghanistan bounties for targeting US troops has made a comeback. This time the villain is China, rather than Russia or Iran. … Read More >Taliban bounties 3: The China menace. Claim of payments for attacks on US troops in Afghanistan now stars Beijing

Buzzfeed & its puppeteers ramp up anti-China propaganda as supposedly soft-on-Beijing Biden awaits inauguration

Posted on December 30, 2020December 30, 2020By Editor

Minorities are being forced into slave labor in China’s Xinjiang region, Buzzfeed has declared, backing up its claims with contextless Google Earth images. But these stories are sponsored by US government agencies. … Read More >Buzzfeed & its puppeteers ramp up anti-China propaganda as supposedly soft-on-Beijing Biden awaits inauguration