Above Photo: U.S. President Joe Biden delivers remarks on the Omicron COVID-19 variant following a meeting with his Covid-19 response team at the White House on November 29, 2021 in Washington, DC. Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images. Despite Public Statements. Amid Mounting Concern About The Omicron Variant, Biden Declared U.S. Support For A Covid-19 Vaccine Patent Waiver. But New Documents From Geneva Tell A Different Story. On November 26, as news of the new Omicron variant of Covid-19 stoked alarm around the world, the White House released a statement calling on countries to support an intellectual property waiver for Covid-19 vaccines. “I call on the nations gathering next […]
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Above photo: Dr. Ute Finckh-Krämer,Germany. Former Deputy-Chair of the Bundestag Sub-committee on Disarmament, Arms Control and Non-proliferation. 34 current and former legislators from NATO countries sent a joint letter yesterday to United States President Biden encouraging him to adopt a policy of no-first-use (or sole purpose) of nuclear weapons in the current U.S. nuclear posture review, and to use the occasion of the 10th Nuclear Non-proliferation Treaty Review Conference in January 2022 to universalise this policy. The call by the legislators contradicts recent reports that United States allies want the US government to retain the option of initiating nuclear war (first-use options). “Let us state clearly that we do […]
Above Photo: The Biden administration is under fire for a report about leasing public lands and waters to fossil fuel companies that critics called “completely inadequate.” (Photo: nightman1965/Getty Images) “Greenlighting more fossil fuel extraction, then pretending it’s OK by nudging up royalty rates, is like rearranging deck chairs on the Titanic,” said one campaigner. Climate campaigners and other progressive critics on Friday called out the Biden administration for a new U.S. Interior Department report about leasing public lands and waters to oil and gas companies, slamming its proposals as far too weak given the need to keep fossil fuels in the ground. […]
Above photo: Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, left, shakes hands with U.S. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin during their meeting in Kyiv, Ukraine, Tuesday, October 19, 2021. cbs17.com. Recent Visit by U.S. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin Raises Concerns. Russell Bentley, a Texan and author of this article, served in the Donbass army. His motivation was to fight fascism; he envisioned himself as an heir to members of the Abraham Lincoln Brigade who volunteered to fight fascism in Spain during the Spanish Civil War. In part one, Bentley’s provides an assessment of the current tensions in the Ukraine and the character of the regime. […]
24 Native state legislators sign off on a letter to President Joe Biden requesting clemency of Leonard Peltier. President Joseph R. Biden Mr. Michael Carvajal, Director, Federal Bureau of Prisons Mr. Merrick B. Garland, Attorney General Mr. J.A. Keller, Southeast Regional Director, Federal Bureau of Prisons Dear President Biden, Attorney General Garland, Director Carvajal, and Director Keller: We write to request the expedited release of American Indian elder Leonard Peltier, who is 77 years old and who has served more than 44 years in federal prison, some in solitary confinement, in numerous prisons across the United States. He suffers from severe health conditions, such as […]
The idea that Joe Biden is the “most progressive president since FDR” is a propaganda device meant to quiet the Democratic Party left and force them to stand down. The capitalist system attempts to divert attention away from its obvious failings in every way that it can, from mindless entertainment to the contrived drama of January 6th and missing person stories to their most valuable diversion – Donald Trump! That is why the collapse of the latest diversional politics reflected in the Build Back Better (BBB) has not generated the attention that it deserved, and when it did garner attention, it […]
Above Photo: International Federation For Human Rights Washington, D.C. ‒ A broad coalition of more than 288 U.S.-based social justice, civil rights, and human rights organizations is calling on the Biden administration to condemn the Israeli government’s decision last week to designate six Palestinian human rights groups as “terrorist organizations.” In a letter issued today, the organizations say the Biden administration has no choice but to condemn and push back against this move if it is to fulfill its avowed commitment to human rights. “These actions by the Israeli government are a clear attack on human rights,” the letter reads. “As […]
Above photo: President Joe Biden participates in a CNN town hall at the Baltimore Center Stage Pearlstone Theater, Thursday, Oct. 21, 2021, in Baltimore, with moderator Anderson Cooper. AP Photo/Evan Vucci. Baltimore, MD – At a CNN town hall event Thursday evening, President Joe Biden revealed that he is considering using National Guard troops to ease the bottleneck at Southern California ports. In response to questioning from moderator Anderson Cooper, Biden said the plans potentially include having soldiers drive trucks from the ports to warehouses and distribution centers. This would mean the militarization of the ports of Los Angeles and Long […]
Above Photo: A mural in Venezuela demanding freedom for Alex Saab. Yuri Cortez / AFP. The talks between the Venezuelan government and the extreme-right wing opposition had been going well. There are still outstanding issues to be resolved, like ending the economic war, but the discussions held in Mexico led to concrete electoral developments. The European Union agreed to send an electoral observation mission. The United Nations decided to send a panel of electoral experts. (Both institutions refused to observe the 2018 presidential and 2020 legislative elections, despite invitations from the government.) Thousands of opposition candidates registered to run in the mega-elections, […]
President Joe Biden continues to play the cluelessly racist and paternalistic Ugly American in the Horn of Africa. Under his leadership, the US has been at war with Ethiopia since last November, when its former puppet, the Tigray People’s Liberation Front, attacked a federal Ethiopian army base in Mekelle, the capital of the country’s Tigray Region. Tigrayans are only 6% of Ethiopia’s population, but the TPLF ruled the whole nation with an iron fist from 1991 to 2018, when popular uprisings forced them from power. This is hybrid warfare, which may include official censure, mass media disinformation campaigns, sanctions, financial strangulation by the […]
Above Photo: President Joe Biden takes the stage before delivering remarks on the September jobs numbers in the South Court Auditorium in the Eisenhower Executive Office Building on October 8, 2021, in Washington, D.C. Chip Somodevilla / Getty Images. When Abu Zubaydah was apprehended in Pakistan in 2002, the George W. Bush administration falsely characterized him as chief of operations for al-Qaeda and Osama bin Laden’s number three man. For the next four years, the CIA sent Zubaydah to its “black sites” in Thailand and Poland where he was viciously tortured. In 2006, Zubaydah was taken to Guantánamo, where he remains […]
Above Photo: Evelyn Hockstein / Reuters. US President Joe Biden left reporters puzzled on Tuesday after mentioning a supposed “Taiwan Agreement” with the People’s Republic of China (PRC), since no such agreement by that name exists. “China has…I’ve spoken with Xi about Taiwan. We agree, we will abide by the Taiwan agreement,” Biden said outside the White House on Tuesday evening, when asked about the recent flight of several dozen Chinese aircraft into Taiwan’s air defense identification zone. “That’s where we are and I made it clear that I don’t think he should be doing anything other than abiding by the agreement,” he […]
Above photo: Indigenous Environmental Network. “We have everything to lose and no time to wait.” Washington, D.C. — Thousands of people are expected to take part in a week of protests at the White House this October 11-15 to pressure President Biden to declare a climate emergency and end all new fossil fuel projects. Composed of hundreds of Indigenous, Black, environmental, climate justice, youth, and social justice organizations, the Build Back Fossil Free coalition will launch the People Vs. Fossil Fuels: Biden’s Test week of action in advance of the Glasgow COP26 Climate Summit. With that summit representing what many consider […]
Above Photo: Activists and global health advocates staged simultaneous protests outside the homes of the White House chief of staff and Moderna CEO, Wednesday, Sept. 29, 2021. (Leandra Bernstein/SBG) Washington — Activists gathered outside the homes of the White House chief of staff and the CEO of Moderna to demand the Biden administration and private drug companies do more to address the global vaccine shortage. “Really, we’re bringing attention to the fact that both Moderna and the U.S. government have been completely inadequate in scaling up vaccine access globally,” James Krellenstein, co-founder of the AIDS advocacy group, PrEP4All told Sinclair Broadcast […]
Above Photo: Biden addressing the U.N. General Assembly on Tuesday. U.N. TV. Contrary to the evidence, the president said the U.S. was not at war. Joe Biden, in his first address to the United Nations General Assembly, told world leaders Tuesday: “I stand here today, for the first time in 20 years, with the United States not at war.” According to the latest available White House war report, the U.S. was involved in seven wars in 2018: Afghanistan, Iraq, Syria, Yemen, Somalia, Libya, and Niger. The U.S. withdrew last month from Afghanistan, so the number of current U.S. wars is likely six. […]
U.S. policies have created the conditions in Haiti that have compelled tens of thousands to flee. When a white Fox News reporter used a drone to film the thousands of Haitian and other Black asylum seekers camped beneath a bridge spanning the Rio Grande and linking Del Rio, Texas to Ciudad Acuña, in the Coahuila state of Mexico, he immediately (and deliberately) brought a stereotypical image of Black migration: That of the teeming, African hordes, ready to burst the borders and invade the United States. Such images are as cheap as they are racist. And, typically, they erase the larger question: […]
Above Photo: Iraq Against the War marching in Boston, October 2007. Wikipedia. To mark the International Day for the Total Elimination of Nuclear Weapons, September 26, Veterans For Peace is publishing an Open Letter to President Biden: Just Say NO to Nuclear War! The letter calls on President Biden to step back from the brink of nuclear war by declaring and implementing a policy of No First Use and by taking nuclear weapons off hair-trigger alert. VFP also urges President Biden to sign the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons and to provide global leadership for the total elimination of […]
Dear President Joseph Biden, Twenty years ago today, your predecessor signed into law an Authorization for Use of Military Force (AUMF) in response to the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks. Many in Congress understood themselves as voting for the impending invasion of Afghanistan, but the Bush Administration was launching a Global War on Terror in which the whole world is the battlefield. Since its passage, the AUMF has been used to justify military actions in at least nineteen countries. The domestic United States was also declared part of this global battlefield. Citing war time authorities, the Bush Administration claimed it could […]
Senior Fellow at the Foreign Policy Research Institute Byron Callan said that U.S. President Joe Biden and his administration must provide advanced F-15 fighter jets to Ukraine. Byron Callan calls that the need to upgrade Ukraine’s Air Force presents an opportunity for the Biden administration to cause Moscow some genuine pain, in both the real strategic sense and in terms of the long-running propaganda war. Ukraine currently has a fleet of heavy fighters of around fifty Soviet-designed Sukhoi Su-27 Flanker interceptors. Around thirty are believed to be operational. – ADVERTISEMENT – CONTINUE READING BELOW – He thinks that the only Western […]
U.S. helicopter maker Sikorsky Aircraft, a unit of Lockheed Martin, will build six additional VH-92A Presidential Helicopters under a $470.8-million contract from the U.S. Navy. According to the U.S. Department of Defense contract announcements, Sikorsky Aircraft Corp. was awarded a modification to a previous contract from the Naval Air Systems Command for exercises options for the procurement of five Lot Three low rate initial production Presidential Helicopters Replacement Program (VH-92A) aircraft, and associated interim contractor support, two cabin interior reconfiguration kits, support equipment, initial spares, and system parts replenishment. Under the terms of the contract, known as Low Rate Initial Production (LRIP) […]
Hunter Biden Criminal Probe Bolsters A Chinese Scholar’s Claim By Glenn Greenwald, Substack. December 11, 2020 Hunter Biden Criminal Probe Bolsters A Chinese Scholar’s Claim2020-12-112020-12-10https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/12/bidens.jpeg200px200px Above photo: Hunter Biden with his father, Joe. Teresa Kroeger/Getty Images. About Beijing’s Influence With the Biden Administration. Professor Di Dongsheng says China’s close ties to Wall Street and its dealings with Hunter both enable it to exert more power now than it could under Trump. Hunter Biden acknowledged today that he has been notified of an active criminal investigation into his tax affairs by the U.S. Attorney for Delaware. Among the numerous prongs of the inquiry, CNN reports, investigators are […]
To Solve The COVID19 Crisis, Biden Must Put People Over Profits By Margaret Flowers, Truthout. December 2, 2020 To Solve The COVID19 Crisis, Biden Must Put People Over Profits2020-12-022020-12-02https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/12/biden.png200px200px Above photo: President-elect Joe Biden speaks during a press conference at The Queen in Wilmington, Delaware, on November 16, 2020. Roberto Schmidt/AFP via Getty Images. As infectious disease experts had warned over the summer, the fall brought another rise in COVID-19 cases in the United States. It is a third surge in what is still the first wave as the number of daily new cases only flattened slightly in the spring before […]
Mutual Aid Will Help Us Survive The Biden Presidency By Dean Spade, ROAR Magazine. November 30, 2020 Mutual Aid Will Help Us Survive The Biden Presidency2020-11-302020-11-30https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/11/roar-e1606767988499.jpg200px200px Above photo: Father and daughter during a Black Lives Matter protest in New Jersey. June 4, 2020. Jess Pomponio / Shutterstock.com. Biden and Harris are not going to stop the crises we are facing. Mutual aid projects are essential to survive and build the world we want to live in. The only thing that keeps those in power in that position is the illusion of our powerlessness. A moment of freedom and connection can undo […]
Biden At The Cannabis Crossroads By Gabrielle Gurley, The American Prospect. November 28, 2020 Biden At The Cannabis Crossroads2020-11-282020-11-28https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/11/gurley-biden-mj-e1606602880275.jpg200px200px Above photo: Budtenders prepare orders for customers to pick up at the Higher Path cannabis dispensary in the Sherman Oaks section of Los Angeles, April 2020. Richard Vogel/AP. The president-elect’s moves toward federal marijuana liberalization don’t add up to legalization. There will be tougher issues on the drug policy front ahead. This story is part of the Prospect’s series on how the next president can make progress without new legislation. Read all of our Day One Agenda articles here. Shortly after the election, House […]
Biden, The Emcee At The Billionaires’ Ball By Glen Ford, Black Agenda Report. November 27, 2020 Biden, The Emcee At The Billionaires’ Ball2020-11-272020-11-27https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/11/race-to-the-bottom.jpg200px200px The Lords of Capital use periods of crisis to devour the less-rich and reshape the political economy to their further advantage, so that the Joe Bidens of the world jump higher and come quicker when summoned. “What ordinary people experience as disaster is manna from heaven for the Lords of Capital.” The Orange Era of racist rants will soon be over – just a few hundred mad tweets to go till January 20th, when the head flunky for […]
Venezuela: Biden Should Live Up To His Promise Of Mutual Respect By Susan Grey, Labour Outlook. November 24, 2020 Venezuela: Biden Should Live Up To His Promise Of Mutual Respect2020-11-242020-11-24https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/11/venezuelan-demo-no-more-trump-e1606245478113.jpg200px200px Cancel the sanctions. Take Action: Sign the petition against US sanctions on Venezuela at https://bit.ly/stopvenezuelasanctions As Joe Biden takes over the US presidency there is much speculation over how much his Latin America policy will differ from that of Donald Trump. Whilst Trump’s sanctions on Venezuela have undoubtedly been harsher and more damaging than those that went before, it’s important to remember that they began with the Obama administration, with Biden […]
Biden Could Enact Medicare For All By Executive Action By Kenny Stancil, Commondreams. November 22, 2020 Biden Could Enact Medicare For All By Executive Action2020-11-222020-11-22https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/11/biden_7.jpg200px200px Above photo: President-elect Joe Biden delivers a remarks on the economic recovery in Wilmington, Delaware on Monday, November 16, 2020. Salwan Georges/The Washington Post via Getty Images. With Pandemic as National Emergency. “I do not expect Joe Biden to use this power on Inauguration Day to instantly turn the United States into a single-payer country. But there’s nothing in the law that would appear to prevent him from doing it.” Journalist David Dayen presented a convincing […]
Ten Foreign Policy Fiascos Biden Can Fix On Day One By Medea Benjamin and Nicolas J. S. Davies, Popular Resistance. November 21, 2020 Ten Foreign Policy Fiascos Biden Can Fix On Day One2020-11-212020-11-21https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/11/saudiarabia-e1605995000182.png200px200px Above photo: Saudi Arabia’s War in Yemen Has Failed – Council on Foreign Relations. Donald Trump loves executive orders as a tool of dictatorial power, avoiding the need to work through Congress. But that works both ways, making it relatively easy for President Biden to reverse many of Trump’s most disastrous decisions. Here are ten things Biden can do as soon as he takes office. Each one can […]
Trump Plans Series Of Actions Against China Before Biden Inauguration By Dave DeCamp, Antiwar.com. November 20, 2020 Trump Plans Series Of Actions Against China Before Biden Inauguration2020-11-202020-11-20https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/11/china.jpg200px200px Above photo: President Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping meet at the G-20 summit in Japan in 2019. Associated Press. NOTE: As we wrote earlier this year, the United States is on a dangerous path with China. China is a powerful player in the multipolar world that is developing. The United States needs to change course and become a cooperative member of this new reality or risk isolating itself further and starting a hot […]
Over 235 Organizations Call On Biden To Cancel Student Debt By Americans for Financial Reform. November 19, 2020 Over 235 Organizations Call On Biden To Cancel Student Debt2020-11-192020-11-19https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/11/debt-e1605833627587.jpg200px200px Washington, D.C. — Over 235 organizations sent a letter to President-Elect Biden and Vice President-Elect Harris, calling on them to use executive authority to cancel federal student debt on day one of their administration. In the letter, 238 nonprofit and community organizations highlight that cancelling student debt would stimulate the economy, help reduce the racial wealth gap, and could have a positive impact on health outcomes. The groups write that “executive action is one of the few […]
Biden Signals Flexibility On North Korea By Tim Shorrock, The Nation. November 18, 2020 Biden Signals Flexibility On North Korea2020-11-182020-11-18https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/11/nk.png200px200px Above photo: Vice President Joe Biden visits soldiers in Korea’s Demilitarized Zone, December 7, 2013. Chung Sung-Jun / Getty Images. Peace groups are wary. Koreans fear a return to Obama’s failed “strategic patience” policy. The friendly interplay last week between Moon Jae-in, the president of South Korea, and Joe Biden, the incoming president of the United States, signaled subtle but important differences about how to make peace with a nuclear-armed North Korea. On Thursday, Moon, who has made engagement with the North the […]
Biden State Media Appointee Advocated ‘Rethinking’ First Amendment By Ben Norton, The Grayzone. November 18, 2020 Biden State Media Appointee Advocated ‘Rethinking’ First Amendment2020-11-182020-11-18https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/11/rs-e1605713992233.jpg200px200px The head of the Joe Biden transition team for the US Agency for Global Media, Richard Stengel, has branded himself the “chief propagandist,” urged the government to use propaganda against its “own population,” and called to “rethink” the First Amendment. Richard Stengel, the top state media appointee for US President-elect Joe Biden’s transition team, has enthusiastically defended the use of propaganda against Americans. “My old job at the State Department was what people used to joke as […]
Biden, Media And CIA Labeled Hunter Biden Emails ‘Russian Disinformation’ By Glenn Greenwald, Substack. November 14, 2020 Biden, Media And CIA Labeled Hunter Biden Emails ‘Russian Disinformation’2020-11-142020-11-14https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/11/bidenemails.png200px200px Above photo: Rep. Adam Schiff (D-WA), Chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, with CNN’s Wolf Blitzer, Oct. 16, 2020. There is Still No Evidence. The same factions that constantly claim to abhor Fake News and disinformation continue to be the most aggressive and shameless propagators of it — especially the media. Congressman Adam Schiff, the Chairman of the House Intelligence Committee and, not coincidentally, the single most shameless pathological liar in the U.S. Congress […]
Obama Official Admits Biden Camp Is Already Working With Foreign Leaders By Glenn Greenwald, Substack. November 11, 2020 Obama Official Admits Biden Camp Is Already Working With Foreign Leaders2020-11-112020-11-11https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/11/rice-e1605103121872.jpeg200px200px Above photo: White House National Security Adviser Susan Rice, shakes hands with incoming White House National Security Advisor Gen. Michael Flynn, on January 10, 2017, in Washington, DC. Mark Wilson/Getty Images. Exactly What Flynn Did. In late 2016, the FBI investigated Gen. Michael Flynn when he was a transition official for the possible “crime” of talking to Russia about foreign policy. Why can Biden do this? Two weeks after Donald Trump wonthe […]
Will The Biden Team Be Warmongers Or Peacemakers? By Medea Benjamin and Nicolas J. S. Davies, Popular Resistance. November 9, 2020 Will The Biden Team Be Warmongers Or Peacemakers?2020-11-092020-11-09https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/11/biden-gorbachev-e1604954859840.jpg200px200px Above photo: Obama and Biden meet Gorbachev – did Biden learn anything? Wikimedia Commons. Congratulations to Joe Biden on his election as America’s next president! People all over this pandemic-infested, war-torn and poverty-stricken world were shocked by the brutality and racism of the Trump administration, and are anxiously wondering whether Biden’s presidency will open the door to the kind of international cooperation that we need to confront the serious problems facing humanity […]
Article On Joe And Hunter Biden Censored By The Intercept By Glenn Greenwald, Substack. November 4, 2020 Article On Joe And Hunter Biden Censored By The Intercept2020-11-042020-11-04https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/11/glenng.jpg200px200px Above photo: ournalist Glenn Greenwald checks his laptop at his home in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil in July. AP. An attempt to assess the importance of the known evidence, and a critique of media lies to protect their favored candidate, could not be published at The Intercept. NOTE FROM GREENWALD: I am posting here the most recent draft of my article about Joe and Hunter Biden — the last one seen by Intercept editors […]
What Trump And Biden Get Wrong About North Korea By Christine Ahn, Global Research. November 1, 2020 What Trump And Biden Get Wrong About North Korea2020-11-012020-11-01https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/11/panmunjom-declaration-2018-e1604259870514.jpg200px200px At last week’s presidential debate, the American people were presented with two widely divergent points of view on how to address North Korea’s growing nuclear arsenal: Either engage with its leader (and thereby “legitimize” a “thug”) or apply more sanctions and pressure in order to “control” North Korea. But this is a false dichotomy. Meeting or not meeting with the North Korean leader hasn’t been the failure of U.S. policy. And more pressure and sanctions […]
Biden And Trump Agree Far More Than They Disagree By Adrienne Pine, Telesur English. October 31, 2020 Biden And Trump Agree Far More Than They Disagree2020-10-312020-10-31https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/10/bidentrump-e1604163445447.jpg200px200px Above photo: Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden gestures towards US President Donald J. Trump as they participate in the final presidential debate at Belmont University in Nashville, Tennessee, USA. October 22, 2020. EFE/EPA/Pool/Jim Bourg. On most issues affecting the poor and working-class, neither of the two candidates offers any relief. With the U.S. presidential elections slated for next Tuesday November 3rd, unprecedented numbers of voters have already cast their ballot. Despite a polarized electorate deeply divided […]
Biden And Liberal Censorship By Margaret Kimberly, Black Agenda Report. October 24, 2020 Biden And Liberal Censorship2020-10-242020-10-24https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/10/fr_845x400_1.jpeg200px200px It is Democrats and the technology companies which support them that are doing most of the censoring that is identified with fascist societies. “The Washington Post created Propaganda or Not, Propornot, a secretive group which labeled Black Agenda Report and others as Russian assets in 2016.” We can thank liberals for turning social media platforms into the biggest champions of censorship in the country. Frustrated in the wake of the 2016 election debacle, they rushed to cover up for their own failures and used […]
Top Ten People To Blame If Joe Biden Loses By Lee Camp, Consortium News. October 22, 2020 Top Ten People To Blame If Joe Biden Loses2020-10-222020-10-22https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/10/elect-e1603400319218.jpg200px200px Above photo: Donkey Hotey, Flickr. It’s Not The Left. Let’s get ready for a blame game. If he loses to one of the most racist, megalomaniacal presidents in history it won’t be the Left’s fault. So, Joseph Biden, AKA “Kid Senile,” leads in the polls against Donald Trump, AKA “Kid Fascist Lunatic,” by such a large margin that it resembles a horse race in which one of the horses is an aged wiener dog with three legs. Right now, […]
How Biden Flubbed Town Hall Foreign Policy Question By Medea Benjamin and Nicolas J. S. Davies, Popular Resistance. October 20, 2020 How Biden Flubbed Town Hall Foreign Policy Question2020-10-202020-10-20https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/10/biden-e1603234793201.png200px200px Toward the end of Joe Biden’s October 15 town hall session, a Trump supporter asked Biden the only foreign policy question of the night. “So peace is breaking out all over the world,” the questioner claimed. “Our troops are coming home. Serbia is talking to Kosovo. And the Arabs and Israelis are talking peace, which I believe is a modern-day miracle, what’s going on. Does President Trump’s foreign policy deserve some credit?” […]
https://cdn1.img.sputniknews.com/img/07e4/0a/14/1080821581_0:286:2911:1924_1200x675_80_0_0_f8a1523bebfcf953c4026313cdb23704.jpg Sputnik International https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png Muhammad Osman. Sputnik International https://sputniknews.com/us/202010201080821500-out-of-ya-fking-mind-50-cent-denounces-biden-tax-plan-calls-on-fans-to-vote-for-trump/ Competition between Republican US President Donald Trump and his Democratic rival, former Vice President Joe Biden, is getting warmer as Election Day is only two weeks ahead. Both of the two candidates seek to gain the American’s voice by offering what they think is good for the nation. American rap superstar Curtis James Jackson III, better known by his stage name ‘50 Cent‘, on Monday criticized the tax plan of Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden and called on his 26.2 million Instagram followers to vote for the sitting US president, Donald Trump. […]
WASHINGTON (Sputnik) – US President Donald Trump will take part in the upcoming third round of presidential debates despite the fact that the Commission on Presidential Debates has decided to change the rules allowing for the muting of microphones, Trump campaign manager Bill Stepien said. Stepien said in a Monday statement that the president “is committed to debating Joe Biden regardless of last minute rule changes.” Stepien said the debates commission was “biased” and was trying to “provide advantage to their favored candidate.” Earlier on Monday, the commission issued a statement saying that Trump and his Democratic rival Joe Biden will […]
In the two-and-a-half days immediately following the New York Post’s hit job on Hunter Biden, Fox News reportedly dedicated three times as much airtime to the former vice president’s son as it did to the COVID-19 pandemic. Now, at least one prominent Fox host seems to be realizing that it’s not working. During a preview segment for the final debate between Donald Trump and Joe Biden, scheduled for this Thursday, Steve Doocy explicitly warned the president not to talk about Hunter. “So you gotta figure the president’s gonna try to bring up Hunter Biden in some manner,” Doocy said. Brian Kilmeade […]
The final debate between Donald Trump and Joe Biden will not include foreign policy as a topic, a decision for which the president’s campaign has slammed the commission, especially after the recent Hunter Biden allegations. “Good morning to everyone except Presidential Debate Commission members who changed focus of final debate away from foreign policy,” the Trump campaign’s senior adviser Jason Miller tweeted on Monday morning. Miller theorized the topics were steered away from foreign policy “so Joe Biden wouldn’t have to answer to being compromised by the Chinese Communist Party, supporting endless wars and sending pallets of cash to Iran.” Good […]
With less than three weeks before Election Day and the coronavirus pandemic still raging, Donald Trump wants voters to consider some very important things. Like did Osama bin Laden survive the 2011 Navy SEAL raid on his compound by using a body double, and did former Vice President Joe Biden then order the murder of Navy SEALs to cover that fact up? Did Biden then order the murder of four Americans in Benghazi, Libya to cover that up? Trump boosted that convoluted conspiracy theory twice on Twitter this week, in one case retweeting a QAnon believer and in another retweeting a […]
The New York Post dropped a bomb on Hunter Biden’s business deals and the alleged role of his father Joe Biden, following the GOP’s September report calling out the potentially criminal financial transactions of the ex-vice president son. US journalist Max Parry has discussed the disclosure and FBI Director Christopher Wray’s apparent inaction. The Post’s first bombshell report – published on 14 October and almost immediately censored by Twitter – unveiled “smoking gun emails” alleging that then-Vice President Joe Biden met with an executive from the Ukrainian gas firm Burisma less than a year before Ukraine’s then-General Prosecutor Viktor Shokin was […]
As the controversy surrounding Hunter Biden and a laptop that allegedly contains emails of his business dealings begin to build, the Presidential campaign of Donald Trump has claimed the incident as proof of corruption on part of Democratic contender Joe Biden. Donald Trump Jr has described Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden as “the most compromised person in the history of American politics” on Sunday regarding allegations against Hunter Biden’s and his overseas business relations. “The swamp, social media, mainstream media, they want Biden to win, even though it’s likely that Biden is probably the most compromised person in the history of American […]
Describing the reveal regarding the Biden family’s alleged activities, Stear called it “the biggest political story” of his lifetime. Following the emergence of media reports about Joe Biden’s alleged involvement in the business dealings of his son Hunter during Obama’s presidency, US commentator Christopher Stear recently drew comparisons between the Biden family and a fictional mafia clan from a certain HBO series. While speaking to Sky News Australia regarding the matter, Stear remarked that “it’s a bit like the Soprano family, but probably worse”. “You’ve got Joe Biden on tape, admitting in front of an audience that he blackmailed the Ukranian […]
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President Donald Trump, staring down a double-digit polling deficit with less than three weeks before Election Day, has resorted to trying to make one of his vintage conspiracy theories a hit in syndication: the idea that former Vice President Joe Biden is in a steep stage of cognitive decline and is only kept lucid by a mysterious cocktail of prescription drugs. “We can’t have a leader that’s just about half-shot. Can we believe we’re even fighting against this guy?” Trump told supporters at a rally in North Carolina on Thursday. “This is crazy. This is the craziest race. You know what? […]
Look, I’m voting for Joe Biden. I get why white racists and millionaires—and people who stand at the intersection of those two groups—are all-in for Donald Trump, but for the rest of us, self-preservation dictates that Biden is the better choice. Thursday night’s dueling presidential town halls, which featured a belligerent Trump and a comparatively contemplative Biden, drove that all the way home. If I believed, at this late stage, that “undecided voters” were real, and not people with made-up minds in desperate need of attention, I cannot imagine how the contrast could have been any starker or the decision clearer. […]
Twitter and Facebook have both moved to suppress New York Post reports that the former vice president lied about never talking to his son Hunter about his business dealings in Ukraine, where Biden had the prosecutor general fired. US Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden has lashed out at a journalist for asking his thoughts on allegations against his son. CBS reporter Bo Erickson, attached to the Biden election campaign, asked the former vice president on Thursday night for his response to the New York Post story alleging his son Hunter peddled his father’s influence to Ukrainian and Chinese businessmen for money […]
On Friday night, Real Time host Bill Maher weighed in on Trump’s unhinged, sweaty, hour-long ragefest on NBC Thursday with Savannah Guthrie, wherein the president defended the batshit-insane conspiracy theory QAnon, which claims that the Democrats and Hollywood are killing and raping babies (and extracting their fear for medicine), as well as his decision to retweet another wacky conspiracy theory about the bin Laden raid. “The Trump one was just amazing,” offered Maher. “Trump defended retweeting this crazy conspiracy theory—did you see this?—about how bin Laden wasn’t really killed by Obama, because of course Obama never could do anything good so […]
President Donald Trump’s lawyer Rudy Giuliani is insisting that the hard drive allegedly belonging to Hunter Biden contains such explosive revelations that the shop owner who handed the data to authorities feared for his life. The repair-shop owner handed the laptop, allegedly left for repair by Biden and then abandoned, over to the FBI some time in December – but not before making four complete copies of the data as insurance, the former New York City mayor claimed, in a recent interview with The Daily Caller. “He gave two to friends of his in case he was killed,” Giuliani, who shared […]
Suppressing several stories critical of Democrat candidate Joe Biden amounted to election interference and an illegal political contribution, the Republican National Committee said in a complaint to the election watchdog FEC. The party filed a complaint with the Federal Election Commission on Friday, accusing Twitter of illegally interfering with the 2020 US presidential election through its muscular censorship of a handful of articles that appeared to expose Biden’s son Hunter’s dodgy business dealings with Ukrainian and Chinese entities. Twitter’s unprecedented blackout, which blocked all sharing of links to the stories and even locked the accounts of certain high-profile individuals who posted […]
Ex-President Barack Obama has recorded videos in support of his former vice-president and spoken by video link at the Democratic National Convention in August, but has not yet appeared at a live rally in support of Joe Biden. Former US President Barack Obama will hit the campaign trail for his old running-mate Joe Biden next week. Obama will headline a presidential campaign rally in Philadelphia, the capital of Pennsylvania on Wednesday October 21. It will be the first time Obama has appeared publicly in support of Biden’s campaign to win the presidency from incumbent Donald Trump, although the ex-president and his […]
Twitter is cracking down on the spread of “misleading” content ahead of the US election, as users attempting to retweet anything similar to the NYPost’s Hunter Biden leaks will now get a warning the material is “disputed.” Attempting to retweet offending content will trigger a prompt warning the user that the material they’re trying to post is “disputed,” Twitter revealed on Friday, posting an image of the new warning screen. The user will be able to click a button to “find out more” about why Twitter doesn’t want the material shared, and then presumably post it anyway. Our work to limit […]
The ratings are in, and it appears as if Democratic presidential nominee and former US Vice President Joe Biden’s Thursday night town hall attracted more viewers than that of US President Donald Trump, whose program was simulcast across three networks. Early Nielsen television ratings released on Friday revealed Biden attracted 13.9 million total viewers to his town hall on Thursday night, versus Trump’s 13.1 million, Bloomberg reported. While the former vice president’s event was only broadcast via ABC, Trump’s town hall could be viewed on NBC, MSNBC and CNBC. An estimated 73.1 million viewers tuned into the September debate between Biden […]
(CNN)Caroline Giuliani, the daughter of President Donald Trump’s personal attorney and former New York City mayor Rudy Giuliani, is urging Americans to “end this nightmare” by voting for Democratic nominee Joe Biden and his running mate Kamala Harris. In a piece for Vanity Fair published Thursday, she called on voters to end Trump’s “reign of terror” and “elect a compassionate and decent president.” “I may not be able to change my father’s mind, but together, we can vote this toxic administration out of office,” Giuliani, who has publicly supported Democratic candidates in past presidential elections, wrote. “U.S. intelligence agencies believed that Rudy Giuliani […]
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As Savannah Guthrie grilled Donald Trump on QAnon at Trump’s town hall event, he did his usual lying and dodging and then whined to Guthrie about Antifa and asked her: “Why aren’t you asking Joe Biden questions about, why doesn’t he condemn Antifa?” Let’s settle this. Joe Biden does not have to denounce Antifa. He’s done so, anyway, but even if he hadn’t, he has utterly no responsibility to do so, and since this appears to be an attack line Trump might amp up in these waning days, it’s important for people to understand why. It’s important because it probably sounds […]
Caroline Amenabar/NPR; Joe Hall/Flickr Caroline Amenabar/NPR; Joe Hall/Flickr Key priorities Joe Biden Make public colleges, historically Black colleges and universities, and minority-serving institutions tuition-free for families making less than $125,000. Make two years of community college and training programs tuition-free. Cancel $10,000 of every American’s student debt and revise the current loan repayment system. Establish universal prekindergarten. Read details of Biden’s plans below. Donald Trump Biden’s plans for education Biden is advocating to make public colleges and universities tuition-free for students with family incomes under $125,000. He links this proposal to the 2017 College for All Act, legislation introduced by Sen. […]
Town Hall YouTube Ratings At the end of #Trump‘s town hall, the #NBC News YouTube channel showed 153,660 viewers were watching. #ABC News’s YouTube channel showed 507,445 viewers at the end of #Biden‘s town hall. AND, THE WINNER IS, BIDEN!!!#MOGhttps://t.co/md6MsdKtK8 — Michael O’Grady (@mog7546) October 16, 2020 Town hall YouTube views suggest Biden hit Trump where it hurts him most—ratings https://t.co/8PBy5ZDamQ — Newsweek (@Newsweek) October 16, 2020 Sean Hannity completely melts down after Donald Trump’s town hall is a disaster https://t.co/Fjkzm9uyFL via @PalmerReport — Jo-Jo (@jojog50) October 16, 2020 Maddow explains why Trump’s NBC town hall backfired on him: “Trump got […]
It was another balancing act for Joe Biden tonight, and if Donald Trump hadn’t killed our outrage receptors, many of us would probably find the confusion truly alarming. Even if you’re convinced that Biden is, by far, the lesser of two evils, it’s still worth taking a minute to stop to consider what we might be getting ourselves into with Biden and the Democrats. It ain’t pretty. Thursday night’s town halls were a stark contrast in style, with the ABC town hall being stylistically like Biden (slow and substantive), and Trump’s NBC event reminding me of him (flashy, interrupting, and entertaining). […]
Democrat presidential candidate Joe Biden suggested that children as young as eight-years-old should be allowed to change their gender identity if they decide they “want to be transgender.” The comment came on Thursday night at an election town hall hosted by ABC News, where a woman who said one of her two daughters is transgender asked Biden what he would do to protect LGBTQ rights. The former vice president said, “I will flat out just change the law.” He then told a story about seeing two gay men kissing each other and being told by his father, “Joey, it’s simple, they […]
VT: The FBI is investigating Steve Bannon and Rudi Giuliani for their involvement with Russian intelligence officers in an operation involving a laptop computer loaded with fake emails. FBI intelligence recently questioned one VT editor for hours on Russian intelligence operations in Ukraine, including on scenarios deeply similar to the one being played out through arch-zionist Rupert Murdoch’s New York Post. The “pointed” emails are similar to emails that were fabricated within Wikileaks material, which was confirmed by the FBI. Much of the case against Assange isn’t related to leaks or hacking but rather espionage and fabricating materials.g NBC: “The New […]
ABC held a 90-minute town hall with Democrat presidential candidate Joe Biden without asking a single question about this week’s New York Post stories on alleged scandals involving his son’s business dealings in Ukraine and China. Host George Stephanopoulos steered clear of the Post’s scoops, including a story Wednesday that suggested Hunter Biden peddled political influence, including providing a Ukrainian business associate access to then-Vice President Joe Biden in 2015. The Post followed up Thursday with an article claiming the younger Biden stood to make tens of millions of dollars working for a Chinese energy firm, including $10 million annually “based […]
“With three weeks to go until Election Day, and millions of votes already cast, coronavirus remains the top issue for America,” Trevor Noah said on Thursday’s episode of The Daily Show. “And any normal president would be laser-focused on getting corona under control, helping businesses stay afloat, keeping schools open. But Donald Trump is not a normal president.” Instead, Trump and his lawyer Rudy Giuliani are counting on their “October surprise” of a secret laptop that allegedly contains Hunter Biden’s emails to change the momentum of the race. “Honestly, it’s insane that Trump’s people are even going after Biden by targeting […]
Twitter has issued a mea culpa after using its “hacked materials” policy to bury a controversial story alleging shady backroom dealings by the Biden family, with the platform vowing to alter its rules and how it enforces them. “Over the last 24 hours, we’ve received significant feedback (from critical to supportive) about how we enforced our Hacked Materials Policy yesterday,” Twitter policy head Vijaya Gadde said in a tweet on Thursday night, adding that the company would change how it applies the rule and lift its blockade on the Biden story, published Wednesday by the New York Post. We believe that labeling […]
President Trump speaks during an NBC News town hall moderated by Savannah Guthrie at the Perez Art Museum in Miami. At the same time Thursday night, Democratic nominee Joe Biden participated in an ABC News town hall in Philadelphia. Brendan Smialowski/AFP via Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Brendan Smialowski/AFP via Getty Images President Trump speaks during an NBC News town hall moderated by Savannah Guthrie at the Perez Art Museum in Miami. At the same time Thursday night, Democratic nominee Joe Biden participated in an ABC News town hall in Philadelphia. Brendan Smialowski/AFP via Getty Images In a unique political […]
Joe Biden said voters deserve to know where he stands on expanding the Supreme Court – reversing a statement he made last week – but he again declined to give a definitive answer on whether he plans to install more liberal judges. Speaking Thursday night at a town hall hosted by ABC News, the Democrat presidential candidate said his view on so-called court packing will be influenced by handling of the ongoing confirmation process for President Donald’s Trump’s current nominee to the court, Amy Coney Barrett. “It depends on how this turns out – not how he wins, but how it’s […]
Democratic presidential hopeful Joe Biden said he will not quarantine after being on board the same airplane with a crew member who tested positive for the coronavirus, saying he was far away and wearing a N-95 mask. “My COVID test from last night came back negative,” Biden tweeted on Thursday evening, just before the platform unexpectedly crashed. “Not only was the individual 50+ feet [15 meters] away and wearing a mask, but I was wearing an N-95 mask,” he added. “My doctors have advised that there is no need for me to quarantine.” Not only was the individual 50+ feet away […]
Bombshell emails obtained by the New York Post made headlines on 14 October, as they suggested that Joe Biden was involved in his son’s overseas business affairs after all. The rapid spread of the story was, however, impeded by Facebook and Twitter, both of which limited users from sharing it under various pretexts. Hunter Biden, son of former Vice President and current Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden, previously pursued an agreement with a Chinese energy giant that would be “interesting” to him and his “family”, a new trove of emails published by the New York Post suggests. The emails come from […]
Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden, pictured in Fort Lauderdale, Fla., on Tuesday, is leading against President Trump in the latest NPR/PBS NewsHour/Marist poll. Jim Watson/AFP via Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Jim Watson/AFP via Getty Images Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden, pictured in Fort Lauderdale, Fla., on Tuesday, is leading against President Trump in the latest NPR/PBS NewsHour/Marist poll. Jim Watson/AFP via Getty Images With less than three weeks to go until Election Day, Democrat Joe Biden has taken a double-digit lead over President Trump, according to the latest NPR/PBS NewsHour/Marist poll. The former vice president leads Trump 54% to […]
President Trump’s influential supporter Rupert Murdoch is telling close associates he believes Joe Biden will win the election in a landslide. The Australian-born billionaire is disgusted by Trump’s handling of COVID-19, remarking that the president is his own worst enemy, that he is not listening to advice about how best to handle the pandemic, and that he’s creating a never-ending crisis for his administration, according to three people who have spoken with Murdoch. In response to an email inquiry for this story asking him if he believes Biden will win in a landslide and his thoughts on Trump’s handling of coronavirus, […]
US President Donald Trump has taken notice of the social media crackdown on the New York Post over a story about his challenger Joe Biden’s son Hunter and his business dealings in Ukraine, urging a crackdown on platforms instead. “So terrible that Facebook and Twitter took down the story of ‘Smoking Gun’ emails related to Sleepy Joe Biden and his son, Hunter, in the [New York Post],” Trump tweeted on Wednesday evening. So terrible that Facebook and Twitter took down the story of “Smoking Gun” emails related to Sleepy Joe Biden and his son, Hunter, in the @NYPost. It is only […]
Biden initially trailed the president in the money race, who began fundraising for his re-election bid in 2017, but now the former vice president might raise more money than Trump by election day on 3 November. Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden announced on Wednesday that his campaign set a fundraising record of $383 million last month. To every person who chipped in a few dollars last month — thank you. Because of your support, we raised an astounding $383 million. I’m incredibly humbled. There’s still more work to be done, but I wanted to share the good news with Trimicka, one of […]
Twitter’s CEO Jack Dorsey has blamed “bad communication” and a “lack of context” in response to public outcry over his platform’s censorship of a New York Post story on alleged backroom dealings of the Biden family. “Our communication around our actions on the [New York Post] article was not great. And blocking URL sharing via tweet or DM with zero context as to why we’re blocking: unacceptable,” Dorsey tweeted on Wednesday, hours after Twitter began blacklisting the story. Our communication around our actions on the @nypost article was not great. And blocking URL sharing via tweet or DM with zero context […]
Rudy Giuliani’s latest effort to push more dirt on the Bidens weeks before the 2020 presidential election had some important backers—chief among them, the president of the United States. In recent weeks, Donald Trump was made aware of an alleged secret trove of material about Hunter Biden’s foreign dealings and private life, and was keen on getting it out into the public domain as soon as possible, according to two sources familiar with the matter. “Have you heard about this [hard drive]?” one of the people recalled the president asking recently. The president made clear this latest salvo against the Bidens […]
Twitter has issued a clarification on its “Hacked Materials Policy” following fallout from the social media platform’s decision to block two New York Post articles about Hunter Biden. However, some netizens are arguing the platform has not been consistent with its application of the rule. “We want to provide much needed clarity around the actions we’ve taken with respect to two NY Post articles that were first Tweeted this morning,” Twitter Safety tweeted Thursday night. “The images contained in the articles include personal and private information – like email addresses and phone numbers – which violate our rules.” This announcement came […]
Twitter has one-upped Facebook’s censorship regarding a story based on alleged emails from Democratic candidate Joe Biden’s son Hunter about his Ukraine dealings, blocking all users from sharing it via tweet or direct message. Twitter users were blocked on Wednesday from sharing the New York Post story critical of the Bidens published just that morning. The decision was based on a never-before-invoked “hacked materials policy” that Twitter announced hours after Facebook had stomped on the same story. The Post cited emails that appeared to show Joe Biden – then vice president to Barack Obama – had met with Ukrainian Burisma exec Vadim Pozharskyi […]
Twitter and Facebook said their decisions to limit sharing of a New York Post article were meant to slow the spread of potentially false information. Denis Charlet/AFP via Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Denis Charlet/AFP via Getty Images Twitter and Facebook said their decisions to limit sharing of a New York Post article were meant to slow the spread of potentially false information. Denis Charlet/AFP via Getty Images Facebook and Twitter took action on Wednesday to limit the distribution of a New York Post story making unconfirmed claims about Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden, leading President Trump’s campaign and allies […]
After the New York Post dropped a bombshell story about Democratic presidential hopeful Joe Biden’s son Hunter’s Ukrainian business dealings on Wednesday, social media giants Facebook and Twitter rushed to limit its spread, prompting accusations of censorship and in-kind aid to Joe Biden. On Wednesday, the New York Post threw gasoline onto the smoldering coals of the Ukraine affair that led to US President Donald Trump’s impeachment trial in January, publishing a story titled “Hunter Biden emails show leveraging connections with his father to boost Burisma pay.” However, as the story gained traction on social media, Facebook and Twitter moved to […]
Not this time. In 2016, many mainstream media outlets let themselves be used by Donald Trump and his henchmen (Rudy Giuliani, Steve Bannon, Roger Stone, etc.) to amplify nutso Hillary conspiracy stories. It helped put Trump in the White House, where he has violated the Constitution and his oath of office and common-sense decency pretty much every day of his presidency. So far this time around, the track record has been better. But it’s better because all the conspiracy-mongering has fallen flat. Prosecutor John Durham, who I really thought was going to do Bill Barr’s dirty work and try to rig […]
https://cdn1.img.sputniknews.com/img/07e4/0a/0e/1080769654_0:0:3072:1728_1200x675_80_0_0_d474eb41452bc726bb457c670f5dd162.jpg Sputnik International https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png Oleg Burunov. Sputnik International https://sputniknews.com/us/202010141080770110-hot-thursday-night-trump-biden-to-partake-in-rivalling-town-halls-after-cancellation-of-2nd-debate/ Last week, the US Commission on Presidential Debates confirmed that the second faceoff between President Donald Trump and his Democratic rival Joe Biden slated for 15 October had been cancelled. Earlier, POTUS said “no” to the commission’s move to hold a virtual debate due to health concerns. NBC News has announced that President Donald Trump will participate in the network’s town hall on Thursday night, a 60-minute event that is due to be held at the Perez Art Museum in Miami. NBC’s “Today” host Hoda Kotb said on Wednesday that the event […]
On 4 July, the musician announced he would run for president on the Birthday Party ticket. His presidential campaign has been full of challenges, with the musician facing legal action from electors and accusations of being Donald Trump’s proxy. Rapper Kanye West claims he is ahead of Donald Trump and Joe Biden in Kentucky, where polls opened today for early voting. The 43-year-old posted a video on his Twitter showing the results of the vote on his phone and saying to “get the West Wing ready”, referring to the part of the White House, where the Oval Office is located. According […]
Opinium/Guardian poll finds Biden ahead by 57-40 margin Biden leads on healthcare, the economy and race relations Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden’s lead over Donald Trump has surged to a record 17 points as the US election enters its final sprint, an Opinium Research and Guardian opinion poll shows. Biden leads Trump by 17 points as election race enters final stage https://t.co/hgmkiYfCl1 — The Guardian (@guardian) October 13, 2020 Some 57% of likely voters intend to vote for Biden, while just 40% say they will vote for the incumbent president, the survey shows. #Latest @TheEconomist Forecast: Chance of winning the electoral college:Biden […]
Supporters of President Trump and Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden wave flags prior to Biden’s arrival for a townhall in Miami, Florida. Chandan Khanna/AFP via Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Chandan Khanna/AFP via Getty Images Supporters of President Trump and Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden wave flags prior to Biden’s arrival for a townhall in Miami, Florida. Chandan Khanna/AFP via Getty Images More than $1 billion has now been spent on TV ads for the 2020 presidential election in just 13 states, an NPR analysis of the latest ad spending data from the tracking firm Advertising Analytics finds. Most of […]
Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden speaks about his vision for older Americans Tuesday in Pembroke Pines, Fla. President Trump won the senior vote four years ago. Jim Watson/AFP via Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Jim Watson/AFP via Getty Images Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden speaks about his vision for older Americans Tuesday in Pembroke Pines, Fla. President Trump won the senior vote four years ago. Jim Watson/AFP via Getty Images With just three weeks left in the presidential race, Democratic nominee Joe Biden and President Trump are heavily courting senior citizens, a crucial voting bloc that has been disproportionately affected […]
Two weeks ago, Fox News star Tucker Carlson acknowledged on air that Trumpworld’s attempts to portray Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden as “senile” were off the mark after the former vice president performed well at the first presidential debate. It was a “mistake to spend so much time focusing on Joe Biden’s mental decline,” Carlson said. Apparently, Sean Hannity didn’t get that message, as he devoted much of his Monday night Fox News broadcast to hammering Biden for his supposed cognitive decline. The night after the first debate, Carlson—who like other Fox News opinion hosts had devoted ample coverage to painting […]
Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden, seen leaving St. Ann’s Church in Wilmington, Del., on Sunday, has declined in recent days to say whether he would attempt to add justices to the Supreme Court, if he’s elected president. Roberto Schmidt/AFP via Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Roberto Schmidt/AFP via Getty Images Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden, seen leaving St. Ann’s Church in Wilmington, Del., on Sunday, has declined in recent days to say whether he would attempt to add justices to the Supreme Court, if he’s elected president. Roberto Schmidt/AFP via Getty Images Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden argues that taking […]
Refusing to answer whether or not he supports packing the Supreme Court, Joe Biden has set off alarms by taking things even further and saying voters “don’t deserve” to know his position on the issue. Biden and his running mate, Sen. Kamala Harris (D-California), have thus far dodged the question of whether they would pack the Supreme Court with more extra justices if Amy Coney Barrett is confirmed before November’s election. Told in Las Vegas by a local reporter that his position on court packing, which he opposed during the Democratic Party’s presidential primary, is the “number one thing” viewers ask […]
Joe Biden shops at Three Thirteen, a Detroit apparel store on Sept. 9. Biden is hoping Black and brown voters can help propel him to victory in Michigan, a state President Trump narrowly won in 2016. Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images Joe Biden shops at Three Thirteen, a Detroit apparel store on Sept. 9. Biden is hoping Black and brown voters can help propel him to victory in Michigan, a state President Trump narrowly won in 2016. Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images Michael Coleman didn’t vote in the 2016 presidential election. But this year, on a chilly fall […]
US President Donald Trump said Thursday that he wanted to have US troops in Afghanistan home by Christmas, after 19 years of combat in the Middle East. The assertion reportedly caught many military and civil officials by surprise and is seen by some Democrats as a way for Trump to gain additional points prior to the 3 November election. Leaders of the Afghan militant group, the Taliban, said on Saturday that they hoped US President Donald Trump would beat Democratic rival, Joe Biden, in the US general election in November. “We hope he will win the election and wind up [the] US […]
The issue of court packing – an idea supported by many in the Democratic party – has been one of those most acute for Democratic candidate Joe Biden and his campaign, as he has consistently been reluctant to outline his position on extending the number of Supreme Court judges. During an interview with Las Vegas KTNV anchor Ross DiMattei, Joe Biden was again pressured to reveal his stance on court packing – but rolled out a sharp answer beyond previous moves to dodge the issue. When asked by the reporter “Don’t the voters deserve to know [your position on packing the Supreme […]
Swedish citizen and climate activist Greta Thunberg, 17, is encouraging US voters to “get organized” and vote for Joe Biden, despite claiming she does not “engage in party politics.” Thunberg made her endorsement while citing a tweet from Scientific American Magazine telling voters to “protect science instead of destroying it” by voting Donald Trump out of office in November. “I never engage in party politics. But the upcoming US elections is above and beyond all that,” the 17-year-old, who has been critical of Trump in the past despite her no “party politics” rule, said. “From a climate perspective it’s very far […]
Guardian: More than 1,600 faith leaders in the US have publicly backed Joe Biden, the Democratic candidate in next month’s presidential election, amid signs that some evangelical voters are turning away from Donald Trump. The Biden endorsements mainly come from Catholics, evangelicals and mainline Protestants. They include Jerushah Duford, the granddaughter of Billy Graham; Susan Johnson Cook, a former US ambassador for religious freedom; Michael Kinnamon, former general secretary of the National Council of Churches; and Gene Robinson, a former bishop in the Episcopal church. NEWS: more than 1600 clergy members, religious scholars and other faith-focused officials and activists are endorsing […]
US Democratic presidential nominee for the 3 November general election, Joe Biden, has been famous during the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic for carefully wearing a face mask wherever he goes. The former vice president’s Republican rival, President Donald Trump, has during his rallies repeatedly mocked Biden’s mask wearing health habit. Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden went viral on social media after lowering his protective face mask to cough into his hand before covering his face again. The former vice president, who has been known to consistently wear a facemask since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, did so while addressing supporters during […]
Updated 6:57 p.m. ET Despite reports of the Trump campaign canceling TV advertising in Ohio and Iowa, it turns out the campaign has $11 million still reserved for ads in the states, according to the latest ad spending data provided to NPR by the ad-tracking firm Advertising Analytics. The Trump campaign ran no ads in either state for the week of Oct. 4, but it still has $8 million in Ohio and almost $3 million in Iowa reserved for the final four weeks of the campaign. Both Ohio and Iowa should be states where Trump is favored. He won them both […]