Washington turns to TikTok influencers to promote its narrative on Ukraine
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White House TikTok propagandists and Reddit mercenaries are in way over their heads on Ukraine
Since the onset of the conflict in Ukraine, social media has been bombarded with one-sided hero worship, amplified and drawn into users’ timelines through the magic of the infamously mysterious algorithms that govern these platforms, whose functioning regulators worldwide have had trouble grasping.
There’s the fictitious tale of the Ukrainian Snake Island border guards in the Black Sea, which was widely amplified by traditional Western media. As the...
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White House TikTok propagandists and Reddit mercenaries are in way over their heads on Ukraine
Since the onset of the conflict in Ukraine, social media has been bombarded with one-sided hero worship, amplified and drawn into users’ timelines through the magic of the infamously mysterious algorithms that govern these platforms, whose functioning regulators worldwide have had trouble grasping.
There’s the fictitious tale of the Ukrainian Snake Island border guards in the Black Sea, which was widely amplified by traditional Western media. As the...
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Investigation reveals whether Notre Dame fire was criminal – media
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The blaze was not caused by arson, experts said after a three-year probe
The devastating 2019 fire at the medieval Notre Dame de Paris cathedral in Paris was not of criminal origin, an inquiry has established, almost three years after the fire ravaged the structure.
According to a Le Parisien report on Tuesday, experts managed to reconstruct the unfolding of the disaster and concluded that the fire was not caused by a voluntary act. The results confirm preliminary findings in June 2019, which suggested there was no criminality involved.
At the moment, per the outlet’s information,...
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The blaze was not caused by arson, experts said after a three-year probe
The devastating 2019 fire at the medieval Notre Dame de Paris cathedral in Paris was not of criminal origin, an inquiry has established, almost three years after the fire ravaged the structure.
According to a Le Parisien report on Tuesday, experts managed to reconstruct the unfolding of the disaster and concluded that the fire was not caused by a voluntary act. The results confirm preliminary findings in June 2019, which suggested there was no criminality involved.
At the moment, per the outlet’s information,...
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Photos: Russian bombing leaves Ukraine’s Kharkiv in ruins
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Local officials say at least 500 people have been killed and 600 buildings destroyed since Russia launched its invasion.
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Local officials say at least 500 people have been killed and 600 buildings destroyed since Russia launched its invasion.
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US Fed hikes rates, signals aggressive stance to fight inflation
The quarter-percentage-point hike is likely the first of many to rein in the highest US inflation in over 40 years.
Published On 16 Mar 2022
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US Fed hikes rates, signals aggressive stance to fight inflation
The quarter-percentage-point hike is likely the first of many to rein in the highest US inflation in over 40 years.
Published On 16 Mar 2022
Ukrainian Leader Picks Up His Guitar and Plays for Biden’s No Fly Zone
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Western media has gouged itself on the idea that there is no nuances worth looking at in the war and no place for any factual reporting.
Peak fake news reached a climax in early March when social media circulated a video of the Ukrainian president singing a duet with his wife.
A music video of a cover of Diana Ross and Lionel Richie’s “Endless Love” has been miscaptioned online, with social media users claiming it depicts Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelensky and Olena Zelenska, the first lady of Ukraine singing. The performers in the video, however, were Englis...
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Western media has gouged itself on the idea that there is no nuances worth looking at in the war and no place for any factual reporting.
Peak fake news reached a climax in early March when social media circulated a video of the Ukrainian president singing a duet with his wife.
A music video of a cover of Diana Ross and Lionel Richie’s “Endless Love” has been miscaptioned online, with social media users claiming it depicts Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelensky and Olena Zelenska, the first lady of Ukraine singing. The performers in the video, however, were Englis...
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The U.S., NATO & the Article IV Trap in Ukraine
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Scott Ritter says the ongoing flow of refugees out of Ukraine into neighboring territories poses the greatest potential for a NATO-Russia clash.
By Scott RITTER
The ongoing Russian invasion has torn asunder whatever passed for geopolitical stability in Eastern Europe in the years since NATO expansion brought Poland and the three former Soviet Baltic Republics of Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia into its membership.
While peeved, Russia had accepted the resulting equilibrium with stoic grace, bristling at every NATO effort at muscle flexing, but not overreacting. Even in the face of NATO and EU intervention in the affairs of Ru...
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Scott Ritter says the ongoing flow of refugees out of Ukraine into neighboring territories poses the greatest potential for a NATO-Russia clash.
By Scott RITTER
The ongoing Russian invasion has torn asunder whatever passed for geopolitical stability in Eastern Europe in the years since NATO expansion brought Poland and the three former Soviet Baltic Republics of Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia into its membership.
While peeved, Russia had accepted the resulting equilibrium with stoic grace, bristling at every NATO effort at muscle flexing, but not overreacting. Even in the face of NATO and EU intervention in the affairs of Ru...
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Russian children being bullied over Ukraine war
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Youngsters are facing abuse at school because of the war in Ukraine, a Save the Children official tells Danish broadcaster TV2
Human rights group Save the Children has called out bullying of Russian kids, saying they have become targets for abuse at school and online because of hatred being stoked against their nationality amid Moscow’s military offensive in Ukraine.
The bullying has gotten so bad that children of Russian origin in Denmark are afraid of being dropped off at school in the morning, Save the Children senior adviser Jon Kristian Lange told Danish broadcaster...
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Youngsters are facing abuse at school because of the war in Ukraine, a Save the Children official tells Danish broadcaster TV2
Human rights group Save the Children has called out bullying of Russian kids, saying they have become targets for abuse at school and online because of hatred being stoked against their nationality amid Moscow’s military offensive in Ukraine.
The bullying has gotten so bad that children of Russian origin in Denmark are afraid of being dropped off at school in the morning, Save the Children senior adviser Jon Kristian Lange told Danish broadcaster...
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Saudis Work Backroom Deal With China To Subvert US By Trading Oil In Yuan, Biden Is Failing
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US Fed hikes rates, signals aggressive stance to fight inflation
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The quarter-percentage-point hike is likely the first of many to rein in the highest US inflation in over 40 years.
Published On 16 Mar 2022
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The quarter-percentage-point hike is likely the first of many to rein in the highest US inflation in over 40 years.
Published On 16 Mar 2022
UN aid drive to avert Yemen catastrophe falls far short
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Conference raises only a third of the money needed for Yemen, as United Nations warns of famine.
Published On 16 Mar 2022
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Conference raises only a third of the money needed for Yemen, as United Nations warns of famine.
Published On 16 Mar 2022
‘Absurd’: Brazil awards Bolsonaro ‘medal of Indigenous merit’
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Indigenous leaders slam the award, saying Brazil’s president has promoted policies that threaten their communities.
Published On 16 Mar 2022
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Indigenous leaders slam the award, saying Brazil’s president has promoted policies that threaten their communities.
Published On 16 Mar 2022
A year after spa killings, Americans protest anti-Asian hate
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The majority of nearly 11,000 hate incidents against AAPI between March 2020 and the end of 2021 involved women.
Published On 16 Mar 2022
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The majority of nearly 11,000 hate incidents against AAPI between March 2020 and the end of 2021 involved women.
Published On 16 Mar 2022
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Russia slams Biden for calling Putin a ‘war criminal’
With war entering fourth week, US increases support for Ukraine as diplomatic efforts to secure ceasefire continue.
Published On 16 Mar 2022
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Russia slams Biden for calling Putin a ‘war criminal’
With war entering fourth week, US increases support for Ukraine as diplomatic efforts to secure ceasefire continue.
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Ukraine says Russia attacked Mariupol theatre sheltering people
Ukrainian officials say many people were trapped in the building as Russia denies carrying out an attack.
Published On 16 Mar 2022
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Ukraine says Russia attacked Mariupol theatre sheltering people
Ukrainian officials say many people were trapped in the building as Russia denies carrying out an attack.
Published On 16 Mar 2022
The Huge Gap Between How Serious Nuclear War Is and How Seriously It’s Being Taken
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By Caitlin JOHNSTONE
Sometimes I’m not sure what presents a greater threat to humanity, nuclear war or the colossal stupidity that has made it possible.
Due to the skyrocketing risk of a world-ending confrontation between the United States and Russia, World Socialist Website is re-releasing a series of interviews it conducted in 2017 with experts on the subject of nuclear war. One of them is with a se...
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By Caitlin JOHNSTONE
Sometimes I’m not sure what presents a greater threat to humanity, nuclear war or the colossal stupidity that has made it possible.
Due to the skyrocketing risk of a world-ending confrontation between the United States and Russia, World Socialist Website is re-releasing a series of interviews it conducted in 2017 with experts on the subject of nuclear war. One of them is with a se...
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Biden reveals details of $1bn Ukraine aid package
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The US president is stepping up the provision of lethal aid to allies in Kiev
US President Joe Biden has announced a further $800 million in taxpayer-funded military aid to Ukraine, adding to the $200 million promised to the embattled nation on Saturday.
Among the lethal items promised to the US ally on Wednesday are 9,000 anti-armor systems, 7,000 small arms, 800 anti-aircraft missiles, 20 million rounds of ammo, body armor, and drones. Biden announced the details just hours after Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky made an emotional appeal for military aid to the US Congress via video link.
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The US president is stepping up the provision of lethal aid to allies in Kiev
US President Joe Biden has announced a further $800 million in taxpayer-funded military aid to Ukraine, adding to the $200 million promised to the embattled nation on Saturday.
Among the lethal items promised to the US ally on Wednesday are 9,000 anti-armor systems, 7,000 small arms, 800 anti-aircraft missiles, 20 million rounds of ammo, body armor, and drones. Biden announced the details just hours after Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky made an emotional appeal for military aid to the US Congress via video link.
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White House ‘not interested’ in World War III
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Biden’s press secretary says that despite Zelensky’s plea to Congress, policy against no-fly zone in Ukraine isn’t changing
President Joe Biden was apparently unmoved by Ukrainian leader Volodymyr Zelensky’s latest plea for a no-fly zone amid Moscow’s military offensive in the former Soviet Republic, standing by his view that such a move would carry too much risk of triggering a wider war with Russia.
“As we’ve said before, a no-fly zone would require implementation,” White House press secretary Jen Psaki told reporters on Wednesday....
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Biden’s press secretary says that despite Zelensky’s plea to Congress, policy against no-fly zone in Ukraine isn’t changing
President Joe Biden was apparently unmoved by Ukrainian leader Volodymyr Zelensky’s latest plea for a no-fly zone amid Moscow’s military offensive in the former Soviet Republic, standing by his view that such a move would carry too much risk of triggering a wider war with Russia.
“As we’ve said before, a no-fly zone would require implementation,” White House press secretary Jen Psaki told reporters on Wednesday....
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