Scheer Intelligence: Even The ICC Can’t Rein In American Exceptionalism By Robert Scheer, KCRW.com. April 3, 2020 | Educate!, Featured Campaign Scheer Intelligence: Even The ICC Can’t Rein In American Exceptionalism2020-04-032020-04-03https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/04/icc-e1585934162409.png200px200px Above photo: International Criminal Court in The Hague, Netherlands. Photo credit: ICC. The U.S. response to the international criminal court’s decision to permit an investigation into the Afghanistan War highlights the profound danger America poses to the […]
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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 […]
Authored by Evan Villarrubia via Kunstler.com, “I feel stupid! And contagious!”— Nirvana The panic and lockdown state we are just exiting in Dali (southwestern China) has been by far the most intense historical episode I’ve ever experienced. I’ve gone through several deep emotional phase changes throughout this time. If I’d written this email a few weeks ago, it would have been frantic and full of rage. […]
We have a deal, folks! It appears on early Wednesday morning, the White House and Republican and Democratic Senate leaders reached a deal to keep the American economy humming during the virus crisis and hopefully avoid depression in the second and third quarters. The new Senate proposal will inject $2 trillion into the US economy, just like a shot of heroin, providing tax rebates, four months […]
HONG KONG—In mid-March, a woman in her twenties who was living in Albuquerque, typed up three posts for Twitter—what she called her “shower thoughts.” She had started to wonder if COVID-19 had popped up in the United States much earlier than officials let on, maybe even in early January, well before the disease was recognized as a serious issue within American borders. Beatrice is not a […]
Authored by Peter Zeihan via Zeihan.com, Today, I’m not going to go through all the country-by-country details of the ongoing coronavirus pandemic. My team and I are working diligently – franticly – to assimilate a huge amount of ever-changing information. As soon as we have some preliminary conclusions, we will share them. But for now we just don’t have enough hard data. That will change soon. […]
Political leaders have been scrambling to address the economic fallout of the coronavirus crisis by providing direct cash assistance to American families. Conservatives, who’d until now dismissed the idea of a Universal Basic Income as a dramatic expansion of the welfare state, have been forced to recognize that market solutions won’t suffice as a global pandemic K.O.’s the national and world economy. It’s a simple math […]
The latest statistical analyses say that the Organisation of American States’ conclusions about the alleged fraud in Bolivia’s October vote don’t hold water. Ex-UN official Alfred de Zayas has explained what steps could be taken by international and regional bodies in the aftermath of the exposure and shed light on the US role in the Bolivian coup. On 10 March, the Centre for Economic and Policy […]
Michael Cohen/Getty Images/The New York Times CNBC’s Squawk Box co-anchor Andrew Ross Sorkin called for a bailout of the American people, Wednesday, in an article for the New York Times. In the article, titled, “This Is the Only Way to End the Coronavirus Financial Panic,” Sorkin argued that the economic crisis from the coronavirus could “be solved right now” with no-interest loans instead of controversial big-industry […]
Authored by John Whitehead via The Rutherford Institute, “Fear is a primitive impulse, brainless as hunger, and because the aim of horror fiction is the production of the deepest kinds of fears, the genre tends to reinforce some remarkably uncivilized ideas about self-protection. In the current crop of zombie stories, the prevailing value for the beleaguered survivors is a sort of siege mentality, a vigilance so constant […]
Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin said Tuesday he is working on a “very significant economic stimulus plan” to present to Republicans later on Tuesday. He said the plan will involve sending a check to every American worker within two weeks. “Americans need cash now,” he said. While not saying how big the stimulus package would be, he said it would also include payments to small businesses and […]
With income inequality the political hot potato du-jour and wealth concentration at its most extreme since the roaring twenties, is it any wonder that even Americans’ view of what used to be called ‘success’ is now tainted with the ugly taste of partisan ‘not-fair’-ism. Income inequality is roaring… Wealth concentration is extreme to say the least… But still, according to Pew Research’s latest survey, when asked […]
US 17:55 GMT 13.03.2020(updated 17:57 GMT 13.03.2020) Get short URL Sputnik International https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png Tim Korso. Sputnik International https://sputniknews.com/us/202003131078560778-us-summons-chinese-envoy-over-claims-that-american-military-brought-coronavirus-to-wuhan—official/ Previously, a spokesman for the Chinese Foreign Ministry suggested that the US Army could have been responsible for the outbreak of the disease in the city of Wuhan, but failed to provide solid evidence to support the allegation. Source
Late last year, BofA’s Chief Investment Officer perfectly predicted how far the market meltup that was unleashed by the Fed’s “NOT QE” would push stocks higher, when he said that the S&P would hit 3,333 by March 3. He was right, and more notably, he was early, because the S&P rose just shy of 3,400 by late February… at which point everything imploded. As a result, […]
Authored by Joseph Sorrentino via HumanEvents.com, We need to trust in the free enterprise system – now more than ever… According to Alexandra Ocasio Cortez, “No one ever makes a billion dollars. You take a billion dollars.” At least, that’s what the Representative from New York recently argued at a Martin Luther King, Jr. Day event in Harlem. Speaking hypothetically about billionaires making widgets, she added: “You didn’t […]
In Russia and abroad, the Kremlin’s state media are waging info-warfare designed to undermine former Vice President Joe Biden while boosting Senator Bernie Sanders—and Rep. Tulsi Gabbard. But Donald Trump is the intended beneficiary of the Kremlin campaign, and the ultimate goal is not to elect Sanders, much less Gabbard, despite militant messaging on their behalf. It’s to discredit the democratic process as a whole. And […]
Pentagon officials announced Monday the deaths of two US service members in northern Iraq while engaged in anti-ISIS operations with Iraqi Security Forces. They’ve been identified as Marines operating south of Erbil, on a “mission to eliminate an ISIS terrorist stronghold in a mountainous area of north central Iraq,” according to a statement from Combined Joint Task Force – Operation Inherent Resolve. “On the evening of March 8, […]
Syrian soldiers and government supporters have blocked American troops as their convoy drove through an army checkpoint in the northern al-Hasakah governorate, according to Step News Agency. Local media reported that residents of the village of al-Kuzliya in the al-Hasakah province threw stones at the American army personnel, prompting a rare clash. A video posted on Step News Agency’s website showed government supporters and soldiers with […]
A US Navy sailor currently deployed in Naples, Italy has tested positive for the Covid-19 infection. Earlier, another US military service member was confirmed to have the disease in South Korea. The Pentagon confirmed that a US sailor has been infected with the deadly disease in a statement on Saturday. “The member is currently restricted to their residence, receiving supportive and medical care in accordance with […]
Beijing has refuted an accusation by the US Navy that a Chinese warship fired a “military grade” laser at its P-8A Poseidon surveillance aircraft somewhere over the South China Sea. The claims made by the US Navy simply “did not accord with reality,” China’s Defense Ministry said on its WeChat account, responding to the accusations made by the American military last week. The Chinese forces were […]
MSNBC’s Brian Williams was mocked for falsely claiming that former 2020 Democratic presidential candidate and billionaire Mike Bloomberg could give every American $1 million, Friday. After New York Times editorial board member and MSNBC guest Mara Gay said, “Somebody tweeted recently that actually with the money he spent he could have given every American a million dollars,” Williams responded, “Let’s put it up on the screen.” […]
They’re not sending their best. During a Thursday discussion over the amount of money Mike Bloomberg has spent on advertising during the 2020 election – some $500 million, MSNBC‘s Brian Williams and New York Times editorial board member Mara Gay promoted a Twitter user’s very incorrect math. “Somebody tweeted recently that actually with the money he spent he could have given every American $1 million,” said […]
4 Mar, 2020 02:46 After dumping a cool $500 million into the race, billionaire media mogul Michael Bloomberg has scored his first primary win in American Samoa, beating out native Tulsi Gabbard and driving many netizens to dig out a map to find it. American Samoa Results (100% Reporting)Bloomberg: 49%Gabbard: 29%Sanders: 10%Biden: 8%Warren: 1%#SuperTuesday — Polling USA (@USA_Polling) March 4, 2020 First we’re going to go […]
Authored by Daniel Lazare via The Strategic Culture Foundation, People have always wondered what makes America so paranoid. The historian Richard Hofstadter wrote about it in 1964 in a famous Harper’s essay, “The Paranoid Style in American Politics,” that he later expanded into a book. He took aim at all the usual suspects: Joe McCarthy going on about “a great conspiracy on a scale so immense,” […]