Above Photo: John Fedele / Getty Images. “It Tears You Apart Mentally And Physically.” Farming Is A Stressful Occupation. Black Farmers Face The Additional Burdens Of Racism, Debt And Fear Of Displacement. At 43 and 45 years old, husband and wife farmers Angie and Wenceslaus Provost, Jr., hope they live to see age 70. They don’t fear terminal illness or a farm accident that could consign them to an early grave. Instead, they fear stress could do them in. Years of trying to protect family land from encroaching banks and government agencies have worn on them, despite their love of farming. After years of mounting debt with the U.S. […]
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Above Photo: A convoy of Ukrainian armored vehicles near the frontlines in the Donetsk region on Thursday, May 12th, 2022. With the conflict in Ukraine entering its third month, the likelihood of a successfully negotiated peace — an immediate necessity — is becoming ever more remote. This proxy war by the United States is designed to use the Ukrainian people to mortally disable Russia. Those who profit from war benefit, while those most vulnerable suffer: Ukrainian civilians, but more broadly working people internationally and especially in the Global South. It was expected that the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991 […]
Above photo: Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu speaks during peace talks in Istanbul between delegations from Russia and Ukraine. Cem Ozdel/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images. For most people worldwide, the most obvious aspect of the new crisis that has gripped our already deeply troubled planet is that the war should end immediately. Such a strong feeling is based on concerns of world peace as well on reducing the distress of people of Ukraine. At the same time the wider and longer-term aspects of the crisis cannot be ignored. Eminent academic Richard Falk, Professor Emeritus of International Law at Princeton University has […]
Above Photo: A Ukrainian soldier watches a tractor plow a field in March near Kyiv, Ukraine. Because of the war, Ukrainian agriculture officials expect far fewer hectares of crops to be planted this year. Shutterstock. Even As The Failures Of Industrial Agriculture Become Obvious, U.S. Agribusiness Aims To Force It On The Rest Of The World. Even before the war in Ukraine, farmers across the U.S. were getting ready for higher prices on seed, fertilizer and crop chemicals. All winter, major farm media was warning farmers to book supplies early as prices would be high and supplies would be short. The war […]
Above Photo: Housing Protestors in Tampa. Dave Decker. Tampa, Florida – The Tampa community has struggled for an end to the housing crisis since the eviction moratoriums ended last year. With this year’s midterm elections approaching, Tampa activists demand a rent control ordinance to stop the rise in rent prices. Enough public support can push the Tampa city council to address the housing emergency. Tampa is among the cities facing the worst of the national housing crisis. Tampa ranks ninth worst in the world for decrease in housing affordability. Renters in the city spend 42% of their income on housing, 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: PTB / PVDA. Like many other countries in Europe, Belgium is also experiencing a worsening cost of living crisis with higher energy and food prices triggered by the ongoing war in Ukraine and profiteering by monopolists. On Friday, April 22, thousands of workers demonstrated in major cities across Belgium protesting the worsening cost of living crisis and calling for a rise in wages. The call for the mobilization was given by major trade unions like the General Labor Federation of Belgium (ABVV/FGTB), Confederation of Christian Trade Unions (ACV/CSC), General Confederation of Liberal Trade Unions of Belgium (ACLVB/CGSLB), and political […]
Above Photo: POWER Interfaith Facebook page. As we in this part of the world are entering the spring season, it seems like a good time to consider the cycles in our ongoing struggle to become Martin Luther King Jr.’s beloved community. Just as King’s political strategy and moral concerns evolved and even shifted radically during his life, most of us involved in justice work have experienced growth in our consciousness. I’m personally starting to understand how movements work, and why they change. I recently had the opportunity to reflect on my time with Occupy Wall Street as the Fellowship of Reconciliation […]
“Every Couple Of Days We Get Another So-Called ‘Gaffe’ From Biden Where He Appears To Be Revealing Another Layer Of Involvement In This Ukraine Conflict.” – Michael Tracey In just a few short weeks, Russia’s war on Ukraine has precipitated a massive exodus of refugees. According to the United Nations, more than 4.3 million people have fled the country since February 24, the majority of them – 2.5 million – traveling west to Poland. Media across the world have closely covered the story, and shown a great deal more sympathy for the Ukrainian refugees than for others fleeing from U.S. wars in the […]
Above Photo: Ancestral Puebloan ruins at Puyé, northern New Mexico. Jeffrey St. Clair. The rise of the nation state. The map of the world today is covered by splotches of color indicating the boundaries of nation-states. Though the world has had empires for over four millennia, the nation-state is a relatively new animal, beginning to gain form in Western Europe in the 1300s, and over following centuries rising to replace the city-states and multi-ethnic empires that preceded it. Originating in France and Britain, the nation-state became an engine to impose an unprecedented level of cultural and political uniformity on what had […]
Above Photo: Rennett Stowe, CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons. Much has been written in recent months about the New York City jail at Rikers Island. The violence is overwhelming there. Corruption is endemic. Prisoners die from neglect or from violent acts with regularity. But the sad truth is that Rikers is not the worst prison in the world, as many believe. It’s not even the worst prison in New York. That would be the Great Meadow Correctional Facility, a maximum-security prison in Washington County, New York. The most recent statistics released by the New York Department of Corrections and Community Supervision (DOCCS) show […]
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 […]
Pakistan’s Supreme Court is hearing arguments on the constitutionality of Sunday’s incidents at the National Assembly. A no-trust vote against the Imran Khan government was dismissed on account of it being part of a ‘foreign conspiracy’. Pakistan is in the middle of a full-blown constitutional crisis with each day bringing a fresh series of developments that increase the uncertainty surrounding the country’s future. Monday April 4, was a day of dramatic developments. The Supreme Court began hearing arguments on the constitutionality of the events of the previous 24 hours and is likely to arrive at a decision on Tuesday. On Sunday, […]
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 […]
Despite Oceans ‘In Crisis,’ Global Treaty Talks Falter By Andrea Germanos, Common Dreams. March 23, 2022 Despite Oceans ‘In Crisis,’ Global Treaty Talks Falter2022-03-232022-03-23https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2022/03/20220323.webp200px200px Above Photo: Greenpeace campaigners navigate the Southwest Atlantic on March 16, 2022 and call for an urgent Global Ocean Treaty to protect marine ecosystems such as the home of the iconic Southern Right Whale. Esteban Medina San Martin / Greenpeace. The waters “are responsible for the future and fate of this blue planet, Earth,” said one campaigner. In the wake of collapsed U.N.-backed talks, ocean defenders this week are urging global governments to reach a robust treaty by […]
Brutal War On Yemen: Dire Hunger Crisis Teetering On The Edge Of Catastrophe By Baher Kamal, Inter Press Service News Agency. March 22, 2022 Brutal War On Yemen: Dire Hunger Crisis Teetering On The Edge Of Catastrophe2022-03-222022-03-22https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2022/03/20220322-3.jpg200px200px Above Photo: Across Yemen, 2.2 million children are acutely malnourished, including nearly more than half a million children facing severe acute malnutrition, a life-threatening condition, according to new IPC report. United Nations. Yemen’s already dire hunger crisis is teetering on the edge of outright catastrophe, with 17.4 million people now in need of food assistance and a growing portion of the population coping with […]
Arming Scientists And Society For The Climate Crisis By W. T. Whitney, Counter Punch. March 20, 2022 Arming Scientists And Society For The Climate Crisis2022-03-202022-03-20https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2022/03/20220320-3.jpg200px200px Above Photo: Mill, Bingen, Washington. (Jeffrey St. Clair). “[O]ur obligation as scientists [is] to make sure we fight the good fight and ensure the fruits of science are not monopolized by the powerful and the elite.” – Richard Levins Three scientists associated with the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) are discouraged. New Zealanders Bruce C. Glavovic and Timothy F. Smith and Australian Iain White criticize governments for not doing enough about climate change. They are calling upon fellow IPCC scientists to no […]
Many Africans Reject Washington’s Position On Ukraine Crisis By Abayomi Azikwe, Popular Resistance. March 13, 2022 Many Africans Reject Washington’s Position On Ukraine Crisis2022-03-132022-03-13https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2022/03/central-african-republic-solidarity-demonstration-with-russia.jpg200px200px Above photo: Central African Republic solidarity demonstration with Russia. Half of the countries abstaining from the United Nations General Assembly Resolution condemning Moscow were African Union member states. Since the post-World War II period national liberation movements and independent countries in Africa have developed solid diplomatic and economic relations with the former Soviet Union and today’s Russian Federation. It is this history which underlines the refusal of numerous African governments and mass organizations to side with the […]
The Crisis In Ukraine Is A Planetary Crisis Provoked By The U.S. That Threatens Nuclear War By Oliver Boyd-barrett, Covert Action Magazine. March 8, 2022 The Crisis In Ukraine Is A Planetary Crisis Provoked By The U.S. That Threatens Nuclear War2022-03-082022-03-08https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2022/03/220308-5-e1646769869105.jpg200px200px Above Photo: Nypost.com. Let us begin a conversation in response to what currently qualifies as the most profound question, the one that needs most urgently to be addressed if we are to have any chance of understanding what we conveniently refer to as the “Ukraine crisis.” This is, more accurately, a planetary crisis—close in magnitude to the near-certainty of species […]
Above Photo: Fueled by her own experience with postpartum depression, Louisiana nurse practitioner and doula Nikki Greenaway is addressing the maternal mortality crisis by working with marginalized moms to help them better advocate for themselves. Nikki Greenaway. The maternal mortality rate in the United States is 23.8 deaths per 100,000 births — the highest of any developed country. The U.S. is also the only developed country where maternal mortality rates are rising. The crisis is especially dire in the South. As of 2018, Louisiana had the highest maternal mortality rate of any state with 58.1 deaths per 100,000 births — over three times the […]
.Above Photo: A fighter looks up while riding on a tank flying Russia’s flag, on a road east of Donetsk. Vadim Ghirda / AP. Dan Cohen Is Joined By Former United Nations Weapons Inspector Scott Ritter To Discuss The Crisis In Ukraine. As the Ukraine crisis escalates, correspondent Dan Cohen is joined by former United Nations Weapons Inspector Scott Ritter. They contextualize the history of NATO deceptions, provocations, and the 7-year war on Donbas that led up to Russia’s invasion to “de-Nazify” Ukraine. Ritter compares the military capabilities of the US, NATO, and Russia, and explains how the US has armed […]
Above Photo: Ukraine has repeatedly stated its intention to become a NATO member state – an objective that is written into the country’s constitution. Ints Kalnins / Reuters. Russia has sent troops into Ukraine and attacked Ukrainian military forces . In a one hour address, President Putin said the goal was the “de-Nazification” of Ukraine. It is now clear the Russian statements and proposed peace treaty in December 2021 were deadly serious. At that time the Russians said the US and NATO were crossing red lines, they felt threatened and would not abide this endlessly. Now they have taken action. In his address yesterday, […]
Above Photo: JUST before the start of the Winter Olympics in Beijing, Presidents Vladimir Putin and Xi Jinping issued a joint statement on international relations and on co-operation between China and Russia The Putin-Xi Summit On The Eve Of The Winter Olympics Was Only Casually Mentioned In The Mainstream Media, But Has Potentially Far-Reaching Consequences. JUST before the start of the Winter Olympics in Beijing, Presidents Vladimir Putin and Xi Jinping issued a joint statement on international relations and on co-operation between China and Russia. It is a document of about 10 pages that comes at a time of great tensions […]
Above Photo: Sputnik News / Alexey Nikolsky. Under pressure from ultra-nationalists and Russophobes, successive governments in Ukraine have failed to address the grievances of the Russian speaking majority in the Donbass region. Ukraine has also not implemented the provisions of the Minsk agreement signed in 2015 to end the conflict in the region. On Monday, February 21, Russian President Vladimir Putin announced in a press conference that the country will recognize the independence of the Donetsk and the Luhansk people’s republics. Refuting arguments that the move will harm possibilities for peace and violate provisions of the Minsk agreement, the Russian leader […]
Above photo: Nord Stream 2 pipe-laying in Swedish waters in the Baltic Sea. Axel Schmidt. Why Nord Stream 2 is a key part of the impasse. “Canada is supporting Ukraine … because we have a clear and urgent national interest in the situation there.”—Canadian Deputy Prime Minister Chrystia Freeland, January 26, 2022 Amid escalating tensions between the United States, NATO and Russia, all eyes are on Ukraine. Canada’s Deputy Prime Minister Chrystia Freeland describes it as “a struggle between democracy and authoritarianism.” But Nord Stream 2, a pipeline built to bring Russian gas under the Baltic Sea directly to Germany, is […]
Above Photo: The People’s Assembly Against Austerity has organized a national day of action to demand the government take immediate measures to address the cost of living crisis. Morning Star The rise in energy prices, cuts in wages and pensions, along with the ongoing COVID-19 crisis has made the working class households across the UK reel under a devastating cost of living crisis. Broad sectors of the working class in the UK will take to the streets in cities across the country on February 12 against the rise in the cost of living. The protests are organized under the banner of […]
Above Photo: People demonstrate against war on October 27, 1962 in front the White House in Washington, DC, during the Cuban missile crisis (Aljazeera / AFP). Commentators on the current Ukraine crisis have sometimes compared it to the Cuban missile crisis. This is a good comparison―and not only because they both involve a dangerous U.S.-Russian confrontation capable of leading to a nuclear war. During the 1962 Cuban crisis, the situation was remarkably similar to that in today’s Eastern Europe, although the great power roles were reversed. In 1962, the Soviet Union had encroached on the U.S. government’s self-defined sphere of influence […]
Above Photo: Labour MP Diane Abbott on the UK’s cost of living crisis. Andrew Lloyd / Alamy Stock Photo. Last year it was claimed that Boris Johnson had ended the age of austerity. Those claims now look ridiculously ill-judged. On official forecasts, the British public is facing the biggest fall in living standards since records began. This is in the headlines now because of the huge rise in energy bills, which will force more households into choosing between eating and heating. Blaming Russia for the surge in energy prices is a classic conjuror’s trick of misdirection. The US gets almost zero oil from […]
Above Photo: Pressenza International Press Agency. African people are already battling against U.S. rightist forces – from the Trump/Republican supporters to the warmongering neoliberal democrats. It would be an affront to our history and people to enter this struggle on the side of empire and NATO. Within large sectors of the U.S. left, including many elements of the Black left, there is widespread confusion related to the Ukraine “crisis.” Years of anti-Russia propaganda from the US and its NATO allies, and the tendency to abstract the current Ukrainian situation from its historical and geo-strategic context, have created a climate of confusion. […]
Above Photo: Amadou Sanogo (Mali), Je pense de ma tête, 2016. In October 2021, the United Nations Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) held a seminar on the pandemic and education systems. Strikingly, 99% of the students in the region spent an entire academic year with total or partial interruption of face-to-face classes, while more than 600,000 children struggled with the loss of their caregivers due to the pandemic. It is further estimated that the crisis could force 3.1 million children and youth to drop out of school and force over 300,000 to go to work. At the seminar, Alicia Bárcena, […]
Above Photo: Macron leaving European Parliament last Wednesday. (European Parliament) The German admiral’s frank remarks contradict the war hysteria being drummed up by the U.S. and Britain, Joe Lauria reports. Vice-Admiral Kay-Achim Schönbach, the head of the German navy, has resigned after saying talk of a Russian invasion of Ukraine was “nonsense” and that Russia was merely seeking “respect” for its security concerns in Europe. “It is easy to give him the respect he really demands – and probably also deserves,” Schönbach told a meeting of a think tank in New Delhi on Friday. “My minister asked me what does Russia […]
Above Photo: Public opening session between Lavrov and Blinken on Friday. (Ruptly screenshot). The toolbox is empty. Russia knows this. Biden knows this. Blinken knows this. CNN knows this. The only ones who aren’t aware of this are the American people, says Scott Ritter. U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken met with his Russian counterpart, Sergei Lavrov, in a hastily scheduled, 90-minute summit in Geneva yesterday, after which both sides lauded the meeting as worthwhile because it kept the door open for a diplomatic resolution to the ongoing crisis in Ukraine. What “keeping the door open” entails, however, represents two completely different […]
Above Photo: 3dpete. For years, top advertising and PR firms have profited by helping the fossil fuel industry spread misinformation, set up front groups, promote false solutions, and obstruct climate action. Climate scientists are demanding PR firms part ways with climate deniers On Wednesday, a group of more than 450 scientists called on advertising agencies to cut off their fossil fuel clients and to end their ties with an ongoing misinformation campaign that has time and again killed progress on addressing the climate crisis. In a joint letter, the scientists say that they are “consistently faced with a major and needless challenge” […]
Above Photo: An empty classroom. (Mint Images Via Getty Images). A Longstanding Educator Drain Strains Teachers And Students. No matter who you ask, whether it’s education association officials, university professors, researchers or the teachers themselves, they’ll all tell you the same thing: The number one problem facing Wisconsin’s rural school districts is finding — and keeping — enough teachers to teach in those districts. “The teacher shortage is an issue all across the country,” says Kim Kaukl, who worked for more than 30 years as a school administrator before becoming the executive director of the Wisconsin Rural Schools Alliance (WIRSA). “But it’s really exasperated out in the rural areas because of the location […]
Above Photo: Port of Los Angeles. Shipping and Freight Resource. From a Twenty Year Truck Driver. I have a simple question for every ‘expert’ who thinks they understand the root causes of the shipping crisis: Why is there only one crane for every 50–100 trucks at every port in America? No ‘expert’ will answer this question. I’m a Class A truck driver with experience in nearly every aspect of freight. My experience in the trucking industry of 20 years tells me that nothing is going to change in the shipping industry. Let’s start with understanding some things about ports. Outside of […]
Above Photo: Signs that read “Build Back Better” and “Expand Medicare” are seen as U.S. Senator Sherrod Brown (D-OH) speaks about the Build Back Better package outside the U.S. Capitol in Washington, December 15, 2021. Elizabeth Frantz / Reuters. Build Back Better Now DOA. Months ago this writer predicted that Senator Manchin would never support Biden’s ‘Build Back Better’ Bill and was simply engaging in ‘bad faith bargaining’ to string the Democrats along. Manchin’s goal was to get the Democrat leadership–Biden, Pelosi, Durbin, Shumer et. al.–to reduce their proposals, which they conveniently did, on repeated occasions. But Manchin’s real objective has […]
Above Photo: People participate in a rally to condemn the Tigray People’s Liberation Front (TPLF) and Western intervention in the internal affairs of Ethiopia in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, Dec. 5, 2021. Xinhua/Wang Ping. Horn of Africa TV’s editor, Elias Amare, talks to Peoples Dispatch on the latest military developments in Ethiopia, the setbacks faced by the TPLF and the collusion of international aid agencies. The UN World Food Program’s (WFP) suspension of food aid to Dessie and Kombolcha after the liberation of these two strategically important cities in the war-torn northern Ethiopian state, Amhara, is a “travesty of the highest degree”, […]
Above Photo: A banner connecting U.S. militarism and climate change at COP26. Twitter/@MejiaSouth. With no mention of military emissions at COP26, a coalition is mobilizing to force the Pentagon to disclose and reduce its enormous carbon footprint. More than 100,000 people protested the United Nations Climate Change Convention, or COP26, in Glasgow last month, where they networked, forged alliances and made clear their opposition to the status quo. “There have been 25 COPs before this one, and every year leaders come to these climate negotiations with an array of new pledges, commitments and promises and as each COP comes and goes, […]
Above Photo: Paul Harkin, director of harm reduction at the outreach program GLIDE, distributes naloxone and fentanyl detection packets to people on February 3, 2020 in San Francisco. Nick Otto for The Washington Post. “If our leaders fail to act, another year of devastating and historic overdose deaths is inevitable,” said one drug policy expert. Two weeks after the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention released sobering statistics showing a record-breaking number of drug overdoses in the U.S. in the first year of the coronavirus pandemic, more than 260 advocacy groups called on lawmakers Tuesday to urgently pass public health proposals to mitigate the […]
World leaders are meeting in Glasgow for the COP26 climate conference, but the minimal promises made at these gatherings are not kept and are not enough. Communities in the Global South are demanding real and meaningful change — an entire system change away from profit-driven, rather than people-driven, governments. Mozambique-based activist Dipti Bhatnagar discusses the conditions that the Global South is grappling with (from the climate change that the West is largely responsible for), and the dire necessity for real change. Bhatnagar is climate justice & energy coordinator with Friends of the Earth International, based in Justiça Ambiental (FoE Mozambique). Source […]
We are children of our Mother Earth, and as such we must take care of her and protect her, respecting her rights and fulfilling our duties and obligations to protect Mother Earth as a living and sacred being. The climate crisis is one of the gravest global threats that we face in the defense of life, which places our own existence and of our Mother Earth’s at risk. The current anthropocentric model, which places human beings above nature and other living beings, has produced the current climate crisis and it is modifying the vital cycles of Mother Earth, causing the collapse […]
Above Photo: President Joe Biden meets with his national security team for an operational update on the situation in Afghanistan on August 22, 2021 at the White House in Washington, DC. (The White House / Getty Images) The Biden Administration Is Turning To Agencies Like The Pentagon And The Department Of Homeland Security To Shore Up Climate Action. On October 21, the Biden administration released a suite of reports aimed at showing how climate change poses a “national security” threat, and how institutions like the Pentagon and the Department of Homeland Security plan to respond. The analyses are meant to demonstrate a commitment to action: […]
At the beginning of the coronavirus pandemic in 2020, panic buying seemed to create a shortage of different necessities, including toilet paper. Midway through the COVID-19 pandemic, housing prices started rising drastically, as demand surpassed supply due to shortages of construction materials. As students returned to in-person learning, schools found nutritious food for school lunches more difficult to get, and the U.S. relaxed requirements that schools must comply with federal nutrition standards. Visit any grocery store recently and you are likely to find shelves bare of any number of items. A global shortage of computer chips has created a drastic reduction […]
Above Photo: A sign is displayed during a protest against housing evictions during the pandemic in Minneapolis, Minnesota. (Michael Siluk / Universal Images Group / Getty Images) There is a battle raging in U.S. cities around land and who controls it. It is fought with zoning laws and red lines. Its battlefields are neighborhood associations and local elections. Across the country, racist reactionaries square off against capitalist developers in a struggle to determine the future of the housing market. In these types of battles, whoever wins, tenants lose, according to housing organizers working to halt the damage wrought by both developers […]
Above Photo: Grist / mikroman6 / RLT_Images / Getty Images. Now States Are Turning The Tables. As Recycling Heads To The Dump, Maine And Oregon Have A New Strategy: Make Companies Pay. If you’ve ever tossed a plastic water bottle in a trash can and felt a wave of guilt wash over you, well, judging by its marketing campaigns, that’s exactly how the packaging industry planned it. Consider this recent public service announcement, where two uncanny squirrel puppets sit in a tree, watching passerby on the sidewalk and cheering when they put plastic bottles in the recycling bin. A man nearly throws […]
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 […]
On Contact: Covid-19 And America’s Health Care Crisis November 22, 2020 On Contact: Covid-19 And America’s Health Care Crisis2020-11-222020-11-22https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/11/mflowers.png200px200px On the show this week, Chris Hedges talks to Dr. Margaret Flowers about the Covid-19 pandemic and the catastrophic response to the public health crisis under America’s for-profit healthcare system. Without national coordination, or universal and free national health care, Americans are faced with uneven or absent care due to hospital closures, reductions in hospital beds and services. Lawmakers and hospital administrators compete to purchase basic supplies leading manufacturers to hike prices. The mercenary nature of the for-profit health care system also means many Americans are distrustful of […]
Unemployment Crisis Continues Unabated By Patricia Gorky, Liberation News. November 13, 2020 Unemployment Crisis Continues Unabated2020-11-132020-11-13https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/11/unemployment.jpg200px200px More than 1 million people filed for unemployment assistance last week according to new figures released today. 709,000 workers requested filled out applications for traditional benefits, and slightly under 300,000 applied for the specially-created Pandemic Unemployment Assistance program. The Department of Labor’s reporting deceptively separates those who apply for standard unemployment benefits from those who apply for PUA. Similarly, official unemployment statistics only count people who have actively looked for work in the last four weeks. The real unemployment rate, counting those who have given […]
Shahid Buttar: The Crisis Is Constitutional By Margaret Flowers, Clearing the FOG. November 9, 2020 Shahid Buttar: The Crisis Is Constitutional2020-11-092020-11-09https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/11/shahidcrop_1-e1604950735818.jpeg200px200px The presidential election has been called for Joe Biden and Kamala Harris. I speak with Constitutional lawyer and activist Shahid Buttar about what that means for our work on issues of social justice, his campaign to challenge House Speaker Nancy Pelosi for her congressional seat, and critical issues of the day such as the media, democracy, militarization and mass surveillance. Buttar points out that the crises we face are more than political. The United States is in a Constitutional crisis […]
Above photo: The earth’s warming is not immediate, but gradual, and without a direct or immediate impact on our everyday actions. wildpixel / Getty Images. The science is clear. If we continue to emit greenhouse gases at the same rate we have been doing for the past decades, 80 years from now, our planet will be at least four degrees warmer than pre-industrial levels. “And the warming won’t stop there,” climate researcher and oceanographer Stefan Rahmstorf told DW. “It will continue to rise to seven or eight degrees over the next 100 years. Human civilization won’t survive that.” Normally, we respond to danger […]
United Kingdom – Garden centres and DIY stores are way off track on meeting a government target to end peat use by amateur gardeners, figures show. Green experts said the rate at which peat is still being dug up means the UK’s gardens are helping to accelerate the climate crisis. Stores including B&Q and Wickes, as well as numerous websites, all sell peat products. Between 2015 and 2019, the amount of peat contained in composts sold to shoppers showed only a small drop, from almost 53 per cent to 41.5 per cent. Friends of the Earth called on ministers to act, after the government announced a […]
Court Protest Aims At Boston Covid Housing Crisis October 30, 2020 Court Protest Aims At Boston Covid Housing Crisis2020-10-302020-10-30https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/10/ur-e1604067465299.png200px200px Boston, MA – Thousands of families in eastern Massachusetts face renewed risk of eviction. Governor Charlie Baker opted on October 17 to cease emergency measures to protect shelter that have been in effect throughout most of 2020, triggering a huge surge in “notices to quit” from landlords. A rally downtown outside the Eastern Housing Court near Haymarket on a rainy Thursday morning called for an alternative program at the state legislature, among other policies that have been proposed including a rent freeze. Unicorn Riot covered […]
Fascism Is A Failed Response To Capitalist Crisis By William I. Robinson, Truthout. October 27, 2020 Fascism Is A Failed Response To Capitalist Crisis2020-10-272020-10-27https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/10/poverty.png200px200px Above photo: Protestors demonstrate during a ‘No Evictions, No Police’ national day of action protest against law enforcement who forcibly remove people from homes on September 1, 2020, in New York City. Angela Weiss/AFP via Getty Images. Few would disagree in light of recent events that the Trump regime, its most diehard extreme-right, white supremacist supporters, and elements of the Republican Party are bidding for a fascist putsch. Whether this putsch remains insurgent or is beaten back […]
by Valerie Kulikov, with New Eastern Outlook, Moscow, …and the Institute of Oriental Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences, a research institution for the study of the countries and cultures of Asia and North Africa [ Editor’s Note: The refugee immigrant situation has grown out of control because it serves the interests of both political and criminal entities, where it can be hard to tell the two apart. But when they are both, like the Trump regime, it is easy. Jim W. Dean – last press conference at Syrian elections – June 2014 Take Syria for example. When I was there as an […]
Activists Who Fought The AIDS Crisis On Organizing During A Pandemic By Loretta Graceffo, Waging Nonviolence. October 8, 2020 Activists Who Fought The AIDS Crisis On Organizing During A Pandemic2020-10-082020-10-08https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/10/actup-e1602192766554.jpg200px200px Above photo: Protestors in front of the James A. Shannon Building, National Institutes of Health, 1990. Donna Binder More than 30 years after ACT UP was founded, their bold activism in response to the AIDS crisis offers critical lessons for those mobilizing around COVID-19. During the peak of the coronavirus pandemic in New York, Avram Finklestein was inundated by the blaring noise of ambulance sirens outside his apartment. “Just day and […]
Indian business and industry leaders are seeing signs of recovery after the coronavirus crisis wiped out nearly a quarter of the country’s economy in the last quarter. “The more I converse with CEOs of various organisations, the more I get convinced that there is an improvement in the macro-economic situation, especially over the last month or so,” Axis Bank’s chief executive and managing director, Amitabh Chaudhry, told the Economic Times. Read more While the banker believes the recovery is imminent, he says the process could be slow or “L-shaped,” which is usually accompanied by persistent unemployment and stagnant economic growth. Chaudhry […]
Bolivia: Amid New Crisis, Coup Government Seeks To Divide Spoils By Federico Fuentes, Green Left. October 5, 2020 Bolivia: Amid New Crisis, Coup Government Seeks To Divide Spoils2020-10-052020-10-05https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/10/bolivia-e1601925135418.jpg200px200px Above photo: Protester in La Paz holds up a sign that reads: “Anez: hunger does not wait”. Radio Kawsachun/Facebook. Just weeks out from the October 18 elections, Bolivia’s coup government is again in crisis following the departure of three key ministers over an unconstitutional attempt to privatise an electricity company. It comes as polls show Movement Towards Socialism (MAS) presidential candidate Luis Arce potentially winning in the first round, less than a year […]
Scheer Intelligence: In A Time Of Mortal Crisis By Robert Scheer, ScheerPost.com. October 2, 2020 Scheer Intelligence: In A Time Of Mortal Crisis2020-10-022020-10-02https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/10/rabbi-scaled-e1601663371500.jpg200px200px Above image: Mr. Fish. Rabbi Michael Lerner Prophesies a Caring Society. The lifelong progressive talks about his new book and what he found lacking in Bernie Sanders’ presidential campaign. There’s no denying there’s been a renewed wave of interest in socialism in the United States, thanks in large part to Bernie Sanders. While the Vermont senator gained support across the country for his rallying cry against inequality and for promoting equitable policies like Medicare for All, Rabbi Michael […]
The UK announced reversal of its decision on the Chinese telecoms giant in July, forcing British telecos to remove kit from existing networks over potential threats to network supply lines due to US sanctions. But the delays are set to cost billions in GDP and cause Britain to lose its place as Europe’s 5G capital, numerous reports have shown. A delay to Britain’s 5G rollout could cost billions of pounds due to a drop in economic output, a report from the Centre for Policy Studies read on Monday. The centre-right think tank noted legislative challenges, including Downing Streets rip and replace […]
by Valeri Kulikov, …with New Eastern Outlook, Moscow, …and the Institute of Oriental Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences, a research institution for the study of the countries and cultures of Asia and North Africa. [ Editor’s Note: NATO is now only an alliance on paper, as members are on the verge of war with each other, with little NATO ‘brotherhood’. The newest bad boy on the block is neo-Ottoman strong man, Erdogan. As other countries have done, he puts on his NATO country robe whenever it suits him, and casts it off when it does not, as in declaring Turkey’s right to […]
As The Veteran Suicide Crisis Persists, Washington Turns To Snake Oil And Swamp Creatures By Jasper Craven and Suzanne Gordon, Battle Borne. September 30, 2020 As The Veteran Suicide Crisis Persists, Washington Turns To Snake Oil And Swamp Creatures2020-09-302020-09-30https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/09/battling_ptsd-e1601484685658.jpg200px200px The first major bill to privatize veterans’ mental healthcare is headed to the president’s desk. In mid-August, former Veterans Affairs (VA) Secretary Anthony Principi (2001-2005) worked to get a number of fellow former VA chiefs to sign on to a draft Op-Ed encouraging the House to take up a Senate-passed suicide prevention bill —S. 785: The Commander John Scott Hannon Veterans Mental Health Care […]
Bankruptcies in the New York City region have spiked by 40% during the COVID-19 pandemic compared to the same time period last year, according to a new report by Bloomberg. The pandemic has resulted in almost 6,000 business closures across all five New York City boroughs between March 1 and September 11. Around 4,000 of those businesses have closed permanently. Between March 16 and September 27, more than 600 businesses filed for bankruptcy in the Southern and Eastern Districts of New York alone. According to Bloomberg, the city’s Department of Small Business Services has also received around 35,000 calls since June […]
The Left And The Election Crisis By Larry Holmes, Workers World. September 27, 2020 The Left And The Election Crisis2020-09-272020-09-27https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/09/indiagenstrike-e1601214806270.jpeg200px200px Above photo: Two-day All-India General Strike, Jan. 8-9, 2019. The ‘elephant in the room’. The head of the U.S. Postal Service is sabotaging delivery of ballots through the mail. Trump is acting like he won’t step down even if he’s defeated in the elections. And it appears that right-wing and neo-fascist forces, who have guns, are getting ready to go into the streets after the elections to support an attempted coup. Every group and activist ready to fight fascism in the streets […]
Flint Water Crisis Continues Despite Settlement By Kim Brown, The Real News. September 20, 2020 Flint Water Crisis Continues Despite Settlement2020-09-202020-09-20https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/09/flint-e1600622266389.jpg200px200px Above photo: NurPhoto/Getty Images. In 2014, the water source of the city of Flint, Michigan, was switched from Lake Huron to the untreated and polluted Flint River, tainting the city’s water supply and setting off a chain of events that led to at least 12 deaths from Legionnaires disease, as well as miscarriages, brain and developmental damage to children, and lead poisoning for the 100,000 residents of Flint. In late August, the state of Michigan offered a $600 million settlement […]
https://cdn1.img.sputniknews.com/img/106916/67/1069166709_0:420:1920:1500_1200x675_80_0_0_61b819937a21b5d27466cde49037141e.jpg Sputnik International https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png Andrei Dergalin. Sputnik International https://sputniknews.com/world/202009191080514418-billionaires-urged-to-help-feed-millions-of-starving-people-amid-humanitys-greatest-crisis/ The WFP chief warned that there are some 30 million people out there who “rely solely” on the organization for survival. The global hunger crisis, “caused by conflict” and further compounded by the coronavirus pandemic, is now moving into a “new and dangerous phase – especially in nations already scarred by violence”, and it may be a good time for the private sector to help feed the hungry, United Nations World Food Programme executive director David Beasley announced in his remarks to a recent UN Security Council virtual session on the Protection […]
UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson has come under fire for his initial response to COVID-19 as reports emerged in spring that he failed to attend five emergency meetings in January and February of the Civil Contingencies Committee, also known as Cobra, which deals with major crises London mayor Sadiq Khan revealed in a Q&A on LBC Radio on Friday that he has not spoken to the UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson since 10 May, which is also the last time the national emergencies committee Cobra met, despite the country facing “the biggest health, economic and social crisis since the Second World […]
Demonstrators march through the streets in Rochester, N.Y., Friday, Sept. 4, protesting the death of Daniel Prude. Prude apparently stopped breathing as police in Rochester were restraining him in March 2020 and died when he was taken off life support a week later. Adrian Kraus/AP hide caption toggle caption Adrian Kraus/AP Demonstrators march through the streets in Rochester, N.Y., Friday, Sept. 4, protesting the death of Daniel Prude. Prude apparently stopped breathing as police in Rochester were restraining him in March 2020 and died when he was taken off life support a week later. Adrian Kraus/AP Nationwide protests over police accountability […]
Jewish Society President Henri Goldstein ventured that a possible ban, backed by 86 percent of Danes and several parliamentary parties, would effectively spell an end for Danish Jewry. The Danish parliament is scheduled to consider a bill proposing a ban on non-medical circumcision of minors. The bill was submitted last month by former interior minister Simon Emil Ammitzboll-Bille, who leads the newly founded party Forward, a centrist party based on liberal values. “I don’t think cutting little boys should be legal in connection with an old, religious ritual”, Ammitzboll-Bille wrote on Facebook. “That’s my principled stance. That a person’s body belongs […]
The president and his allies have already had a field day attacking the Democratic House speaker over security cam footage showing her getting her hair washed and blow-dried at a beauty parlour, mask-free, despite regulations in her district which shuttered salons to mitigate the impact of the coronavirus pandemic. Students for Trump, a political youth group affiliated with the Turning Point Action political action committee, has posted a viral video from the 12th district in San Francisco, California, home district of House speaker Nancy Pelosi, showing major problems with rampant homelessness, drug use, and property destruction in the community she represents. […]
Paul Krugman, the Nobel prize-winning economist and New York Times columnist, has figured out that the doom and gloom over rampant violence and lawlessness in the largest US city is unfounded hysteria over a “nonexistent crisis.” All he needed to find the truth of the matter and prove the alarmists wrong was to go for a jog in the city Wednesday morning. “Am sorry to report that I saw very few black-clad anarchists,” Krugman tweeted after his run. “Also, the city is not yet in flames.” I went for a belated NYC run this morning, and am sorry to report that […]
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Is The US Deliberately Trying To Provoke A Military Crisis With Russia? By Ted Galen Carpenter, The American Conservative. September 2, 2020 Is The US Deliberately Trying To Provoke A Military Crisis With Russia?2020-09-022020-09-02https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/09/us-soldiers-stand-near-russian-vehicles-in-syria.-by-delil-souleiman-for-afp-via-getty-images-e1599076901449.jpg200px200px Above photo: US soldiers stand near US and Russian military vehicles in the northeastern Syrian town of al-Malikiyah (Derik) at the border with Turkey, on June 3, 2020. Delil Souleiman/AFP via Getty Images. A dangerous vehicle collision between US and Russian soldiers in Northeastern Syria on Aug. 24 highlights the fragility of the relationship and the broader test of wills between the two major powers. According to White House […]
Overfunding The Military Drives Climate Crisis And White Supremacist Culture By Jack Delaney, Peace Data. August 26, 2020 Overfunding The Military Drives Climate Crisis And White Supremacist Culture2020-08-262020-08-26https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/08/pentagon1-e1598457390568.jpg200px200px Above photo: Ivan Cholakov / Shutterstock. As the U.S. now approaches the third month since protests erupted following the police murders of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, and countless Black Americans calls to defund and abolish the police are resonating throughout public consciousness. While the Black Lives Matter movement rightfully pushes for the defunding and abolition of a white supremacist institution, it must be recognized that another institution — U.S. militarism — is also an overfunded […]
Common Ground Collective Teaches Us About Surviving Crisis Together By Shane Burley, Waging Nonviolence. August 26, 2020 Common Ground Collective Teaches Us About Surviving Crisis Together2020-08-262020-08-26https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/08/commonground.png200px200px Fifteen years after Hurricane Katrina, the Common Ground Collective’s uncommon success offers lessons on how to build effective mutual aid projects today. It started in Malik Rahim’s kitchen, as the waters from the broken levees continued to flow through New Orleans’ lower 9th Ward. A small group of activists from the city and Austin, Texas, including former Black Panthers, began scratching down notes and trying to figure out exactly what they could do to provide […]
BENGHAZI (Sputnik) – Libyan tribes have been invited to participate in the political process on the Libyan crisis settlement by the United Nations, Senussi al-Haleeq, the deputy chairman of the Supreme Council of Libyan Sheikhs and Elders, which supports the Libyan National Army, said on Saturday. “We received an invitation from the parliament in Tobruk, as well as an official request from the UN for the participation [in the political proces] of representatives of tribes, including me”, al-Haleeq said, adding that tribes would be represented in negotiations. The deputy chairman also said that the exact date for the start of the […]
Despite having the third-highest COVID-19 burden, India’s global efforts in containing the pandemic by offering aid and assistance to countries in need have been appreciated worldwide. Moreover, India has not only been successful in rescuing its citizens stranded abroad but has also set an example by devising an ambitious plan to treat them. With sustained, pre-emptive, and timely interventions over two million people in India have successfully recovered from COVID-19 so far. The recovery rate continues to register an upward trend and stands at 73.64 percent as of Wednesday. The case fatality rate continues to show a steady decline and now […]
Former Governor Jerry “Moonbeam” Brown is showing no sympathy for the millions of Californians now subject to rolling blackouts amid a brutal heatwave – let alone remorse – even though his policies contributed to power shortages. “Hey California! We can avoid a blackout, but you have to turn up your damn thermostat,” Brown tweeted Tuesday night. Brown, presumably, isn’t suffering the same fate of air-conditioning deprivation at his entirely solar-powered home on a 2,500-acre ranch in rural northern California. California’s grid operator ordered rolling blackouts last Friday and Saturday as scorching heat spurred demand for power to run air conditioners. Power […]
Make Corporate Landlords Pay For Housing Crisis By Sofia Lopez and Sara Myklebust, Inequality. August 18, 2020 Make Corporate Landlords Pay For Housing Crisis2020-08-182020-08-18https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/07/right-to-housing-e1596131418813.jpeg200px200px The Covid-19 crisis has both exposed and exacerbated racial and wealth inequality in the United States. As unemployment skyrockets and tens of millions of Americans struggle with a sudden loss of income, many are unable to pay rents or mortgages and are facing eviction, foreclosure, and possible homelessness. We’ve seen this eviction crisis brewing for months, and despite platitudes about racial justice, our elected officials and corporate landlords haven’t taken any meaningful action to prevent it from hitting poor people […]
US Sanctions Are Strangling A Lebanon In Crisis By Bilal El-Amine, In These Times. August 16, 2020 US Sanctions Are Strangling A Lebanon In Crisis2020-08-162020-08-15https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/08/lebanon-e1597540616777.jpg200px200px Above photo: This picture, taken on August 4, 2020, shows a general view of the scene of an explosion at the port of Lebanon’s capital Beirut. STR/AFP via Getty Images. As Lebanon faces multiple, overlapping catastrophes, U.S. policies are making them worse. The Lebanese economy crashed into the equivalent of a brick wall sometime in the last few months of 2019. The Lebanese pound (or lira), which was pegged to the dollar and appeared to be stable for well over […]
So much has changed in the United States since the beginning of the Coronavirus pandemic back in late March and early April. Americans have endured economy crippling lock downs, people have lost jobs, and their savings. In a recent monologue on his show, Tucker Carlson pointed out how Democrats have used this crisis to their advantage politically, with little regard for the suffering of average Americans. Here’s a partial transcript, via FOX News: TRENDING: Garbage DC Website Known for Promoting Conspiracies Attacks Gateway Pundit After Crashing White House Press Corps Coven Tucker argues Democrats using coronavirus ‘as a political weapon’ in […]
Over seven months after the novel coronavirus went global, the United States still isn’t testing enough people. Nor is the U.S. delivering results quickly enough to provide meaningful disease surveillance. But virologists Dave O’Connor and Chris Mason had a simple idea for loosening up the testing logjam: pack vans with $5,000 worth of testing equipment and drive them around key locations in badly-hit communities with low testing rates and lagging test turnaround times. Welcome to Rabbit Hole, where we dive deep on the biggest story. It’s for Beast Inside members only. Join up today. Source link
General Strike: The Eviction Crisis Escalates August 8, 2020 General Strike: The Eviction Crisis Escalates2020-08-082020-08-08https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/08/cancel-rent-banner-e1596898340432.png200px200px Above photo: Cancel Rent banner from GenStrike. With an estimated 17 to 40 million people at risk of losing their homes by the end of September, and with the failure of the federal government to pass an eviction moratorium or an unemployment benefits extension, the greatest eviction and foreclosure crisis since the Great Depression is now upon us. In some states in the Southeast, as many as 60% of renters are at risk of being evicted, and people of color are likely to be hit disproportionately hard. […]
A new YouGov survey suggests it’s a case of unrequited love between the UK and EU member states. A majority of European participants said they’d be unwilling to help Britain in a crisis – much to the annoyance of many Britons. The survey published on Monday by UK polling company YouGov questioned 21,000 citizens from 13 EU member states and the UK, which will officially leave the bloc when the transition period ends on December 31. Also on rt.com British tourists NOT WELCOME in mainland Europe amid coronavirus crisis, new report suggests Even after a tempestuous Brexit process, the majority of […]
COVID-19 Crisis Failure, People Must Save Themselves And The Economy By Kevin Zeese and Margaret Flowers, Popular Resistance. August 2, 2020 | Featured Campaign, Newsletter COVID-19 Crisis Failure, People Must Save Themselves And The Economy2020-08-022020-08-02https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/08/covid-test-positive-from-shutterstock-e1596403076579.jpg200px200px Above photo: Positive COVID-19 Test. Shutterstock. The US is at a moment of truth. This week, Congress has to face up to a pandemic that is out of control and an economy that is collapsing. The Republican’s and Democrat’s proposals show they will fail this test. The people will need to protect themselves and lead from below. The pandemic is worsening with more than 60,000 new […]
As many as 40 million Americans are under threat of losing their homes due to the economic crisis brought on by the coronavirus pandemic, with tens of millions of people unsure where they will get the money to pay for rent after being put out of work, and a federal eviction moratorium expiring late last month. Outspoken comedian and political commentator Jimmy Dore has slammed the US government and politicians in Washington over their alleged inaction amid the eviction crisis facing tens of millions of Americans, suggesting that it demonstrates the catastrophic condition that the country has been put in by […]
Democrats Offer Half-Hearted Measures To Impending Eviction Crisis By Alan Macleod, Mintpress News. July 30, 2020 Democrats Offer Half-Hearted Measures To Impending Eviction Crisis2020-07-302020-07-30https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/07/cancel-the-rent-banner-out-of-window-e1596133595267.jpg200px200px Above photo: A view of a poster saying Cancel Rent Cancel Mortgage during the coronavirus pandemic on May 18, 2020 in Brooklyn Borough of New York City. By John Nacion from STAR MAX/IPx . The federal moratorium on evictions expired this week, leaving 12 million renters at risk of losing their homes, and much as they did with healthcare, Democrats are offering little more than token non-solutions. The best defense against a raging pandemic that has already claimed over 152,000 […]
On Tuesday, US authorities gave China 72 hours to shut down its Houston, Texas Consulate, accusing its staff of systematically engaging in espionage. Beijing responded by ordering US diplomats to leave America’s diplomatic mission in Chengdu, with Washington claiming that China has no right to respond in that kind of tit-for-tat manner. China strongly protests US officials’ “forcible entry” into the Chinese diplomatic mission in Houston on Friday, Foreign Ministry spokesman Wang Wenbin has announced. “China has expressed strong opposition and a firm protest against the forcible entry of the US side in the territory of the Chinese consulate general in […]
Cuba Defeated The Pandemic, Is Preparing To Face The Economic Crisis By Arleen Rodríguez Derivet, Resumen English. July 24, 2020 Cuba Defeated The Pandemic, Is Preparing To Face The Economic Crisis2020-07-242020-07-24https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/07/cuba.jpg200px200px Above photo: Ismael Francisco. Possibly no other country in the world has it worse when it comes to facing what Cuban President Miguel Díaz Canel has defined as the very challenging global economic scenario, after the impact of a pandemic that in the first six months of the year put almost all economies on hold and is still slowing down the most dynamic productive, financial and commercial processes on a planetary level. But […]
Capitalism May Not Survive The 2020 Global Crisis July 24, 2020 Capitalism May Not Survive The 2020 Global Crisis2020-07-242020-07-24https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/07/wolff.jpg200px200px Above photo: Getty Images/pidjoe. The crisis will cut deeper and last longer than many predict. The current global crisis triggered by Covid-19 is the third capitalist crash in this century. And governments’ incapacity to consider non-capitalist solutions threatens to keep deepening this crisis into capitalism’s worst. The first was in early 2000. Because it was triggered by the absurdly high prices of dot-com stocks, it got named the “dotcom crisis.” In 2008, the trigger was widespread subprime mortgage default in the US and the crash […]
The Russian government’s revenues and vast reserves have enabled the country to remain stable and deal with the coronavirus pandemic, Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin said on Wednesday. According to the top official, the pandemic has slowed down the rate of economic growth, reduced revenues at all budget levels “and caused significant damage to a large number of people, companies and organizations.” “As for our national reserves, or the so-called safety cushion, I want to assure everyone that our macroeconomic stability and reserves allow us to feel very comfortable and stable,” Mishustin said in an interview with Rossiya 24 TV. He noted […]
The right-wing populist political party has been considering legal action against Chancellor Angela Merkel since February, when she attacked Thuringia Minister-President Thomas Kemmerich for depending on AfD support, prompting him to resign. Alternative for Germany (German: Alternative fur Deutschland, AfD) has filed complaints against Chancellor Angela Merkel and her government with the Federal Constitutional Court for their role in the Thuringian state government crisis, asking the court to determine whether they had done something illegal. AfD’s complaints are related to comments made by Chancellor Merkel in February during a trip abroad, during which she said that the election results in Thuringia’s […]
New Delhi (Sputnik): The Indian aviation sector is going through turbulent times in the wake of the pandemic, which has pushed numerous airlines to the brink of financial collapse. Several airlines have urged the government to provide short-term relief, including help to pay salaries for staff. Stating that measures such as salary cuts and cost-cutting policies were not enough to face the economic headwinds, India’s biggest carrier IndiGo decided to reduce the workforce by at least 10 percent on Monday. The airline further laid out a plan to help employees “tide over the uncertainties”. This included keeping notice pay in lieu, […]
Last week, UK Cabinet Minister Michael Gove admitted that London and Brussels still have differences on a post-Brexit deal as negotiations on their future relations are under way. The independent UK think tank Institute for Government (IfG) has warned that due to the COVID-19 crisis, many British businesses are still unprepared for the end of the Brexit transition period which wraps up on 31 December. “Firms reeling from the economic consequences of coronavirus are poorly placed to prepare for Brexit: in many cases, in a worse position than in the months leading up to the potential no deal in October 2019”, […]
While most oil-exporting nations saw international agencies knocking down their sovereign credit ratings amid the crisis spurred by the Covid-19 outbreak, S&P Global Ratings confirmed Russia’s rating at BBB- with a stable outlook. In its report on Friday, the agency said that the Russian economy is expected to contract by 4.8 percent this year due to lower oil prices, OPEC+ cuts, and the fallout from the pandemic. However, the country is expected to weather those economic shocks, thanks to a flexible exchange rate and fiscal balance, while their impact on the economy will be more modest than in developed countries. Also […]
Morris Koll, grandfather of NPR correspondent Pam Fessler’s husband, enlisted in the U.S. Army and was sent to the Philippines in 1902. That’s when he contracted leprosy. In 1935, public health authorities took him to the national leprosarium in Carville, Louisiana. Right: A treatment room at the facility is depicted on the cover of Fessler’s new book, Carville’s Cure. Courtesy of the Koll family hide caption toggle caption Courtesy of the Koll family Morris Koll, grandfather of NPR correspondent Pam Fessler’s husband, enlisted in the U.S. Army and was sent to the Philippines in 1902. That’s when he contracted leprosy. In […]
…from SouthFront Saudi Arabia has become a hostage of its own military campaign in Yemen. The Kingdom suffers from both its own inability to achieve a military victory in the conflict and regular losses from the retaliatory actions of the Houthis. At the same time, the Saudi leadership has no opportunity to withdraw from the conflict and abandon its proxies there because this will undermine its already shaky position in the region and cause a wide-scale political crisis inside Saudi Arabia itself. The impact from such a crisis will be especially devastating. Over the past years, the Kingdom has been passing […]
Massive crowds of people have packed one of the largest squares in Tel-Aviv on Saturday to decry how Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, handled the coronavirus pandemic and its harsh economic fallout. The rally at Rabin Square, which is a traditional protest spot in the city, was staged by self-employed, small business owners and students, who claim that, unlike salaried workers, they never received the promised financial help from the government. The demonstrators, who also neglected self-distancing rules, carried banners, which read “Let us breathe” and jokingly asked for charity money to be sent to them via a baking app. The Jerusalem […]
Beware Of Right Deviations That Have Emerged From The Crisis Of US Imperialism By Danny Haiphong, Black Agenda Report. July 10, 2020 Beware Of Right Deviations That Have Emerged From The Crisis Of US Imperialism2020-07-102020-07-10https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/07/lockdown-protest-form-black-agenda-report-e1594394452468.jpeg200px200px Above: Beware of Right Deviations That Have Emerged from the Three-Headed Crisis of US Imperialism from Black Agenda Report. Libertarianism, like all capitalist ideologies, is bound with white supremacy. “Mass characterization of the partial ‘lockdowns’ in cities across the U.S. as ‘medical martial law’ deflected from the very real dangers of the U.S.-response to COVID-19.” Black Agenda Report places much of its attention on the Democratic Party, […]
The ancient missive reportedly shows how the rivals of ancient Egyptians had to seek the latter’s help in the face of the looming calamity. A request for aid sent by the Queen of the Hittites to legendary Egyptian pharaoh Ramses II over three thousand years ago provides additional insight into the nature of the crisis that plagued the region back then, the Daily Express reports. Citing the “Egypt’s Unexplained Files” TV series, the newspaper notes that around 1,250 BC, the region in question was ravaged by “an extreme drought”, and the queen sent this missive, written on a clay tablet, despite […]
(Sputnik) – Aguila Saleh, the president of the eastern-based Libyan Parliament, arrived in Moscow on Thursday to meet with Russian officials to discuss several issues, at the top of which was the initiative on a ceasefire, the return to the political process, and the Cairo Declaration on Libya, as well as the output of the Berlin Conference. The President of the eastern-based Libyan Parliament, Aguila Saleh, said on Friday that the Cairo Declaration is the only solution to the crisis in Libya, pointing out that there is consensus among Libyans. “In the Cairo Declaration, of course, as I mentioned […] we […]