The cloud computing services company, which is used by many websites across the world, revealed on Tuesday morning that the “issue has been identified and a fix is being implemented,” under an hour after it first announced it was investigating the issue. A glitch in Fastly’s system was allegedly behind …
Read More »Debate over the Israel-Palestine issue has changed forever, but here’s why the fabled ‘two-state solution’ is no solution at all
After more than a week of fighting and hundreds dead, mostly Palestinians, Israel and the militant group Hamas agreed on Thursday to a ceasefire. Even though this is cause for celebration since it will mean an immediate end to hostilities, it hardly means an end to the conflict. But much …
Read More »The West pushes the Xinjiang issue hard and selectively, while ignoring the sustained slaughter of Palestinians
As Gaza burns and rages on, and Palestinians’ homes are turned into their graves, the West’s two-faced hypocrisy towards Muslims has never been clearer. Unsurprisingly, despite the climbing death toll, condemnation from the West at Israel’s military action has been non-existent. The United States has blocked a UN Security Council …
Read More »Fauci blasted for deeming gun violence ‘public health issue,’ criticizing vaccine hesitancy while backing tough Covid restrictions
Asked about recent polling showing nearly half of Republicans are still hesitant about receiving a Covid-19 vaccine, White House health advisor Fauci called the trend “frustrating” and “paradoxical.” “It’s almost paradoxical that, on the one hand, they want to be relieved of the [public health] restrictions, but, on the other …
Read More »Court-packing next? Biden to issue executive order examining ‘membership and size’ of Supreme Court
In the run-up to last November’s election, President Donald Trump, Vice President Mike Pence, and multiple conservative pundits accused Joe Biden of wanting to “pack” the Supreme Court – a term for expanding its membership and appointing sympathetic justices to achieve a long-term hold over the court’s ideological balance. Biden …
Read More »Permitting protests a ‘thorny issue’ during Covid, says UK foreign Sec, warning of ‘widespread disobedience’ if precedent is set
Speaking on Tuesday, Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab said there was an “inherently difficult challenge” in balancing people’s desire to protest and share their grievances with the need to control the pandemic. “The thorny issue is how we allow peaceful protest expressing our concern with something as terrible as the Sarah …
Read More »Venezuela to issue 1-million-bolivar bill, but it’s worth only 50 cents amid raging hyperinflation
The nation’s central bank announced on Friday that it will introduce three new banknotes worth 200,000, 500,000, and one million bolivars. The new bills are set to come into circulation on March 8. The regulator said the banknotes are meant to “complement and optimize the current denominations, to meet the …
Read More »As a socialist and a trans woman, I never thought I’d agree with Rand Paul. But on this issue of protecting children, he’s right
We all know the mantra by now – ‘trans women are women, and trans men are men’. Deep down we may know it to be nonsense, but unless we pay it lip service we risk being labelled as bigots or worse – despicable people who “question the very humanity” of …
Read More »‘This issue is not on the agenda’: Kremlin rejects suggestions that Ukraine’s breakaway Donbass should be integrated into Russia
Peskov’s remarks came after RT editor-in-chief Margarita Simonyan spoke at the ‘Russian Donbass’ conference in Donetsk on Thursday, at which she appealed to the authorities to place the territory under Moscow’s control. “Russia takes a very responsible position in the effort to assist Ukraine in resolving its internal crisis,” Peskov …
Read More »‘Serious injustice’: Uruguayan language experts issue stinging criticism of FA’s ban for Cavani over ‘negrito’ post
Uruguay international Cavani was hit with the ban and a fine of £100,000 over the 33-year-old’s use of the term ‘Negrito’ (small black person) in an Instagram post. Cavani quickly deleted the offending post when he became aware of possible racial connotations and issued an apology to say that he …
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