Russian culture is an inseparable part of European history, Italian President Sergio Mattarella said in an interview with Corriere Della Sera on Friday. The leader condemned the recent attempts to cancel Russian works of art amid Moscow’s conflict with Kiev. Asked if it is “right to abolish” Russian literature and …
Read More »‘Not driven by immigrants’: ‘Grinch’ Fauci mulls canceling Christmas due to Covid, rejects accusations of migrants spreading virus
During a Sunday interview on CNN, Fauci was asked about a recent Kaiser Family Foundation poll that found 55% of Republicans partially blame the spread of Covid-19 on immigrants and tourism. The survey follows scrutiny of the Biden administration over tactics at the US-Mexico border, where White House officials have …
Read More »‘Canceling women’? Democrats draw online flak after $3.5trn spending bill uses non-gendered terms for mothers and women
In all, the spending package – one part of the Biden administration’s ‘Build Back Better’ program – uses the word “mother” three times and the word “maternal” 50 times. Meanwhile, the word “women” appears on 20 occasions in a number of contexts, including domestic violence, business ownership, health insurance and …
Read More »‘Australia’s interests come first’: PM Morrison says he ‘doesn’t regret’ canceling submarines deal with France
Proceeding with the 2016 submarine deal with France would have been “negligent” and harmful to Australia’s strategic interests, Scott Morrison said on Sunday. Speaking to the media in Sydney, he said he has no regrets over the decision that triggered a multinational diplomatic crisis and is believed to have put …
Read More »The canceling of ‘They Are Us’, the film about the Christchurch massacre, is the right thing to do… for the wrong reason
Last week, pre-production for the film ‘They Are Us’, which intended to dramatize New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern’s response to the killing of 51 Muslim worshippers by a white supremacist in Christchurch in 2019, was shut down due to outrage from New Zealand’s Muslim community, which deemed the project …
Read More »No mercy to pandemic-hit states as ECB chief says canceling Covid debts ‘unthinkable’
“Canceling that debt is unthinkable. It would be a violation of the European treaty which strictly forbids monetary financing of states,” the ECB chief said in an interview with France’s Le Journal du Dimanche weekly. The claim comes shortly after the pool of more than 100 economists for the regulator …
Read More »Canceling their own? NYT’s lead Covid-19 reporter resigns after reprimand for use of ‘N-word’ fails to appease co-workers
The episode began when a student on a Times-sponsored trip to Peru in 2019 asked McNeil whether he thought her classmate should be suspended for using a racial slur on a video made years earlier. The reporter, who was on the trip as an expert to inform the students, repeated …
Read More »NYT readers in rebellion, ‘canceling subs’ en masse after unfavorable Biden fact-check tweet
The tweet contains a screenshot of its fact-checking coverage, which includes a debunked quote from Joe Biden. “We left him a booming economy. And he caused the recession.” The so-called paper of record unceremoniously analysed this claim under the title, “This is false,” much to the chagrin of its loyal …
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