Above Photo: Human rights lawyer Philippe Sands speaks at AOL Studios In New York on Nov. 6, 2015 in New York City. Credit: John Lamparski/WireImage The Essential Advocate. The British Lawyer And Author Has Held Nazis And Presidents Accountable For Crossing The Moral Red Line. Now, He Argues, The Time Has Come To Pursue Those Who Commit Crimes Against The Environment. Brussels — Philippe Sands steps off his train at Brussels’ Midi station and sees a familiar face amidst a flurry of passengers. The British lawyer is flush with energy, despite being at the tail end of a week-long visit with […]
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Farmer Leaders Say Monday’s Strike Has Energised Protesters. Thousands of Indian farmers blocked traffic on major roads and railway lines in the national capital Delhi on Monday as they marked one year since the passage of the federal government’s contentious agricultural laws. The farmers called for a nationwide strike to renew their protests against the “black laws” that they believe will bring an end to their livelihood, demonstrations that first began 10 months ago. The government says the changes will benefit farmers, but unions fear they could take away the protections provided by state-run markets. “The strike was observed in several parts of the country […]
What If They Called An Election And Nothing Changed In The War State? By Danny Sjursen, Tom Dispatch. November 24, 2020 What If They Called An Election And Nothing Changed In The War State?2020-11-242020-11-24https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/11/bidenbush.jpg200px200px Above photo: Joe Biden gives George Bush the Liberty Medal. What President Biden Won’t Touch. Foreign Policy, Sacred Cows, and the U.S. Military. In this mystifying moment, the post-electoral sentiments of most Americans can be summed up either as “Ding dong! The witch is dead!” or “We got robbed!” Both are problematic, not because the two candidates were intellectually indistinguishable or ethically equivalent, but because each jingle […]
https://cdn1.img.sputniknews.com/img/107513/48/1075134887_0:362:3336:2239_1200x675_80_0_0_6736ab3a6f0fdd61320bbcd65e494054.jpg Sputnik International https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png Svetlana Ekimenko. Sputnik International https://sputniknews.com/europe/202010101080732666-new-polish-education-minister-called-holocaust-memorial-anti-polish-scandal-and-slander/ The minister made headlines last year, when he was governor of Lublin region, after demanding a memorial for Jewish victims who had been killed by Poles during the Holocaust be removed. The new Polish Education and Science Minister Professor Przemysław Czarnek of the ruling Law and Justice party, who was appointed as a result of a recent Cabinet reshuffle, last year called for the removal of a memorial for Jews killed by Poles during the Holocaust, writes The Times of Israel. Created by artist Dorota Nieznalska, the memorial represented a pile of […]
A bunch of tapes allegedly featuring a conversation between First Lady Melania Trump and her former friend and aide Stephanie Winston Wolkoff were released this week, sparking a new debate about FLOTUS’ use of language in relation to sex workers. Melania Trump’s reference to Stormy Daniels, her husband’s alleged lover, as a “porn hooker”, was widely condemned across the adult entertainment industry after her ex-friend and staffer Stephanie Winston Wolkoff released their recorded conversation during a podcast by Michael Cohen on Monday. The first lady is believed to have made the remark as she was discussing Daniels’ photoshoot for Vogue, shortly […]
Former New York Yankees pitcher Whitey Ford, shown here waving to fans in 2016, has died at the age of 91. Kathy Willens/AP hide caption toggle caption Kathy Willens/AP Former New York Yankees pitcher Whitey Ford, shown here waving to fans in 2016, has died at the age of 91. Kathy Willens/AP Legendary New York Yankee Whitey Ford, the southpaw pitcher whose dominance during the 1950s and 1960s helped cement the Bronx Bombers as perennial champions, has died. He was 91. The Yankees announced his death on their official Twitter page, calling Ford “one of the best lefties to ever toe […]
Fox News Media announced Thursday that Trump campaign adviser Harlan Z. Hill, a self-described Washington public relations and political consultant, is no longer welcome on their air after he tweeted that Democratic vice presidential candidate Kamala Harris “comes off as an insufferable lying bitch.” “We have no intention of booking him as a guest on any of our platforms,” a Fox News Media spokesperson said in a statement to The Daily Beast, the morning after Hill—a frequent Fox News Channel and Fox Business Network guest over the past five years—unleashed his misogynistic attack on the Black California senator during her debate […]
Terrorists, dictators, mass shooters, gang members, deadly natural disasters, and… Kamala Harris. These are the things President Donald Trump considers “monsters.” In his first live TV appearance since his COVID-19 hospitalization, Trump on Thursday raged for nearly an hour on Fox Business Network, declaring his refusal to do a virtual debate with Joe Biden and suggesting Gold Star families may have given him the deadly virus. Towards the end of the interview, the president aimed his fury at Sen. Kamala Harris, calling her a “monster.” “This monster that was on stage with Mike Pence, who destroyed her last night by the […]
Democratic presidential hopeful Joe Biden said the next debate between himself and President Donald Trump later this month should be cancelled if his rival still has Covid-19. Biden said previously he’d let the experts decide. “Well, I think if he still has Covid, we shouldn’t have a debate,” Biden told reporters on the campaign trail in Hagerstown, Maryland on Tuesday, despite saying he was anticipating the October 15 event and suggesting it would have to “follow very strict guidelines.” Both Trump and the first lady tested positive for the virus last week. The president spent three days at the Walter Reed […]
The comments were reportedly part of audiotapes recorded by the US first lady’s former senior adviser and best friend, Stephanie Winston Wolkoff, author of the newly published tell-all memoir ‘Melania and Me: The Rise and Fall of my Friendship with the First Lady’. Wolkoff worked in the White House between 2016 and 2018. The first lady of the US, Melania Trump, referred to American adult-film actress Stormy Daniels as a “porn hooker”, while praising her husband as “the most popular Republican president ever”, according to excerpts of conversations released by FLOTUS’s ex-best friend and senior aide, Stephanie Winston Wolkoff, on Monday. […]
https://cdn1.img.sputniknews.com/img/07e4/09/0e/1080450777_0:102:2480:1497_1200x675_80_0_0_bac7529c1ef1a302876cef7be43252af.jpg Sputnik International https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png Max Gorbachev. Sputnik International https://sputniknews.com/sport/202009301080624473-neymar-who-has-claimed-he-was-victim-of-racism-reportedly-called-opponent-chinese-st/ Spanish media claim that the Brazilian forward also insulted Marseille defender Alvaro Gonzalez two weeks ago when his side suffered a defeat. Reports say the 28-year-old made homophobic slurs at his opponent. Football star Neymar racially abused Marseille’s Japanese player Hiroki Sakai, calling him “Chinese sh**”, Spanish radio station Cadena SER reported, citing obtained footage. Videos posted online show Neymar approach Sakai and angrily tell him something. There’s no audio in the footage, so the claim can’t be verified. The incident occurred on 13 September, when PSG lost to Marseille. The match […]
President Trump’s former 2020 campaign manager, Brad Parscale, was taken to a Fort Lauderdale hospital Sunday night after his wife called police saying he had firearms and was threatening to harm himself, The Daily Beast confirmed. Fort Lauderdale Police Chief Lauren Dietrich told the South Florida Sun-Sentinel that law enforcement had an encounter at Parscale’s home, which records show is owned by Bradley and Candice Parscale. Neighbors of the residence confirmed to Local 10 that it was the former campaign manager’s home. “We went out and it was very short. We went and got him help,” Dietrich told the Sentinel. She […]
India launched a rural-employment guarantee scheme in 2005, to safeguard the livelihood of people living in rural areas by promising at least 100 days’ paid work a year to every adult member of each family. Aside from economic security, the scheme also created rural assets. India’s Rural Development Minister, Narendra Singh Tomar, revealed on Friday that “there has been an increase of 52.11 percent in total employment generation” through the Mahatma Gandhi rural job scheme during the COVID-19 lockdown period. The scheme was launched by Manmohan Singh of the Indian National Congress Party, in 2005, shortly after he was elected Prime […]
As Scotland prepares to head to the polls at Holyrood elections next year, the question of how to oppose independence and a mandate to hold a second referendum because increasingly important for the unionist camp. A British Conservative politician was slammed online on Sunday for being “divisive” after she suggested that the Scottish Labour leader’s accent was the reason for the party’s poor performance. Dehenna Davison, MP for Bishop Auckland, near Durham, claimed that the Labour Party isn’t doing well in Scotland because their leader Richard Leonard has a “Lancashire accent” Richard Leonard quickly corrected the MP, pointing out that his […]
US President Donald Trump rejected allegations that he bashed fallen soldiers as “losers” and “suckers,” hitting back at a recent story in the Atlantic that relied on anonymous sources, which he called “more made-up fake news.” The Atlantic article, published on Thursday, claims the president disparaged dead American soldiers on several occasions throughout his term, citing a flock of nameless officials and aides, none of whom would go on record with their accounts. The story also noted Trump’s “contempt” for the late GOP Senator John McCain – who was taken as a prisoner of war during the conflict in Vietnam – […]
Responding to the report in a statement, the White House said, “This report is patently false. President Trump holds the military in the highest regard. He’s demonstrated his commitment to them at every turn.” An investigative reporter for the Associated Press tweeted that a senior Defense Department official “confirmed this story by Jeffrey Goldberg in its entirety.” “Why should I go to that cemetery?” Trump reportedly asked, before skipping a trip to an American burial ground in France. “It’s filled with losers.” https://t.co/11Wsk00y1B — New York Magazine (@NYMag) September 4, 2020 The president has a long history of attacking military service members, […]
A memorandum issued on Wednesday by the White House directed a review of federal funding allocated to certain cities that “allow themselves to deteriorate into lawless zones” and “permit anarchy, violence, and destruction.” In addition to the legal questions raised by the order, one expert claims it’s also filled with disinformation. Cities explicitly deemed “anarchist jurisdictions” by the White House included: New York City, New York; Seattle, Washington; Portland, Oregon; and the US capital of Washington, DC. Eugene Puryear, host at BreakThrough News and author of “Shackled and Chained: Mass Incarceration in Capitalist America,” joined Radio Sputnik’s Political Misfits on Thursday […]
President Trump called American soldiers who died on French soil during World War I “losers” during a trip to France in 2018, according to multiple sources cited by The Atlantic. The comments, reportedly made ahead of a planned visit to the Aisne-Marne American Cemetery that was ultimately canceled and blamed on bad weather, were apparently part of a pattern of the Commander in Chief badmouthing slain service members. In a separate conversation around the same time, Trump referred to fallen World War I marines at Belleau Wood as “suckers” for getting killed. The site of a consequential battle in U.S history, […]
On Monday night, former Fox News host Kimberly Guilfoyle, a top fundraiser for the Trump reelection effort and girlfriend of Donald Trump Jr., delivered a booming, scenery-chewing speech at the 2020 Republican National Convention that immediately went viral. It concluded, her arms outstretched, with Guilfoyle’s bellowed vow, “The. Best. Is. Yet. To. Come!” CNN personalities were flabbergasted by it, with correspondent Dana Bash remarking, “Oh, my goodness. I just feel like that was so intense, and so dark.” Late Show host Stephen Colbert mocked the pretaped address as a series of “very nuanced screams.” Her critics found the speech to be […]
Ben Luján Addresses Navajo Nation Council, Discusses Need For Further COVID-19 Relief In Tribal Communities First published 21 August 2020, Los Alamos Daily Post More than 9,000 individuals living in the Navajo Nation have been infected with COVID-19, and more than 400 lost their lives. U.S. House Assistant Speaker Ben Ray Luján (D-N.M.) has called out the Trump administration for failing to share crucial health data with Tribal health authorities and awarding a $3 million contract to a former Trump White House official who delivered substandard personal protective equipment to the Indian Health Service. Luján delivered a report to the Navajo Nation […]
Bette Midler evidently was not a fan of Melania Trump’s speech at the Republican National Convention Tuesday night. As the First Lady took the stage and delivered a speech CNN pundits would later praise for its empathy, the entertainment legend mocked her for being an “illegal alien” who “can’t speak English”—insults she later said Trump has more than earned, given the racism both she and the president have openly embraced. “I’m surprised Trump wants to destroy the #PostOffice,” Midler wrote as she live-tweeted the convention. “He got all his wives from it.” Another barb: “Melania lacks warmth so severely that I […]
Uribe Called To Testify Over Alleged Role In Three Massacres By Adriaan Alsema, Colombia Reports. August 24, 2020 Uribe Called To Testify Over Alleged Role In Three Massacres2020-08-242020-08-24https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/08/colombias-former-president-alvaro-uribe-e1598284903102.jpg200px200px Above photo: Colombia’s former President Alvaro Uribe. Uribe Investigated 10 years after receiving Medal of Honor for ‘opposing terrorism.’ Colombia’s former President Alvaro Uribe is sinking even deeper into legal trouble after the Supreme Court called him to testify over his alleged role in three massacres and a homicide. The investigation is not directly related to the ongoing fraud and bribery investigation that spurred the Supreme Court to place Uribe under house arrest, but massacres that left between […]
NBA superstar LeBron James may be unflappable under pressure on the basketball court, but he looked far from comfortable when a reporter asked him to give his assessment on a book he was supposedly reading. James posted a series of photos to his Instagram account showing him reading the autobiography of Malcolm X while on a fitness bike, while offering the accompanying caption, “Education is the passport to the future, for tomorrow belongs to those who prepare for it today- Malcolm X.” James even brought the book with him to a media session, where one reporter decided to ask him what he […]
Norfolk police have established a security cordon around a beach car park and advised the public to avoid the area after a suspected “unexploded device” was discovered. Police received a tip off at approximately 9am local time on Tuesday morning after a suspect device was discovered near the Horsey Gap area. The bomb squad have been called in and the area sealed off as a precaution. We are asking people to avoid Horsey Gap this morning, after we received reports of an unexploded device found at the beach car park. The car park will be closed while the device is safely […]
Bridges that lead into downtown Chicago were raised to limit access after looting and vandalism late Sunday and early Monday. Police made more than 100 arrests during the night of unrest and confiscated five guns. Scott Olson/Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Scott Olson/Getty Images Bridges that lead into downtown Chicago were raised to limit access after looting and vandalism late Sunday and early Monday. Police made more than 100 arrests during the night of unrest and confiscated five guns. Scott Olson/Getty Images Hundreds of people looted high-end shops on Chicago’s Magnificent Mile overnight and early Monday morning with police officers […]
FOX LA reporter Bill Melugin dropped a bomb on Los Angeles City Councilman Mike Bonin. According to city records Councilman Bonin called police 8 times to his home since April. Advertisement – story continues below And Councilman Bonin also voted to defund the police. What a liberal hypocrite. TRENDING: RUMORS SWIRLING: President Trump’s Recent Actions Indicate Something HUGE Is About to Drop A public records request reveals that LA city councilman Mike Bonin, who voted to defund LAPD by $150 million, has called LAPD to his home 8 times since 4/4/20, including to provide extra patrols and protection from peaceful protesters […]
Firefighters are battling a massive fire that ripped through the South of Market district of San Francisco, California. One first responder has been injured, and parts of the area have been closed off as teams tackle the blaze. Photos and videos shared on social media show dramatic scenes that capture the extent of the fire. It was called in at around 7am local time on Tuesday. Some 160 firefighters are battling the five-alarm fire. The one who sustained moderate injuries was taken to the Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital for treatment, Mission Local reports. Bartfeld Sales Co. building burns in a […]
Hours after isolated audio and the White House’s own transcript revealed that a White House reporter did not aim a profane slur at White House press secretary Kayleigh McEnany, Fox News hosts Tucker Carlson and Sean Hannity, and McEnany herself, suggested the issue was still in doubt and not “totally clear.” During Tuesday’s White House press briefing, Al Jazeera English correspondent Kimberly Halkett was caught on a hot mic mumbling a quick retort after McEnany waved off her attempt to ask another question. Part of conservative Twitter immediately concluded she called the press secretary a “lying bitch,” prompting a brief online […]
Logo in lower right is Qanon Daily Beast: Michael Cohen, Donald Trump’s former personal attorney and fixer, will allege in his forthcoming memoir that Trump has made “virulently racist” comments about Barack Obama and Nelson Mandela. The Washington Post reports the revelations are contained in Monday night’s court filings relating to Cohen being sent back to prison this month, weeks after he was released and told he would be allowed to serve the remainder of his sentence on home confinement because of the coronavirus pandemic. Michael Cohen Book Alleges Trump Made ‘Virulently Racist’ Comments About Obama and Mandela: Court Documents @MichaelCohen212 is apparently […]
At least 13 people were shot early Sunday morning on the riverfront in Peoria, Illinois. ABC7 reported: A man who was shot in the neck and a woman who was shot in the back are both in serious condition. Eleven other victims were also treated for gunshot wounds at local hospitals, police said. TRENDING: Michelle Malkin Attacked by Antifa and Black Lives Matter Thugs at Denver Back the Blue Rally; Sends Law and Order SOS to President Trump None of the injuries are considered life threatening, police said. Police are investigating the incident, and anyone with information has been asked to […]
The statement comes after former special counsel Robert Mueller published an op-ed supporting the prosecution of Roger Stone, who was convicted following his investigation into alleged US-Russia collusion. Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Lindsey Graham has said that the Democrats’ request about testifying on the Russia investigation will be granted. “Apparently Mr Mueller is willing, and also capable, of defending the Mueller investigation through an op-ed in the Washington Post”, Graham said on Sunday. “Democrats on the Senate Judiciary Committee have previously requested Mr Mueller appear before the Senate Judiciary Committee to testify about his investigation. That request will be granted.” In his […]
Joanne Rowling, the legendary author of the Harry Potter series, is currently facing a new backlash over her views on transgender issues which started in the beginning of June after she pointed out, in response to a Devex article, that “people who menstruate” can be simply called ‘women’. She was soon accused of transphobia for her views. JK Rowling was called a “threat to LGBT people” and a “dangerous” person by transgender model Munroe Bergdorf after the writer has recently decided to address “a new kind of conversion therapy for young gay people” that, according to her, would put them “on […]
To ravage, to slaughter, to usurp under false titles, they call empire; and where they make a desert, they call it peace – Calgacus Libya is currently engaged in a brutal civil war with foreign armies either already involved (Turkey) or poised to intervene (Egypt). This is not the first time Libya has fallen under the evil influence of a conqueror, the last despot to cast his evil shadow over the North African nation was Benito Mussolini, the comical Italian dictator with the jutting chin, the belicose rhetoric and a complete absence of testicoli. So I grabbed her by the pussy… […]
Jerrold Nadler House Judiciary Chairman Jerrold Nadler (D-NY) announced his committee will be launching an investigation into US Attorney General Bill Barr’s firing of SDNY US Attorney Geoffrey Berman. Barr on Friday fired Mueller hack and US Attorney Geoffrey Berman and nominated Jay Clayton to replace him. The crooked attorney refused to step down and released a statement of his own, which Barr referred to as a ‘public spectacle.’ Berman’s office was the lead in several high profile cases assembled by Robert Mueller and Andrew Weissmann. TRENDING: “Some White People May Have to Die for Black Communities to Be Made Whole” […]
Governor Ralph Northam is speaking for Virginia Democrats at an upcoming convention, a decision being blasted, because the same group had previously called for his resignation over a controversial blackface photo. “We’re honored to have @GovernorVA speaking at our virtual state convention coming up in just a few days!” the Democrat Party of Virginia wrote on Thursday, in a tweet that left many scratching their heads. Virginia Democrats were one of many groups to call for Northam to resign only a year ago, after the governor was found to be in a photo containing one person in blackface – whom many […]
The Seattle district known as CHOP — for “Captiol Hill Organized Protest” — and initially known as CHAZ, has been occupied by demonstrators for over a week.The protesters pushed the police out of their precinct station a week ago. Democrats around the country are pushing to defund police departments following the deaths of George Floyd in Minneapolis and Rayshard Brooks in Atlanta. At the same time the American left and their fake news media are promoting anti-police protests and the demonization of police. On Monday night a business owner in CHAZ or CHOP told reporters he called the police to report […]
A Minneapolis police dispatcher was so alarmed by real-time footage of George Floyd’s violent arrest that she flagged the situation to her supervisor, telling him over the phone, “I don’t know you can call me a snitch if you want.” “I don’t know if they had to use force or not, but they got something out of the back of the squad, and all of them sat on this man,” the unidentified 911 dispatcher said in a recording of the call released Monday by the city of Minneapolis. The dispatcher, who has not been identified, watched Floyd’s death as it was […]
New Delhi (Sputnik): The death of African American George Floyd who was pinned down and suffocated by a white US cop has triggered countrywide protests in support of the “Black Lives Matter” movement against racism and police brutality, leading to violence and riots. Former West Indies captain Darren Sammy has released a video to reveal that he suffered from racism during a cricket match in India, in an incident which is said to have occurred at the Indian Premier League’s Sunrisers Hyderabad franchise. In an Instagram post, Sammy alleged that he along with Sri Lankan player Thisara Perera were called “Kalu”, […]
The Georgia man who shot 25-year-old Ahmaud Arbery while he was he was jogging on a residential street allegedly called him the n-word after the fatal incident, investigators said Thursday. During a probable cause hearing in Brunswick Thursday for three men accused in Arbery’s Feb. 23 slaying, Georgia Bureau of Investigation Special Agent Richard Dial revealed that Travis McMichael called Arbery a “fucking n—er” as Arbery lay on the ground. Dial said eyewitness William Bryan, Jr., who has also been charged with murder, reported hearing the slur. It was also captured on video. McMichael, and his father Gregory, are facing murder and aggravated […]
Rioters broke into the Ohio Statehouse in Columbus on Friday evening as violence and destruction continues to sweep the nation. Advertisement – story continues below NBC 4 reporter Eric Halperin tweeted that windows were being broken and some criminals have went inside. NOW: Demonstratirs have moved to the Statehouse grounds and have broken windows. Some have gone inside. @nbc4i pic.twitter.com/VBtVbprA9G — Eric Halperin (@EricHalperinTV) May 29, 2020 TRENDING: “What They Are Doing Is Tantamount to Monopoly” – BREAKING: President Trump Signs Executive Order on Social Media Censorship with Warning to Far Left Tech Giants …UPDATE: Full Transcript Prior to breaking into […]
Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer is famous for her tyrannical rule, her blind ambition, and her raw hatred for those who disagree with her. In March crazed Democrat Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer prohibited big box retailers from in-person sale of seeds because according to her, plant seeds were non-essential. Whitmer also called on Home Depot and Lowes to close off certain sections like flooring, garden centers and plant nurseries. In late March Michigan Democrat Governor Gretchen Whitmer limited access of doctors from prescribing the lifesaving drugs hydroxychloroquine and Z-Paks to save senior citizens in the state from Coronavirus. Then she continued to […]
The credibility of Craig Wright – the Australian tech entrepreneur who controversially claims to be bitcoin’s pseudonymous inventor, Satoshi Nakamoto – has taken another blow. After a list of bitcoin addresses Wright had provided as being his holdings in an ongoing court case were briefly and “inadvertently” made public by plaintiffs on May 21, 145 of the addresses were used to sign a public message both calling Wright a “fraud” and making it plain that he does not in fact own or control them. The court case was brought by Ira Kleiman, the brother of Wright’s former business partner, David Kleiman, […]
Viral 07:08 GMT 10.05.2020Get short URL Elon Musk has been pushing for his San Francisco Bay area-based electric car factory to resume operations, following several weeks of quarantine and lockdown measures to curb the spread of COVID-19, he’s, however faced a no-go order from the health authorities. Tesla and SpaceX founder Elon Musk has emotionally hit back at a comment by Professor Robert Reich, a former US secretary of labour, in which he posted the gist from a Washington Post article saying “Musk threatens to take away people’s jobs unless he is allowed to risk their health” before concluding “capitalism at its […]