Fact Checks
Thursday 11 July 2024
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....’’US priorities shaped by UAE ties impede effective action on Sudan crisis. By overlooking UAE's hand in war extension, the U.S. fails to match its global speed.’’
The U.S. has led several mediation talks between the warring sides without success. Washington has called on the United Arab Emirates to stop supporting the war and imposed sanctions on several UAE companies that have been fueling the hostilities. -
"Numerous photos and video footage published from Kyiv confirm beyond doubt the fact of destruction due to the fall of a Ukrainian air defense missile launched from an anti-aircraft missile system within the city."
The debris on the site has a serial number of the Russian long-range Kh-101 strategic cruise missile. The Russian military launched it and destroyed Okhmatdyt Children's Hospital in Ukraine's capital Kyiv. -
"Washington could have tackled the problem long ago, if it really wanted to. Instead, it seem that our United States colleagues prefer to use illegal arms shipments, on which US arms dealers make money, as leverage to influence the situation.”
Washington is engaged in wide-ranging efforts to halt arms trafficking to Haiti involving law enforcement agencies, federal and local legislatures, the State Department and the White House. -
... “Washington uses outside actors to hide the objectives of research. These are contracting and intermediary organizations (Metabiota, Quicksilver, EkoHealth Alliance, more than 20 companies) and businesses of the so-called Big Pharma. Russia has documents confirming the rapid expansion of the U.S. biological warfare presence in Africa.”
U.S. laboratories in Ukraine, African countries, and elsewhere work in cooperation with national authorities to predict and prevent bioterrorism, and outbreaks of diseases that pose a threat to public health. -
“Zelenskyy's wife bought one of the most expensive supercars in the world, media learned.”
Russian propagandists used a tactic called disinformation laundering enforced with generative AI technology to fabricate fake news that seems believable. Bugatti told Polygraph.info that Olena Zelenska is not their customer, and she did not purchase a supercar. -
“The genuine and direct role of the people in determining their political destiny in the Islamic Republic of Iran is an obvious principle and has always been proven in practice.”
Authorities severely curtail civil liberties necessary for free elections, while power ultimately lies in the supreme leader’s hands. -
“Tibetan culture and religious activities are protected and respected.”
The U.S. Resolve Tibet Act accuses China of “suppressing the ability of the Tibetan people to preserve their religion,” a claim supported by U.N. experts, Human Rights groups and media reports. -
“…for the Congolese leadership the fact of seizure of North Kivu mines in favor of the US by Rwandan proxy forces represented by the M23 group has long been no secret. In this way, the U.S. authorities keep an acceptable price for the resource, preventing the country from becoming a regional leader."
The U.S. and U.N. condemned Rwanda and sanctioned the M23 rebels it backs for committing widespread human rights abuses. The 2010 Dodd-Frank law bans U.S. companies from funding armed groups or human rights abusers by buying minerals from them. -
“As you know, in February and March 2022 our troops approached Kiev. … but there was no political decision to storm the city with three million people ...”
In his “peace plan,” the Russian president repeated all the false excuses he used to start the war in Ukraine -
"The only logical conclusion that we made as a result is that the Zelenskyy regime is incapable of negotiations."
Kyiv was willing to negotiate peace but could not accept the terms giving Moscow a veto over allies defending Ukraine if Russia invaded again. -
“Hezbollah has just hit Israeli city Haifa with Missiles … For the first time ever, Hezbollah has unleashed chaos by striking Haifa's port — the beating heart of Israel's economy Israel is starting to fall …”
The picture shows a Turkish ship with smoke, likely after a fire started in its engine room, not from a Hezbollah rocket. -
‘’…because of the sanctions we are more focused on our domestic resources to grow our economy and modernize our economy and we are doing better in the entire region in our economic growth year by year because of sanctions. Those countries without sanctions in our region are not doing better as we are doing."
The World Bank and other international bodies rank the Zimbabwean economy among the lowest in the region. The country has one of the highest extreme poverty rates and fails to pay on its more than $14 billion in external debts.