Daily Archives: March 15, 2022

2022-03-15: News Headlines

_____ (2022-03-15). Russia's Operation in Ukraine, a Middle Eastern Perspective. journal-neo.org "Ukraine: the price of the American-European deception," "A lesson for the Ukrainian people in the school of the West." These and similar headlines have flooded the Middle Eastern media and social media in the wake of the Russian military operation in Ukraine. One of the main topics is the reasons and background for this move …

Brian Mier (2022-03-15). Behind the Azov-Brazil Connection: How Neo-Nazis Are Pushing to "Ukrainize" Brazil. mintpressnews.com A small group of Brazilian bolsonaristas have become social media celebrities as they crossed the border into Ukraine to fight against Russia, but as Brian Meir reports, Ukrainian Neo-Nazi groups have had influence in Brazil for years.

Siam Cruz, Borneo Bulletin (2022-03-15). Biologist Ellie Sursara Stuns Internet With a Mystery Animal. indybay.org An Australian scientist who goes by the online name 'Biologist Ellie' has stunned the internet with photos of a mystery creature that is unable to be identified by two Australian universities and thousands of social media enthusiasts.

Editor (2022-03-14). Business as usual: Facebook, Russia, and hate speech. mronline.org The Russian Federation, President Vladimir Putin, and Russians in general emerge as the latest contenders, the comic strip villains who those in the broadly designated "West" can now take issue with.

Editor (2022-03-14). The Uyghur Podcast brought to you by a CIA torture propagandist. mronline.org On February 2nd, eagle-eyed pro-China activist Arnaud Bertrand revealed that WEghur Stories, a podcast "working to create a conversation within and about the global Uyghur diaspora" that has been aggressively promoted on Facebook and Spotify, is funded by Washington's French diplomatic mission—and that John Bair, its co-creator, co-host and producer, is a former CIA operative.

Staff (2022-03-14). Buena Fe acompaña al "pagador de promesas", en El Cobre de Santiago de Cuba (+ Video). cubadebate.cu Omar Quintero Montes de Oca, "el pagador de promesas", está en El Cobre, en Santiago de Cuba. Cumpliendo también su promesa, el cantautor cubano Israel Rojas lo acompaña. "En el Cobre de Santiago de Cuba. Con Omar, un hombre que nos ha unido en la fe del amor a la vida. Un hombre valiente", se lee en un post de Facebook de Buena Fe.

_____ (2022-03-14). Information Sovereignty More Important Than Ever. journal-neo.org The elimination of Russian media across the West and to a greater extent from across US-based social media platforms used worldwide, is a stark demonstration of the power the West still wields within global information space. It is a wake-up call for nations around the globe regarding the threat of leaving a nation's information space …

Victoria Torres (2022-03-14). TAP Returns: Portuguese Airline Resumes Caracas-Lisbon Route. orinocotribune.com Through a post on its official Twitter account, the Portuguese airline TAP Air Portugal announced this Friday, March 11, that it will resume flights to Venezuela soon. | The Lisbon-Caracas route will officially resume on June 21, with two weekly flights (Tuesdays and Saturdays), on an Airbus A330neo aircraft, which has a capacity of 34 passengers in Business Class, 96 in Economy Extra and 168 in Economy Class. | The website of the Portuguese airline also reported that it has three additional flights scheduled to Lisbon for April 21 and May 5 and 16. In addition, they informed that regular service will operate on…

Isheka N. Harrison (2022-03-14). Black America Brings Back Def Comedy Jam Over St. Patrick's Day Pictures Of Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot. moguldom.com Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot was trending on Black Twitter for her St. Patrick's Day spirit — and it wasn't because people were impressed. Many poked fun at Lightfoot's getup after a picture surfaced of the mayor wearing Irish attire to mark the holiday. Lightfoot appeared in a St. Patrick's Day Parade on Chicago's Southside on …

Staff (2022-03-14). Presidente cubano da la bienvenida a próxima visita de López Obrador. cubadebate.cu El Presidente de la República de Cuba Miguel Díaz-Canel Bermúdez expresó este domingo en su cuenta de Twitter el placer de poder recibir en unas semanas a su homólogo mexicano Andrés Manuel López Obrador, quien realizará una visita oficial a Cuba.

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