While the assassination of Haiti’s president Jovenel Moïse has again turned the world’s attention to the beleaguered Caribbean state, it’s also put the spotlight back on the region’s historic relationship with its former colonial rulers. Whether the attack on Moïse last Wednesday at his home in the hills above Haiti’s …
Read More »Bogus story of Iranian interference in Scottish politics shows Western media to be the true election meddler
On May 3, The Times published a bombshell front-page report alleging that Tehran was “almost certainly” attempting to interfere in the impending Scottish parliament elections, “encouraging Scottish separatism,” in order to “attack the constitutional integrity” of the UK. The source of this shocking claim was a preview of a report …
Read More »Australian MP blasts Facebook’s ‘interference’ after his OFFICIAL page was banned for Covid-19 ‘misinformation’
Kelly was informed of Facebook’s ban by text on Monday morning, he told the media, describing the move as “censorship.” Banning the page with some 86,000 followers represents “interference in Australian democracy,” he said. “This was the most popular, highly used political Facebook page in the country,” he said, in …
Read More »Moscow slams West’s ‘foreign interference’ as US and EU react to Navalny sentence
“Don’t meddle in the internal affairs of a sovereign state. And we recommend that everyone deals with their own problems,” Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova told Russian broadcaster RBC on Tuesday. “Believe me,” she added, “there are enough of their own problems in these countries, there are plenty of issues to …
Read More »Putin hopes Biden will put an end to Moscow interference in US elections hysteria, says it’s used to tarnish US-Russian relations
During his annual end-of-year press conference on Thursday, Putin was asked by the singer, who branched out into politics and journalism earlier this year, why Russian hackers didn’t help Trump secure re-election this time around. “It isn’t so much a question,” Putin replied, “as a provocation. Russian hackers didn’t help …
Read More »‘Stolen election’ hysteria is the new ‘Russian interference’ – and both are the result of US institutional erosion
The Trump campaign has now lost 51 legal challenges to last month’s presidential election results, as each state’s authorities confirm rival Democrat Joe Biden’s victory. Yet 52 percent of Republicans actually believed that it was Trump who had “rightfully won” the election (versus 29 percent for Joe Biden), according to a Reuters/Ipsos …
Read More »China’s latest sanctions are a bid to permanently end America’s interference in Hong Kong
Earlier this week, the United States slapped a series of sanctions on 14 members of China’s National People’s Congress Standing Committee. Their ‘crime’? Passing a law which gives Hong Kong the right to remove members of the legislative council on National Security Concerns, which led to the expulsion of two members. …
Read More »DNI Ratcliffe says ‘NO EVIDENCE’ of Russian interference in Hunter Biden scandal, accuses Schiff of ‘politicizing intelligence’
“Hunter Biden’s laptop is not part of some Russian disinformation campaign,” Ratcliffe said during a Monday interview on Fox Business. “The intelligence community doesn’t believe that because there is no intelligence that supports that,” he added. The director’s comments were a direct rebuttal of Congressman Adam Schiff, who claimed on …
Read More »New Zealand party accuses Facebook of election interference after being removed from platform for Covid-19 ‘misinformation’
In a statement, Facebook said that the page had been scrubbed due to “repeated violations” of its policy prohibiting misinformation about Covid-19 that could lead to physical harm. The move comes just two days before New Zealand holds a general election. A spokesperson for Facebook insisted that the decision was …
Read More »‘Unacceptable’ interference: International Criminal Court objects to US sanctions prompted by war crimes investigation
Bensouda, a Gambian attorney who was attempting to investigate alleged US war crimes in Afghanistan, was sanctioned on Wednesday. ICC’s head of Jurisdiction, Complementary, and Cooperation Division Phakiso Mochochoko was also blacklisted for “having materially assisted” the prosecutor, Pompeo told reporters. “These attacks constitute an escalation and an unacceptable attempt …
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