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More anti-Russia psy-ops? BBC gets government funding for global crusade against ‘fake news’

Broadcast in more than 40 languages to 350 million listeners per week, the BBC World Service brings news and debate…

3 years ago

Canadian government accused of ‘assault’ on free speech over proposal to police videos posted on social media

At the heart of the controversy is ‘Bill C-10’, an amendment to the Canadian Broadcasting Act (1991) that purports to…

3 years ago

Eyebrows raised as ‘PREGNANT PEOPLE’ green-lighted by US government to get Covid vaccine shots

“Pregnant people experienced the same side effects as others following vaccination,” the director of the US Centers for Disease Control…

3 years ago

‘Democracy is not Coca-Cola’: Beijing says US shouldn’t assume that representative government ‘tastes’ the same all over the world

Speaking with the US Council on Foreign Relations via video link on Friday, Wang offered a series of suggestions that…

3 years ago

The Syrian government has been blamed for the 2018 Saraqib chemical attack, but this time around India isn’t buying it

On April 21, the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) announced it would remove Syria’s “rights and privileges”…

3 years ago

Japanese government says it WILL release irradiated water from Fukushima nuclear plant into the sea

Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga announced the move in Tokyo, on Tuesday morning local time. He had previously called the release…

3 years ago

‘Building tomorrow’s mask’: US government announces $500k ‘innovation’ challenge for FUTURE needs

The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) has just announced a contest for “innovative and effective designs for mass-producible,…

3 years ago

Travellers will be ‘ethnically cleansed’ by the British government’s draconian law proposals that criminalise their way of life

Britain is more divided than at any other time in living memory. There are protests about protests, exemplified by the…

3 years ago

Freedom in sight? Judge orders Belgian government to scrap lockdown… and a barrage of Covid court cases is sure to follow

In Melbourne, Australia, the residents of a public housing tower block have filed a class action in court against their…

3 years ago

Why is New York’s state government embracing ‘vaccine passports’ while rejecting better voter ID laws?

While one theoretically has to present a driver’s license, social security number, or other proof of identification in order to…

3 years ago