Guantanamo deportations: What’s Trump’s plan? Why is it controversial?
The Listening Post Trump’s blitzkrieg: Overwhelm, confuse, confound Read more It’s an alarming moment in US politics. Developments have been fast and furious, with Donald Trump flooding the news space at a rate journalists find hard to handle. His plan for an American takeover of the Gaza Strip, the reshaping of federal agencies and the…
Following the sighting of the crescent by the moon-sighting committee on Friday, Saudi Arabia has announced that the first day of fasting will be Saturday, March 1. Other countries follow their own moon sightings, and the crescent moon was not sighted in Indonesia, Malaysia, Bangladesh, India, Pakistan and several other countries across Asia making the…
When Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced this week that the social media giant would scrap third-party fact-checking and ease moderation of sensitive topics, he cast the decision as reflecting the zeitgeist. The re-election of United States President-elect Donald Trump signalled a “cultural tipping point” towards free speech over moderation, Zuckerberg said. In many ways, he…
United States President Donald Trump has continued his attacks on Ukrainian leader Volodymyr Zelenskyy, as a White House official said a deal on rare earth minerals was close. Trump’s statements on Friday continued a days-long screed against Zelenskyy that has sent both Ukraine and Washington’s traditional European allies reeling. The criticism comes amid a wider…
True Crime Reports The Khalistan Assassinations A murder that rocked the Sikh community in British Columbia, Canada. Read more Hardeep Singh Nijjar, a prominent Sikh leader, was fatally shot in his car just after leaving his local temple in 2023. This wasn’t just another crime – it was an event that would spark international tension…
Lava erupts from vents on the west part of the caldera wall, during a new eruption within the summit caldera of the Kilauea volcano in Hawaii, US, December 23, 2024 [USGS/N Deligne/Handout via Reuters]