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Zuckerberg’s rebranding of Facebook to ‘Meta’ won’t call off the attack dogs: Our Democracy demands total submission

Zuckerberg announced the rebranding on Thursday, offering up a public-relations script about “building technology to connect” and needing to “put…

3 years ago

Precedent of charging Bolsonaro with ‘crimes against humanity’ threatens leaders that deviate from the western Covid narrative

The Brazilian high chamber commission has recommended nine criminal charges in total against President Jair Bolsonaro over his handling of…

3 years ago

Misdemeanor complaint in ‘sex crime’ case against Andrew Cuomo filed in NY court, likely to be charged with ‘forcible touching’

The name of the alleged victim and details about the case were not revealed by the court clerk who first…

3 years ago

British govt summons French ambassador ‘to explain disproportionate threats made against the UK’ as fisheries row escalates

“I have instructed Europe Minister Wendy Morton to summon the French Ambassador to the UK for talks tomorrow to explain…

3 years ago

‘Another nail in the coffin of democracy’: Tulsi Gabbard slams Biden administration’s ‘crusade’ against Julian Assange

“If they succeed in [extraditing Assange], this will be yet another nail in the coffin of democracy here in our…

3 years ago

Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg announces company is rebranding as ‘Meta’

Mired in numerous antitrust probes, battling investigations in multiple countries, and desperately trying to defuse the revelations from an explosive…

3 years ago

Eyeing the rise of identity and gender politics in the West, Putin’s new vision for Russia is as Europe’s last conservative nation

The Russian president, it seems, has been working on his own concept of the elusive ‘Russian idea’ – a concept…

3 years ago

‘Let’s go, Brandon!’ from anti-abortion cardinals? Live broadcast of Biden’s meeting with Pope in Vatican mysteriously cut short

The live feed of Biden’s visit to the Vatican on Thursday was cut earlier than expected, right after his arrival…

3 years ago

Turkey says US must repay it for ‘unfair’ expulsion from $1.4bn F-35 jet deal or offer other hardware in return

Turkey ordered the Lockheed Martin-manufactured fighters prior to its expulsion from a multi-national partner procurement program in 2019 over the…

3 years ago

China reports new human case of highly deadly bird flu in southern province

On Thursday, the Health Commission of Guangdong Province said it considered the risk of H5N6 transmission to be low after…

3 years ago