International news and events.
by Kseniya Kirillova Russian Radicals Prop Up Trump With Global Conspiracy Theories Back in the early months of 2020, Russian propagandists were spreading conspiracy theories inside their country blaming the COVID-19 virus on the British and the Americans, claiming the disease originated in laboratories in those countries as “biological weapons” to be […]
Sweden’s COVID-19 Experiment Blows Up Sweden was the darling of right wing COVID-19 deniers and minimalists for the first time in modern history. Ordinarily, it is dismissed along with the rest of Scandinavia and Northern Europe, as “those socialist countries.” What did their government do to get them on Trumpublican friend lists? They […]
Trump’s DNI Nominee John Ratcliffe National Compass reported during the first go round when Trump proposed Texas Congressman John Ratcliffe (R-TX) as replacement for the former Director Of National Intelligence (DNI) Director, Dan Coats. Trump pushed Coats out because Coats defended the integrity and accuracy of the intel he was receiving from the […]
by Tony Wyman “Either America will destroy ignorance or ignorance will destroy the United States.” – W.E.B DuBois In the seminal novel about a dystopian totalitarian future 1984, author George Orwell penned the line “Ignorance is Strength” as one of the three slogans of the dictatorial political party of “Big Brother” that […]
Kim Yo-jong Dictator In Waiting With multiple news and government sources now reporting or at least strongly suspecting the young man who has ruled North Korea with an iron fist has died, rumors are swirling about who might take his place. So far strong bets are on his sister, 31 yr old […]
by Richard Cameron Trump’s Blame Shifting And Deflection Of Responsibility Bring More Risk To Americans In the latest installment of the all too reality based, Reality TV presidency of Donald Trump, Trump has withdrawn funding to the World Health Organization (W.H.O.), according to media reports. His decision to do so has been […]
Presidential Approval Polling Continues To Move Away From Trump We recently published a report, arguing that Trump’s bounce in approval on his leadership and handling of the coronavirus, was and would continue to be a blip on the radar screen. That has not only proved to be the case, but public opinion is […]
“It ain’t what you don’t know that gets you into trouble, it’s what you know for sure that just ain’t so.” – Anonymous (erroneously attributed to Mark Twain) Editor’s Note: I happened to notice a colleague’s post on the topic of a particular avenue of dangerous false equivalences that are circulating on social […]
by Tony Wyman Trump Fires Two Men Of Honor (for patently political reasons) At a time when more than 9100 Americans are dead and 321,000 sick by a pandemic made worse because the president of the United States failed to do his job, Donald Trump chose to fire two men of honor […]
by Tony Wyman Trump Was Not Blindsided By COVID-19 On 7 February 2020, the U.S. Department of State issued a press statement from Secretary of State Mike Pompeo boasting of the contribution of critical medical supplies and personal protective equipment (PPE) the United States was making to help the Chinese fight the […]
