Above Photo: Garet Munger. Seattle, Washington – Approximately 75 spirited protesters celebrated the 57th anniversary of the enactment of Medicare here on Friday, July 29, with a picket line and rally outside the Columbia Center chanting, “Whose Medicare? Our Medicare!” and “Medicare is not for profit! Keep your corporate hands off it!” The Columbia Center is where the Northwest Regional Director of the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), Ingrid Ulrey, has offices, along with other staff of HHS, including the Division Director of the Center for Medicare Services (CMS). The protesters demanded that President Joe Biden and Congress terminate […]
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Above Photo: Over years of investigation and prosecution, the U.S. government was never able to prove Hale’s leaks harmed anyone. Stand With Daniel Hale. One year ago this July, drone whistleblower Daniel Hale stood in front of Judge Liam O’Grady at his sentencing and explained himself. After a lengthy investigation and prosecution, it was finally the day when Hale would find out if he would spend years in prison for doing something he felt morally obligated to do: Tell the truth about the United States’ drone program. While working as a drone analyst in the U.S. Air Force in Afghanistan, he witnessed attacks […]
Above Photo: U.S. President Joe Biden delivers remarks at the White House in Washington, U.S., July 28, 2022. Elizabeth Frantz / Reuters. Putin told non-proliferation conference that nuclear war must never be ‘unleashed’ on the world. On Monday, UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres warned that “humanity is just one misunderstanding, one miscalculation away from nuclear annihilation.” Guterres made the warning at a conference of countries that are signatories to the Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT), which entered into force in 1970. The UN chief said the war in Ukraine and global tensions have put the world in “a time of nuclear danger not seen since the […]
Above Photo: China described the exchange between Joe Biden and Xi Jinping as ‘candid’. (Mandel Ngan/AFP/Getty). A US official says Biden and Xi agreed to meet in person. Note: Press TV reports that China is conducting military exercises ahead of Pelosi’s potential trip to Taiwan. Pelosi will not confirm her travel plans. China is conducting war games in the Taiwan Strait ahead of a possible visit to Taipei by Speaker of the US House of Representative Nancy Pelosi. The live-fire military maneuvers on Saturday was announced via the Chinese state media a day earlier, raising the stakes ahead of the planned […]
Above Photo: U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken greets Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov before their meeting, in Geneva, Switzerland, January 21, 2022. (Alex Brandon/Pool). Here is another story that demonstrates the incompetence and arrogance of the Biden administration. The New York Times reports of a potential prisoner swap between the U.S. and Russia: [T]he Biden administration has proposed trading the merchant of death for the imprisoned basketball player as well as a former marine held in Russia on what are considered trumped-up espionage charges. In the harsh and cynical world of international diplomacy, prisoner exchanges are rarely pretty, but unpalatable choices are often the only choices […]
Above Photo: Revolution Square, Havana. Medea Benjamin. If anything, it is Cuba that has been the victim of international terrorism emanating mainly from the U.S. As the Cuban government celebrates the July 26 Day of the National Rebellion — a public holiday commemorating the 1953 attack on the Moncada Barracks that is considered the precursor to the 1959 revolution — U.S. groups are calling on the Biden administration to end cruel sanctions that are creating such hardship for the Cuban people. In particular, they are pushing President Joe Biden to take Cuba off the list of state sponsors of terrorism. Being on this list subjects […]
Above photo: From the Veterans For Peace Nuclear Posture Review. Read Our Nuclear Posture Review Before Releasing Yours. NOTE: Below is the text of a letter sent to President Biden from Veterans For Peace. Dear President Biden, We, members of Veterans For Peace who are concerned about the growing possibility of nuclear war, have researched and written our own Nuclear Posture Review, with the goal of reducing the risk of nuclear war and ultimately eliminating all nuclear weapons. Because your own Nuclear Posture Review has not yet been released, we strongly encourage you to put it on hold while you review the […]
Above Photo: OnePixelStudio / Shutterstock. The president signed an agreement saying it would use all elements of US power, including force, to stop Tehran from getting a bomb. On March 24, President Biden drew a red line: if Russia uses chemical weapons in Ukraine, it “would trigger a response” from NATO. Asked to elaborate on the nature of the response, Biden had no script to guide him. “The nature of the response would depend on the nature of the use.” Then, he elaborated: “It would trigger a response in kind,” seemingly announcing that the US would respond to a Russian chemical weapons attack […]
Above photo: US President Joe Biden stands with Prime Minister Yair Lapid, right, and President Isaac Herzog, left, after arriving at Ben Gurion Airport, July 13, 2022. AP Photo/Evan Vucci. President Joe Biden’s much-heralded visit to Jerusalem has confirmed that the United States remains Israel’s enabler-in-chief. Biden promised to continue providing Israel with $3.8 billion in annual military aid (more than the U.S. gives any other country) to maintain the illegal Israeli occupation of Palestinian territory. Pledging to “stand with the Jewish and democratic State of Israel,” Biden ignored the exclusion of the Palestinian people from Israel’s “democracy,” which extends only to […]
Above Photo: In this image released by the Saudi Royal Palace, Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, right, greets President Joe Biden with a fist bump after his arrival at Al-Salam palace in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, Friday, July 15, 2022. (Bandar Aljaloud / Saudi Royal Palace via AP) A fistbump with a torturer doesn’t pay off with cheap oil to grease the president’s growing lust for war. Jeddah, Saudi Arabia — On the second day of his trip to Saudi Arabia, President Joe Biden met with the leaders of the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC)—Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Bahrain, Qatar, Oman, and the […]
Washington, D.C. – There is a line in a famous Hebrew poem written in 1903 by one of the most important Jewish poets Haim Nachman Bialik, which reads (loosely translated): כִּי-קָרָא אֲדֹנָי לָאָבִיב וְלַטֶּבַח גַּם-יָחַד הַשֶּׁמֶשׁ זָרְחָה, הַשִּׁטָּה פָּרְחָה וְהַשּׁוֹחֵט שָׁחַט God has commanded the spring and the slaughter together. The sun rose, the tree blossomed and the butcher slaughtered.” I am reminded of this line as I watch the preparations and the analysis surrounding the upcoming visit of U.S. president Joe Biden to Israel and Saudi Arabia. The fanfare goes on and at the same time the killing of Palestinians continues uninterrupted. The […]
Above Photo: U.S. President Joe Biden disembarking Air Force One. White House Photo, Adam Schultz. The U.S. president will be seen smiling with MbS and questions about Khashoggi’s murder, or the murder of other dissidents who were beheaded, will be dismissed in the name of “Arab-Israeli peace.” President Joe Biden has embarked on a Middle East trip that will include a visit to Saudi Arabia and a meeting with Crown Prince Muhammad Bin Salman. So, it’s now official, the Biden administration will forget about the murder of Jamal Khashoggi and the war in Yemen. The U.S. has only gently pressured Saudi […]
Above Photo: U.S. President Joe Biden waits for the start of a round table meeting at a NATO summit in Madrid, Spain on Wednesday, June 29, 2022. North Atlantic Treaty Organization heads of state and government will meet for a NATO summit in Madrid from Tuesday through Thursday. AP Photo/Susan Walsh, Pool. As NATO Summit Begins in Madrid. NATO is set to agree on an expansion of its forces in Eastern Europe. President Biden kicked off his three-day visit to a NATO summit in Madrid by announcing that the US plans to increase its military presence in Europe. Speaking with Spanish Prime […]
Above Photo: Teri Mattson, Workers’ Summit, Tijuana, at the U.S. Border Wall. We would definitely have wanted a different Summit of the Americas. The silence of those absent challenges us. So that this does not happen again, I would like to state for the future that the fact of being the host country of the Summit does not grant the capacity to impose a ‘right of admission’ on the member countries of the continent. – President of Argentina and president pro tempore of the Community of Latin American and Caribbean Countries (CELAC), Alberto Fernández, at the Summit of the Americas, June 10, […]
Washington, D.C. – As governments worldwide prepare to meet at the World Trade Organization (WTO) in Geneva for its first ministerial summit since the start of the pandemic, more than 750 students across the U.S. are calling on President Joe Biden to support a comprehensive waiver of WTO rules standing in the way of COVID vaccine, test and treatment access. “While COVID vaccines are readily available throughout the United States, that’s still not the case for billions of people worldwide,” said Noël Hutton, student outreach coordinator for the Trade Justice Education Fund. “The U.S. has a major role to play in removing […]
Above Photo: Susan Walsh / AP Photo. The largest-ever Medicare premium increase will pad the pockets of insurance executives who donated millions to the president’s election campaign. Last week, the Biden administration quietly reaffirmed its decision to enact the highest Medicare premium hikes in history right before this year’s midterm elections. At the same time, President Joe Biden is endorsing a plan to funnel significantly more Medicare money to insurance companies and further privatize the government insurance program for older Americans and those with disabilities. In effect, the higher premium increases will subsidize the larger payments to — and profits for — private […]
The Biden administration is ratcheting up its provocations of China as part of the National Security Strategy of Great Power Conflict, with the President going so far as to say the United States would intervene militarily over Taiwan. The US is also trying to push another trade agreement that would exclude China. On top of that is a propaganda campaign designed to build political support for the New Cold War. Clearing the FOG speaks with independent journalist and political analyst Daniel Haiphong about the war on China, what is happening with Taiwan and the Solomon Islands, Biden’s new trade framework and […]
Is reality setting in? Is that why a Washington Post reporter, who has been on the frontline in Ukraine, was allowed to write this? Ukrainian volunteer fighters in the east feel abandoned [A]fter three months of war, this company of 120 men is down to 54 because of deaths, injuries and desertions. The volunteers were civilians before Russia invaded on Feb. 24, and they never expected to be dispatched to one of the most dangerous front lines in eastern Ukraine. They quickly found themselves in the crosshairs of war, feeling abandoned by their military superiors and struggling to survive. In mid February these […]
President Biden’s recent comments about defending Taiwan in case of a mainland invasion are unusually militaristic, even for the United States. On Monday, May 23, President Joe Biden stated that he would defend Taiwan militarily if the People’s Republic of China were to “invade”. These comments were made during a joint news conference with Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida in Tokyo. At the news conference, a reporter asked Biden, “You didn’t want to get involved in the Ukraine conflict militarily for obvious reasons. Are you willing to get involved militarily to defend Taiwan if it comes to that?” Biden replied “Yes,” […]
Above Photo: U.S. President Joe Biden speaks at a joint press conference with Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida in Tokyo on May 23, 2022. (Nicolas Datiche / Sipa Press/Pool/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images). Critics of U.S. imperialism sounded the alarm Monday after President Joe Biden said that he would use military force in response to a Chinese invasion of Taiwan. “That’s the commitment we made,” Biden said at a press conference held jointly with Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida during a visit to Tokyo, abandoning the “strategic ambiguity” that U.S. presidents have long maintained to obscure how far Washington would go to […]
Above Photo: Artem Podrez / Pexels. The Biden Administration says it will veto a global plan to allow countries to ignore patents and make their own Covid-19 vaccines unless the Chinese are specifically excluded, Bloomberg reported. The sudden move has jolted top health workers who were hoping that the long-promised patent waiver would enable them to make vaccines available to everyone, including in poor countries in Africa and Asia. But the US says it will scupper the whole deal unless China is explicitly excluded from the waiver. In response, China said that it did not wish to be excluded from the […]
Above photo: Women lined up for food at a camp outside Mogadishu, Somalia, after fleeing drought-stricken areas, 2019. Farah Abdi Warsameh/Associated Press. Military options by Washington are primary in the Horn of Africa and Eastern Europe. President Joe Biden of the United States has announced through the Department of Defense the redeployment of Pentagon troops to the Horn of Africa state of Somalia. This is not the first time that U.S. troops have been sent into Somalia due to the strategic geopolitical significance of the country as an oil producer and oceanic gateway to critical trade routes within the world economic […]
Above Photo: Joe Biden shaking hands with ALU President Chris Smalls. President Biden’s Twitter. The ALU Included. The Biden Administration Has Paid Lip Service To The Trade Union Movement But Has Done Nothing To Break The Democratic Party’s Long Tradition Of Betraying Workers. Amazon Labor Union (ALU) organizer and former Amazon worker Chris Smalls testified in a Senate Banking Committee hearing called by Bernie Sanders on May 5th to investigate whether Amazon and other monopoly corporations that violate labor law should receive federal contracts. That Amazon would receive federal assistance despite accumulating record profits amid a global pandemic is bad enough. […]
Above Photo: The Debt Collective. The Debt Collective Has Successfully Pushed Biden To Extend The Pause On Student Loan Payments. Now We’re Organizing To Make The White House Cancel All Student Debt. On September 1, 2021, Hurricane Ida hit Southeast Louisiana, temporarily displacing thousands of New Orleans residents, including myself and most of my family. Residents who had the means evacuated early, leaving others to fight for limited resources while simultaneously seeking refuge in neighboring cities. On top of their pre-existing bills, evacuees were forced to front the costs of hotels, food, gas and repairs or even replacement of their own homes. Natural […]
Above Photo: President Biden signs into law the Ukraine Democracy Defense Lend-Lease Act of 2022 in the White House on May 9. Nicholas Kamm/AFP via Getty Images. The bill loosens restrictions on Biden’s ability to send arms to Ukraine, paving the way for an escalation in military aid. President Biden on Monday signed a bill into law reviving the World War II-era lend-lease program for Ukraine, paving the way for an escalation in US military aid to Kyiv. The Ukraine Democracy Defense Lend-Lease Act of 2022 allows Biden to send weapons to Ukraine free of charge while technically requiring payment at a […]
First, it was the Customs and Border Protection (CBP) vehicles speeding along on the road in front of our campsite. Then it was the Border Patrol’s all-terrain vehicles moving swiftly on a ridge above us. I was about 10 miles north of the border with Mexico, near Peña Blanca Lake in southern Arizona, camping with my six-year-old son and some other families. Like fire trucks racing to a blaze, the Border Patrol mobilization around me was growing so large I could only imagine an emergency situation developing. I started climbing to get a better look and soon found myself alone on […]
Above Photo: President Joe Biden, left, with Juan S. Gonzalez, who headed the U.S. delegation to Venezuela in March, at right. Twitter. Now that Cold War II has set in, Steve Ellner says Caracas’ strategic alliance with Moscow has become a greater priority for Washington. Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro’s repeated calls for dialogue with the U.S. in order to normalize relations seem to be paying off. His openness to rapprochement contrasts with the Biden administration’s nebulousness regarding the degree to which Washington is willing to recognize Maduro as president (full diplomatic recognition is out of the question). Biden’s use of sanctions as a […]
Above Photo: ABC News Video, April 4, 2022. The U.S. propaganda victory over Russia will do Joe Biden and the democrats little good. Their willingness to act on their promises and meet the people’s needs will be the deciding factors in determining their political fate. The United States, its NATO allies, and their partners in corporate media are engaging in an unprecedented war propaganda effort. Their goal is to get and maintain public support for their actions against Russia which are playing out in Ukraine. The messaging is constant and isn’t at all subtle. One cannot go online for any purpose […]
Above Photo: Immigrant families detained in a US Border Patrol facility in Texas in June 2019 (Photo credit: DHS Office of Inspector General). President Joe Biden and his top administration officials met on March 15 and signed a massive spending bill of $1.5 trillion into law. This package, which funds federal government agencies for fiscal year 2022, boosts military spending and increases discretionary spending for domestic agencies by $6.7 billion, the biggest increase in domestic discretionary spending in the past four years. The spending bill also expands the US government’s brutal deportation machine, with an additional $284.7 million for Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). This […]
Above Photo: Police officers confront demonstrators decrying the murder of George Floyd, in Santa Monica, Calif., on May 31, 2020. Bryan Denton/NYT. A Condensed Summary Of Where We’re At With Police Reform. The Democrats’ big police reform bill, the Justice in Policing Act (JPA), passed the House last March and then languished in the Senate before negotiations over the legislation totally collapsed in September. Congress’ failure to pass the bill doesn’t totally excuse the near total lack of progress on police reform, however. Biden can enact many JPA provisions himself. A leaked draft of an executive order from December showed that Biden was at least […]
Above Photo: Shipments of Javelin antitank weapons arrived outside Kyiv, Ukraine, in February. (Valentyn Ogirenko/Reuters). The new package brings the total US military aid for Ukraine since Russia invaded to over $2.5 billion. On Wednesday, President Biden authorized a new $800 million weapons package for Ukraine that includes howitzers and helicopters. The announcement was made after Biden spoke with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, who continues to plead for more arms. The weapons package includes 18 155mm howitzers and 40,000 artillery rounds, marking the first transfer of US artillery systems to Ukraine. The Ukrainians will receive 11 Mi-17 helicopters that were originally earmarked for […]
Above Photo: Washington DC, Mayor Muriel Bowser, President Joe Biden, and Wilmington DE Police Chief Robert Tracy at the White House on July 12, 2021. (Sarah Silbiger / UPI) The same people who wanted to defund policing voted overwhelmingly for Joe Biden. But Biden not only rejects cutting police budgets but announced a proposal to give police departments $30 billion. Once again, a mass movement died at the hands of electoral politics. There is no better contemporary proof that reformism is poison to social justice, than what has happened to the demand for “defund the police”. This emerged as a slogan […]
Biden’s popularity continues to decline. And unlike Will Smith, the “Build Back Better” President has shown little indication that he can generate the enthusiasm needed to reverse course. Biden has tried everything. He’s declared the COVID-19 pandemic over, albeit prematurely. He’s taken credit for an alleged post-pandemic economic recovery. And he’s pumped military aid into Ukraine and implemented harsh sanctions on Russia in a bid to uphold U.S. leadership over the so-called “rules-based international order.” These moves have vastly improved Biden’s favorability with the American voting public. April Fools! According to a recent poll by NBC News, just 40 percent of Americans approve […]
Above Photo: People attend a rally to urge the Biden administration to cancel all federal student loan debt in Washington, D.C. on April 4, 2022. Stefani Reynolds / AFP via Getty Images. ‘Pick Up The Pen, Joe.’ “If Biden restarts payments on May Day we know that nearly eight million people will be pushed into default,” said one Debt Collective organizer. “We don’t need to pause this crisis, we need to end it.” Washington, D.C. – Hundreds of people converged in Washington, D.C. on Monday for a national day of action to demand that the Biden administration cancel all outstanding federal student loan debt […]
Above Photo: Josh Yoder. The fight to cancel student debt is coming to the president’s doorstep. The Debt Collective is upping the ante in their fight for full federal student debt cancellation with their Pick Up the Pen, Joe! rally and day of action today in front of the U.S. Department of Education in Washington, DC. The event comes roughly a month before the pause on loan repayments is set to expire on May 1. Some White House sources have indicated the Biden administration may move that deadline again or forgive some amount of debt, but regardless, the Debt Collective’s focus remains squarely on eliminating federal […]
President Biden is in a difficult position on student loans ahead of the midterms, as pressure builds from borrowers and Democrats for widespread cancellation. Adding to the pressure is a key deadline: On May 1, millions of borrowers will have to pay unless a freeze on federal student loan payments put in place during the pandemic is extended. Biden has been called on to extend the freeze until the next year — beyond the midterms. But advocates for forgiveness, along with key Democrats, want more than another freeze. “We’ve been saying for years now that we need to keep payments on pause until we […]
Above photo: David Crane / MediaNews Group / Los Angeles Daily News via Getty Image. On Thursday, President Joe Biden ordered the largest release ever from the US emergency oil reserve in a futile attempt to bring down gasoline prices that have soared to record levels following the Russo-Ukraine War. Starting in May, the United States will release 1 million barrels per day (bpd) of crude oil for six months from the Strategic Petroleum Reserve (SPR), amounting to 180 million barrels in total, which is equivalent to only two days of the global demand. Invoking the fabled trope of American patriotism, […]
“Food shortages — it’s going to be real,” President Joe Biden said in Brussels March 25. “The price of the sanctions is not just imposed upon Russia. It’s imposed upon an awful lot of countries as well, including European countries and our country as well.” This ominous warning, reported around the world, was delivered at a NATO press conference. As Biden spoke, workers’ actions in Spain, Greece, Italy, France and Germany confronted soaring prices for fuel and food. From truckers to farmers on tractors, roads were blocked. Fishing people organized on boats. The price of fuel has already become unbearable. This […]
Above Photo: U.S. President Joe Biden answers questions, alongside Director of the Office of Management and Budget Shalanda Young, after introducing his budget request for fiscal year 2023 on March 28, 2022 in Washington, DC. Anna Moneymaker / Getty Images. The president’s budget calls for $50.9 billion in nuclear weapons spending. The Biden administration’s proposed budget for fiscal year 2023, released March 28, calls for massive investments in nuclear weapons, including the Ground Based Strategic Deterrent (GBSD) — an intercontinental ballistic missile system that is fiercely opposed by anti-nuclear activists. President Biden is using Russia’s invasion of Ukraine to justify the investments, citing the alleged need for deterrence. The […]
Above Photo: President Biden departs Brussels en route to Poland early Friday morning. (White House) In a moment of candor, Joe Biden has revealed why the U.S. needed the Russian invasion and why it needs it to continue. The U.S. got its war in Ukraine. Without it, Washington could not attempt to destroy Russia’s economy, orchestrate worldwide condemnation and lead an insurgency to bleed Russia, all part of an attempt to bring down its government. Joe Biden has now left no doubt that it’s true. The president of the United States has confirmed what Consortium News and others have been reporting since […]
The Media Campaign To Protect Joe Biden Passes Point Of Absurdity March 27, 2022 The Media Campaign To Protect Joe Biden Passes Point Of Absurdity2022-03-272022-03-27https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2022/03/20220327-4.jpg200px200px A Development In The Infamous Laptop Story Further Proves The “Russian Disinformation” Tale Was Itself Disinformation, Shaming A Herd Of Craven Media Stenographers. Burying the lede just a bit, the New York Times on March 16th published a long, spirited piece about the federal tax investigation of Hunter Biden. This is the 24th paragraph: People familiar with the investigation said prosecutors had examined emails between Mr. Biden, Mr. Archer and others about Burisma and other foreign business activity. […]
Biden Slips: Calls Openly For Removal Of Putin By Ray Mcgovern, Antiwar.com. March 27, 2022 Biden Slips: Calls Openly For Removal Of Putin2022-03-272022-03-27https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2022/03/20220327-5.jpg200px200px Biden calling for regime change says the quiet part out loud, this is America’s war on Russia. The difference is the tide has changed. A call like this when Russia, China & the Global South are united in business & geopolitical need is laughable.pic.twitter.com/LBDDGU8PPh — Fiorella Isabel (@FiorellaIsabelM) March 27, 2022 Feeling his oats after effusive adulation from leaders of NATO – and Japan at the G-7 summit – Biden gave us the Mother of All Faux Pax this afternoon […]
Progressives Hand Biden List Of 55 Executive Actions By Jake Johnson, Common Dreams. March 18, 2022 Progressives Hand Biden List Of 55 Executive Actions2022-03-182022-03-18https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2022/03/220318.webp200px200px Above Photo: Rep. Pramila Jayapal (D-Wash.) participates in a news conference in the Capitol on June 16, 2021. Bill Clark / CQ-Roll Call, Inc. via Getty Images. Because ‘Working People Can’t Wait’. “Taken together, these actions will have an immediate and meaningful impact on people’s lives,” said Rep. Pramila Jayapal, chair of the Congressional Progressive Caucus. With the pivotal midterm elections looming, the Congressional Progressive Caucus on Thursday unveiled a slate of more than 50 executive actions it […]
President Biden: De-Escalate In Ukraine Or Risk Nuclear War! By Gerry Condon, Popular Resistance. March 14, 2022 President Biden: De-Escalate In Ukraine Or Risk Nuclear War!2022-03-142022-03-14https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2022/03/nuclear-weapons-e1647300725429.jpg200px200px Above photo: US Air Force/Flickr. “The first casualty of war is truth.” This simple yet profound statement is attributed to many, including Hiram Johnson in a speech in the U.S. Senate in 1918, during the “war to end all wars.” Hiram Johnson was a progressive Republican who had been elected to the Senate from California that very year. He remained in the Senate until he died of old age on August 6, 1945, the day […]
Democrats Quietly Cut $5 Billion In Global Covid Aid—With Biden Already Behind On Vaccine Donations By Sarah Lazare , In These Times. March 11, 2022 Democrats Quietly Cut $5 Billion In Global Covid Aid—With Biden Already Behind On Vaccine Donations2022-03-112022-03-11https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2022/03/220311.jpg200px200px Above Photo: House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) speaks at her weekly news conference at the Capitol building on August 6, 2021. (Anna Moneymaker / Getty Images). The Biden Administration Would Actually Have To Increase Its Donations 50% To Meet Its Pledges. As the Biden administration falls woefully behind on its pledges to donate Covid vaccines to the world, on Wednesday, the […]
Immigrant Youth Hold Rally Demanding Biden End All Deportations By Jenna Mcguire, Common Dreams. March 3, 2022 Immigrant Youth Hold Rally Demanding Biden End All Deportations2022-03-032022-03-03https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2022/03/220303.webp200px200px Above Photo: Garcia criticized Biden for failing to revoke Title 42 and the ‘Remain in Mexico’ policies implemented under the Trump administration. (United We Dream) “We feel the trauma every time lives are torn apart and loved ones are deported.” A day after President Joe Biden’s State of the Union address, immigrant youth from across the U.S. rallied outside the White House on Wednesday, demanding an end to all deportations. Organized by United We Dream—the largest […]
Above photo: @photokayne | Eric Kayne/AP Images for Fossil Free Media. The President has broad authority under existing law to stop fossil fuel projects and jumpstart the just transition to clean energy. After his first year in office, President Biden has not lived up to his promise to respond to the climate crisis and has done next to nothing to curb new fossil fuel development. Washington, DC – After his first year in office, President Biden and his administration have failed to take meaningful action to keep fossil fuels in the ground. We are sending a powerful, unified message to Biden […]
Above Photo: Danny Grassrope with the Cheyenne River Grassroots Collective ran along Hwy. 20 in South Dakota towards the Standing Rock Reservation as part of a 93-mile relay run on Tuesday, Feb 9., 2021. Standing Rock youth and their allies hope to grab President Joe Biden’s attention and urge him to shut down the Dakota Access Pipeline. Craig Bihrle. Cheyenne River Sioux Tribe Chairman Harold Frazier sent a letter on Wednesday to President Joe Biden that requests the end of the Dakota Access pipeline (DAPL). Citing the Fort Laramie Treaty of 1868, Frazier tells the president that the United States agreed […]
Above photo: Anthony Chen. Youth and elder activists demand swift action on climate crisis. Over the President’s Day weekend more than 70 activists from 10 states and representing countless organizations convened once again at 909 Centre Road, a Delaware Department of Transportation right of way near President Joe Biden’s home. This event was attended not by centrist environmentalists but rather by organizations at the intersection of climate, class, racial and environmental justice. The demands of Occupy Biden are that President Biden declare a national climate emergency and pledge to allow no new fossil fuel projects. A peaceful but vocal and committed […]
Above Photo: Kamala Harris, Joe Biden, and Secretary of Education Miguel Cardona. AP Photo / Carolyn Kaster. The president created draconian bankruptcy laws. Now his administration appears to be trying to overturn a ruling that helps those bankrupted by student loans. Despite increasing pressure to fulfill a campaign promise to forgive student debt, President Joe Biden is now going in the opposite direction: His administration has taken an initial step to try to overturn a key legal victory for borrowers, according to court filings reviewed by The Daily Poster. If the administration wins an appeal, it could bolster a legal precedent against millions of debtors being […]
Above Photo: Protest at the White House. Morgan Artyukhina. The Black Alliance for Peace (BAP) along with the ANSWER Coalition, CODEPINK, Maryland Peace Action, Popular Resistance, and many other organizations will gather in Washington today at noon in front of the White House as part of an emergency mobilization of anti-war activists to express opposition to the unnecessary and extremely dangerous possibility of war in Ukraine. “Negotiate, don’t escalate” pic.twitter.com/eTT3J6IyOB — Morgan Artyukhina (@LavenderNRed) January 27, 2022 “No war with Russia, disband NATO!” pic.twitter.com/Om9C1WbgY6 — Morgan Artyukhina (@LavenderNRed) January 27, 2022 Gavin & Marco were part of an unrelated #ERANow protest […]
Above Photo: The Pentagon has put 8,500 troops on high alert as the U.S. escalates tensions with Russia over Ukraine. (Stefani Reynolds / The New York Times). The Black Alliance for Peace (BAP) along with the ANSWER Coalition, CODEPINK, Maryland Peace Action, Popular Resistance, and many other organizations will gather in Washington today at noon in front of the White House as part of an emergency mobilization of anti-war activists to express opposition to the unnecessary and extremely dangerous possibility of war in Ukraine. With a 39% job approval rating, more deaths from covid than during the Trump administration, and a […]
Above Photo: President Joe Biden meets with members of his Council of Advisors on Science and Technology in the South Court Auditorium at the Eisenhower Executive Office Building on January 20, 2022, in Washington, D.C. (Chip Somodevilla / Getty Images). On January 17, 1977, Gary Gilmore was executed by firing squad, shot through the heart, at Utah State Prison. He was the first person to be executed after the death penalty had been reinstated in the United States in 1976. This year, to mark the 45th anniversary of this execution, which coincided with Martin Luther King Jr. Day, Death Penalty Action and […]
Above Photo: U.S. President Joe Biden speaks about his administration’s Covid response as Vice President Kamala Harris observes on January 21, 2021 in Washington, DC. Alex Wong / Getty Images. The Government Needs To Bring Vaccines And Information To The People Through An Ambitious Public Jobs Program, Just Like Biden Said He Would. A year after Joe Biden’s inauguration, things seem bleak. Despite the existence of life-saving vaccines, tests and masks, on January 21, more than 3,000 people were reported to have died of Covid-19, and the last time daily deaths were below 1,000 was in August. With the more transmissible Omicron variant spreading like wildfire, and only 63% of […]
Above Photo: Protest against NATO Summit in Chicago, May 2012. U.S. imperialism is playing with fire in Eastern Europe. U.S. officials are toying with the lives of millions of people in Europe, Asia and potentially the entire world with their unprecedented campaign of threats, provocations and war propaganda aimed at the Russian Federation. The Biden regime and corporate media are lying when they warn of an “imminent” Russian invasion of Ukraine. The real danger of invasion comes from the U.S.-supported, NATO-armed Ukrainian government against the peoples of the independent Donbass republics of Donetsk and Lugansk on Russia’s Western border. Wall Street, […]
Across the country, people are taking to social media to share their frustration with the Biden government. While this airing of anger is natural, it isn’t enough. We need to organize against the Biden administration. But anger expressed and translated into action in the service of our vision and our future is a liberating and strengthening act of clarification, for it is in the painful process of this translation that we identify who are our allies with whom we have grave differences, and who are our genuine enemies. – Audre Lorde For years, there was a popular notion in American politics […]
Above Photo: Biden at Bethel AME Church Wilmington DE. (Reuters). The idea that Joe Biden would provide harm reduction was created to help the unpopular candidate secure an electoral victory. The reality is a litany of lies and certain defeat for democrats at the polls. There is no harm reduction in a system dedicated to neo-liberalism and austerity. “Biden came across as a plantation owner telling the field hands that they have a good life and ought to be grateful.” This columnist wrote those words in December 2020 before Joe Biden was inaugurated. His meeting with a group designated as Black leaders was as bad […]
Above Photo: Jonathan Ernst/Reuters. Why Did You Believe? Presidential candidate Joe Biden promised action on issues that had broad public support. But once in office he refused to do what the people wanted. His promises were merely a strategy to get votes from the gullible. I wasn’t a big fan of 80s synth music, but a few bands and songs stick out as tolerable, if not memorable, and at this point in time downright appropriate. One such song is “Promises, Promises,” by the band Naked Eyes, which I can’t get out of my head these days. The lyrics to the chorus […]
Above Photo: U.S. President Joe Biden listens as Secretary of the Interior Deb Haaland speaks at the White House on October 8, 2021 in Washington, D.C. (Chip Somodevilla / Getty Images). Washington – More than 360 climate, tribal, religious and conservation groups petitioned the Biden administration today to use its executive authority to phase out oil and gas production on public lands and oceans. The petition provides a framework to manage a decline of oil and gas production to near zero by 2035 through rulemaking, using long-dormant provisions of the Mineral Leasing Act, Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act and the National Emergencies […]
Above Photo: Afghans protest the former U.S. embassy building demanding the release of Afghanistan’s frozen assets and resumption of international funding amid worsening economic conditions in Kabul, Afghanistan, on December 21, 2021. theintercept.com. Over the past few months, U.S. lawmakers, the Afghan government, and the international community have called on Washington to stop strangling the Afghan economy as its people continue to suffer from a U.S.-created humanitarian crisis. On December 22nd, the Biden administration effectively rejected those calls, opting instead for half-measures that will do little to counter the effects of stringent economic sanctions imposed on the Taliban or to improve the material well-being of the Afghan […]
Austin Smith Student Body President at Alabama A&M University Chyna Brodie Student Body President at American University Angelina Han Student Body President at Amherst College Emanuella Ntim Undergraduate Student Government Vice President at Arizona State University Polytechnic Olivia Smith Student Body President at Augustana College Edidiong Emily Ndiokho Student Government Association President at Barnard College Ryan Britt Student Government President at Bowdoin College Krupa Souri Student Body President at Brandeis University Maggie Ober and Connor McNerney Student Government Association Co-Presidents at College of the Holy Cross Anuli Ononye Student Body President at Cornell University Watfae Zayed Morgan Coleman Student Government President […]
Above Photo: White House Covid-19 Response Coordinator Jeff Zients briefs reporters on April 13, 2021 in Washington, D.C. (Chip Somodevilla / Getty Images) Zients has failed to provide the materials necessary to improve the U.S. response, or the guidance necessary to keep the pandemic under control. President Joe Biden is coming under growing pressure to fire White House Coronavirus Response Coordinator Jeff Zients—a former private equity executive with no public health background—as the administration continues to face criticism over its slow-moving and inadequate efforts to combat Covid-19. Watchdog groups have long warned that Zients is not qualified to take on the massive task of leading the […]
Above photo: Advocates for the closure of the prison at Guantánamo Bay, including Roger Waters, call on President Biden to close it on the 20th anniversary of its opening, Jan. 11, 2022. Check out all the photos here. It is, to be blunt, beyond dispiriting to have to be calling for the closure of the tired and discredited “war on terror” prison at Guantánamo Bay 20 years — 7,306 days — since it first opened. The prison, as I have long explained, is a legal, moral and ethical abomination, and every day that it remains open ought to be a source of shame to […]
During the 2020 presidential campaigns, it was common for people who planned to vote for Joe Biden to say that they recognized he was a corporate-friendly candidate but that we just needed to elect him and then he could be pressured to act in the interests of the people. Well, unlike the marches after President Trump was elected, that mass pressure on Biden has not materialized. Now, a coalition of smaller climate justice groups (not the Big Greens) has just completed a weeklong occupation of land close to the President’s home with two demands: that he declare a climate emergency and […]
Above Photo: Doctors attend a protest at the headquarters of the Health and Human Services Department on November 30, 2021 in Washington, D.C. (Physicians for a National Health Program) A petition calling on the president to end the Medicare Direct Contracting pilot program has now garnered more than 10,000 signatures. Calls are mounting for President Joe Biden to terminate an under-the-radar Trump-era pilot program that—if allowed to run its course—could result in the complete privatization of traditional Medicare by the end of the decade. A petition recently launched by Physicians for a National Program (PNHP) has garnered more than 10,000 signatures as doctors and other advocates […]
Occupy Biden activists to hold rally demanding that Joe Biden take bold action to combat Climate Change. Saturday January 1, 2022 at 1 p.m. at 909 Centre road Wilmington, DE. This week, environmental advocates addressed intensifying fossil fuel pollution, climate injustices, and the Biden administration’s failure to take the lead on climate crisis solutions during the Occupy Biden protests near Joe Biden’s Wilmington, DE home. Their goal remains to increase the pressure on the President to declare a climate emergency and end new fossil fuel projects. The actions are being led by local community leaders and supported by dozens of environmental […]
Above Photo: Michael Bagdes-Canning on his tractor. Seasoned activist at the occupation site from the fracking front lines in Western PA tells his story. I live in the shale fields of western Pennsylvania. Butler County is one of the most heavily fracked counties in one of the most heavily fracked states in the country. We have fence line communities that have suffered health and financial hardship due to the industry. My friends in the Woodlands have been without water since Rex Energy poisoned their water in 2010 during a frack job gone bad. For almost 11 years, up to 60 families […]
Above photo: Climate activists. Ray Bailey. Since Saturday, climate activists have been protesting outside President Biden’s neighborhood in Wilmington, DE, while pushing the President to declare a climate emergency. Delaware – This week, environmental advocates addressed intensifying fossil fuel pollution, climate injustices, and the Biden administration’s failure to take the lead on climate crisis solutions during the Occupy Biden protests in Wilmington, DE. Their goal remains to increase the pressure on the President to declare a climate emergency. The Delawarean led actions are supported by dozens of environmental and social justice groups from around the country and have resulted in hundreds […]
Above Photo: Unity, firmness and victory. Bill Hackwell. On June 11, 2021, a plan carefully conceived 17 years earlier by the U.S. government was defeated in Cuban neighborhoods and streets. Born at the end of the Bush era, after more than 50 years of subversive actions had been negated, the new action plan was intended to take advantage of the generational change on the island to put an end to the Revolution. The new plan contained several lines of action: Build a new counterrevolutionary leadership by granting exchange scholarships, leadership courses and others, to Cuban teenagers and young people. Create a […]
Above Photo: A Marathon Oil well site in Texas. Jennifer Hiller / Reuters. Washington — Conservation groups submitted formal comments today urging cancelation of February’s federal oil and gas lease auctions, saying the Biden administration is legally required to prevent harm from the leasing program’s greenhouse gas emissions, not just disclose it. “The Biden administration must do more than simply talk about climate change, it has a duty to take action on a scale and with a sense of urgency that the climate crisis demands,” said Kyle Tisdel, attorney and Climate & Energy Program director with Western Environmental Law Center. “The ongoing sale and development of federal oil and gas […]
At the Vienna talks on restoring the Iran nuclear deal, the US and EU are accusing Iran of refusing to compromise. Mohammad Marandi, a University of Tehran professor advising the Iran delegation in Vienna, says that the compromise was the nuclear deal itself, and the problem is the US refusal to abide by its own commitments and lift the sanctions that target Iranian civilians. Guest: Mohammad Marandi. Professor at the University of Tehran and adviser to the Iran delegation at talks on restoring the JCPOA in Vienna. Source link
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 […]
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 […]