As socialite Ghislaine Maxwell languishes in the same Manhattan jail in which her ex-boyfriend, paedophile financier Jeffrey Epstein, hung himself, a recent biography of her fraudster father suggests the apple didn’t fall far from the tree. But it’s not her father, the world-class blowhard, bullying conman ‘Captain’ Bob Maxwell from …
Read More »Lights, Camera, Cancelled! 10 Movies that were never made because the US government didn’t like them
J. Edgar Hoover wasn’t partial to Federal Dick The FBI was the first agency to lay the smack down on movies. In the 1930s, J. Edgar Hoover insisted on total control of the FBI’s public image and monitored the development of all movie projects about the Bureau. In February 1935, …
Read More »‘I’m still that curious Brooklyn kid and I’m proud of what I did with my life’ – Larry King in never-before-aired interview on RT
The interview was taped over a year ago, when King sat down with his personal friend Sanchez to share some anecdotes about his life and thoughts about his distinguished career, which made him one of the most recognized people in the media industry. The New York City-born icon said that, …
Read More »‘Never Forget’ means facing history, not erasing it. If we can’t handle statues, we’re helpless against living, breathing fascists
On Holocaust Remembrance Day, Forward writer Lev Golinkin unveiled a list of scores of monuments and streets across the US and Europe honoring “fascists, Nazis and murderers of Jews” as indicative of a darker current running through supposedly tolerant societies. That most were erected in the last 20 years is …
Read More »Iran’s Zarif tells RT he was never ‘buddies’ with Biden but hopes new US admin will rethink policy of ‘economic terrorism’
In an interview with Oksana Boyko, host of RT’s Worlds Apart, the top Iranian diplomat said it would be a mistake to think that his personal relationship with Biden could help trigger a major diplomatic breakthrough between the two longtime rivals. Zarif said his history with Biden can be traced …
Read More »WATCH Larry King’s last, never-before-aired interview with RT America’s Rick Sanchez this Friday
King’s passing followed the loss of his son Andy to a fatal heart attack in July, and of his daughter Chaia to lung cancer in August. The entire field of broadcast media is shaped to its core by the gold standard that Larry established, and the debt owed to him …
Read More »Americans’ trust in mainstream media has never been lower – but journalists insist it’s the audience’s fault, not theirs
Long headed for collapse, Americans’ trust in the media establishment hit an all time low in 2021, falling three points overall to just 46 percent, according to Edelman’s most recent annual survey. The figure marks the first time Americans’ trust of journalism sank below the 50 percent mark. Americans’ trust …
Read More »Farewell Melania Trump, you never stood a chance as FLOTUS but, like everyone else, you never thought you’d get the job anyway
The media worldwide has revelled in giving Melania Trump a pasting over the last four years, with online trolls continuing the diatribe, giving the most unpopular FLOTUS (First Lady of the United States) of all time a raucous raspberry-blowing send-off, spouting the sort of bile and insults only true liberals …
Read More »‘We may never find patient zero’: WHO urges to be ‘careful’ about attributing start of Covid-19 pandemic
“We need to be very careful about the use of the phrase ‘patient zero’ which many people indicate as the first initial case. We may never find who the patient zero was,” Maria Van Kerkhove, WHO’s technical lead on Covid-19 told a press conference on Friday, referring to the organization’s …
Read More »‘It could be never’: Parler CEO says site may not recover after ‘catastrophic’ Big Tech purge as legal battle with Amazon rages on
Parler CEO John Matze told Reuters on Wednesday that the website’s future is in limbo after a cascade of online vendors rushed to distance themselves from the platform in the wake of an eruption of violence at the US Capitol last week, saying he doesn’t know if it will ever …
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