Australian anti-war journalist Caitlin Johnstone was suspended from Twitter for several hours after a tweet blasting Senator John McCain (R-Arizona) as a warmonger and suggested that his death would make the world a better place.

Johnstone, a self-described "bogan socialist" and critic of imperialism, had over 33,000 followers on Twitter when she got banned - apparently over a post criticizing McCain earlier this week. Being both vocally anti-Russian and a critic of President Donald Trump, McCain is a figure popular with both the NeverTrump conservatives and #Resistance liberals. The hawkish Republican has battled brain cancer for over a year.

Johnstone's tweet said that McCain "devoted his entire political career to slaughtering as many human beings as possible at every opportunity." She then added that "the world will be improved when he finally dies."

CNN's Spanish-language site used an easily-identifiable photograph of a pro-government rally in a report detailing a protest against Nicaragua's president, sparking accusations of propaganda peddling and sloppy journalism.

CNN Español tweeted out a video report on August 15 about Nicaraguans "returning to the streets to express their rejection of [President] Daniel Ortega's government," accompanied by a photograph of a large pro-government rally that took place several days prior.

The odd choice of photograph is particularly curious because it's difficult to imagine how the marchers could be mistaken as anti-government. A red-and-black Sandinista flag is clearly visible in the background, and some demonstrators are even seen wearing red-and-black bandanas over their mouths. The Sandinista National Liberation Front - or FSLN - is the democratic socialist political party headed by Ortega.

There is more than one culprit, and more than one reason, for the moral decline of this nation. But of all the offenders, the entertainment industry and the smut it produces is at the top of the list.

There was a time, believe it or not, when filmmakers were literally bound by contract to produce films that were morally and ethically sound. Even Hollywood producers knew the messages people absorb via film, television, and music are hugely impactful - and they took their influence seriously.

A tearful homeless man who stole chocolate from a supermarket told a court he committed the crime so he would be sent to prison, where he could receive help.

Wayne Dillon begged for a custodial sentence at Wigan and Leigh Magistrates, saying he was not receiving the support needed to cope with his heroin and crack cocaine habit outside jail.

But experts have told The Independent the case appears to highlight a worrying new trend.

Hundreds of drug-users are committing minor crimes in a desperate bid to access rehabilitation services inside, which have been decimated on the outside by austerity cuts, Addiction Dependency Solutions claims.

Taxpayers will pick up a £2million security bill for Eugenie's wedding.

The minor royal will get married at the same venue as Harry and Meghan.

Labour's Chris Williamson said: "It really is an outrage."

Security expenses for Princess Eugenie's wedding have more than doubled amid increased terror fears since she announced her engagement in January, sources say.

Extra firearms officers may have to be drafted in when the ninth in line to the throne weds tequila brand ambassador Jack Brooksbank on October 12.

Eugenie, 28, who carries out no royal duties, has nevertheless chosen to marry at St George's Chapel in Windsor Castle where Prince Harry wed Meghan in May.

The City watchdog's whistleblowing regime faces a crucial test after an employee was sacked for speaking up at Royal Bank of Canada.

Trader John Banerjee raised the alarm over a complacent culture and inconsistent rules at RBC and was forced out because he dared question the lender. Banerjee has won a tribunal against the bank, which was slammed by the judge for sacking him 'for making a public interest disclosure'.

The result appears to suggest that senior RBC staff broke strict rules set by the Financial Conduct Authority which state that workers cannot be victimised for raising concerns. It will pile pressure on the FCA to take action against those responsible - potentially opening the door for senior bankers to be banned from the finance industry over the issue for the first time. Regulators are facing calls to take tough action against RBC.

Georgina Halford-Hall of campaign group Whistleblowers UK said: 'We continue to press the Financial Conduct Authority to take action on the findings exposed in this case.'

William Binney, the U.S. National Security Agency's former technical director for global analysis, has, for the past year, been globe-trotting to investigate the actual evidence regarding the official Russiagate investigations, and he finds that the Special Counsel, Robert Mueller, who is prosecuting Russia's Government, can only accuse Russian officials, not convict any of them on at least the important charges, because conclusive evidence exists and has already been made public online, making clear that the important accusations against those officials are false. However, Binney can't get any of the U.S. major 'news' media's interest in this fact, nor even into openly discussing it with them. Apparently, they don't want to know. Binney is knocking on their doors, and they refuse to answer.

Patrick Lawrence, at the non-mainstream U.S. newsmedium Consortium News, headlined on Monday August 13th, "'Too Big to Fail': Russia-gate One Year After VIPS Showed a Leak, Not a Hack" and he reported what Binney has found and has been trying to get the major U.S. 'news'media to present to the American public.

The "VIPS" there is Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity, and they are 17 whistleblowing former high officials of the CIA, NSA, State Department, and other U.S. officials with top secret national-security clearances, who jointly signed and published on 24 July 2017, their report, which likewise was at Consortium News, "Intel Vets Challenge 'Russia Hack' Evidence", in which they confirmed the validity of a 9 July 2017 report that had been published by Elizabeth Vos of Disobedient Media.com, which was titled "New Research Shows Guccifer 2.0 Files Were Copied Locally, Not Hacked" and which I then reported in more ordinary language seven days later under the headline "Russiagate Exposed: It's a Fraud". I quoted there the analysis's basic finding "that the DNC computer network which the media tells us and the DNC tells us was hacked by the Russians, ... was physically accessed by someone within close proximity of the DNC" and not outside the United States (Russia or anywhere else). The original research-report had been done by an anonymous person who called himself "the forensicator," and he had sent it to Adam Carter, another highly technically knowledgeable person, who happened to be at Disobedient Media, and who then worked with Vos to prepare her article on it.

Occupy London has just had its Facebook page taken down by the social media giant. This follows a period of "continual removal of posts related to Palestine", a spokesperson told The Canary.

One of the administrators took to Twitter to announce the closure:


The web page has been around since 2011, with over 150,000 followers.

"You don't have to 'feel thin' to have thin privilege," tweeted author and lingerie expert Cora Harrington. "Thinness isn't a feeling. If other people perceive you as thin, you are thin." Her tweet has been retweeted nearly 5,000 times and has 22,000 likes. This idea of "thin privilege" - which Harrington says means that "societal discrimination and prejudice does not target you" and "your weight/body type are seen as 'normal'" - is part of the concept of "body positivity." Which is ironic, since this tweet certainly seems to be calling people out for having a certain body type.

Feminist website Refinery29 got more than it bargained for when it teamed up with CBS to poll 842 women ages 18-35 about - among other things - feminism. When asked, "Do you consider yourself to be a feminist, or not?" over half (54 percent) of respondents said, "No." Not only that, only 19 percent of respondents identified as Republican. In fact, the largest group of women polled (34 percent) identified as Democrat, with 27 percent identifying Independent, and 20 percent unsure of their political party.

"These are surprising results," writes Refinery29's Ashley Alese Edwards. "Feminism seems to be more en vogue than ever," she insists, "even men call themselves feminists now." And what about "the Women's March, the 'resistance' (which is largely women-led) and #MeToo," Edwards laments. How could you not be feminist?!

To her credit, Edwards actually interviewed some of these strange non-feminist creatures, presumably to find out what on earth was wrong with them. Leah, a 22-year old independent, told Edwards, "I feel like the movement has been largely taken over by far-left wing activists that make it nearly impossible for me to identify with." She also called feminists "disingenuous" for denying "any negative emotional backlash or health risks for women having an abortion." She continued, "Although not all women suffer emotionally or physically after an abortion, many do, and their stories are ignored by mainstream feminism because it doesn't fit the narrative of abortion being a good thing for women."