Last week, Donald Trump blamed Joe Biden for “plagiarising” his economic plan, claiming that even if he is elected president in November, the former US vice president won’t be able to bring his plan to life. White House trade adviser Peter Navarro has accused presumptive Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden […]
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Dear VT and Messrs. Morrison, Shiffman, and Berens I read with interest your investigative report “The Teflon Robe”, published by Reuters on June 30, 2020, which “exposes hardwired judicial corruption” whereby “[t]housands of U.S. judges who broke laws or oaths remained on the bench” even though they “have made racist statements, lied to […]
Almost two decades of war in Afghanistan have taken their toll on US servicemen, not only via battles with terrorists, but also due to the military’s apparent negligence of adverse environmental conditions at one or more bases and a general lack of information regarding related hazards. Salute to @TaraCopp, still […]
Harvard is one of the colleges who will offer the bulk of their courses online. But why aren’t they reducing the cost of tuition? Photograph: Charles Krupa/AP Guardian: Colleges and universities are in an unprecedented bind. Coronavirus continues to rage in many parts of America, making the sort of communal […]
US: American Journalist Has No Right To Challenge Decision To Assassinate Him July 9, 2020 US: American Journalist Has No Right To Challenge Decision To Assassinate Him2020-07-092020-07-09https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/07/bilal-616×308.jpg200px200px The US Government has asked the US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit to affirm the dismissal of American journalist Bilal Abdul […]
Presumptive Democratic candidate Joe Biden has started to outline his economic proposals for his upcoming presidential bid. To some, his blueprints may sound a bit like those of his Republican rival back in 2016. Former Vice President and presumptive Democratic candidate Joe Biden has revealed his economic proposals should he win […]
The Racist Underpinnings Of The American Way Of War By Walden Bello, Foreign Policy in Focus. July 8, 2020 The Racist Underpinnings Of The American Way Of War2020-07-082020-07-08https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/07/shutterstock_144525842-e1594230109435.jpg200px200px Above photo: Shutterstock. The deadly interplay of racism, genocide, and denial at the heart of American white society has been reproduced in […]
Long before master sommeliers were pop culture icons and the subject of TV series, Tonya Pitts was building wine programs with a sense of place and purpose. Throughout her 20-year career, she has been an advocate for featuring women and people of color on wine lists—even before that was a […]
Try this pair of crossword clues, which share their first letters: At 1-Across you have [Town at the eighth mile of the Boston Marathon] and ?ATICK filled in, while 1-Down is clued as [“Treasure Island” illustrator, 1911] with ?CWYETH filled in. What’s your guess for the letter in the square […]
The U.S. Forces are carrying out a series of large-scale military exercises in the South China Sea amid border tensions between India and China. The USS Nimitz and USS Ronald Reagan aircraft carriers and several warships were deployed to the South China Sea to demonstrate U.S. Indo-Pacific Command’s commitment to the security […]
MOSCOW (Sputnik) – Protesters burned a US flag near the White House after US President Donald Trump’s Independence Day address, in which he promised to defeat the radical left. The protesters were chanting “One, two, three, four, slavery, genocide, and war. Five, six, seven, eight, America was never great”, as […]
Native American Protesters Blocked The Road Leading To Mount Rushmore By Ashley Collman, Business Insider. July 4, 2020 Native American Protesters Blocked The Road Leading To Mount Rushmore2020-07-042020-07-04https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/07/trush.jpg200px200px Above photo: Activists and members of different tribes from the region block the road to the Mount Rushmore National Monument as they protest […]
President Trump delivered a powerful and timely speech on American exceptionalism and patriotism at Mount Rushmore on Independence Day Eve. The 45th President spoke on our historical greatness and the many historic figures who shaped this great nation. Advertisement – story continues below After the speech ended fireworks lit up […]
Jackie Robinson and Daniel Boone President Donald. J. Trump’s Executive Order on the building of a garden park with statutes of American heroes. Last night on July 3rd, 2020, President Trump delivered an unforgettable speech on a Friday night at Mount Rushmore National Park in South Dakota. The president defined […]
“We hold these truths to be self-evident,” Thomas Jefferson wrote 244 years ago, when a brand-new nation found itself already a year into war with the most powerful empire on the planet. Two and a half centuries later, the innately flawed country that was born out of the declaration Jefferson […]
America’s business leaders tell Donald Trump to issue federal mask guidelines and to be able to refuse service to people who refuse to cover up without being sued The heads of America’s top business and manufacturing groups wrote a letter to President Trump asking the federal government to issue mask […]
Actor Dean Cain, who portrayed Superman for a 1990s TV show, has set Twitter ablaze after arguing that modern ‘cancel culture’ would have outlawed the superhero’s catchphrase – “Truth, justice and the American way.” Speaking with Fox’s Ainsley Earhard on Thursday, the conservative actor took aim at ‘cancel culture,’ dubbing […]
SOURCES: Israeli historian Ilan Pappé on the ethnic cleansing of Palestine AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL: WITH WHOM ARE MANY U.S. POLICE DEPARTMENTS TRAINING? WITH A CHRONIC HUMAN RIGHTS VIOLATOR – ISRAEL U.S. Police are Being Trained by Israel—And Communities of Color Are Paying the Price Deadly Exchange: The Dangerous Consequences of US-Israel […]
COVID19 Brings American Decline Out In The Open By Noah Smith, Bloomberg. July 1, 2020 COVID19 Brings American Decline Out In The Open2020-07-012020-07-01https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/07/2200x-1-e1593623193172.jpg200px200px Above photo: Maybe it will get better from here? David Paul Morris/Bloomberg. Without fixes for infrastructure, education, health care and government, the U.S. will resemble a developing nation in […]
https://cdn1.img.sputniknews.com/img/107976/91/1079769125_0:123:3072:1851_1200x675_80_0_0_2235809a8ca9ad3022e7f4df47dd1da0.jpg Sputnik International https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png Sputnik https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png https://sputniknews.com/asia/202007011079769227-can-american-heavy-metal-help-to-end-the-locust-plague-nepals-agriculture-minister-believes-it-can/ Parts of East Africa and South Asia have been fighting a locust invasion since the start of the year, with fears about the deteriorating food security situation occupying politicians’ minds. Now, Nepal’s government has reportedly found a peculiar way to get rid of […]
Amid a larger cultural reckoning with race following the death of George Floyd at the hands of Minneapolis police, employees at the historic American Kennel Club were hoping to join a number of other companies and organizations in making Juneteenth a company holiday. Instead, while the nonprofit’s staff were hard […]
We reported a month ago that recent riots in the US in many Democrat-led cities around the country are hardly spontaneous. They are coordinated. The groups behind these riots are linked to communists, Islamic groups and the Democrat party. A major problem is that many US politicians, the mainstream media […]
Janis Shinwari takes his oath Monday as a naturalized U.S. citizen in a ceremony in Fairfax, Va. He worked eight years as an Afghan interpreter with the U.S. military in his homeland, and was credited with saving the lives of five U.S. troops. Greg Myre/NPR hide caption toggle caption Greg […]