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German media and think tanks ‘alarmed’ over RT’s influence

Russia is gaining clout over German public opinion, the tabloid Bild reported on Monday, adding that RT’s German-language news service,…

1 year ago

Exposed: The vast pro-Ukrainian ‘bot army’ designed to influence Western policy makers

Researchers at the University of Adelaide have published a landmark paper on the activities of bot accounts on Twitter related…

2 years ago

This tiny island nation proves that the West only believes in its own ‘spheres of influence’

Russia is bad. There is no excuse for attacking Ukraine, and the argument that it was a strategic imperative to stop…

2 years ago

US eyeing ways to strip Russia of UN influence

The US State Department may try to find a way to boot Russia from its permanent seat on the UN…

2 years ago

Russia not insisting on Ukraine ‘sphere of influence’ – Lavrov

Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov has dismissed the notion that Moscow is trying to claim Ukraine as part of its area…

2 years ago

Biden’s oil gamble: How US tapping its reserves will influence energy crisis

The release of oil from the Strategic Petroleum Reserve (SPR) was coordinated with major Asian energy consumers, including China, India,…

2 years ago

Biden is hosting a Quad summit to counter the influence of Beijing. How might China respond to being left out in the cold?

The group of four nations is, in all but name, a strategic anti-China pact set up to counter Beijing’s influence…

3 years ago

Pointless stunts by Britain’s anti-China rabble of MPs will have no real influence on Beijing-London relations

Nearly six years ago, Chinese leader Xi Jinping addressed the House of Commons, heralding what David Cameron’s government described as…

3 years ago

Black defendants’ race-related woes should influence sentencing, court in Canada rules, sparking debate over 2-tier justice system

Last week, the Nova Scotia Court of Appeal noted a “responsibility” to “equip judges sentencing offenders of African descent with…

3 years ago

NYT, NBC, & WaPo retract claim that FBI warned Rudy Giuliani he was targeted by ‘Russian influence’ operation

The New York Times, NBC, and the Washington Post all ran stories claiming Giuliani was warned by the feds in…

3 years ago