On Monday, UK newspaper The Daily Telegraph reported that Telegram had taken second place in the US downloads chart, according to exclusive data from the Sensor Tower market research agency. Between Wednesday and Sunday last week, more than half a million Americans downloaded the app, almost three times as many …
Read More »Caitlin Johnstone: FYI Trump’s latest Yemen move is far worse than the Capitol riot
The US State Department has officially announced its intention to designate Yemen’s Houthis as a terrorist group, as many had previously warned. Humanitarian organizations have been condemning the move as it will make it more difficult to provide aid to a population that is already being brutalized by the worst mass atrocity in the entire world, a Saudi-led …
Read More »CNN says it will NOT carry Trump’s speech live from Texas, calls on ‘responsible networks’ to censor the president
After a tumultuous week that saw Trump accused of sedition over last Wednesday’s riot on Capitol Hill, then threatened with impeachment and excommunicated from social media, the president ventured outside the White House on Tuesday en route to Alamo, Texas. Ostensibly traveling to Alamo to visit a section of border …
Read More »Too good to be true? Biden’s pick as new CIA chief signals that it may do less overthrowing of regimes and a bit more diplomacy
The new president’s selection of retired US ambassador William Burns as the next director of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) is a welcome development. The title of Burns’ 2019 memoir, ‘The Back Channel: A Memoir of American Diplomacy and the Case for Its Renewal’, pretty much defines the role the …
Read More »Hook-up culture evolves but murder never changes? Revivals of Sex And The City, Sopranos spark debate about morphing social mores
Both shows appeared on HBO in the late 90s and early 2000s, becoming huge hits. Sex and the City, which aired between 1998 and 2004, followed the lives of four women living in New York City as they juggled careers and relationships. Crime drama The Sopranos was featured on HBO …
Read More »Pompeo claims Al-Qaeda has new home base in Iran, doesn’t provide evidence
“We must acknowledge it, we must confront it… we must defeat it,” Pompeo said during a press event on Tuesday, organized for making the bold announcement. “We ignore this Iran-Al-Qaeda nexus at our own peril,” he added. Pompeo acknowledged that to many Americans the alleged development may come as a …
Read More »Kim Jong-un’s growing nuclear wish-list for North Korea spells trouble for Joe Biden
Four years ago this month, one of the earliest tweets of Donald Trump’s presidency from his now culled Twitter account stated, “North Korea just stated it is in the final stages of developing a nuclear weapon capable of reaching parts of the US. It won’t happen!” Famous last words, as …
Read More »The silencing of President Trump by Big Tech is moral cowardice, and all about the opportunistic pursuit of power and profit
The cancelling of President Donald Trump by social media platforms shows that the unelected billionaires from California are now staking their future profit on woke censorship. If there is one truth about the pulling of the plug on the president, it is that in just over a week’s time, he …
Read More »Twitter permanently suspends more than 70,000 QAnon accounts as social media purge continues
The company has publicly argued that removing the accounts – including those belonging to President Donald Trump, former national security adviser Michael Flynn and Trump campaign lawyer Sidney Powell – is a necessary step to combat “behavior that has the potential to lead to offline harm.” “Given the violent events …
Read More »Twitter’s hypocritical censorship: Misinformation on Western Covid vaccines banned, falsehoods about Russia’s Sputnik V permitted
The American social media giant announced in December that its censorship would expand to include coverage of Covid-19 vaccines as “vaccine misinformation presents a significant and growing public health challenge – and we all have a role to play.” As always, altruistic and moral arguments for imposing suppression of information …
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