Russian-language media in Ukraine will now be forced to publish a secondary version in the country’s official tongue under a new law that selectively bans “foreign” language publications that don’t come with a translation. According to the law, which was passed in 2019 but came into force on Sunday, all …
Read More »The UK publication of a history book labeled ‘too white’ has been delayed. ‘Publish and be damned’? That principle is clearly dead
There’s a veritable army of freelance censors and sensitivity entrepreneurs enlisted in the policing of culture. Poor Richard Cohen. The British author’s book, titled ‘The History Makers’, was due out earlier this month before being serialised on BBC Radio 4. Promoted as an “epic exploration of who writes the past”, …
Read More »Wait, American universities are ‘right-wing institutions’? Does Teen Vogue publish facts or fairy tales?
That’s what University of Massachusetts Amherst professor Asheesh Kapur Siddique argued in a Teen Vogue feature published on Wednesday. If you thought Teen Vogue was about fast fashion and kissing tips for adolescent girls, dispense with that idea before diving in. The mag has taken a bizarre turn into identitarian …
Read More »‘Publish your emails instead’: Hillary Clinton’s plans to pen ‘political thriller’ met with groans on social media
Axios reported on Tuesday that the book, to be titled ‘State of Terror’, will be published in October by Simon & Schuster and St. Martin’s Press. The story will follow a “novice Secretary of State” who “joins the administration of her rival” a president who was inaugurated “after four years of …
Read More »Russian Air Force experts publish plan to neutralize NATO forces in all-out war with bombing strikes against key military targets
Writing in a new edition of the Air and Space Forces Journal, two associate professors at Russia’s pilot-training academy set out how any invasion launched against the country by NATO allies would depend on a massive aerial bombardment with warplanes and missiles. Vladilen Stuchinsky and Mikhail Korolkov say, however, that …
Read More »UK refuses to publish vaccine-supply data for ‘security reasons’ amid delivery row with the EU
During an interview on the BBC, Prisons Minister Lucy Frazer was challenged over why the UK government is refusing to reveal how many vaccines it has, the reporter questioning if it was hiding something. Frazer claimed that “the government isn’t trying to hide something,” that it has been “incredibly transparent” …
Read More »Rolling Stone will publish ‘thought leaders’ to ‘shape the future of the culture’… if they pay thousands
According to a report by the Guardian, based on emails sent out by Rolling Stone, those who pass a vetting process can get themselves a byline for a $1,500 annual fee, plus $500 upfront. This “fee-based” program will allow those willing to fork over the cash to “position themselves as …
Read More »Decision to publish Jordan Peterson’s new book triggers Penguin Random House’s woke employees, causes CRYING at staff meeting
The emotional in-house “town hall” was held on Monday, after it came to light that the publishing giant is handling Peterson’s new book, due out in March 2021. Employees anonymously leaked the controversy to Vice News, which said“people were crying in the meeting about how Jordan Peterson had affected their …
Read More »Glenn Greenwald, who helped publish Snowden revelations, RESIGNS from outlet he founded after editors censor his Biden reporting
Greenwald co-founded the outlet in 2014, with Laura Poitras and Jeremy Scahill, in part as a vehicle to publish the revelations from NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden. Editorial freedom was supposed to be the Intercept’s core mission, he explained in a letter of resignation posted on Thursday. The publication “now bears …
Read More »Government publish economic statistics late in the evening, so as not to attract attention
The Russian government postponed the publication of the data of Rosstat late in the evening, so as not to draw attention to economic data, which in the conditions of pandemic and rigid quarantine become “increasingly disappointing”, writes Reuters. Data of Rosstat, which is supervised by the Ministry of economic development …
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