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On March 15, US President Joe Biden signed a bill approving a staggering $13.6 billion in aid to Ukraine. Heavily promoted in advance as a vital lifeline to Kiev that would safeguard citizens, defend refugees, and protect democracy, references to the supposedly landmark move immediately vanished from the mainstream media …

The findings, published last week in the eClinical Medicine journal, show there is no way to tell if the symptoms are from the disease or an adverse reaction to the shot unless a screening test is taken. Researchers at King’s College London have raised concerns that the recently vaccinated could …

According to the White House’s Indo-Pacific coordinator, Kurt Campbell, China is conducting “dramatic economic warfare” against Australia.  “China’s preference would have been to break Australia. To drive Australia to its knees,” Campbell said in a speech in Sydney on Wednesday.  This take from the Biden administration is totally ahistorical and obfuscates …

There’s also Gay Uncles Day, Asexuality Awareness Week, Omnisexual and Omniromantic Pride and Visibility Day and International Pronouns Day. The LGBTQIAA+ community has spread their rainbow colours over most of the calendar, but is all that noise just making people numb? Today is Transgender Day Of Remembrance, where vigils will …

The network posted a Twitter message on Monday to promote an article on rising prices by saying, “Why the inflation we’re now seeing is a good thing.” The article was an opinion piece asserting that inflation fears are being overblown by other media outlets, including CNN, and that rising prices …

‘Succession’, HBO’s deliriously addictive and seductive soap opera following the travails of the Roy family dynasty and their media and business empire, is back in full swing for its highly anticipated third season.  The show is obviously a work of fiction, but the blueprint of the story is frighteningly familiar …

The National Theatre of Scotland has decided that the use of the word ‘spooky’ has ‘racist’ and ‘oppressive’ connotations. Since it is unlikely that anyone has used ‘spooky’ as a “racial slur,” it is evident that potentially any term can become a target of the language police. Philip Roth, the …

Nor am I talking about being a pimp, rent boy, BDSM slave master, or manufacturer of dildos or any other salacious stuff. No, I’m talking about making serious, hardcore films about the economics of sex and its discontents. Let me explain. Back in 2018, I was one of the producers …

Excerpts from ‘Peril’, due to be published in a week, appeared on Tuesday on CNN and in the Washington Post, which employs its two authors – Robert Costa and Bob Woodward, of Watergate fame. It claims to be based on more than 200 interviews with “firsthand participants and witnesses” of …

Residents of the most populous US city will be required to show vaccination ID – dubbed ‘Key to NYC Pass’ – in order to eat at restaurants, go to the gym, or enter indoor entertainment venues of any kind, Mayor Bill de Blasio announced on Tuesday. De Blasio’s vaccination pass …