(2023-09-04). Bucharest Denies Ukrainian Claim That Russian Drone Hit Romania. news.antiwar.com NATO member Romania has strongly denied a Ukrainian claim that a Russian drone detonated in Romanian territory during an overnight bombardment on one of Ukraine's ports on the Danube River. Ukrainian Foreign Ministry spokesman Oleg Nikolenko made the claim on Facebook. He said that according to Ukraine's state border service, a Russian drone "fell and …
(2023-09-05). When the Torturer is the 'Savior'. counterpunch.org At the zenith of the mass protests in Egypt on January 25, 2011, Twitter, Facebook and other Western-based social media platforms appeared to be the most essential tools for the Egyptian Revolution. Though some observers later contested the use of the terms 'Twitter Revolution' or 'Social Media Revolution', one cannot deny the centrality of these
(2023-09-05). Defriending Canada: Natural Disasters and Facebook's Information Scrub. counterpunch.org Australia experienced this in February 2021. Facebook had gotten nastily stroppy, wishing to dictate public policy to the Commonwealth government. To teach Canberra mandarins a lesson, it literally unfriended the entire country, scrubbing all news platforms of content and making any posted links through the platform inaccessible. It mattered not that the content involved the
(2023-09-05). US Special Operations Command Will Deploy Argus AI Program to Scour Social Media for Disinformation, Misinformation and Malinformation, National Security Authority to Protect U.S. Internet from "Pain Points" globalresearch.ca
(2023-09-04). Honduran President Condemns Coup Attempt in Guatemala Warned by President Elect Arévalo. orinocotribune.com Honduran President Xiomara Castro has strongly condemned the coup attempt in Guatemala that has been denounced by president elect of Guatemala, Bernardo Arévalo. | "Coup and crime threaten our democracies, which can only be defended by the legitimacy of the sovereignty of the people in the streets and at the ballot box," the Honduran president wrote on Sunday, September 3, on her social media, expressing her support for Arévalo. | Condeno enérgicamente el intento de Golpe en Guatemala denunciado por el presidente electo
(2023-09-05). Murder, Corruption, Fraud and Felons at LAVC Exposed in 2020. indybay.org In 2020, a Twitter account @Laccdw published a thread exposing just how bad things were at Los Angeles Valley College. It was shut-down two weeks before the LACCD Board of Trustees Election.
(2023-09-05). Cuban authorities salute 60th anniversary of the Revolutionary Navy. plenglish.com On the social network X, formerly Twitter, National People's Power Assembly Esteban Lazo sent congratulations to all the members of the Navy and stressed that "they have been bulwarks in the defense of the Socialist Homeland and in Fidel (Castro)'s call to be a Navy of Patria o Muerte (Homeland and Death). | Prime Minister Manuel Marrero, in turn, congratulated the Cuban sailors, whom he described as faithful defenders of sovereignty and peace. | The Secretary of Organization of the Communist Party of Cuba, Roberto Morales, also congratulated the Revolutionary Navy and described its troops as the safeguard of Cu…
(2023-09-04). Türkiye's Annual Inflation Rate Climbs to 58.94 Pct in August. twitter.com Türkiye's annual inflation rate rose to 58.94 percent in August, climbing for a second straight month since it started to slide from October. | RELATED: | Figures from the Turkish Statistic Institute showed the consumer price index (CPI) in August rose by 9.09 percent monthly. | The annual rate of change in CPI experienced a consecutive decline from a peak of 85.51 percent in October 2022 to 38.21 percent in June 2023, and then headed up to 47.83 percent in July. | On Aug. 24, T&u…
(2023-09-04). Cuba remembers young Italian victim of terrorism. plenglish.com In his account on X, formerTwitter, he pointed out that "(Luis) Posada Carriles and other organizers of the act, lived free in the US, whose government, with cynicism and deceit, put Cuba on the list of terrorist sponsors". | On September 4, 1997, the explosion of an explosive device placed in the lobby of the Copacabana Hotel in Havana took Di Celmo's life, and other facilities such as the Triton and Chateau-Miramar hotels and La Bodeguita del Medio restaurant suffered material damage as a result of similar actions. | The young man, 32 years old, was one of the victims of the terrorist attacks promoted by Posada…
(2023-09-04). "Rich Men North of Richmond" Is a Populist Anthem Lost in Its Own Grievance. truthout.org The current focus of the U.S.'s never-ending culture war comes in the form of the song, "Rich Men North of Richmond," by Oliver Anthony, aka Christopher Anthony Lunsford, a former factory worker, who has been open about his battles with alcoholism and depression. Riding a wave of viral attention, "Rich Men" has now spent two weeks at the number 1 spot on the Billboard Hot 100 Charts. |
(2023-09-04). The evolution of the Omicron variants and the policy of forever COVID. wsws.org Allowing COVID-19 unimpeded access to billions of people has raised the alarm among scientists that viral evolution will most likely lead to another event similar to the massive global wave of the Omicron BA.1 variant in the winter of 2021-22.
(2023-09-05). Preventing measles outbreaks in the US through vaccination. newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) lists India as the top country for measles outbreaks, with more than 57,500 reported cases. In the U.S., there have been 19 cases of the highly infectious virus this year. "Measles is a viral infection that is highly contagious if you're not immune to it," says Dr. Nipunie Rajapakse, a pediatric infectious diseases physician with the Mayo Clinic Children's Center. "It's generally characterized by fever, cough, runny nose and a pretty characteristic rash that…
(2023-09-04). Preventing measles outbreaks in the US through vaccination. newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) lists India as the top country for measles outbreaks, with more than 57,500 reported cases. In the U.S., there have been 19 cases of the highly infectious virus this year. "Measles is a viral infection that is highly contagious if you're not immune to it," says Dr. Nipunie Rajapakse, a pediatric infectious diseases physician with the Mayo Clinic Children's Center. "It's generally characterized by fever, cough, runny nose and a pretty characteristic rash that…