#China, for instance, the first epicenter of the outbreak, has managed to slow its new #COVID__19 cases to a trickle, reopening for business after losing 4,632 people – a number that, in the context of a stark #APRIL reality, appears impressively low. public.flourish.studio/story/230085/?…
Another sanctioned state exporting doctors across the world during the pandemic is #Cuba, the island nation is sending medical staff to neighbors like Haiti, #Venezuela, Suriname and Jamaica and also further afield to #Italy. mintpressnews.com/images-cuba-do…
#Venezuela is struggling under crippling U.S. sanctions that have claimed the lives of at least 100,000 people has mobilized to fight the #virus, with twice as many tests as other South American nation, but only 288 #COVID__19 cases have been found, leading to only 10 deaths.
In #Iran, one of the first global hotspots and a country that planners in the #US were predicting would fall in on itself under the strain has managed to get to grips with the #pandemic. The number of new daily cases of #COVID__19 has been falling since March 30. #Iranian#COVID
@s_m_marandi , a professor at the University of Tehran, claims the crippling sanctions that blocked #Iranian oil exports have better prepared them to deal with the total collapse in global #Oil prices than U.S. allies like Saudi Arabia, the UAE or Qatar.
A new @MintPress investigation explores how NATO is using memes and online humor to attempt to win a propaganda war against Russia, in the process subjecting the world to some of the unfunniest content ever devised by man.
In November NATO published a study: “Humor in online information warfare: Case study on Russia’s war on Ukraine” which described how jokes and memes could be used to win a propaganda war against Russia.
“Humor…reaches the parts that other countermeasures – like fact-checking or media user education – cannot,” the NATO paper wrote, adding that memes can “exploit social media platform algorithms” and reach audiences that are “not inclined to consume” NATO messaging.
🧵A MintPress News investigation has found that dozens of former officials from the State Department, CIA and FBI are working in key positions at TikTok and affecting the content that over one billion users see.
A MintPress News investigation has found dozens of ex-U.S. State Department officials working in key positions at TikTok.
TikTok has been recruiting former State Department officials to run its operations. The company’s head of data public policy for Europe, for example, is Jade Nester.
According to the résumé of TikTok trust and safety manager Beau Patteson, not only was he a CIA targeting analyst until 2020, he is also a currently serving military intelligence officer in the U.S. Army while moonlighting at the social media behemoth.
🧵A new investigation by @KitKlarenberg for MintPressNews explores how the rampant Islamophobic stereotypes in the “Borat” movies helped prime Western audiences to accept Israel’s slaughter in Gaza.
In the wake of Israel’s onslaught, Cohen and other Borat writers strongly supported the Jewish state.
Cohen and other Borat writers have come out in strong support of Israel in the wake of its onslaught, and have attempted to coerce social media platforms into silencing Palestinian voices on the grounds of hate speech.
🧵Benjamin Netanyahu reportedly wants controversial lawyer Alan Dershowitz to defend Israel from charges of genocide at the International Court of Justice.
But Dershowitz himself has a past as controversial as Israel itself. This includes accusations of sexual misconduct, plagiarism and supporting racists.
Dershowitz is named 137 times in the unsealed court documents.