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IN THE PRESS – Monday, May 24, 2021: "Aleksander Lukashenko has incurred the wrath of Europe" writes Russian paper Kommersant, after a plane carrying Belarusian opposition journalist Roman Protasevic…

Demanding the detained writer’s release, the Belarusian PEN Centre unites with sister agencies on the freedom to publish. Roman Protasevich. Image: A shot posted July 22, 2018, by Protasevich to his Twitter account A Joint Statement of Eight Organizations As many world capitals and cultural advocacy organizations work to formulate responses, PEN Belarus is, appropriately, among the first out this morning (May 24) with a statement on Sunday’s high-flown interception and arrest of opposition ...

CBS AUDIO NETWORK is offering a MEMORIAL DAY weekend special, available to affiliates and also to non-affiliates depending on market availability. The three-hour special is hosted by GIL GROSS and includes talks with MALCOLM GLADWELL on the longest night of WORLD WAR II and MAX BOOT on forgotten wars, plus segments on the end of American involvement in AFGHANISTAN and the forgotten heroes of the VIETNAM WAR. The special will also cover travel destinations as the country reopens and grilling ...

Radio America to have “The Dana Show” starring Dana Loesch fill the 12:00 noon to 3:00 pm ET daypart formerly occupied by Rush Limbaugh on many of its news/talk stations. Burack says his sources say it’s in the “advanced stages” but not a done deal just yet. The story also says that video platform The First – which simulcasts video of Loesch’s radio program as well as that of other talk hosts such as Buck Sexton, Bill O’Reilly, and Jesse Kelly â€�...

In 2021, social media is a weapon; it has the power to politicize and the power to spread disinformation. And... Levy notes that the Iron Dome system saves Israeli lives and gives “freedom of action against Hamas.” The system, he correctly observes, provides Israeli leaders with a tool that not only saves lives — Gazan and Israeli alike — but gives them greater options in mounting a response. Iron Dome, he notes, “protects Gazan civilians from the potentially devastating outcomes of a...

… It became a tiresome narrative during the Trump years that he was in the back pocket of Vlad Putin and had basically ceded the White House to the Kremlin. Sure, there were all of the actions Trump took against the country, but that does nothing to prove he wasnt a tool of the Russians. Sure, that country floundered financially for years as the US gained energy independence, and Trump took sanctions against their oil industry, but still – Russian pawn!  This is why the move by President B...

98SHARES “It doesn’t interest me if we cannot explain [our actions] to the world,” Golda Meir told Israeli premier David Ben-Gurion in the 1950s. “It will not be because the world doesn’t understand, but because it doesn’t want to understand.” Meir’s observation is borne out by the Washington Post’s opinion page, which, amid Hamas’s war on Israel, has served as a fount of disinformation, willfully misunderstanding basic facts and history. The newspaper even published a colu...

The battle between Liz-Ism and Trumpism. This is a rush transcript from "MediaBuzz," May 16, 2021. This copy may not be in its final form and may be updated. HOWARD KURTZ, FOX NEWS HOST (on camera): In the end, toppled from power, ostracized by her party, Liz Cheney turned to the media, her new allies, to escalate her crusade against Donald Trump. Are the pundits lionizing the Wyoming congresswoman seriously? Well, "The View" Joy Behar called her "Joan of Arc" and the former president fuels the...

Ignore the hype of Republicans threatening to ‘break away’ over Trump Cas Mudde © Provided by The Guardian Photograph: Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images “Over 100 Republicans, including former officials, threaten to split” from the Republican party, the New York Times declared on Tuesday. The next day the Washington Post upped the ante, headlining that the 100 Republicans were vowing “civil war”; the columnist Jennifer Rubin proclaimed the beginning of “the stampede...

Anti-Trump Republicans get lots of media attention. That doesn’t mean they are relevant within the Republican party