This Looks Like A Depression, Not A Recession By Steve LeVine, Marker Medium. April 2, 2020 This Looks Like A Depression, Not A Recession2020-04-022020-04-02https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/04/unemployment-from-national-film-board-of-canada-getty-images-e1585847355104.jpeg200px200px Note: For the last few weeks economists have begun using the ‘D’ word – depression – to describe what could be happening in the United States and the world. A depression is a recession with mass unemployment that lasts for years. We will […]
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Letter From President Maduro As US Threatens Venezuela With War By Nicolas Maduro, Popular Resistance. April 2, 2020 Letter From President Maduro As US Threatens Venezuela With War2020-04-022020-04-02https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/04/img-20190315-wa0002-e1585849599833.jpg200px200px Above photo: President Maduro meets with a peace delegation from the United States and Canada in March 2019 where he expressed a desire for peace between our countries but said that Venezuela was prepared to defend itself if […]
Polluting Industries Cash In On COVID-19, Add To Climate Crisis April 1, 2020 Polluting Industries Cash In On COVID-19, Add To Climate Crisis2020-04-012020-04-01https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2013/11/Air-pollution-150×96.jpg200px200px Airlines, farmers and plastic bag makers look for relief amid the pandemic. But the coal industry, and wind and solar energy concerns, lose out in the relief bill. With the attention of lawmakers and government agencies focused on the global coronavirus pandemic, polluting […]
The decision returns the property, which had been held in trust by the federal government as reservation land, to the tribe and disestablishes the reservation, placing projects on the land in limbo. Construction of 42 affordable housing units for tribal members on the land in Mashpee has yet to be finished. The construction of a $1.5 billion casino and resort on the land in Taunton has […]
Another Tourism Is Possible By Ranjan Solomon, Popular Resistance. March 30, 2020 Another Tourism Is Possible2020-03-302020-03-30https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/03/maya-bay-beach-ban-e1585580688534.jpg200px200px Above photo: Maya Bay in Thailand, which has been damaged by tourism. From Condé Nast Traveller. Tourism Alert and Action Forum Statement on Covid-19 Pandemic Crisis The members of the Tourism Alert and Action Forum come from organizations around the world that have joined in solidarity to oppose exploitative forms […]
In only a matter of days, the economic collapse brought on by the coronavirus pandemic has completely changed everything about our lives. In many ways, the growing crisis has laid bare the already existing contradictions which threatened to pull this society into open class conflict; from low paying jobs, increasing austerity, brutal police, the quickening of ecological collapse, an out of control housing crisis, and a […]
For the last couple of weeks, I’ve been delving back into one of my favorite books, “Plagues and Peoples,” by the celebrated historian William H. McNeill. Its relevance to today’s headlines is fairly obvious. What makes the book so compelling is McNeill’s ecological sensibility: He understands human beings as biological organisms embedded in living systems. For him, conquerors like Genghis Khan are macropredators, disease organisms are […]
An estimated 3.4 million workers filed for unemployment last week. A greater share of Americans filed for unemployment insurance in the week ending March 21 than in any prior week in American history, according to our analysis of news reports. Many states reported initial claims growth of over 1,000%. Our model predicts that 3.4 million Americans filed new claims for unemployment insurance this past week, although we […]
It Is Not China, But The Western World That Should Be Defined As The “Real Sick Man” By Andre Vltchek, Informationclearinghouse.info March 27, 2020 It Is Not China, But The Western World That Should Be Defined As The “Real Sick Man”2020-03-272020-03-27https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/03/49629561786_331fb2a8df_c-1-e1585350953743.jpg200px200px Above Photo: sergio santos/Flickr Not long ago, the Wall Street Journal insulted China, calling it “the Real Sick Man of Asia”. China retaliated, and then the U.S. […]
The global pandemic of COVID-19 has spread to almost every country on the planet earth. The virus will take many lives, disrupt communities and institutions, and leave behind trauma and a devastated world economy. The United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) estimates that by the end of 2020, global income will collapse by between $1 trillion and $2 trillion; the latter figure is a worst-case scenario, […]
Global Call By Mazin Qumsiyeh, Popular-resistance.blogspot.com March 27, 2020 Global Call2020-03-272020-03-27https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/03/49678500083_f0760cc3f1_c.jpg200px200px Above Photo: Yuri Samoilov/Flickr World War II transformed our planet in ways not foreseen before including creating instruments like the United Nations ostensibly to stop wars and conflict and encourage cooperation across borders. Yet, we had many wars & economic blockades and inequality that killed tens of millions of people since 1945. A large part of […]
Tales Of A DisCO March 27, 2020 Tales Of A DisCO2020-03-272020-03-27https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/03/geocoop3-e1585352900261.jpg200px200px Above Photo: Images by KOMUnews; Id-Iom (Caged Triptych 1, 2, and 3); NVM Illustration (Unplug) and WILL POWER Guerrilla Translation is a P2P translation cooperative and collective based in Spain, but operating transnationally. We follow a unique governance model that enables us to work as a translation agency while focusing on activism, care work and commons production. We are guided by our hearts, […]
The US will lose 2 million jobs just in March (Bloomberg News). US GDP will fall by -24% to -30% in second quarter (Goldman-Sachs & Morgan-Stanley Banks). Jobless rate could rise to 30% (Fed St. Louis Governor, Bullard). Federal Reserve promises $4T more to pre-bailout banks (Marketwatch). Financial markets imploding and credit system on verge of freeze up. Trump and US politicians considering sending people back […]
Update: Statement From Striking Truthdig Workers By Truthdig Staff, Popular Resistance. March 27, 2020 Update: Statement From Striking Truthdig Workers2020-03-272020-03-27https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/03/truthdig-e1585358038950.png200px200px Above photo: Screenshot of Truthdig website. On Wednesday night, amid reports that much of the country was going into quarantine indefinitely, Truthdig’s staff received an email with the subject line “Re: Truthdig.” The email was to inform us that Truthdig LLC was being dissolved and that […]
Letter From Truthdig’s Editor-In-Chief, Robert Scheer By Robert Scheer, Popular Resistance. March 27, 2020 Letter From Truthdig’s Editor-In-Chief, Robert Scheer2020-03-272020-03-27https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/03/strikersforscheer_3-e1583950310744.jpg200px200px Above photo: Robert Scheer by Mr. Fish. To Zuade Kaufman: I want to register my strongest possible disagreement with your unilateral decisions to bar me from the Truthdig site, close the site, and discharge Truthdig’s employees. Each of your actions represents a violation of Truthdig’s Operating Agreement, which […]
American Suez?: The Costs Of Bombing Iran By Maj. Danny Sjursen USA (ret.), Popular Resistance. March 27, 2020 American Suez?: The Costs Of Bombing Iran2020-03-272020-03-27https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/03/suez.png200px200px Above photo: The Suez Canal in 1956, scene of Britain’s first great post-war humiliation. AFP. The ongoing pandemic-proxy-war on Iran may be the Empire’s point of no return. “Suez has not so much changed our fortunes as revealed realities.” – British Prime […]
Within a few hours of being launched, over 800 Venezuelans in the U.S. registered for an emergency flight from Miami to Caracas through a website run by the Venezuelan government. This flight, offered at no cost, was proposed by President Nicolás Maduro when he learned that 200 Venezuelans were stuck in the United States following his government’s decision to stop commercial flights as a preventative coronavirus measure. The […]
Nevertheless, social movements often do emerge in moments of high emergency, of (more or less natural) calamities, and of strong repression of individual and collective freedoms. Wars have triggered waves of contention in the past. Not only is it the case that “states make wars and wars make states”, but portentous contestations have accompanied military conflicts – before, after, at times even during these. Such revolutions […]
Rights Of Nature Law Forces Revocation Of Fracking Permit March 27, 2020 Rights Of Nature Law Forces Revocation Of Fracking Permit2020-03-272020-03-27https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/03/58dec40a1400002000072b0b-e1585313401291.jpeg200px200px Above photo: Signs in Grant Township, Pennsylvania, oppose a fracking wastewater injection well and advocate for “home rule,” which gives the township broad power to legislate. Keith Boyer, The Contently Foundation. Grant Township, Indiana County, Pennsylvania – In an extraordinary reversal, last week, the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) […]
Nicaraguans In Costa Rica: A Manufactured “Refugee” Crisis By John Perry , Coha.org March 26, 2020 Nicaraguans In Costa Rica: A Manufactured “Refugee” Crisis2020-03-262020-03-26https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/03/nicar-cost-borde-800×445.jpeg200px200px Above Photo: From Coha.org The situation has mostly normalized in Nicaragua and yet the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) is promoting an imminent refugee crisis narrative. 80% of the recent asylum requests came from people who had been living and working in Costa […]
DOJ Wants To Suspend Certain Constitutional Rights During Coronavirus Emergency By Peter Wade, Informationclearinghouse.info March 26, 2020 DOJ Wants To Suspend Certain Constitutional Rights During Coronavirus Emergency2020-03-262020-03-26https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/03/8543563022_fb9aeb5467_c.jpg200px200px Above Photo: Flickr The Department of Justice has secretly asked Congress for the ability to detain arrested people “indefinitely” in addition to other powers that one expert called “terrifying” The Trump Department of Justice has asked Congress to craft legislation allowing chief […]
WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange has been denied bail after arguing that his release from a UK prison would mitigate his “high risk” of catching coronavirus. The Australian made the application in the Westminster Magistrates Court on Wednesday, with less than 15 people in attendance due to the coronavirus lockdown. District Judge Vanessa Baraitser ruled that Assange had absconded before and said that Belmarsh prison is following […]
Sanctions: Unilateral Coercive Measures For Regime Change In Venezuela By Nino Pagliccia, Counterpunch.org March 26, 2020 Sanctions: Unilateral Coercive Measures For Regime Change In Venezuela2020-03-262020-03-26https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/03/40535917193_70b4fb0585_c.jpg200px200px Above Photo: Fibonacci Blue/Flickr In discussing the issue of “sanctions” there are two main points that need to be made. One is the use of the correct terminology when referring to the government actions that the US, Canada and the EU take […]
How Artists Are Exploring Radical Economies By Robert Kauffman, Resilience.org. March 26, 2020 How Artists Are Exploring Radical Economies2020-03-262020-03-26https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/03/reunion.width-800-e1585273400133.jpg200px200px Above photo: Still from ReUnion film | Image courtesy of ReUnion There are many proposals for radical economies from progressive economists, activists and think tanks. Artists are increasingly joining these debates with speculative proposals and unconventional methodologies. I will explore three art projects here that approach the economies of caring […]