In a briefing on Monday, Cuomo painted a picture of a cheerful Christmas season, as festive music jingled in the background. “We’re now all happy and cheery and we’re going to come together. We’re doing gift buying, and we’re going to do holiday celebrations, we’re gonna start to have meals …
Read More »Trump asks FDA to approve Moderna coronavirus vaccine, calls development ‘a modern day miracle’
In a statement released on Monday, US biotech company Moderna said it would seek American and European emergency approval for its Covid-19 vaccine candidate, after stage-three trials showed it to be 94.1 percent effective against the deadly coronavirus. President Donald Trump called on the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to …
Read More »Caitlin Johnstone: Right calls Biden a puppet of Xi as he packs his cabinet with China hawks
Prior to the US election I wrote a couple of articles saying that, if Biden wins, he will be attacked by the right as a Xi Jinping puppet even as he escalates dangerous cold war aggressions with China, in exactly the same way Trump was attacked by Democrats as a …
Read More »Turkey considers itself integral part of Europe, Erdogan says, calls on EU to grant it FULL MEMBERSHIP
“We see ourselves as an inseparable part of Europe… However, this does not mean that we will bow down to overt attacks to our country and nation, veiled injustices, and double standards,” Erdogan said on Sunday as he addressed members of his ruling Justice and Development (AK) party via a …
Read More »Georgia governor calls for ‘sample audit’ of ballot signatures after secretary of state certifies election for Biden
Kemp spoke on Friday evening, after Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger certified Democrat Joe Biden as winner of the state’s 16 electoral votes in the November 3 election, following a recount of the ballots. Both Kemp and Raffensperger are Republicans. Acknowledging the “record number of absentee ballots” which he said …
Read More »Sen. Blumenthal pressures Zuckerberg to BAN Steve Bannon from Facebook over ‘calls for murder,’ gets reminded of Vietnam War lies
Speaking remotely at a Senate hearing on Tuesday, the Connecticut Democrat referred to a Nov. 5 podcast in which Bannon, formerly President Donald Trump’s chief strategist, said he would like to put the heads of Dr. Anthony Fauci and FBI director Christopher Wray “on pikes” as a warning for other …
Read More »‘Safer world?’ Stoltenberg calls on international community to get rid of nukes, says NATO members should keep theirs for now
The international community needs to bolster its efforts aimed at getting rid of nuclear weapons in the world, the secretary general said on Tuesday, at NATO’s annual Weapons of Mass Destruction (WMD) conference in Romania. “Our ultimate goal is a world free of nuclear weapons”, he declared, while calling the …
Read More »Biden calls America ‘a beacon’ for the globe, vows to lead by ‘power of example’
“Tonight the whole world is watching America and I believe at our best, America is a beacon for the globe. We will lead not only by the example of our power but by the power of our example,” Biden said, adressing the nation on Saturday evening. Biden, whose victory in …
Read More »‘Sometimes it’s hard to be a loser’: German foreign minister calls on Trump and Biden to accept election result
“What is happening in America does not quite correspond to the democratic culture we know from the United States,” Maas tweeted on Thursday. “It is important that the result is then accepted by everyone. It’s easy to be a winner, but sometimes it’s hard to be a loser.” Trump and …
Read More »‘Just like posts on Holocaust’: Pakistani PM Khan calls on Facebook to ban all ‘ISLAMOPHOBIC’ content
Praising recent Facebook’s decision to weed out all content that “denies or distorts” the Holocaust, Khan urged the social media platform to implement similar rules in regard to “Islamophobic” posts. “I appreciate your taking the step to rightly ban any posting that criticizes or questions the Holocaust, which was the …
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