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Washington: Secretary of State Michael Pompeo pressed the Voice of America to be less critical of the U.S., delivering a speech that appeared at odds with the news organization’s mandate to maintain editorial independence from the government.
Pompeo’s address Monday at the Voice of America headquarters in Washington where he said VOA “isn’t the place to give authoritarian regimes in Beijing or Tehran a platform” adds to efforts in the waning days of the Trump administration to rein in the government-funded broadcaster.
“It is not fake news for you to broadcast that this is the greatest nation in the history of the world and the greatest nation this civilization has ever known,” Pompeo said. “I’m not saying ignore our faults. Indeed, just the opposite. It is to acknowledge them. But this isn’t the Vice of America, focusing on everything that’s wrong with our great nation. It’s the Voice of America.”
Everyone loves to hate a billionaireâattack on Ambani, Adani shows why
Everyone loves to hate a billionaireâattack on Ambani, Adani shows why
A govt servant using the official car for private work is as much of a corrupt practice as an Arhatiya under-weighing the farm produce.
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Everyone loves to hate a billionaire. This is a fact of modern life. In India though, hate has a tendency to be translated into direct action, quite fast. We have seen some of it in social media discussions surrounding the farmersâ agitation against the recent farm laws â they started vilifying Adani and Ambani. In Punjab, protesting farmers took it a step forward when they called for the boycott of the establishment and services associated with these two large conglomerations. In some places, they even disabled a few cell phone towers âof a certain companyâ. Others ass
Pompeo also accused Beijing of trying to exert control over shipping lanes in the South China Sea, and of covering up the extent of the coronavirus outbreak early on.
Trump Handed Defeat as Congress Overrides Defense Bill Veto Bloomberg 1/1/2021 Roxana Tiron and Erik Wasson
(Bloomberg) Congress handed Donald Trump a major, bipartisan defeat in the waning days of his presidency, as the Republican-led Senate voted to override his veto of a $740.5 billion defense policy bill.
It’s the first time one of Trump’s vetoes has been surmounted. On Twitter, in his first response to the override, Trump said the Senate “missed an opportunity,” terming the effort “Pathetic!!”
The final tally was 81 to 13, easily exceeding the two-thirds threshold needed to override a veto, with support coming from both Republicans and Democrats as it did earlier in the House. The massive annual defense authorization measure now will become law.
What America has learnt from Iranian social media
What America has learnt from Iranian social media
Following what Iranian activists say on social media is a useful way to gauge the regime’s legitimacy and may help the US communicate directly with its people.
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Most Americans have no idea who Nahid Shirbisheh is. But in Iran, she has become a powerful symbol of resistance. A little over a year ago, she witnessed her son’s murder at a government protest in Tehran. Last month she released a video made at the location of his killing that went viral in Iran.