Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky thanked US Vice President Kamala Harris for Washington’s support amid the standoff between Moscow and the West over his country. At the same time, however, he also called on the US to make more concrete commitments to Kiev. Speaking before a closed-doors meeting with Harris at the …
Read More »Professor under probe for defending sex with children
A New York university is investigating one of its professors after he appeared to defend sex between adults and extremely young children in a series of videos which went viral online. Stephen Kershnar, a philosophy professor at the State University of New York at Fredonia (SUNY Fredonia), received heavy backlash …
Read More »Disney stars defending convicted pedophiles is not a good look
Last Friday, teenager Kyle Rittenhouse was found not guilty of first-degree homicide. A jury decided that he shot three people, two fatally, in self-defense during a riot in Kenosha, Wisconsin. More than a year of shoddy journalism throughout the case’s coverage resulted in an American social media reaction largely split down political party lines. …
Read More »Biden says US ‘committed’ to defending Taiwan from China, signaling break with decades-long ‘strategic ambiguity’ policy
Asked whether the US would come to Taiwan’s defense during a CNN town hall event on Thursday night, Biden answered in the affirmative. The question was posed by a member of the audience, identified as a student at Loyola University, who noted that Beijing had “just tested a hypersonic missile.” …
Read More »AUKUS submarine deal shows UK’s readiness to be ‘hard-headed’ in defending own interest, new foreign secretary insists
Truss, who was promoted to foreign secretary after a government reshuffle earlier this month, was trying to justify the need for Britain’s participation in the highly controversial AUKUS agreement in a dedicated article in the Sunday Telegraph. “Freedoms need to be defended, so we are also building strong security ties …
Read More »A ‘conundrum’? Brian Stelter blasted for defending CNN’s handling of Cuomo bros, fitting in attack on Fox News, ‘bad-faith actors’
Stelter addressed the media drama surrounding his fellow CNN host on Sunday and claimed it has been a “conundrum” for CNN with “no perfect answer, no perfect solution.” The network has faced intense scrutiny over Cuomo’s relationship to his brother, New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo, who has faced multiple allegations …
Read More »‘Flag worth defending’: Swedish Army places front-page newspaper ad ahead of Stockholm Pride, triggering debate online
The front-page ad in the Svenska Dagbladet daily features a group of soldiers in full combat gear, one holding a large rainbow flag. The text at the top of the image reads, “A flag worth defending,” and, in smaller print below, it says, “We defend human rights, equality for all, …
Read More »NATO’s latest large-scale European exercise will only reveal that it is not up to the task of defending itself
The North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), the 29-member transatlantic military alliance borne from the geopolitical realities of post-Second World War Europe, decided last year, in the face of what it deemed a threat from a resurgent Russia, that it needed to reinstitute the kind of large-scale military exercises centered on …
Read More »Is Facebook so eager to ‘get Russia’ by banning RT’s Redfish that it’s defending… fascism and Auschwitz?
Just saying. On Friday, Facebook deleted the page of Redfish, an award-winning Berlin-based digital content project affiliated with RT. In a template message sent to Redfish, Facebook said the post featuring the upside-down portrait of the Italian fascist dictator merited the third “strike” against the page, which had more than …
Read More »Espionage Act banned me and now Daniel Hale from defending ourselves – Kiriakou on first whistleblower to be convicted under Biden
Hale, 33, pleaded guilty last week to one count of violating the archaic US Espionage Act. He is facing up to 10 years in prison after sentencing, which is scheduled for July 13. His alleged crime was leaking classified documents on US drone warfare programs to a journalist, identified by …
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