WASHINGTON, D.C. — In response to the growing need for reliable Russian-language news and information in Central and Eastern Europe, the U.S. Agency for Global Media (USAGM) announced it is expanding its satellite distribution of Current Time TV.
USAGM expands Russian-language programming to Europe
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Read More »MIAMI, FL — Radio and Television Martí and the Ukrainian fact-checking outlet, StopFake.org, today launched a joint project to counter Spanish-language “Russian propaganda” circulating in Cuba.
New partnership provides fact checking support to combat on Russian disinformation in Cuba
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Read More »The US Federal Reserve printed $300 billion in a week to save collapsing banks and bail out Silicon Valley oligarchs. 93% of Silicon Valley Bank’s deposits were uninsured, over the FDIC limit of $250,000, but the government still paid them. 56% of SVB’s loans went to venture capitalist and private equity firms.
US government bailout of Silicon Valley and banks is $300B gift to rich oligarchs
“The invasion of Iraq was twenty years ago, but the U.S. government hasn’t learned a single lesson,” said American journalist and activist Eugene Puryear, also an organizer of Saturday’s anti-war rally north of the White House.
Washington protesters call for stop to endless U.S. wars, reflection on Iraq invasion
Russian forces spearheaded by the infamous Wagner private military group are steadily wearing down the last holdouts in the city of Bakhmut, with the nearly encircled Ukrainians taking heavy casualties and running out of firepower, after a monthslong fight.
Ukrainian forces running out of shells, equipment in fight for Bakhmut
Polish diplomat Jan Rosciszewski actually dotted the “i” in terms of the entry of NATO forces into the territory of Ukraine. He holds the post of Polish ambassador in Paris.
Polish Ambassador in Paris: We will have no choice but to enter the conflict in Ukraine if this country cannot defend its sovereignty
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Polish Ambassador to France: Poland will be forced to enter war if Ukraine fails to defend itself
On Friday, the International Criminal Court (ICC) in The Hague issued arrest warrants for Russian President Vladimir Putin and Maria Lvova-Belova, Russia’s commissioner for children’s rights, for alleged war crimes.
ICC issues arrest warrant against Putin as part of US-NATO propaganda campaign for regime change
“THERE IS NO WAY he is a victim of communism,” my partner quips, pointing to a photo of the late Pope John Paul II. We are near the end of our visit to the new Victims of Communism Museum, standing in an elevator-size lobby with photographs of “victims” screen-printed all over the walls. Among the many victims and honorees: Chinese artist Ai Weiwei, the Dalai Lama, Romanian writer Herta Müller, Hong Kong activist Joshua Wong, and Hungarian neofascist Viktor Orbán.
Red Scared: Revising history at the Victims of Communism Museum (archived)
While the courts are unlikely to deliver solace from political party propaganda disguised as journalism, they have provided some wisdom. Both Rachel Maddow and Tucker Carlson of MSNBC and Fox News Channel respectively, have been brought to court for spreading false information and were exonerated because the judges concluded that no reasonable person would believe either of them were telling the truth. That is good advice, and viewers would be wise to remember it every time they consider watching cable news.
Federal investigators have asked witnesses about Bannon’s connections to the far-right mogul.
Steve Bannon Is Neck-Deep in Guo Wengui’s Allegedly Fraudulent Business Empire (archived)
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Ms. Cat’s Chronicles 
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