via Craig Timberg, Washington Post: The flood of “fake news” this election season got support from a sophisticated Russian propaganda campaign that created and spread misleading articles online with the goal of punishing Democrat Hillary Clinton, helping Republican Donald Trump and undermining faith in American democracy, say independent researchers who tracked the operation. Russia’s increasingly… Read More Russia Used Propaganda to Attack American Democracy, Support Trump

In a message to participants of the COP22 climate change meeting that took place in Marrakech, Pope Francis highlighted the “serious ethical and moral responsibility to take action and implement last year’s Paris climate-change agreement”: “The current situation of environmental degradation – Pope Francis said – which is strongly connected to the human, ethical and… Read More Pope Calls on International Community to Act in Combating Climate Change

Senator John McCain: “I don’t give a damn what the president of the United States wants to do. We will not waterboard. We will not torture people.”