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The taxpayer-funded leftists at National Public Radio flung proverbial sewage at critics who dared raise Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg’s financial ties to billionaire George Soros. NPR’s Apr. 6 edition of All Things Considered decried “conservative politicians” who made Soros a “bogeyman” in Bragg’s highly politicized prosecution of former President Donald Trump. The outlet railed at critics like Trump, Florida Governor Ron DeSantis (R) and Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA). NPR Host Mary Louise Kelly brought on guest and liberal Soros biographer Emily Tamkin who downplayed the fact that Soros gave $1 million to the anti-police Color of Change PAC...

Suggested Tiger Woods Mourns As Tragedy Is Confirmed Tiger Woods Mourns As Tragedy Is Confirmed Read More Guest Post by Paul Craig Roberts As readers know, I am a critic of Putin’s “limited military operation” in Ukraine. It was eight years late, and its limited objective is unrealistic. Putin needed to occupy Kiev the minute he saw the US coup unfolding. Failing this, he needed to reincorporate Donbass in 2014 prior to its partial occupation by neo-Nazi militias and Ukrainian military. He failed to act in a timely fashion because he was deceived by the West with the Minsk Agreement,...

This is a developing news story. Please check back for updates. MOSCOW — A deadly shooting erupted near the fortresslike headquarters of Russia’s Federal Security Service in central Moscow on Thursday evening, the security agency said in a statement that also reported several people had been wounded. Russian news reports said up to three people had been killed. “An unknown person opened fire near building #12 on the Bolshaya Lubyanka street,” the security service statement said, according to the Interfax news agency. “Some people were injured.” The statement also said that the assailant had been “neutralized” and was being identified....

My father told me that one of the running jokes throughout most of the Soviet dominion over Russia was this assessment of the two newspapers by the non-Communist citizenry: "There is no Pravda in Izvestia, and there is no Izvestia in Pravda" or in English "There is no truth in News, and there is no news in Truth." But this was said carefully and to people who would not report you to the Central Committee."

Obama yesterday expressed concern at the sorry state of the news industry and said that he will look at a news paper bailout, because otherwise, blogs will take over the world, and that would be a threat to democracy, The Hill reports. "I am concerned that if the direction of the news is all blogosphere, all opinions, with no serious fact-checking, no serious attempts to put stories in context, that what you will end up getting is people shouting at each other across the void but not a lot of mutual understanding," he said.

Even in the United States, the Utopian economic and political system known as socialism remains attractive to those who are not familiar with its track record of broken promises.  "The free market for all intents and purposes is dead in America," said Sen. Jim Bunning (R-Ky.). "The action proposed today by the Treasury Department will take away the free market and institute socialism in America." Senator Bunning's comments, made in the wake of the bank bailout, and followed by the election of a president who has openly advocated redistribution of wealth, should make Americans pause, for the formerly unthinkable is...

Gazprom-Media said Thursday that it was about to buy a controlling stake in Izvestia, one of the country's largest and most respected national newspapers, in a move that would expand state control of media beyond television. Gazprom-Media general director Nikolai Senkevich made the announcement on Ekho Moskvy radio, saying that the deal to buy the stake from Prof-Media, the media holding in Vladimir Potanin's sprawling Interros business empire, would be completed "in the near future." "Negotiations on this issue are close to completion and we will officially announce the deal in the next few days," Gazprom-Media spokesman Anton Sergeyev...

One of the truly funny "street" gags about the Soviet press, was a fairly commonplace play-on-words that spread throughout the old Soviet block of nations many, many years ago. It went something like this: "There is no Pravda in Izvestia, and no Izvestia in Pravda," which meant, ”There is no Truth in the News; and no News in the Truth." Well, First Amendment fans -- apparently not much has changed! During his recent demi-summit with Valdimir Putin, when President George Bush raised free press issues and other democracy-related issues with this former head of the KGB, Putin actually brought up...